The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XPath over the 3 months to 18 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 Yorkshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank - - 34
Contract jobs citing XPath 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - - 1.049%
As % of the Programming Languages category - - 2.362%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -46.42%
All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
64 120 127
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 24.81% 43.01% 44.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 66 81
Average daily rate £288 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.81% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £136 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 10
Average hourly rate £37.50 £23.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+63.04% -45.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XPath
Yorkshire

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire XPath Hourly Rate Trend

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSL
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Local Government
2 1 (50.00%) Lagan
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Back Office
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSL
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Lagan
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