The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XPath over the 3 months to 23 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 116 100 109
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +9
Permanent jobs citing XPath 6 14 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.346% 0.809% 0.375%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.513% 1.433% 0.617%
Number of salaries quoted 0 14 5
Average salary - £35,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.14%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Programming Languages
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1170 977 1134
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 67.47% 56.47% 60.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1050 905 948
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £26,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XPath
South West

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol XPath Jobs Demand Trend

XPath
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing XPath across the Bristol region.

Bristol XPath Salary Trend

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 IT job ads sampled that cited XPath.

1 12 (100.00%) XML
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (50.00%) Oracle
3 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (50.00%) .NET
3 6 (50.00%) C#
3 6 (50.00%) DHTML
3 6 (50.00%) HTML
3 6 (50.00%) Web Services
3 6 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (50.00%) CSS
3 6 (50.00%) DOM
3 6 (50.00%) XSL
3 6 (50.00%) XSLT
3 6 (50.00%) XHTML
3 6 (50.00%) SOA
3 6 (50.00%) Middleware
3 6 (50.00%) Aerospace
3 6 (50.00%) CMS
3 6 (50.00%) Logistics
3 6 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 6 (50.00%) Open Source
4 4 (33.33%) Ext JS
4 4 (33.33%) JSON
4 4 (33.33%) HttpUnit
4 4 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (33.33%) Pentaho
4 4 (33.33%) Struts2
4 4 (33.33%) Web Development

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 IT job ads sampled that cited XPath. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) XML
2 6 (50.00%) .NET
2 6 (50.00%) DHTML
2 6 (50.00%) HTML
2 6 (50.00%) Web Services
2 6 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (50.00%) CSS
2 6 (50.00%) DOM
2 6 (50.00%) XSL
2 6 (50.00%) XSLT
2 6 (50.00%) XHTML
2 6 (50.00%) Middleware
3 4 (33.33%) Ext JS
3 4 (33.33%) JSON
3 4 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (33.33%) Struts2
3 4 (33.33%) Java EE
3 4 (33.33%) JMS
3 4 (33.33%) JAXB
3 4 (33.33%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) CMS
2 4 (33.33%) Apache
2 4 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 2 (16.67%) Umbraco
3 2 (16.67%) ESB
3 2 (16.67%) DotNetNuke
3 2 (16.67%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (16.67%) Kentico
3 2 (16.67%) Sitefinity
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Internet
1 4 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) Pentaho
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (33.33%) DataStage
2 4 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (16.67%) DB2
3 2 (16.67%) MySQL
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) HttpUnit
1 4 (33.33%) Subversion
1 4 (33.33%) NetBeans
1 4 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
1 4 (33.33%) Ant
1 4 (33.33%) JUnit
1 4 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 4 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
1 6 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 6 (50.00%) Open Source
2 4 (33.33%) RIA
2 4 (33.33%) Web 2.0
3 2 (16.67%) W3C
3 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) SOA
1 6 (50.00%) Logistics
2 4 (33.33%) Web Development
2 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (33.33%) BPEL
2 4 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Project Management
2 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (16.67%) UML
3 2 (16.67%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) ETL
3 2 (16.67%) Data Management
3 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 2 (16.67%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (50.00%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) JBoss
3 2 (16.67%) Sitecore