XPath Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 London 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 346 382 360
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -22
Contract jobs citing XPath 39 24 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.181% 0.090% 0.246%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.442% 0.239% 0.580%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 47
Average daily rate £475 £475 £555
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £335 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £51.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -70.87%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £36.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+23.28% -13.09%
All Programming Languages
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 8821 10041 13276
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 40.85% 37.49% 42.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6389 6829 8942
Average daily rate £450 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 145 179
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.86 £18.47 £19.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.15 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XPath
England

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London XPath Daily Rate Trend

XPath
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XPath across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London XPath Daily Rate Histogram

XPath
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing XPath across the London region.

London 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 London 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
City of London +19 13 £500 +8.10%
Canary Wharf - 1 - -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 - -
XPath
England

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 74 (97.37%) XML
2 33 (43.42%) XSLT
2 33 (43.42%) Java
2 33 (43.42%) SQL
3 29 (38.16%) JavaScript
4 23 (30.26%) XQuery
5 22 (28.95%) Banking
5 22 (28.95%) CSS
6 21 (27.63%) Finance
7 18 (23.68%) TDD
8 17 (22.37%) Web Services
9 16 (21.05%) Oracle
9 16 (21.05%) XML Schema
9 16 (21.05%) Scrum
10 15 (19.74%) CMS
10 15 (19.74%) SQL Server
10 15 (19.74%) RESTful
11 14 (18.42%) BDD
11 14 (18.42%) jQuery
12 13 (17.11%) Waterfall
12 13 (17.11%) REST
12 13 (17.11%) PHP
12 13 (17.11%) T-SQL
12 13 (17.11%) HTTP
12 13 (17.11%) Linux
12 13 (17.11%) UML
13 12 (15.79%) ETL
13 12 (15.79%) .NET
13 12 (15.79%) ASP.NET
13 12 (15.79%) Subversion

