The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XPath over the 3 months to 23 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 Merseyside 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 32 36 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing XPath 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.971% 0.379% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.740% 0.952% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £330 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
+6.15% +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
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
73 105 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 35.44% 39.77% 26.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 50 33
Average daily rate £350 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £260 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 1
Average hourly rate £16.72 £17.51 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.51% +16.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
XPath
North West

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside XPath Daily 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 23 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
Liverpool +9 2 - -
XPath
North West

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSD
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) OOD
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) SEO
1 5 (100.00%) CMS
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (100.00%) NetBeans
1 5 (100.00%) Google
1 5 (100.00%) Web Development
1 5 (100.00%) Business Development
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Zend
1 5 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 5 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSD
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
1 5 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 5 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) Google Maps API
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
1 5 (100.00%) CSS3
1 5 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) CMS
1 5 (100.00%) Umbraco
1 5 (100.00%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) NetBeans
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) OOD
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) SEO
1 5 (100.00%) Web Development
1 5 (100.00%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Google
1 5 (100.00%) Zend
1 5 (100.00%) Facebook
1 5 (100.00%) Twitter