The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Watford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 18 20 16
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Permanent jobs citing XML 33 58 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 11.38% 16.81% 15.21%
As % of the Application Development category 26.19% 30.53% 29.82%
Number of salaries quoted 28 35 51
Average salary £34,750 £42,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.23% -10.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £52,500 £61,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,309
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +6.20%
All Application Development
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
126 190 228
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 43.45% 55.07% 51.01%
Number of salaries quoted 93 118 168
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,400 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £61,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XML
Hertfordshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing XML across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Watford XML Jobs Demand Trend

XML
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing XML across the Watford region.

Watford XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML across the Watford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Watford XML Salary Histogram

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region 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.

1 54 (72.00%) JavaScript
2 49 (65.33%) SQL
3 47 (62.67%) HTML
4 42 (56.00%) CSS
5 35 (46.67%) Java
6 31 (41.33%) .NET
7 30 (40.00%) E-Commerce
8 29 (38.67%) SQL Server
9 27 (36.00%) DB2
9 27 (36.00%) C#
10 26 (34.67%) Web Development
11 25 (33.33%) Oracle
12 24 (32.00%) ASP.NET
13 23 (30.67%) Web Services
14 22 (29.33%) Ajax
15 21 (28.00%) jQuery
15 21 (28.00%) JSP
16 20 (26.67%) MVC
16 20 (26.67%) Finance
16 20 (26.67%) Retail
17 19 (25.33%) J2EE
17 19 (25.33%) UNIX
17 19 (25.33%) OO
18 18 (24.00%) Microsoft
18 18 (24.00%) WebSphere
19 17 (22.67%) IBM
20 16 (21.33%) C++
20 16 (21.33%) .NET Framework
21 15 (20.00%) Software Engineering
21 15 (20.00%) XHTML

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region 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.

Application Development
1 47 (62.67%) HTML
2 42 (56.00%) CSS
3 31 (41.33%) .NET
4 24 (32.00%) ASP.NET
5 23 (30.67%) Web Services
6 22 (29.33%) Ajax
7 21 (28.00%) jQuery
7 21 (28.00%) JSP
8 19 (25.33%) J2EE
9 18 (24.00%) WebSphere
10 16 (21.33%) .NET Framework
11 15 (20.00%) XHTML
12 12 (16.00%) DHTML
13 11 (14.67%) WPF
14 10 (13.33%) SOAP
14 10 (13.33%) Struts
14 10 (13.33%) JDBC
15 9 (12.00%) WCF
15 9 (12.00%) JSTL
15 9 (12.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 13 (17.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (6.667%) NetWeaver
3 4 (5.333%) MQSeries
3 4 (5.333%) CMS
4 3 (4.000%) Magento
4 3 (4.000%) ESB
5 2 (2.667%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (2.667%) SAS
5 2 (2.667%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.667%) ColdFusion
6 1 (1.333%) Apache
6 1 (1.333%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.333%) MS Exchange
6 1 (1.333%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.333%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.333%) WordPress
6 1 (1.333%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (1.333%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.667%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.667%) MS Office
3 1 (1.333%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 5 (6.667%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.667%) Internet
2 1 (1.333%) Intranet
2 1 (1.333%) SMS
2 1 (1.333%) FTP
2 1 (1.333%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (38.67%) SQL Server
2 27 (36.00%) DB2
3 7 (9.333%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (9.333%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (8.000%) MySQL
5 5 (6.667%) SAP BW
5 5 (6.667%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.333%) DbVisualizer
7 1 (1.333%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.333%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.333%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) JUnit
1 10 (13.33%) Eclipse
2 9 (12.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 9 (12.00%) Rational Application Developer
3 7 (9.333%) Visual Studio
3 7 (9.333%) Expression Blend
4 4 (5.333%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (5.333%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.333%) AdminStudio
5 1 (1.333%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.333%) PhoneGap
5 1 (1.333%) Selenium
5 1 (1.333%) JIRA
General
1 20 (26.67%) Finance
1 20 (26.67%) Retail
2 12 (16.00%) Games
3 4 (5.333%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.000%) Marketing
5 2 (2.667%) Advertising
6 1 (1.333%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.333%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (82.67%) Developer
2 16 (21.33%) Java Developer
3 15 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 13 (17.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 12 (16.00%) J2EE Developer
5 12 (16.00%) .NET Developer
5 12 (16.00%) Analyst
6 10 (13.33%) Support Analyst
7 9 (12.00%) Developer Analyst
8 8 (10.67%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (10.67%) Software Developer
9 7 (9.333%) ASP.NET Developer
9 7 (9.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 5 (6.667%) SAP Developer
11 4 (5.333%) Graduate Software Developer
11 4 (5.333%) Graduate Developer
11 4 (5.333%) C# Software Developer
11 4 (5.333%) Graduate C# Developer
11 4 (5.333%) Graduate
11 4 (5.333%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.000%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.333%) Web 2.0
2 4 (5.333%) Computer Science
2 4 (5.333%) N-Tier
3 3 (4.000%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.000%) W3C
3 3 (4.000%) FMCG
3 3 (4.000%) RIA
4 2 (2.667%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.333%) SWIFT
5 1 (1.333%) SaaS
5 1 (1.333%) iPhone
5 1 (1.333%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.333%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.33%) UNIX
2 15 (20.00%) Windows
3 8 (10.67%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (1.333%) AIX
4 1 (1.333%) Solaris
4 1 (1.333%) Linux
4 1 (1.333%) Android
4 1 (1.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.00%) E-Commerce
2 26 (34.67%) Web Development
3 20 (26.67%) MVC
4 19 (25.33%) OO
5 15 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 14 (18.67%) Web Application Development
7 12 (16.00%) Content Management
8 9 (12.00%) RAD
8 9 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (10.67%) Agile Software Development
9 8 (10.67%) OOD
10 6 (8.000%) Scrum
11 5 (6.667%) Regression Testing
11 5 (6.667%) SOA
11 5 (6.667%) CRM
11 5 (6.667%) TDD
11 5 (6.667%) Automated Testing
12 4 (5.333%) Mobile Application Development
12 4 (5.333%) System Testing
13 3 (4.000%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 54 (72.00%) JavaScript
2 49 (65.33%) SQL
3 35 (46.67%) Java
4 27 (36.00%) C#
5 16 (21.33%) C++
6 10 (13.33%) PHP
7 9 (12.00%) Perl
7 9 (12.00%) Bash shell
8 5 (6.667%) ABAP
9 4 (5.333%) C
9 4 (5.333%) Shell Script
10 3 (4.000%) VBScript
10 3 (4.000%) VB.NET
11 2 (2.667%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.667%) Delphi
12 1 (1.333%) Objective-C
12 1 (1.333%) FoxPro (VFP)
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) Sun Certification
2 7 (9.333%) Degree
3 5 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.333%) ISEB
4 1 (1.333%) MCSA
4 1 (1.333%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.333%) MCITP
4 1 (1.333%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.667%) QA
2 2 (2.667%) ISO 9001
2 2 (2.667%) TickIT
3 1 (1.333%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.333%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.333%) vSphere
1 1 (1.333%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.333%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.333%) Tivoli
1 1 (1.333%) SCCM
1 1 (1.333%) SCOM
1 1 (1.333%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 25 (33.33%) Oracle
2 18 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (22.67%) IBM
4 9 (12.00%) Sun
5 5 (6.667%) HP
5 5 (6.667%) SAP
6 4 (5.333%) Demandware
7 2 (2.667%) hybris
7 2 (2.667%) ATG
8 1 (1.333%) VMware
8 1 (1.333%) Thunderhead
8 1 (1.333%) Sencha