XPath Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XPath over the 3 months to 22 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 Scotland 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 105 - 107
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XPath 16 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.646% - 0.110%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.511% - 0.369%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
Average daily rate £348 - -
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 1059 655 814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 42.74% 24.48% 29.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 297 410
Average daily rate £360 £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.04% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 29 21
Average hourly rate £28.50 £27.50 £30.72
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% -10.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £18.50 £14.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £33.90 £37.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
XPath
UK

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland XPath Daily Rate Trend

XPath
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XPath across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland XPath Daily Rate Histogram

XPath
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Stirling - 4 - -
Glasgow - 3 £315 -
West Lothian - 3 £325 -
Renfrewshire - 2 £355 -
Edinburgh - 1 £350 -
XPath
UK

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 34 (100.00%) XML
2 20 (58.82%) SQL
3 18 (52.94%) JavaScript
3 18 (52.94%) SQL Server
4 17 (50.00%) HTML
4 17 (50.00%) XSL
5 15 (44.12%) T-SQL
6 12 (35.29%) C#
6 12 (35.29%) .NET
6 12 (35.29%) Web Services
6 12 (35.29%) CSS
7 10 (29.41%) Windows
7 10 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
8 9 (26.47%) BDD
9 8 (23.53%) XSLT
9 8 (23.53%) Finance
9 8 (23.53%) TDD
10 7 (20.59%) Visual Studio
10 7 (20.59%) HP
10 7 (20.59%) XQuery
11 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
11 6 (17.65%) Netcool
11 6 (17.65%) OpenView Configuration Management
11 6 (17.65%) Citrix
11 6 (17.65%) SAN
11 6 (17.65%) Veritas
11 6 (17.65%) XHTML
11 6 (17.65%) Java
11 6 (17.65%) OO
11 6 (17.65%) Scrum

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 34 (100.00%) XML
2 17 (50.00%) HTML
2 17 (50.00%) XSL
3 12 (35.29%) .NET
3 12 (35.29%) Web Services
3 12 (35.29%) CSS
4 8 (23.53%) XSLT
5 6 (17.65%) XHTML
5 6 (17.65%) jQuery
5 6 (17.65%) HTML5
6 5 (14.71%) LINQ
6 5 (14.71%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 5 (14.71%) .NET Framework
6 5 (14.71%) Ajax
6 5 (14.71%) ASP.NET
6 5 (14.71%) DOM
6 5 (14.71%) SAX
6 5 (14.71%) XML Schema
7 3 (8.824%) RESTful
7 3 (8.824%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 5 (14.71%) CMS
2 4 (11.76%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.941%) GemFire
3 1 (2.941%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.941%) TeamSite
3 1 (2.941%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.941%) IIS
3 1 (2.941%) Apache
3 1 (2.941%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) SAN
2 1 (2.941%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 10 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (14.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (14.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (14.71%) DTS
3 5 (14.71%) Data Mining
3 5 (14.71%) RDBMS
4 4 (11.76%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Visual Studio
2 5 (14.71%) FitNesse
3 3 (8.824%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.824%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.824%) Maven
3 3 (8.824%) Selenium
3 3 (8.824%) Ant
4 2 (5.882%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.941%) FogBugz
5 1 (2.941%) Hudson
5 1 (2.941%) JIRA
5 1 (2.941%) Subversion
General
1 8 (23.53%) Finance
2 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.941%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (64.71%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Consultant
3 5 (14.71%) .NET Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Software Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.824%) QA Analyst
5 3 (8.824%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.824%) Analyst
5 3 (8.824%) Test Analyst
5 3 (8.824%) Web Developer
5 3 (8.824%) Senior Web Developer
5 3 (8.824%) QA Test Analyst
5 3 (8.824%) Junior
5 3 (8.824%) Junior Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Tester
6 2 (5.882%) QA Tester
6 2 (5.882%) Junior .NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) .NET Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Derivative
1 5 (14.71%) Equities
2 3 (8.824%) Open Source
2 3 (8.824%) Web 2.0
2 3 (8.824%) Social Network
2 3 (8.824%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.882%) NHS
3 2 (5.882%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.941%) iPhone
4 1 (2.941%) Semantic Web
4 1 (2.941%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.941%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.941%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.941%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (5.882%) Android
4 1 (2.941%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) BDD
2 8 (23.53%) TDD
3 6 (17.65%) OO
3 6 (17.65%) Scrum
3 6 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (17.65%) Test Scripting
4 5 (14.71%) Waterfall
4 5 (14.71%) Information Assurance
4 5 (14.71%) User Stories
4 5 (14.71%) Data Analysis
4 5 (14.71%) OOD
4 5 (14.71%) ETL
5 3 (8.824%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (8.824%) Business Analysis
5 3 (8.824%) Data Management
5 3 (8.824%) Content Management
6 2 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (5.882%) Web Development
6 2 (5.882%) Mobile Application Development
6 2 (5.882%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) SQL
2 18 (52.94%) JavaScript
3 15 (44.12%) T-SQL
4 12 (35.29%) C#
5 7 (20.59%) XQuery
6 6 (17.65%) Java
7 2 (5.882%) C
8 1 (2.941%) VB
8 1 (2.941%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.882%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 1 (2.941%) Section 508
2 1 (2.941%) WAI
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Netcool
1 6 (17.65%) OpenView Configuration Management
1 6 (17.65%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) HP
2 6 (17.65%) Citrix
2 6 (17.65%) Veritas
3 5 (14.71%) Cadis
4 4 (11.76%) Oracle
5 1 (2.941%) IBM
5 1 (2.941%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.941%) BEA
5 1 (2.941%) JBoss
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