The first table below looks at the demand for RSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RSS 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Rank - 184 175
Permanent jobs citing RSS 0 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands - 0.022% 0.024%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.051% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
Average salary - £32,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -18.75%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2035 1961 1563
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.47% 43.02% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1813 1757 1428
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
RSS
England

RSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands RSS Jobs Demand Trend

RSS
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands RSS Salary Trend

RSS
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing RSS 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 RSS.

1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) MS Project
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) SQLite
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) UIKit

RSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing RSS 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 RSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) UIKit
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Project
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Apple