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 74 (97.37%) XML
2 33 (43.42%) XSLT
3 22 (28.95%) CSS
4 17 (22.37%) Web Services
5 16 (21.05%) XML Schema
6 15 (19.74%) RESTful
7 14 (18.42%) jQuery
8 13 (17.11%) REST
9 12 (15.79%) Ajax
9 12 (15.79%) ASP.NET
9 12 (15.79%) .NET
10 11 (14.47%) JRules
11 10 (13.16%) Spring
11 10 (13.16%) .NET Framework
12 9 (11.84%) XSL
12 9 (11.84%) JSON
13 8 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC
14 7 (9.211%) HTML
15 6 (7.895%) JMS
15 6 (7.895%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 15 (19.74%) CMS
2 9 (11.84%) Tomcat
3 7 (9.211%) WebLogic
3 7 (9.211%) TIBCO EMS
3 7 (9.211%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (5.263%) Amazon AWS
4 4 (5.263%) Apache
5 3 (3.947%) ESB
5 3 (3.947%) Umbraco
5 3 (3.947%) IIS
6 2 (2.632%) Mule
7 1 (1.316%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (1.316%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (1.316%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 6 (7.895%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.632%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.632%) MS Office
3 1 (1.316%) MS Project
3 1 (1.316%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (5.263%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) HTTP
2 4 (5.263%) Internet
3 3 (3.947%) SSL
4 1 (1.316%) DVB
4 1 (1.316%) Firewall
4 1 (1.316%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.316%) LDAP
4 1 (1.316%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.16%) MarkLogic
3 9 (11.84%) DTS
3 9 (11.84%) Data Mining
3 9 (11.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (11.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (6.579%) Oracle 11g
4 5 (6.579%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (5.263%) Essbase
6 3 (3.947%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.947%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.947%) Big Data
7 1 (1.316%) DB2
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Subversion
2 9 (11.84%) JUnit
3 7 (9.211%) Ant
3 7 (9.211%) TeamCity
4 6 (7.895%) Cucumber
5 5 (6.579%) Git (software)
6 4 (5.263%) Maven
7 3 (3.947%) JIRA
7 3 (3.947%) Selenium
7 3 (3.947%) jMock
7 3 (3.947%) Visual Studio
7 3 (3.947%) EasyMock
7 3 (3.947%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.632%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.632%) Xcode
8 2 (2.632%) Trac
9 1 (1.316%) Rational Rose
9 1 (1.316%) Behat
9 1 (1.316%) XMLUnit
9 1 (1.316%) Mercurial
General
1 22 (28.95%) Banking
2 21 (27.63%) Finance
3 10 (13.16%) Publishing
3 10 (13.16%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.263%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.632%) Retail
5 2 (2.632%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.316%) Wholesale Banking
6 1 (1.316%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.316%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (55.26%) Developer
2 25 (32.89%) Architect
3 12 (15.79%) Technical Architect
4 7 (9.211%) PHP Developer
5 5 (6.579%) Functional Architect
5 5 (6.579%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.263%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.947%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.947%) Front-End Developer
7 3 (3.947%) Consultant
7 3 (3.947%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.947%) Technical Consultant
7 3 (3.947%) Administrator
7 3 (3.947%) Business Architect
8 2 (2.632%) iOS Developer
8 2 (2.632%) Mobile Developer
8 2 (2.632%) Automation Tester
8 2 (2.632%) Web Developer
8 2 (2.632%) Tester
8 2 (2.632%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Equities
1 9 (11.84%) Derivative
2 6 (7.895%) Computer Science
3 4 (5.263%) Mathematics
3 4 (5.263%) Physics
3 4 (5.263%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.947%) Social Media
4 3 (3.947%) iPhone
4 3 (3.947%) DataPower
4 3 (3.947%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.632%) W3C
5 2 (2.632%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.632%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.632%) Data Integration
5 2 (2.632%) Open Source
6 1 (1.316%) SWIFT
6 1 (1.316%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.316%) Data Extraction
6 1 (1.316%) Semantic Web
6 1 (1.316%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.11%) Linux
2 9 (11.84%) UNIX
3 8 (10.53%) Windows
4 5 (6.579%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.947%) Windows Phone
5 3 (3.947%) Android
6 1 (1.316%) CentOS
6 1 (1.316%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.68%) TDD
2 16 (21.05%) Scrum
3 14 (18.42%) BDD
4 13 (17.11%) Waterfall
4 13 (17.11%) UML
5 12 (15.79%) ETL
6 11 (14.47%) OO
7 10 (13.16%) Agile Software Development
7 10 (13.16%) Data Analysis
7 10 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (9.211%) Domain-Driven Design
8 7 (9.211%) MVC
9 6 (7.895%) OOP
9 6 (7.895%) Content Management
10 5 (6.579%) E-Commerce
10 5 (6.579%) SOA
10 5 (6.579%) Multithreading
11 4 (5.263%) Software Architecture
11 4 (5.263%) Workflow
11 4 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 33 (43.42%) Java
1 33 (43.42%) SQL
2 29 (38.16%) JavaScript
3 23 (30.26%) XQuery
4 13 (17.11%) PHP
4 13 (17.11%) T-SQL
5 12 (15.79%) Ruby
6 9 (11.84%) C#
7 3 (3.947%) C++
7 3 (3.947%) VB
8 2 (2.632%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.316%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.316%) PHP5
9 1 (1.316%) PHP4
9 1 (1.316%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.316%) C
9 1 (1.316%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (11.84%) Degree
2 3 (3.947%) DV Cleared
2 3 (3.947%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.947%) QA
2 1 (1.316%) Basel III
Vendors
1 16 (21.05%) Oracle
2 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
3 9 (11.84%) Cadis
4 8 (10.53%) Zend
5 7 (9.211%) Sitecore
5 7 (9.211%) TIBCO
6 6 (7.895%) IBM
7 4 (5.263%) ION Trading
8 3 (3.947%) Syncfusion
9 2 (2.632%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.632%) Progress
10 1 (1.316%) PolarLake
10 1 (1.316%) Bloomberg
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Knowledge of test data/scripting using JavaScript, XML, XPath (An advantage to have) Experience with mobile platforms: iOS/iPhone, Android, RIM/Blackberry, Windows Phone... Strong troubleshooting skills Desirable:...
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