The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 86 - 97
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing XPath 7 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.600% - 0.125%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.062% - 0.301%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
Average salary £40,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
659 620 665
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 56.52% 46.86% 41.43%
Number of salaries quoted 413 463 492
Average salary £39,000 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,500 £26,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £48,000 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XPath
Scotland

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh XPath Salary Trend

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 11 (91.67%) Regular Expression
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
3 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (75.00%) XML
3 9 (75.00%) Automated Testing
3 9 (75.00%) jQuery
4 7 (58.33%) .NET Framework
4 7 (58.33%) WCF
4 7 (58.33%) HTML5
4 7 (58.33%) SWIFT
4 7 (58.33%) OO
4 7 (58.33%) Web Services
4 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
4 7 (58.33%) XQuery
4 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (58.33%) .NET
4 7 (58.33%) C#
4 7 (58.33%) Oracle
4 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET
4 7 (58.33%) CSS
4 7 (58.33%) OOD
4 7 (58.33%) Finance
5 5 (41.67%) Ajax
6 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (25.00%) Python
7 2 (16.67%) Servlets
7 2 (16.67%) JUnit
7 2 (16.67%) Java
7 2 (16.67%) MySQL
7 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 11 (91.67%) Regular Expression
2 9 (75.00%) XML
2 9 (75.00%) jQuery
3 7 (58.33%) .NET Framework
3 7 (58.33%) WCF
3 7 (58.33%) HTML5
3 7 (58.33%) Web Services
3 7 (58.33%) .NET
3 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET
3 7 (58.33%) CSS
4 5 (41.67%) Ajax
5 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (16.67%) Servlets
6 2 (16.67%) Spring
6 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
6 2 (16.67%) Spring MVC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JUnit
1 2 (16.67%) Subversion
1 2 (16.67%) Maven
1 2 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 2 (16.67%) JMeter
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (58.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 7 (58.33%) Senior Developer
2 7 (58.33%) .NET Developer
2 7 (58.33%) C# Developer
2 7 (58.33%) Senior C# Developer
2 7 (58.33%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) SWIFT
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Automated Testing
2 7 (58.33%) OO
2 7 (58.33%) OOD
3 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (16.67%) MVC
3 2 (16.67%) Web Application Development
3 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (58.33%) XQuery
3 7 (58.33%) C#
4 3 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
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