The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XPath over the 3 months to 17 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 Essex 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XPath 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.491% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.183% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £263 - -
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 £36.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+23.28% -13.09%
All Programming Languages
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
169 131 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 41.52% 31.95% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 61 57
Average daily rate £265 £265 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -18.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £172 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 24
Average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.76 £26.00 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £49.10 £40.00 £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XPath
East of England

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex XPath Hourly Rate Trend

XPath
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XPath within the Essex region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Basildon - 1 £250 -
Chelmsford - 1 £275 -
XPath
East of England

XPath
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Tandem
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) SCSS
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) WSDL
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) XQuery
2 1 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) WSDL
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) SCSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) XQuery
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
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