The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XPath over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank - 62 -
Permanent jobs citing XPath 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford - 0.156% -
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.253% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £23,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Programming Languages
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
564 395 521
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 55.62% 61.53% 65.21%
Number of salaries quoted 500 343 499
Average salary £40,000 £38,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £62,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XPath
Oxfordshire

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford XPath Salary Trend

XPath
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 6 (100.00%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) MS Excel
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) SGML
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) MS Office
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (83.33%) Content Management
2 5 (83.33%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (66.67%) Publishing
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) XML Schema
4 1 (16.67%) XSLT
4 1 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (16.67%) Python

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 6 (100.00%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) SGML
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
3 1 (16.67%) XML Schema
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) MS Office
1 5 (83.33%) MS Excel
1 5 (83.33%) Spreadsheet
General
1 4 (66.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Content Management
2 1 (16.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft