The first part of the table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank181916
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1Down-3
Matching permanent IT job ads10906114448834
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK9.044 %9.333 %9.252 %
As % of the Application Development category21.64 %23.30 %24.26 %
Number of salaries quoted9605100607706
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£61,550£62,500£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,309£35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.20 %+0.88 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
504084911936413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.80 %40.06 %38.14 %
Number of salaries quoted447934339731363
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

XML
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing XML within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

XML Demand Trend

XML
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing XML within the UK.

XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

XML Salary Histogram

XML
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+210257£40,000-
LondonNo change04524£47,500-
South EastDown-22163£40,000+5.26 %
City of LondonDown-1945£50,000-
East of EnglandDown-3895£40,000+6.66 %
North WestDown-1773£33,000+1.53 %
SurreyDown-1682£43,500+8.75 %
YorkshireUp+1577£32,000-1.53 %
South WestUp+1548£34,000+4.61 %
BerkshireDown-2520£40,000-
ManchesterUp+3409£32,500+3.17 %
West MidlandsNo change0399£37,500-3.22 %
West YorkshireUp+4378£32,500-5.79 %
East MidlandsUp+1372£32,500-
ScotlandUp+1351£35,000-6.66 %
HertfordshireUp+1302£42,500-5.55 %
HampshireDown-12284£39,000+4.00 %
CambridgeshireDown-6277£37,500+7.14 %
LeedsNo change0256£32,500-
CheshireDown-5229£34,000-2.85 %
ReadingUp+15214£40,000+2.56 %
OxfordshireDown-2170£37,500-
BuckinghamshireDown-3168£37,500-11.76 %
NottinghamshireUp+6166£34,000+4.61 %
CambridgeDown-12159£36,000+2.85 %
NottinghamUp+3153£32,500-4.41 %
West SussexDown-2153£37,500+7.14 %
BristolUp+9152£30,000-7.69 %
GloucestershireNo change0147£37,500+4.16 %
WarwickshireUp+10139£36,000+2.85 %

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing XML also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited XML.

19502 (45.02 %)JavaScript
29298 (44.06 %)SQL
39094 (43.09 %).NET
48763 (41.52 %)HTML
58207 (38.89 %)CSS
67822 (37.06 %)Java
77783 (36.88 %)C#
87168 (33.97 %)SQL Server
95966 (28.27 %)Web Services
105892 (27.92 %)ASP.NET
114422 (20.95 %)Ajax
124154 (19.68 %)XSLT
134140 (19.62 %)Finance
144025 (19.07 %)Oracle
153812 (18.06 %)jQuery
163664 (17.36 %)OO
173547 (16.81 %)Degree
183247 (15.39 %)Windows
193244 (15.37 %)Microsoft
203106 (14.72 %)J2EE
213096 (14.67 %)Agile Software Development
223040 (14.40 %)Linux
232675 (12.68 %)PHP
242643 (12.52 %)MVC
252619 (12.41 %)MySQL
262578 (12.22 %)XHTML
272557 (12.12 %)Spring
282430 (11.51 %)UNIX
292277 (10.79 %)E-Commerce
302276 (10.78 %)Web Development

