The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XPath over the 3 months to 24 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 568 426 490
Rank change year-on-year
-142 +64
Permanent jobs citing XPath 284 531 397
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.281% 0.468% 0.337%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.526% 0.860% 0.634%
Number of salaries quoted 247 456 350
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,350 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £67,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Programming Languages
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
53970 61717 62590
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 53.36% 54.44% 53.13%
Number of salaries quoted 46892 54625 54597
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XPath
UK

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England XPath Salary Trend

XPath
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XPath across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England XPath Salary Histogram

XPath
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XPath within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London -102 131 £50,000 -4.76%
South East -16 89 £40,000 -
North West +16 23 £33,000 +1.53%
West Midlands -11 14 £40,250 +7.33%
South West -13 13 £35,000 -6.66%
East Midlands +6 10 £38,000 -24.00%
East of England -40 3 £57,500 +27.77%
Yorkshire -10 1 £55,000 +61.76%
XPath
UK

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 561 (92.27%) XML
2 397 (65.30%) XSLT
3 300 (49.34%) CSS
4 291 (47.86%) JavaScript
5 269 (44.24%) Web Services
6 264 (43.42%) .NET
7 249 (40.95%) OO
8 247 (40.63%) HTML
8 247 (40.63%) Java
9 246 (40.46%) SQL
10 222 (36.51%) MVC
11 217 (35.69%) SQL Server
12 208 (34.21%) C#
13 194 (31.91%) ASP.NET
14 189 (31.09%) Agile Software Development
15 139 (22.86%) jQuery
16 133 (21.88%) Microsoft
17 130 (21.38%) Oracle
18 123 (20.23%) SOA
19 116 (19.08%) Ajax
20 112 (18.42%) TDD
21 111 (18.26%) XSL
22 110 (18.09%) Finance
23 108 (17.76%) Windows
24 106 (17.43%) XSD
25 98 (16.12%) HTTP
26 97 (15.95%) XQuery
26 97 (15.95%) Spring
27 95 (15.63%) .NET Framework
28 91 (14.97%) Subversion

