The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XPath over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Salford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XPath 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 16.67% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 66.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £323 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -46.42%
All Programming Languages
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
6 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 25.00% 20.83% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
Average daily rate £323 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.27% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XPath
Manchester

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford XPath Daily Rate Trend

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) J2EE
1 8 (100.00%) Web Services
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) XSLT
1 8 (100.00%) RDF
1 8 (100.00%) XQuery
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
1 8 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 8 (100.00%) RESTful
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
1 8 (100.00%) REST
2 7 (87.50%) JAX-RS
2 7 (87.50%) JSON
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (87.50%) Benchmarking
2 7 (87.50%) OO
2 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Statistics
4 3 (37.50%) Ruby
4 3 (37.50%) SPARQL
4 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (25.00%) Semantic Web
5 2 (25.00%) MarkLogic
5 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (25.00%) Interactive TV
5 2 (25.00%) Content Management

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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%) J2EE
1 8 (100.00%) Web Services
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) XSLT
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) RESTful
1 8 (100.00%) REST
2 7 (87.50%) JAX-RS
2 7 (87.50%) JSON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MarkLogic
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Statistics
2 2 (25.00%) Semantic Web
2 2 (25.00%) Interactive TV
2 2 (25.00%) Streaming Video
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) RDF
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
1 8 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 8 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (87.50%) Benchmarking
2 7 (87.50%) OO
2 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) XQuery
2 3 (37.50%) Ruby
2 3 (37.50%) SPARQL