The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XPath 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.404% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.063% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £394 - -
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 £36.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+23.28% -13.09%
All Programming Languages
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
79 88 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 27.72% 39.64% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 54 21
Average daily rate £338 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £435 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 5
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -56.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XPath
Nottinghamshire

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham XPath Daily Rate Trend

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 6 (100.00%) SOAP
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) WSDL
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) BPEL
3 4 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 4 (66.67%) DataPower
3 4 (66.67%) SOA
3 4 (66.67%) HTTP
3 4 (66.67%) WebSphere MQ
3 4 (66.67%) Project Management
3 4 (66.67%) XML Schema
3 4 (66.67%) SSL
3 4 (66.67%) XSD
3 4 (66.67%) XSLT
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) HTML
4 3 (50.00%) Middleware
5 2 (33.33%) Time Management
5 2 (33.33%) Maven
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
5 2 (33.33%) UNIX
5 2 (33.33%) JMS
5 2 (33.33%) IBM
5 2 (33.33%) WS-I
5 2 (33.33%) HP
5 2 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
5 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) SOAP
1 6 (100.00%) WSDL
2 4 (66.67%) XML Schema
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) XSD
2 4 (66.67%) XSLT
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 3 (50.00%) Middleware
4 2 (33.33%) JMS
4 2 (33.33%) WS-I
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) HTTP
1 4 (66.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
1 2 (33.33%) Hudson
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Test Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) SOA
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
1 4 (66.67%) BPEL
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) HP