The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XPath over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Hampshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 94 86 96
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +10
Contract jobs citing XPath 6 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.370% 0.527% 0.316%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.968% 1.372% 0.823%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Average daily rate £285 £348 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.98% +15.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -46.42%
All Programming Languages
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
620 583 729
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 38.20% 38.41% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 275 289
Average daily rate £330 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.22% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £415 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 80 111
Average hourly rate £36.00 £36.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.36% +4.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £22.75 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XPath
South East

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Basingstoke - - - -
Havant - - - -
Petersfield - - - -
Portsmouth - - - -
Ringwood - - - -
XPath
South East

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) XML
2 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 9 (81.82%) Oracle
2 9 (81.82%) Spring
3 7 (63.64%) Hibernate
4 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
4 6 (54.55%) Multithreading
4 6 (54.55%) XSL
4 6 (54.55%) UNIX
4 6 (54.55%) Linux
5 5 (45.45%) HTTP
5 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
5 5 (45.45%) JMS
5 5 (45.45%) DTV
5 5 (45.45%) DVB
5 5 (45.45%) XSLT
5 5 (45.45%) JDBC
5 5 (45.45%) Maven
5 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
5 5 (45.45%) Degree
5 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
5 5 (45.45%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (45.45%) Lucene
5 5 (45.45%) JPA
5 5 (45.45%) Drools
5 5 (45.45%) Git (software)
5 5 (45.45%) HTML5
5 5 (45.45%) Cucumber
5 5 (45.45%) REST

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 11 (100.00%) XML
2 9 (81.82%) Spring
3 7 (63.64%) Hibernate
4 6 (54.55%) XSL
5 5 (45.45%) JMS
5 5 (45.45%) XSLT
5 5 (45.45%) JDBC
5 5 (45.45%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (45.45%) Lucene
5 5 (45.45%) JPA
5 5 (45.45%) Drools
5 5 (45.45%) HTML5
5 5 (45.45%) REST
6 4 (36.36%) XSD
6 4 (36.36%) DOM
6 4 (36.36%) J2EE
6 4 (36.36%) JAXP
6 4 (36.36%) SAX
7 3 (27.27%) CSS
8 2 (18.18%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Liferay
1 4 (36.36%) WebLogic
1 4 (36.36%) WebLogic Portal
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) HTTP
1 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
1 5 (45.45%) DVB
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Maven
1 5 (45.45%) Git (software)
1 5 (45.45%) Cucumber
2 4 (36.36%) ClearCase
2 4 (36.36%) Eclipse
2 4 (36.36%) ClearQuest
3 1 (9.091%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Java Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) DTV
1 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) UNIX
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Multithreading
2 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (36.36%) UML
4 1 (9.091%) OO
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.091%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Talend
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