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing XML also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited XML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
19094 (43.09 %).NET
28763 (41.52 %)HTML
38207 (38.89 %)CSS
45966 (28.27 %)Web Services
55892 (27.92 %)ASP.NET
64422 (20.95 %)Ajax
74154 (19.68 %)XSLT
83812 (18.06 %)jQuery
93106 (14.72 %)J2EE
102578 (12.22 %)XHTML
112557 (12.12 %)Spring
122230 (10.57 %)SOAP
131837 (8.705 %)Hibernate
141827 (8.657 %)JSP
151716 (8.131 %)WCF
161532 (7.259 %).NET Framework
171421 (6.733 %)JSON
181372 (6.501 %)HTML5
191128 (5.345 %)ASP
201072 (5.080 %)XSL
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11717 (8.136 %)Apache
21418 (6.719 %)SharePoint
31311 (6.212 %)Tomcat
41260 (5.970 %)IIS
51218 (5.771 %)CMS
6818 (3.876 %)WebLogic
7430 (2.038 %)SharePoint 2010
8382 (1.810 %)BizTalk Server
9353 (1.673 %)SharePoint Server
10296 (1.403 %)ESB
11264 (1.251 %)Umbraco
12247 (1.170 %)Drupal
13204 (0.967 %)WebSphere Application Server
14175 (0.829 %)Oracle Workflow
15152 (0.720 %)WordPress
16150 (0.711 %)ActiveMQ
17143 (0.678 %)Magento
18142 (0.673 %)MQSeries
19137 (0.649 %)GlassFish
20131 (0.621 %)ColdFusion
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11535 (7.274 %)MS Excel
2656 (3.108 %)Photoshop
3547 (2.592 %)MS Office
4359 (1.701 %)MS Visio
5128 (0.607 %)MS Project
6114 (0.540 %)Adobe Illustrator
7106 (0.502 %)Fireworks
883 (0.393 %)InfoPath
971 (0.336 %)MS PowerPoint
1056 (0.265 %)InDesign
1143 (0.204 %)XMetaL
1238 (0.180 %)Google Apps
1332 (0.152 %)Spreadsheet
1431 (0.147 %)FrameMaker
1529 (0.137 %)Acrobat
1626 (0.123 %)DOC1
1723 (0.109 %)Paint Shop Pro
1822 (0.104 %)PrintSoft PReS
1920 (0.095 %)Adobe Captivate
2018 (0.085 %)RoboHelp
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1236 (1.118 %)Dynamics CRM
2143 (0.678 %)Oracle EBS
3104 (0.493 %)Oracle BPM
487 (0.412 %)Google Analytics
571 (0.336 %)Oracle Applications
661 (0.289 %)Oracle ERP
752 (0.246 %)Oracle EBS R12
841 (0.194 %)Oracle Financials
938 (0.180 %)Summit
1035 (0.166 %)BusinessWorks
1127 (0.128 %)Oracle 11i
1222 (0.104 %)WebTrends
1318 (0.085 %)Oracle iProcurement
1417 (0.081 %)SAP R/3
1417 (0.081 %)Dynamics AX
1516 (0.076 %)Tridion
1615 (0.071 %)Exstream
1714 (0.066 %)RMDS
1714 (0.066 %)Oracle CRM
1813 (0.062 %)SAP CO
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11281 (6.070 %)Internet
21078 (5.108 %)HTTP
3605 (2.867 %)TCP/IP
4350 (1.658 %)Intranet
5228 (1.080 %)FTP
6217 (1.028 %)DNS
7175 (0.829 %)Firewall
8172 (0.815 %)SSL
9119 (0.564 %)LDAP
10101 (0.479 %)Extranet
1197 (0.460 %)Broadband
1275 (0.355 %)HTTPS
1370 (0.332 %)SMTP
1462 (0.294 %)VPN
1462 (0.294 %)AMQP
1559 (0.280 %)SSH
1658 (0.275 %)WAN
1658 (0.275 %)LAN
1755 (0.261 %)Wireless
1852 (0.246 %)SAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
17168 (33.97 %)SQL Server
22619 (12.41 %)MySQL
31870 (8.861 %)SQL Server 2008
41734 (8.216 %)SQL Server 2005
5847 (4.013 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6815 (3.862 %)RDBMS
7734 (3.478 %)SQL Server Integration Services
8488 (2.312 %)Data Warehouse
9410 (1.943 %)ETL
10389 (1.843 %)Oracle 10g
11285 (1.350 %)Oracle 8/8i
12273 (1.294 %)Oracle 11g
13265 (1.256 %)SQL Server 2000
14259 (1.227 %)Crystal Reports
15250 (1.185 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
16247 (1.170 %)DB2
17242 (1.147 %)Oracle Reports
18200 (0.948 %)PostgreSQL
