The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 203 233 197
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -36
Contract jobs citing XPath 17 14 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.212% 0.140% 0.462%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.641% 0.468% 1.385%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 11
Average daily rate £370 £300 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.33% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £345 £653
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
Average hourly rate £45.00 - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -46.42%
All Programming Languages
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2652 2991 3537
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 33.12% 29.92% 33.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1324 1452 1594
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 213 289
Average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% -2.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £21.68 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £45.10 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XPath
England

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Hampshire -5 6 £285 -17.98% 2
Surrey - 2 £370 - 2
East Sussex - 1 - -
West Sussex - - - -
Kent - - - -
Middlesex - - - -
XPath
England

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 28 (100.00%) XML
2 20 (71.43%) Oracle
3 18 (64.29%) Java
4 15 (53.57%) SQL
5 13 (46.43%) XSLT
5 13 (46.43%) REST
6 12 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (39.29%) UML
8 10 (35.71%) Web Services
8 10 (35.71%) CSS
8 10 (35.71%) Spring
9 9 (32.14%) Hibernate
9 9 (32.14%) XSD
9 9 (32.14%) UNIX
9 9 (32.14%) Linux
9 9 (32.14%) Eclipse
10 8 (28.57%) JMS
10 8 (28.57%) WSDL
10 8 (28.57%) XQuery
10 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
10 8 (28.57%) HTML5
11 7 (25.00%) Degree
11 7 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
11 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
11 7 (25.00%) Multithreading
11 7 (25.00%) BPEL
11 7 (25.00%) C#
11 7 (25.00%) .NET
11 7 (25.00%) XSL
11 7 (25.00%) SOA

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 28 (100.00%) XML
2 13 (46.43%) XSLT
2 13 (46.43%) REST
3 10 (35.71%) Web Services
3 10 (35.71%) CSS
3 10 (35.71%) Spring
4 9 (32.14%) Hibernate
4 9 (32.14%) XSD
5 8 (28.57%) JMS
5 8 (28.57%) WSDL
5 8 (28.57%) HTML5
6 7 (25.00%) .NET
6 7 (25.00%) XSL
6 7 (25.00%) Middleware
7 6 (21.43%) JDBC
7 6 (21.43%) Lucene
7 6 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (21.43%) JPA
7 6 (21.43%) Drools
8 5 (17.86%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (21.43%) WebLogic
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (14.29%) WebLogic Portal
4 4 (14.29%) Liferay
5 2 (7.143%) Apache
6 1 (3.571%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) DVB
1 6 (21.43%) HTTP
1 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.571%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) MySQL
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.143%) SQLite
5 1 (3.571%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.571%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.571%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Eclipse
2 6 (21.43%) Cucumber
2 6 (21.43%) Maven
2 6 (21.43%) Git (software)
3 5 (17.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (17.86%) Ant
3 5 (17.86%) JDeveloper
4 4 (14.29%) ClearCase
4 4 (14.29%) ClearQuest
5 3 (10.71%) Subversion
6 1 (3.571%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 7 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.571%) Finance
2 1 (3.571%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.571%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Lead Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Oracle SOA Developer
4 5 (17.86%) SOA Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Web Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Perl Developer
6 2 (7.143%) Front-End Developer
6 2 (7.143%) Front-End Web Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) PHP Developer
7 1 (3.571%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Design Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.571%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (3.571%) IT Business Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) DTV
1 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (17.86%) Web 2.0
3 1 (3.571%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) UNIX
1 9 (32.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (39.29%) UML
3 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 7 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 7 (25.00%) BPEL
3 7 (25.00%) SOA
4 6 (21.43%) Workflow
4 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (17.86%) MVC
5 5 (17.86%) Scrum
6 4 (14.29%) OO
7 3 (10.71%) Web Development
8 2 (7.143%) BPMN
9 1 (3.571%) User Stories
9 1 (3.571%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (3.571%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (3.571%) Use Case
9 1 (3.571%) Data Management
9 1 (3.571%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Java
2 15 (53.57%) SQL
3 8 (28.57%) XQuery
3 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 7 (25.00%) C#
5 5 (17.86%) PL/SQL
6 2 (7.143%) Perl
7 1 (3.571%) PHP
7 1 (3.571%) C++
7 1 (3.571%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.571%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.143%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 20 (71.43%) Oracle
2 1 (3.571%) Talend
2 1 (3.571%) Zend
2 1 (3.571%) Microsoft
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