The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 56 56 57
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Permanent jobs citing XPath 2 1 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.385% 0.198% 2.238%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.000% 0.483% 4.776%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 14
Average salary £23,000 - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Programming Languages
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
200 207 335
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 38.46% 40.91% 46.85%
Number of salaries quoted 142 167 254
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XPath
South East

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex XPath Salary Trend

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) MS Office
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
3 2 (50.00%) NNTP
3 2 (50.00%) LAMP
3 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) FTP
3 2 (50.00%) Regular Expression
4 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) Maven
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (25.00%) SCOM
4 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (25.00%) JPA
4 1 (25.00%) Drools

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
3 2 (50.00%) LAMP
3 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Regular Expression
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (25.00%) JPA
4 1 (25.00%) Drools
4 1 (25.00%) Lucene
4 1 (25.00%) JMS
4 1 (25.00%) XSD
4 1 (25.00%) XSL
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) JDBC
4 1 (25.00%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) NNTP
3 2 (50.00%) FTP
4 1 (25.00%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 2 (50.00%) LAMP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Programmer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Programmer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
1 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle