Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (Jabber)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for XMPP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited XMPP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 880 947 1129
Rank change year-on-year +67 +182 -305
Permanent jobs citing XMPP 16 23 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.022% 0.067%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.076% 0.072% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 16 20 49
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £47,063 £60,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +50.00% -15.89%
75th Percentile £59,250 £106,250 £49,500
90th Percentile £73,750 - £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +55.56% -30.77%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XMPP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

XMPP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XMPP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XMPP in the UK

XMPP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing XMPP.

Salary trend for XMPP in the UK

XMPP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XMPP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for XMPP in the UK

XMPP
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XMPP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +106 16 £55,000 -18.52% 1
London +126 12 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Work from Home +94 8 £58,500 -10.00% 2
UK excluding London +13 4 £52,500 -25.00%
South West - 4 £52,500 -

XMPP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) BGP
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco IPT
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco Wireless
1 5 (31.25%) DMVPN
1 5 (31.25%) EIGRP
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
1 5 (31.25%) LAN
1 5 (31.25%) Network Security
1 5 (31.25%) OSPF
1 5 (31.25%) SD-WAN
1 5 (31.25%) VLAN
1 5 (31.25%) VXLAN
1 5 (31.25%) WAN
1 5 (31.25%) Wireless
2 4 (25.00%) RTP
2 4 (25.00%) Telepresence
2 4 (25.00%) VSAN
2 4 (25.00%) WebEx
General
1 7 (43.75%) Multimedia
2 4 (25.00%) Law
2 4 (25.00%) Legal
2 4 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Network Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Network Security Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Security Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Support Specialist
2 4 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) 802.1X
2 3 (18.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Data Centre
1 5 (31.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (25.00%) Blackberry
3 3 (18.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Debian
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
1 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (18.75%) Android
2 3 (18.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (25.00%) ITIL
1 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 3 (18.75%) Android Development
2 3 (18.75%) Cross-Platform Development
2 3 (18.75%) iOS Development
2 3 (18.75%) Secure Coding
2 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
2 3 (18.75%) User Experience
3 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Bash
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) C++
2 3 (18.75%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) CCNA
1 5 (31.25%) CCNP
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) CCIP
4 1 (6.25%) CCDP
4 1 (6.25%) CCNP Voice
4 1 (6.25%) CCSP
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
1 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (25.00%) Podman
1 4 (25.00%) Puppet
1 4 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) CheckPoint
3 4 (25.00%) Citrix
3 4 (25.00%) iManage
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (25.00%) VMware