The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank - 113 92
Contract jobs citing XPath 0 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire - 0.043% 0.223%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.131% 0.635%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+40.62% -23.80%
All Programming Languages
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
676 762 630
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 35.82% 33.12% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 450 313
Average daily rate £290 £318 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.66% +12.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 38
Average hourly rate £14.75 £17.50 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.71% -42.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.94 £12.00 £17.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.55 £36.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
XPath
England

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire XPath Hourly Rate Trend

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) XSL
3 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) CRM
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (50.00%) SQLite
3 2 (50.00%) iPhone
3 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (50.00%) CouchDB
3 2 (50.00%) iPad
3 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) UIKit
3 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) XSL
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) UIKit
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQLite
1 2 (50.00%) CouchDB
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Developer
2 2 (50.00%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) iPhone
1 2 (50.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) CRM
1 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Lagan
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle