The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the Knutsford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XPath over the 3 months to 21 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 Knutsford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing XPath 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
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 £32.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+40.62% -23.80%
All Programming Languages
Knutsford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
21 22 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 20.79% 30.14% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 28
Average daily rate £388 £306 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.53% +3.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £275 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £393 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
XPath
Cheshire

XPath
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Applications Developer
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript