North West XPath Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for XPath (XML Path Language) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XPath over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

XPath (XML Path Language)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Bristol Camberley Cheshire Chester City of London Devon Docklands, London East of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Linlithgow London M4 Corridor Manchester North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West Stevenage Surrey Sussex UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	122	135
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	7	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.603 %	0.672 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£350
Average daily rate	£363	£375
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£396	£363
% change on same period last year	+9.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.50	-
Average hourly rate	£29.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.80	£29.63
% change on same period last year	+14.09 %
Programming Languages North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1160	1339
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.568 %	1.320 %
Daily rates quoted	235	242
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£312
Average daily rate	£313	£330
% change on same period last year	-5.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	145	151
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.07	£25.55
Average hourly rate	£29.11	£27.02
% change on same period last year	+7.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.16	£28.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.30	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+1.13 %
XPath England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

XPath
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XPath across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

XPath
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XPath across the North West region.

XPath
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XPath across the North West region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

XPath
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 North West region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheshire	+10	4	£363	-
Manchester	-6	2	-	-
Lancashire	-	1	-	-

XPath England

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 8 (100.00 %) XML 2 6 (75.00 %) WebServices 3 5 (62.50 %) Java 4 4 (50.00 %) C++ 4 4 (50.00 %) HTML 4 4 (50.00 %) JSP 4 4 (50.00 %) Oracle 4 4 (50.00 %) Swing 4 4 (50.00 %) Hibernate 4 4 (50.00 %) Agile Software Development 4 4 (50.00 %) JIRA 5 3 (37.50 %) Apache Axis 5 3 (37.50 %) Spring 5 3 (37.50 %) AJAX 5 3 (37.50 %) Finance

5 3 (37.50 %) JAX-RPC 5 3 (37.50 %) Middleware 5 3 (37.50 %) WSDL 5 3 (37.50 %) Tuxedo 5 3 (37.50 %) CSS 5 3 (37.50 %) SOAP 5 3 (37.50 %) XSLT 5 3 (37.50 %) .NET 6 2 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 6 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 6 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 6 2 (25.00 %) Perforce 6 2 (25.00 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (12.50 %) Java ME 7 1 (12.50 %) Java SE

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 8 (100.00 %) XML 2 6 (75.00 %) WebServices 3 4 (50.00 %) HTML 3 4 (50.00 %) JSP 3 4 (50.00 %) Swing 3 4 (50.00 %) Hibernate 4 3 (37.50 %) Spring 4 3 (37.50 %) AJAX 4 3 (37.50 %) WSDL 4 3 (37.50 %) JAX-RPC 4 3 (37.50 %) Middleware 4 3 (37.50 %) SOAP 4 3 (37.50 %) .NET 4 3 (37.50 %) CSS 4 3 (37.50 %) XSLT 4 3 (37.50 %) Apache Axis 5 2 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (25.00 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (12.50 %) Java ME 6 1 (12.50 %) Java SE	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) Tuxedo 2 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint 2 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (12.50 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 4 (50.00 %) JIRA
General 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Banking 2 1 (12.50 %) International Banking	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) Java Software Engineer 2 3 (37.50 %) Software Engineer 3 2 (25.00 %) Java Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) C++ Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) VB.NET Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Applications Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (12.50 %) Programmer 4 1 (12.50 %) Junior 4 1 (12.50 %) Junior Analyst Programmer 4 1 (12.50 %) Junior Programmer 4 1 (12.50 %) Junior Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) .NET Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry 1 1 (12.50 %) PDA 1 1 (12.50 %) Psychology 1 1 (12.50 %) Ergonomics 1 1 (12.50 %) Human Factors 1 1 (12.50 %) Multithreading	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) Agile Software Development 2 1 (12.50 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) Java 2 4 (50.00 %) C++ 3 1 (12.50 %) C 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) VB.NET	System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (25.00 %) Perforce