The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kingston Upon Thames 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 Kingston Upon Thames 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 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XPath 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 4.167% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Kingston Upon Thames
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
7 3 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 29.17% 17.65% 64.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 22
Average daily rate £310 £160 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+93.75% -58.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £158 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £162 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XPath
London

XPath
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) DHTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Syncfusion
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 1 (100.00%) DHTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Umbraco
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Syncfusion