Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for XMPP skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XMPP over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 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.

LinkExtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (Jabber)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank665664951
Rank change year-on-year
Down-1Up+287
Matching permanent IT job ads11613
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.013 %0.007 %0.006 %
As % of the Application Development category0.035 %0.020 %0.020 %
Salaries quoted11110
Average salary£37,500£40,500£41,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.400 %-1.810 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,500£40,500£31,150
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£40,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£36,250-£43,750
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
313272948765977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK36.46 %34.77 %32.33 %
Salaries quoted272762516156137
Average salary£38,000£36,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.550 %-4.000 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %

XMPP
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing XMPP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

XMPP Demand Trend

XMPP
Salary Trend

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

XMPP Salary Trend

XMPP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XMPP over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 within the UK.

XMPP Salary Histogram

XMPP
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XMPP within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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
EnglandDown-411£37,500-7.40 %
LondonDown-445£50,000+23.45 %
YorkshireNew entry-4£35,000-
West YorkshireNew entry-4£35,000-
HuddersfieldNew entry-4£35,000-
City of LondonNew entry-3£50,000-
East of EnglandNew entry-1£40,000-
South EastNew entry-1£35,000-
CambridgeNew entry-1£40,000-
OxfordshireNew entry-1£35,000-
CambridgeshireNew entry-1£40,000-
OxfordNew entry-1£35,000-

XMPP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing XMPP 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 XMPP.

111 (78.57 %)Java
210 (71.43 %)SQL
38 (57.14 %)Ruby
47 (50.00 %)JavaScript
56 (42.86 %)CSS
65 (35.71 %)XHTML
65 (35.71 %)Agile Software Development
65 (35.71 %)TDD
65 (35.71 %)Scrum
65 (35.71 %)Ruby on Rails
65 (35.71 %)Scala
65 (35.71 %)JRuby
65 (35.71 %)RSpec
74 (28.57 %)Multimedia
74 (28.57 %)Telecoms
74 (28.57 %)Linux
83 (21.43 %)J2EE
83 (21.43 %)Apache
83 (21.43 %)Tomcat
92 (14.29 %)J2SE
92 (14.29 %)Windows
92 (14.29 %)JBoss
92 (14.29 %)Configuration Management
92 (14.29 %)Project Management
92 (14.29 %)MySQL
92 (14.29 %)XML
92 (14.29 %)STUN
92 (14.29 %)Games
92 (14.29 %)Online Games
92 (14.29 %)iPhone

XMPP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing XMPP 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 XMPP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
16 (42.86 %)CSS
25 (35.71 %)XHTML
25 (35.71 %)Ruby on Rails
25 (35.71 %)JRuby
33 (21.43 %)J2EE
42 (14.29 %)XML
42 (14.29 %)J2SE
51 (7.143 %)LAMP
51 (7.143 %)Hibernate
51 (7.143 %)Lucene
51 (7.143 %)Spring
51 (7.143 %)AJAX
51 (7.143 %)JSP
51 (7.143 %)HTML
51 (7.143 %).NET
51 (7.143 %)Flash
51 (7.143 %)Jackrabbit
51 (7.143 %)Adobe Flex
51 (7.143 %)Django
51 (7.143 %)jQuery
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (21.43 %)Apache
13 (21.43 %)Tomcat
21 (7.143 %)ESB
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (14.29 %)STUN
21 (7.143 %)AMQP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (14.29 %)MySQL
21 (7.143 %)PostgreSQL
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (35.71 %)RSpec
21 (7.143 %)Maven
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (28.57 %)Telecoms
14 (28.57 %)Multimedia
22 (14.29 %)Online Games
22 (14.29 %)Games
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
18 (57.14 %)Developer
25 (35.71 %)Ruby on Rails Developer
32 (14.29 %)Operations Engineer
32 (14.29 %)Network Operations Engineer
32 (14.29 %)Network Engineer
32 (14.29 %)Team Leader
32 (14.29 %)Java Team Leader
41 (7.143 %)Python Developer
41 (7.143 %)ActionScript Developer
41 (7.143 %)Java/J2EE Developer
41 (7.143 %)Flash Developer
41 (7.143 %)Java Developer
41 (7.143 %)Graduate
41 (7.143 %)Mac Engineer
41 (7.143 %)Graduate Network Engineer
41 (7.143 %)Flex Developer
41 (7.143 %)Windows Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (14.29 %)iPhone
12 (14.29 %)Amazon EC2
21 (7.143 %)Open Source
21 (7.143 %)Blackberry
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14 (28.57 %)Linux
22 (14.29 %)Windows
31 (7.143 %)Mac OS X
31 (7.143 %)Android
31 (7.143 %)Mac OS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (35.71 %)Scrum
15 (35.71 %)Agile Software Development
15 (35.71 %)TDD
22 (14.29 %)Configuration Management
22 (14.29 %)Project Management
31 (7.143 %)MVC
31 (7.143 %)OOP
31 (7.143 %)OO
31 (7.143 %)Business Intelligence
31 (7.143 %)Web Development
31 (7.143 %)Extreme Programming
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
111 (78.57 %)Java
210 (71.43 %)SQL
38 (57.14 %)Ruby
47 (50.00 %)JavaScript
55 (35.71 %)Scala
61 (7.143 %)ActionScript 3.0
61 (7.143 %)IronPython
61 (7.143 %)Perl
61 (7.143 %)C
61 (7.143 %)C#
61 (7.143 %)C++
61 (7.143 %)ActionScript
61 (7.143 %)Python
61 (7.143 %)Objective-C
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (14.29 %)Hadoop
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (14.29 %)JBoss
21 (7.143 %)Adobe