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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
1 561 (92.27%) XML
2 397 (65.30%) XSLT
3 300 (49.34%) CSS
4 269 (44.24%) Web Services
5 264 (43.42%) .NET
6 247 (40.63%) HTML
7 194 (31.91%) ASP.NET
8 139 (22.86%) jQuery
9 116 (19.08%) Ajax
10 111 (18.26%) XSL
11 106 (17.43%) XSD
12 97 (15.95%) Spring
13 95 (15.63%) .NET Framework
14 87 (14.31%) JSON
15 82 (13.49%) Hibernate
16 80 (13.16%) SOAP
17 78 (12.83%) XML Schema
18 69 (11.35%) ASP.NET MVC
19 66 (10.86%) HTML5
20 64 (10.53%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 73 (12.01%) CMS
2 63 (10.36%) Apache
3 40 (6.579%) Tomcat
4 38 (6.250%) ESB
5 30 (4.934%) IIS
6 27 (4.441%) Umbraco
7 21 (3.454%) Apache Solr
8 20 (3.289%) Drupal
9 17 (2.796%) WebSphere MQ
9 17 (2.796%) WordPress
10 14 (2.303%) Jetty
11 12 (1.974%) WebLogic
12 10 (1.645%) SharePoint
13 9 (1.480%) Kentico
13 9 (1.480%) Gentran
14 7 (1.151%) Sonic ESB
14 7 (1.151%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.987%) Amazon AWS
15 6 (0.987%) ExpressionEngine
16 5 (0.822%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 52 (8.553%) MS Excel
2 14 (2.303%) MS Office
3 13 (2.138%) Photoshop
4 11 (1.809%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.987%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.658%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.493%) MS Project
7 3 (0.493%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.822%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (0.493%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (0.493%) TIBCO iProcess
3 2 (0.329%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (16.12%) HTTP
2 45 (7.401%) Internet
3 37 (6.086%) FTP
4 28 (4.605%) SSL
5 18 (2.961%) Broadband
6 15 (2.467%) HTTPS
6 15 (2.467%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.645%) LDAP
8 6 (0.987%) SMTP
9 5 (0.822%) 3GPP
9 5 (0.822%) SNMP
9 5 (0.822%) Intranet
10 4 (0.658%) DVB
10 4 (0.658%) ATM
11 3 (0.493%) DNS
11 3 (0.493%) Wireless
11 3 (0.493%) NNTP
11 3 (0.493%) BSS
12 2 (0.329%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (0.329%) Cisco ICM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (35.69%) SQL Server
2 84 (13.82%) MySQL
3 83 (13.65%) SQL Server 2008
4 78 (12.83%) SQL Server 2005
5 30 (4.934%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 27 (4.441%) MongoDB
7 26 (4.276%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (3.618%) NoSQL
9 20 (3.289%) GIS
10 15 (2.467%) Apache Cassandra
10 15 (2.467%) MarkLogic
11 14 (2.303%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 13 (2.138%) RDBMS
12 13 (2.138%) Oracle 9i
12 13 (2.138%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (2.138%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 11 (1.809%) Hadoop
14 10 (1.645%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.480%) Oracle 11g
16 7 (1.151%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 91 (14.97%) Subversion
2 74 (12.17%) Git (software)
3 49 (8.059%) Visual Studio
4 43 (7.072%) Maven
5 36 (5.921%) Team Foundation Server
6 33 (5.428%) JUnit
7 24 (3.947%) NUnit
8 22 (3.618%) Jenkins
9 20 (3.289%) Ant
10 16 (2.632%) Eclipse
10 16 (2.632%) Hudson
11 12 (1.974%) ReSharper
12 10 (1.645%) Selenium
12 10 (1.645%) IntelliJ
12 10 (1.645%) XMLUnit
13 9 (1.480%) WebDriver
14 8 (1.316%) PhoneGap
15 7 (1.151%) Cucumber
15 7 (1.151%) Moq
15 7 (1.151%) MSTest
General
1 110 (18.09%) Finance
2 43 (7.072%) Legal
3 32 (5.263%) Telecoms
4 19 (3.125%) Publishing
5 17 (2.796%) Marketing
6 15 (2.467%) Online Betting
7 12 (1.974%) Banking
8 10 (1.645%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.480%) Games
9 9 (1.480%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (0.987%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.822%) Advertising
12 4 (0.658%) Military
13 3 (0.493%) Front Office
13 3 (0.493%) Electronics
13 3 (0.493%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.329%) Retail
15 1 (0.164%) Law
15 1 (0.164%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 402 (66.12%) Developer
2 113 (18.59%) Java Developer
3 90 (14.80%) Senior Developer
4 77 (12.66%) .NET Developer
5 66 (10.86%) Software Developer
6 63 (10.36%) Web Developer
7 50 (8.224%) Software Engineer
8 49 (8.059%) C# Developer