19152 (0.720 %)DTS
20135 (0.640 %)Hadoop
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12053 (9.728 %)Visual Studio
21994 (9.448 %)Subversion
31033 (4.895 %)Eclipse
4916 (4.340 %)JUnit
5742 (3.516 %)Ant
6724 (3.431 %)Team Foundation Server
7692 (3.279 %)Maven
8487 (2.308 %)Git (software)
9367 (1.739 %)NUnit
10330 (1.564 %)Selenium
11317 (1.502 %)JIRA
12289 (1.369 %)VSS/SourceSafe
13226 (1.071 %)Hudson
14184 (0.872 %)JDeveloper
15182 (0.862 %)Oracle Forms
16178 (0.843 %)Dreamweaver
17172 (0.815 %)QuickTest Pro
18163 (0.772 %)Cucumber
19145 (0.687 %)Bugzilla
20131 (0.621 %)Mercurial
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14140 (19.62 %)Finance
21075 (5.094 %)Banking
3949 (4.497 %)Marketing
4885 (4.194 %)Retail
5622 (2.947 %)Telecoms
6509 (2.412 %)Games
7506 (2.398 %)Publishing
8408 (1.933 %)Investment Banking
9372 (1.763 %)Front Office
10343 (1.625 %)Advertising
11321 (1.521 %)Back Office
12214 (1.014 %)Legal
13171 (0.810 %)Multimedia
14144 (0.682 %)Financial Institution
15138 (0.654 %)Law
16112 (0.531 %)Pharmaceutical
17111 (0.526 %)Billing
18102 (0.483 %)Music
19101 (0.479 %)Manufacturing
2081 (0.384 %)French Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
114369 (68.09 %)Developer
23454 (16.37 %).NET Developer
33040 (14.40 %)Java Developer
42469 (11.70 %)Senior Developer
52413 (11.43 %)Web Developer
62320 (10.99 %)C# Developer
71873 (8.875 %)Analyst
81744 (8.264 %)C# .NET Developer
91392 (6.596 %)Software Developer
101283 (6.079 %)ASP.NET Developer
111085 (5.141 %)PHP Developer
121084 (5.136 %)Architect
13962 (4.558 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
14881 (4.175 %)Software Engineer
15828 (3.923 %)Consultant
16710 (3.364 %)Java/J2EE Developer
17680 (3.222 %)Programmer
18677 (3.208 %)Senior Java Developer
19614 (2.909 %)Junior
20580 (2.748 %)Applications Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11402 (6.643 %)Computer Science
2780 (3.696 %)Open Source
3612 (2.900 %)iPhone
4581 (2.753 %)N-Tier
5480 (2.274 %)Mathematics
6422 (2.000 %)Client/Server
6422 (2.000 %)Blackberry
7405 (1.919 %)W3C
8400 (1.895 %)Social Media
9393 (1.862 %)Derivative
10370 (1.753 %)SaaS
11326 (1.545 %)Digital Media
12306 (1.450 %)iPad
13283 (1.341 %)Web 2.0
14281 (1.332 %)Management Information System
15248 (1.175 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
16231 (1.095 %)Online Games
17210 (0.995 %)Fixed Income
18190 (0.900 %)Hedge funds
19181 (0.858 %)RIA
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13247 (15.39 %)Windows
23040 (14.40 %)Linux
32430 (11.51 %)UNIX
4776 (3.677 %)Android
5486 (2.303 %)Apple iOS
6441 (2.090 %)Windows Server 2003
7400 (1.895 %)Solaris
8308 (1.459 %)Windows Server 2008
9200 (0.948 %)Windows Mobile
10168 (0.796 %)Windows XP
11117 (0.554 %)AIX
12101 (0.479 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1391 (0.431 %)Windows Vista
1473 (0.346 %)Windows 7
1550 (0.237 %)HPUX
1647 (0.223 %)Windows 2000
1743 (0.204 %)BlackBerry OS
1840 (0.190 %)Mac OS X
1840 (0.190 %)Mac OS
1937 (0.175 %)CentOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13664 (17.36 %)OO
23096 (14.67 %)Agile Software Development
32643 (12.52 %)MVC
42277 (10.79 %)E-Commerce
52276 (10.78 %)Web Development
61968 (9.325 %)Scrum
71932 (9.155 %)TDD
81799 (8.524 %)UML
91343 (6.364 %)SOA
101213 (5.748 %)Unit Testing
111133 (5.369 %)OOP
121028 (4.871 %)Project Management
