The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XPath 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 Programming Languages category for the Bristol region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 48 61 48
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -13
Contract jobs citing XPath 2 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.388% 0.359% 0.310%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.220% 1.224% 1.205%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £325 £233
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +39.78%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+40.62% -23.80%
All Programming Languages
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
164 245 166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 31.78% 29.31% 25.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 154 85
Average daily rate £310 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £405 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -14.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.97 £22.80 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £44.60 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
XPath
South West

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XPath across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Bristol XPath Jobs Demand Trend

XPath
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XPath across the Bristol region.

Bristol XPath Daily Rate Trend

XPath
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing XPath 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited XPath.

1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (66.67%) JDBC
2 2 (66.67%) CA
2 2 (66.67%) TIBCO
2 2 (66.67%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (66.67%) Middleware
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Process Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Adobe
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) LiveCycle

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing XPath also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited XPath. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) JDBC
2 2 (66.67%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) LiveCycle
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) BusinessWorks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) TIBCO Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Process Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) CA
1 2 (66.67%) TIBCO
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe