Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 24 June 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for XML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited XML over the 6 months to 24 June 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

XML
Central London > City of London
6 months to
24 Jun 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 104 78 68
Rank change year-on-year -26 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing XML 337 368 573
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London 3.03% 3.62% 4.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.33% 9.52% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 289 321 528
City of London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +8.70% +15.00% -4.76%
10th Percentile £37,450 £37,500 £36,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £75,000
Central London median annual salary £56,631 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.97% +4.76% +5.00%

XML 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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,600 3,866 5,428
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.40% 38.01% 40.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,067 3,455 4,864
City of London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median salary % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
90th Percentile £94,250 £90,000 £85,000
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +4.55%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing XML as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the City of London

XML
Salary Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing XML in the City of London.

Salary trend for XML in the City of London

XML
Salary Histogram in the City of London

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing XML in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 June 2018.

Salary histogram for XML in the City of London

For the 6 months to 24 June 2018, IT jobs citing XML also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for XML.

1 163 (48.37%) SQL
2 159 (47.18%) Java
3 158 (46.88%) Finance
4 136 (40.36%) JavaScript
5 125 (37.09%) C#
6 120 (35.61%) .NET
7 118 (35.01%) JSON
8 117 (34.72%) SQL Server
9 116 (34.42%) HTML
10 115 (34.12%) Web Services
11 112 (33.23%) Agile Software Development
12 85 (25.22%) Oracle
13 75 (22.26%) Microsoft
14 73 (21.66%) CSS
15 66 (19.58%) MVC
16 65 (19.29%) Linux
17 62 (18.40%) OO
18 59 (17.51%) REST
19 56 (16.62%) Banking
20 54 (16.02%) Git (software)
21 53 (15.73%) SDLC
22 52 (15.43%) SOAP
23 47 (13.95%) Degree
23 47 (13.95%) QA
24 45 (13.35%) Unit Testing
24 45 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
25 44 (13.06%) Windows
25 44 (13.06%) ASP.NET
26 43 (12.76%) Scrum
26 43 (12.76%) DevOps