131015 (4.810 %)Content Management
14854 (4.047 %)Multithreading
15815 (3.862 %)CRM
16771 (3.653 %)Workflow
17693 (3.284 %)Software Engineering
18673 (3.189 %)Continuous Integration
19631 (2.990 %)OOD
20557 (2.639 %)SEO
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
19502 (45.02 %)JavaScript
29298 (44.06 %)SQL
37822 (37.06 %)Java
47783 (36.88 %)C#
52675 (12.68 %)PHP
61906 (9.031 %)VB.NET
71767 (8.373 %)C++
81665 (7.889 %)T-SQL
91129 (5.350 %)VB
101058 (5.013 %)Perl
111028 (4.871 %)PL/SQL
12931 (4.411 %)XPath
13854 (4.047 %)C
14777 (3.682 %)Python
15565 (2.677 %)Shell Script
16535 (2.535 %)ActionScript
17493 (2.336 %)Ruby
18469 (2.222 %)PHP5
19342 (1.621 %)VB6
20337 (1.597 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13547 (16.81 %)Degree
2463 (2.194 %)Security Cleared
3418 (1.981 %)Microsoft Certification
4368 (1.744 %)ISEB
5285 (1.350 %)SC Cleared
6191 (0.905 %)ISTQB
7152 (0.720 %)MCP
8126 (0.597 %)MCTS
9122 (0.578 %)HND
10116 (0.550 %)MCSD
11107 (0.507 %)Sun Certification
1285 (0.403 %)ITIL Certification
1383 (0.393 %)MCAD
1467 (0.317 %)DV Cleared
1563 (0.299 %)PhD
1563 (0.299 %)Oracle Certification
1657 (0.270 %)MCPD
1739 (0.185 %)Postgraduate
1739 (0.185 %)PMI Certification
1835 (0.166 %)MCITP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11162 (5.506 %)QA
2153 (0.725 %)SLA
373 (0.346 %)ISO 9001
467 (0.317 %)WAI
562 (0.294 %)HL7
654 (0.256 %)WCAG
732 (0.152 %)PCI DSS
824 (0.114 %)Data Quality
917 (0.081 %)ISO/IEC 27001
108 (0.038 %)TickIT
115 (0.024 %)COBIT
124 (0.019 %)DICOM
124 (0.019 %)ISO 9000
124 (0.019 %)HIPAA
133 (0.014 %)Dublin Core
133 (0.014 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
133 (0.014 %)ISO 8583
141 (0.005 %)ISO 14001
141 (0.005 %)BS7799
141 (0.005 %)JTAG
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1273 (1.294 %)Active Directory
2108 (0.512 %)VMware Infrastructure
335 (0.166 %)vSphere
431 (0.147 %)Oracle RAC
526 (0.123 %)Xen
625 (0.118 %)VMware ESX
721 (0.100 %)NFS
820 (0.095 %)Hyper-V
915 (0.071 %)Varnish
1012 (0.057 %)UAG
1110 (0.047 %)VMware ESXi
129 (0.043 %)VMware Server
136 (0.028 %)OpenSSO
136 (0.028 %)NDS
145 (0.024 %)Veritas Cluster Server
154 (0.019 %)Sendmail
154 (0.019 %)XenApp
154 (0.019 %)XenDesktop
154 (0.019 %)Terminal Services
154 (0.019 %)Samba
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1113 (0.535 %)HP Quality Center
233 (0.156 %)Control-M
321 (0.100 %)Puppet
420 (0.095 %)SCCM
518 (0.085 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
617 (0.081 %)Tivoli
714 (0.066 %)OpenView Configuration Management
813 (0.062 %)CA SiteMinder
813 (0.062 %)SCOM
911 (0.052 %)Data Guard
911 (0.052 %)Splunk
1010 (0.047 %)Netcool
1010 (0.047 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
118 (0.038 %)Unicenter
126 (0.028 %)WebInspect
126 (0.028 %)AppManager
126 (0.028 %)Ionix
126 (0.028 %)Cisco CUCM
135 (0.024 %)HP SIM
135 (0.024 %)OMEGAMON
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14025 (19.07 %)Oracle
23244 (15.37 %)Microsoft
31123 (5.321 %)JBoss
4515 (2.440 %)Adobe
5446 (2.113 %)Zend
6404 (1.914 %)IBM
7390 (1.848 %)Google
8298 (1.412 %)TIBCO
9295 (1.398 %)SAP
10286 (1.355 %)Sybase
11234 (1.109 %)Symbian
12230 (1.090 %)ATG
13194 (0.919 %)Business Objects
14174 (0.824 %)HP
15170 (0.806 %)Facebook
16168 (0.796 %)Sitecore
16168 (0.796 %)VMware
17153 (0.725 %)Sun
18145 (0.687 %)Salesforce.com
19136 (0.644 %)hybris