XPath Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 56 - 67
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XPath 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.120% - 0.077%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.429% - 0.368%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
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%
Search 1 XPath jobs in Edinburgh
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 233 191 272
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 27.97% 17.57% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 77 103
Average daily rate £325 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £237 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
Average hourly rate £12.71 £32.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.28% +52.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
XPath
Scotland

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh XPath Daily Rate Trend

XPath
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing XPath across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh XPath Hourly Rate Trend

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 7 (100.00%) XML
2 6 (85.71%) XQuery
2 6 (85.71%) Visual Studio
2 6 (85.71%) XSL
2 6 (85.71%) C#
2 6 (85.71%) .NET
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) T-SQL
3 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Data Management
4 3 (42.86%) Web Services
5 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 2 (28.57%) System Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Kanban
6 1 (14.29%) Android
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Web Development
6 1 (14.29%) WAI
6 1 (14.29%) JIRA
6 1 (14.29%) jQuery
6 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (14.29%) Subversion
6 1 (14.29%) Content Management

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 7 (100.00%) XML
2 6 (85.71%) XSL
2 6 (85.71%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (14.29%) HTML5
4 1 (14.29%) CSS3
4 1 (14.29%) SAX
4 1 (14.29%) XSLT
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) DOM
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) TeamSite
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Visual Studio
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) Hudson
2 1 (14.29%) FogBugz
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Software Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Junior
3 3 (42.86%) Junior Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Junior Consultant
4 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Consultant
4 2 (28.57%) Support Consultant
4 2 (28.57%) Junior .NET Developer
4 2 (28.57%) .NET Consultant
5 1 (14.29%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Junior Software Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Graduate Software Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
1 3 (42.86%) Data Management
2 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) Content Management
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Content Management
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) XQuery
1 6 (85.71%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) WAI
1 1 (14.29%) Section 508
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) HP
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