XML
Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 42 (12.46%) IIS
2 22 (6.53%) WebSphere
3 19 (5.64%) Tomcat
4 18 (5.34%) SharePoint
5 17 (5.04%) Confluence
6 11 (3.26%) JBoss
7 9 (2.67%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (2.67%) WebLogic
8 8 (2.37%) Apache TomEE
9 7 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.78%) SharePoint 2013
11 5 (1.48%) SAS
12 4 (1.19%) Mule
13 3 (0.89%) Apache
13 3 (0.89%) Moodle
13 3 (0.89%) MS Exchange
13 3 (0.89%) SharePoint 2010
14 2 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.59%) Mule ESB
14 2 (0.59%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 10 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.67%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.45%) MetaTrader
2 7 (2.08%) Front Arena
2 7 (2.08%) Markit EDM
2 7 (2.08%) Sonata
2 7 (2.08%) thinkFolio
3 5 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.59%) Salesforce.com CRM
5 1 (0.30%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.30%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.30%) CSG Singleview
5 1 (0.30%) FastStats
5 1 (0.30%) Kondor
5 1 (0.30%) PeopleSoft CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (9.79%) Microsoft Azure
2 21 (6.23%) Amazon AWS
3 15 (4.45%) NuGet
4 10 (2.97%) Office 365
5 7 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.19%) GitHub
6 4 (1.19%) Google Play
7 3 (0.89%) Azure Active Directory
7 3 (0.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.59%) npm
8 2 (0.59%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.59%) Twilio
9 1 (0.30%) AdWords
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.30%) CloudFront
9 1 (0.30%) IBM Cloud
9 1 (0.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.42%) Internet
2 15 (4.45%) NetScaler
3 12 (3.56%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.26%) HTTP
5 7 (2.08%) Intranet
6 6 (1.78%) DNS
6 6 (1.78%) SMS
7 5 (1.48%) Firewall
7 5 (1.48%) VPN
7 5 (1.48%) Wireless
8 4 (1.19%) FTP
9 3 (0.89%) SSH
9 3 (0.89%) VLAN
9 3 (0.89%) WLAN
10 2 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.59%) GSM
10 2 (0.59%) LAN
10 2 (0.59%) LTE
10 2 (0.59%) SSL
10 2 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (34.72%) SQL Server
2 41 (12.17%) Relational Database
3 35 (10.39%) SQL Server 2012
4 34 (10.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 28 (8.31%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (6.82%) MySQL
7 19 (5.64%) Big Data
8 18 (5.34%) RDBMS
9 17 (5.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (4.15%) SQL Server 2008
11 10 (2.97%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.67%) SQL Server 2014
13 8 (2.37%) Crystal Reports
13 8 (2.37%) Oracle Database
14 7 (2.08%) MongoDB
14 7 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.78%) OLTP
16 5 (1.48%) Amazon DynamoDB
16 5 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
17 4 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 54 (16.02%) Git (software)
2 39 (11.57%) Team Foundation Server
3 38 (11.28%) Visual Studio
4 32 (9.50%) Maven
5 27 (8.01%) Ant
6 24 (7.12%) JUnit
7 23 (6.82%) JIRA
8 20 (5.93%) Selenium
8 20 (5.93%) TeamCity
9 17 (5.04%) Eclipse
10 16 (4.75%) Jenkins
10 16 (4.75%) ReSharper
11 15 (4.45%) CA Release Automation
11 15 (4.45%) Cucumber
11 15 (4.45%) Fiddler
11 15 (4.45%) IntelliJ
11 15 (4.45%) WebDriver
12 13 (3.86%) Mockito
13 12 (3.56%) Gradle
14 8 (2.37%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 158 (46.88%) Finance
2 56 (16.62%) Banking
3 38 (11.28%) Advertising
4 26 (7.72%) Front Office
5 20 (5.93%) Financial Institution
6 15 (4.45%) Back Office
7 10 (2.97%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.97%) Law
8 8 (2.37%) Legal
9 6 (1.78%) Retail Banking
9 6 (1.78%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.48%) Retail
11 4 (1.19%) Arabic Language
11 4 (1.19%) Games
11 4 (1.19%) Marketing
12 2 (0.59%) Billing
13 1 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.30%) Publishing
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Finance
13 1 (0.30%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 165 (48.96%) Developer
2 54 (16.02%) Java Developer
3 44 (13.06%) Architect
4 32 (9.50%) Senior Developer
5 30 (8.90%) Analyst
6 29 (8.61%) .NET Developer
7 24 (7.12%) C# Developer
7 24 (7.12%) Senior Java Developer
8 19 (5.64%) Consultant
8 19 (5.64%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (5.34%) SQL Developer
10 15 (4.45%) Support Engineer
11 14 (4.15%) Technical Consultant
12 13 (3.86%) Android Developer
12 13 (3.86%) QA Engineer
13 12 (3.56%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (3.56%) C# .NET Developer
13 12 (3.56%) Customer Engineer
14 11 (3.26%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (35.61%) .NET
2 118 (35.01%) JSON
3 116 (34.42%) HTML
4 115 (34.12%) Web Services
5 73 (21.66%) CSS
6 59 (17.51%) REST
7 52 (15.43%) SOAP
8 44 (13.06%) ASP.NET
9 42 (12.46%) jQuery
10 41 (12.17%) Spring
11 39 (11.57%) J2EE
12 36 (10.68%) XSLT
13 35 (10.39%) JSP
14 31 (9.20%) Struts
15 30 (8.90%) Hibernate
16 29 (8.61%) ASP.NET MVC
17 27 (8.01%) AngularJS
17 27 (8.01%) RESTful
18 26 (7.72%) XSL
19 25 (7.42%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.50%) Computer Science
2 27 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (8.01%) Fintech
3 22 (6.53%) Fixed Income
4 13 (3.86%) Derivative
5 12 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.56%) User Experience
6 11 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (2.97%) Equities
7 10 (2.97%) N-Tier
8 9 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.67%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.37%) Client/Server
9 8 (2.37%) Hedge funds
10 7 (2.08%) W3C
11 6 (1.78%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.78%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.48%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.19%) Blog
13 4 (1.19%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 65 (19.29%) Linux
2 44 (13.06%) Windows
3 39 (11.57%) Unix
4 18 (5.34%) CentOS
5 15 (4.45%) Android
5 15 (4.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (2.37%) Solaris
7 7 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.78%) AIX
8 6 (1.78%) HPUX
9 5 (1.48%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (33.23%) Agile Software Development
2 66 (19.58%) MVC
3 62 (18.40%) OO
4 53 (15.73%) SDLC
5 45 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (13.35%) Unit Testing
6 43 (12.76%) DevOps
6 43 (12.76%) Scrum
7 33 (9.79%) Business Intelligence
8 31 (9.20%) Workflow
9 30 (8.90%) Multithreading
9 30 (8.90%) TDD
9 30 (8.90%) Test Automation
10 24 (7.12%) Change Management
10 24 (7.12%) UML
11 23 (6.82%) ETL
11 23 (6.82%) Service Management
12 22 (6.53%) OOD
13 21 (6.23%) Root Cause Analysis
13 21 (6.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 163 (48.37%) SQL
2 159 (47.18%) Java
3 136 (40.36%) JavaScript
4 125 (37.09%) C#
5 32 (9.50%) Python
6 30 (8.90%) T-SQL
7 29 (8.61%) PowerShell
8 25 (7.42%) Perl
9 22 (6.53%) PHP
10 18 (5.34%) VB
11 17 (5.04%) Shell Script
12 12 (3.56%) XPath
13 10 (2.97%) PL/SQL
14 8 (2.37%) VBA
15 6 (1.78%) R
15 6 (1.78%) VB6
16 5 (1.48%) C++
17 3 (0.89%) Bash Shell
17 3 (0.89%) Groovy
18 2 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (13.95%) Degree
2 19 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (2.97%) MCSE
5 8 (2.37%) MCSA
6 7 (2.08%) PMP
7 4 (1.19%) ISEB
8 3 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.89%) PhD
8 3 (0.89%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.59%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.59%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.30%) MCSD
10 1 (0.30%) MCTS
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.95%) QA
2 16 (4.75%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.48%) WCAG
4 3 (0.89%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.19%) Docker
4 3 (0.89%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.89%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 3 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (4.75%) logstash
2 15 (4.45%) Kibana
2 15 (4.45%) Perfmon
3 9 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.89%) Ansible
4 3 (0.89%) Backup Exec
4 3 (0.89%) SCCM
4 3 (0.89%) Tivoli
4 3 (0.89%) WebSphere Cast Iron
5 2 (0.59%) Control-M
5 2 (0.59%) Terraform
6 1 (0.30%) Salt
6 1 (0.30%) SCOM
Vendors
1 85 (25.22%) Oracle
2 75 (22.26%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.34%) TIBCO
4 17 (5.04%) VMware
5 15 (4.45%) SolarWinds
6 9 (2.67%) Apigee
7 8 (2.37%) Nintex
8 7 (2.08%) Calypso
8 7 (2.08%) Charles River
8 7 (2.08%) Citrix
8 7 (2.08%) SimCorp
9 5 (1.48%) Google
9 5 (1.48%) Salesforce.com
9 5 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.48%) Sybase
10 4 (1.19%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.19%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.19%) Murex
10 4 (1.19%) Reuters
11 3 (0.89%) IBM