9 38 (6.250%) PHP Developer
9 38 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
10 30 (4.934%) ASP.NET Developer
11 28 (4.605%) Senior Java Developer
11 28 (4.605%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 28 (4.605%) Consultant
12 27 (4.441%) Administrator
12 27 (4.441%) Java Software Developer
13 25 (4.112%) Architect
14 24 (3.947%) Agile Java Developer
15 22 (3.618%) Mobile Software Engineer
16 21 (3.454%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.35%) Computer Science
2 57 (9.375%) Mobile App
3 38 (6.250%) iPhone
4 36 (5.921%) Client/Server
5 35 (5.757%) Open Source
6 33 (5.428%) Blackberry
7 29 (4.770%) Social Media
8 28 (4.605%) DataPower
9 26 (4.276%) N-Tier
10 18 (2.961%) Inversion of Control
11 17 (2.796%) Web 2.0
12 15 (2.467%) iPad
12 15 (2.467%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (1.974%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.974%) Handset
14 10 (1.645%) Mathematics
15 8 (1.316%) Physics
15 8 (1.316%) W3C
16 7 (1.151%) Online Games
17 6 (0.987%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 108 (17.76%) Windows
2 70 (11.51%) Android
3 54 (8.882%) Linux
4 44 (7.237%) Windows Phone
5 42 (6.908%) Apple iOS
6 41 (6.743%) UNIX
7 14 (2.303%) Windows Mobile
8 8 (1.316%) Windows Phone 7
9 7 (1.151%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (0.658%) AIX
10 4 (0.658%) Solaris
11 2 (0.329%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.329%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.329%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.164%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (40.95%) OO
2 222 (36.51%) MVC
3 189 (31.09%) Agile Software Development
4 123 (20.23%) SOA
5 112 (18.42%) TDD
6 81 (13.32%) Scrum
7 65 (10.69%) Data Modelling
8 60 (9.868%) UML
9 56 (9.211%) OOP
10 55 (9.046%) Web Development
10 55 (9.046%) Software Engineering
11 46 (7.566%) Content Management
12 44 (7.237%) Use Case
13 42 (6.908%) E-Commerce
14 35 (5.757%) Unit Testing
15 34 (5.592%) OOD
16 28 (4.605%) Memory Management
17 26 (4.276%) Wealth Management
17 26 (4.276%) Project Management
18 24 (3.947%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 291 (47.86%) JavaScript
2 247 (40.63%) Java
3 246 (40.46%) SQL
4 208 (34.21%) C#
5 97 (15.95%) XQuery
6 68 (11.18%) PHP
7 65 (10.69%) T-SQL
8 46 (7.566%) PL/SQL
9 45 (7.401%) C++
10 40 (6.579%) C
10 40 (6.579%) Objective-C
11 36 (5.921%) VB
12 35 (5.757%) VB.NET
13 26 (4.276%) Groovy
14 22 (3.618%) Scala
15 17 (2.796%) Python
16 16 (2.632%) Ruby
16 16 (2.632%) ActionScript
17 13 (2.138%) PHP5
18 9 (1.480%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 83 (13.65%) Degree
2 45 (7.401%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (4.934%) MCP
4 23 (3.783%) MCPD
4 23 (3.783%) MCTS
5 9 (1.480%) MCSD
6 8 (1.316%) ISEB
7 5 (0.822%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.822%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.493%) HND
8 3 (0.493%) MCSE
8 3 (0.493%) MCSA
9 2 (0.329%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.329%) MCAD
10 1 (0.164%) MCDBA
10 1 (0.164%) MCT
10 1 (0.164%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.164%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.704%) QA
2 5 (0.822%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (0.493%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.329%) WCAG
4 2 (0.329%) RosettaNet
5 1 (0.164%) COBIT
System Software
1 3 (0.493%) Active Directory
1 3 (0.493%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (1.316%) MOM
2 6 (0.987%) CA SiteMinder
3 5 (0.822%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.329%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.164%) SCOM
Vendors
1 133 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 130 (21.38%) Oracle
3 43 (7.072%) Google
4 18 (2.961%) JBoss
4 18 (2.961%) IBM
4 18 (2.961%) Facebook
5 17 (2.796%) Twitter
6 15 (2.467%) Zend
7 14 (2.303%) Altova
8 13 (2.138%) Symbian
8 13 (2.138%) ESRI
9 12 (1.974%) Syncfusion
9 12 (1.974%) EPiServer
9 12 (1.974%) Sybase
10 10 (1.645%) Sitecore
11 8 (1.316%) Ektron
11 8 (1.316%) Sencha
12 6 (0.987%) Apple
12 6 (0.987%) Remedy
12 6 (0.987%) ATG
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Salary: £50000.00 - £55000.00
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