The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter 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 Exeter 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 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XPath 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 6.306% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 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 £36.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+23.28% -13.09%
All Programming Languages
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
38 35 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 34.23% 58.33% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 21
Average daily rate £325 £330 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% -17.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
Average hourly rate £78.75 £10.00 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+687.50% -67.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.75 £10.00 £22.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.75 £18.40 £34.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XPath
Devon

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter XPath Daily Rate Trend

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 12 (100.00%) CSS
1 12 (100.00%) Web Services
1 12 (100.00%) XML
1 12 (100.00%) XQuery
2 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
3 10 (83.33%) HTML
4 8 (66.67%) VB.NET
4 8 (66.67%) .NET
4 8 (66.67%) XSLT
5 7 (58.33%) MCAD
5 7 (58.33%) MCSD
5 7 (58.33%) SOA
5 7 (58.33%) Oracle
5 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET
5 7 (58.33%) C#
5 7 (58.33%) Oracle Applications
5 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (50.00%) Git (software)
7 4 (33.33%) RESTful
7 4 (33.33%) HTML5
7 4 (33.33%) CSS3
7 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
7 4 (33.33%) Dojo
7 4 (33.33%) jQuery
7 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
7 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
7 4 (33.33%) JAXB
7 4 (33.33%) Hibernate
8 3 (25.00%) ISO 14001

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 12 (100.00%) CSS
1 12 (100.00%) Web Services
1 12 (100.00%) XML
2 10 (83.33%) HTML
3 8 (66.67%) .NET
3 8 (66.67%) XSLT
4 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET
5 4 (33.33%) Dojo
5 4 (33.33%) jQuery
5 4 (33.33%) JAXB
5 4 (33.33%) Hibernate
5 4 (33.33%) RESTful
5 4 (33.33%) HTML5
5 4 (33.33%) CSS3
6 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (8.333%) Oracle Fusion
Business Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (25.00%) Summit
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 2 (16.67%) HTML Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.333%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) SOA
2 6 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) OO
4 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (16.67%) B2B
5 2 (16.67%) B2C
5 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) XQuery
2 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
3 8 (66.67%) VB.NET
4 7 (58.33%) C#
5 2 (16.67%) C
6 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) MCAD
1 7 (58.33%) MCSD
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) ISO 9001
1 3 (25.00%) ISO 14001
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle