XPath Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 98 109 126
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +17
Contract jobs citing XPath 21 26 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.889% 0.824% 0.133%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.720% 2.444% 0.454%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 0
Average daily rate £323 £280 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.17% -
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 772 1064 881
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 32.70% 33.73% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 592 488
Average daily rate £315 £318 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.78% +4.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £238 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 53 46
Average hourly rate £33.00 £21.86 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.96% -20.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.63 £15.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £37.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
XPath
England

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West XPath Daily Rate Trend

XPath
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Manchester +1 9 £323 +24.03%
Cheshire +10 8 £344 -1.78%
Merseyside +3 3 - -
XPath
England

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 38 (95.00%) XSLT
2 33 (82.50%) XML
3 28 (70.00%) Java
4 27 (67.50%) JavaScript
5 24 (60.00%) J2EE
5 24 (60.00%) Web Services
6 22 (55.00%) OO
7 19 (47.50%) SQL
8 18 (45.00%) CSS
9 16 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
9 16 (40.00%) Spring
9 16 (40.00%) Servlets
9 16 (40.00%) jQuery
10 15 (37.50%) TDD
11 14 (35.00%) Ajax
11 14 (35.00%) .NET
11 14 (35.00%) C#
11 14 (35.00%) XHTML
12 13 (32.50%) Linux
12 13 (32.50%) ASP.NET
12 13 (32.50%) JSON
12 13 (32.50%) Subversion
12 13 (32.50%) Finance
12 13 (32.50%) RESTful
13 12 (30.00%) REST
13 12 (30.00%) Web 2.0
13 12 (30.00%) WebSphere
13 12 (30.00%) JUnit
13 12 (30.00%) JSP
13 12 (30.00%) Eclipse

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 38 (95.00%) XSLT
2 33 (82.50%) XML
3 24 (60.00%) J2EE
3 24 (60.00%) Web Services
4 18 (45.00%) CSS
5 16 (40.00%) Spring
5 16 (40.00%) Servlets
5 16 (40.00%) jQuery
6 14 (35.00%) Ajax
6 14 (35.00%) .NET
6 14 (35.00%) XHTML
7 13 (32.50%) ASP.NET
7 13 (32.50%) JSON
7 13 (32.50%) RESTful
8 12 (30.00%) REST
8 12 (30.00%) WebSphere
8 12 (30.00%) JSP
9 10 (25.00%) JAX-RS
9 10 (25.00%) HTML
10 9 (22.50%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 8 (20.00%) MQSeries
1 8 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (12.50%) WordPress
2 5 (12.50%) Umbraco
2 5 (12.50%) Apache
2 5 (12.50%) CMS
3 2 (5.000%) ESB
4 1 (2.500%) Mule
4 1 (2.500%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.500%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 8 (20.00%) DB2
2 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (12.50%) MySQL
3 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.500%) SQLite
4 3 (7.500%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.000%) MarkLogic
6 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Subversion
2 12 (30.00%) JUnit
2 12 (30.00%) Eclipse
3 9 (22.50%) Visual Studio
4 8 (20.00%) Log4j
4 8 (20.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 8 (20.00%) Ant
5 6 (15.00%) Git (software)
6 5 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (12.50%) NetBeans
7 4 (10.00%) JIRA
7 4 (10.00%) Cucumber
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Retail
3 7 (17.50%) Games
4 2 (5.000%) Banking
4 2 (5.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (87.50%) Developer
2 18 (45.00%) Java Developer
3 13 (32.50%) .NET Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 7 (17.50%) J2EE Developer
5 5 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Applications Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) .NET Applications Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Web Developer
7 3 (7.500%) Web Applications Developer
7 3 (7.500%) .NET Web Developer
7 3 (7.500%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (5.000%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 2 (5.000%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (2.500%) BizTalk Administrator
9 1 (2.500%) C++/C# Developer
9 1 (2.500%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.500%) Administrator
9 1 (2.500%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Web 2.0
2 5 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 5 (12.50%) Statistics
3 2 (5.000%) Interactive TV
3 2 (5.000%) Streaming Video
3 2 (5.000%) Semantic Web
4 1 (2.500%) RIA
4 1 (2.500%) W3C
4 1 (2.500%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Linux
2 9 (22.50%) Windows
3 8 (20.00%) HPUX
3 8 (20.00%) Solaris
3 8 (20.00%) UNIX
4 3 (7.500%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) OO
2 16 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (37.50%) TDD
4 11 (27.50%) RDF
4 11 (27.50%) BDD
4 11 (27.50%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (25.00%) MVC
5 10 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 10 (25.00%) Content Management
5 10 (25.00%) Pair Programming
6 8 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 8 (20.00%) Benchmarking
6 8 (20.00%) Web Development
6 8 (20.00%) UML
6 8 (20.00%) RAD
6 8 (20.00%) E-Commerce
7 5 (12.50%) OOD
7 5 (12.50%) SEO
7 5 (12.50%) Business Development
8 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (70.00%) Java
2 27 (67.50%) JavaScript
3 19 (47.50%) SQL
4 14 (35.00%) C#
5 12 (30.00%) XQuery
6 8 (20.00%) Bash shell
6 8 (20.00%) Perl
7 5 (12.50%) PHP
8 4 (10.00%) Ruby
8 4 (10.00%) PL/SQL
8 4 (10.00%) C
8 4 (10.00%) C++
8 4 (10.00%) SPARQL
9 1 (2.500%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.500%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.500%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) IBM
2 9 (22.50%) Oracle
3 8 (20.00%) Elastic Path
3 8 (20.00%) ATG
3 8 (20.00%) Blue Martini
3 8 (20.00%) Interwoven
4 5 (12.50%) Zend
4 5 (12.50%) Facebook
4 5 (12.50%) Twitter
4 5 (12.50%) Google
5 3 (7.500%) Perforce
6 2 (5.000%) Microsoft
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North West
The successful Java Engineer will have in depth knowledge of Java and J2EE and experience of Spring, REST or Camel frameworks... Other beneficial skills will be - XML - XQuery -...
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Rate: £320.00 - £360.00 per day
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JAVA Developer with Camel or Spring experience
Salford, Lancashire
Main skills required : Software Design and Enterprise Architecture patterns, indepth knowledge of Java - J2EE, S XML, XQuery, XSLT, XPath for XML content store manipulation, with Spring and REST...
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Chester, North West
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Manchester, Lancashire
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Chester, North West
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Chester, North West
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