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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 144 152 157
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +5
Permanent jobs citing XPath 9 3 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.286% 0.087% 0.057%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.493% 0.188% 0.124%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 2
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +20.68%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Programming Languages
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1827 1597 1618
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 58.06% 46.22% 46.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1115 1237 1177
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 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £48,000 £47,500
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 Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland XPath Salary Trend

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 5 £40,000 -
Glasgow -21 3 - -
West Lothian - 1 - -
XPath
UK

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 14 (77.78%) XML
2 10 (55.56%) Regular Expression
3 9 (50.00%) Java
3 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (50.00%) SQL
4 8 (44.44%) C#
4 8 (44.44%) Oracle
4 8 (44.44%) Web Services
5 7 (38.89%) OO
5 7 (38.89%) CSS
5 7 (38.89%) Finance
5 7 (38.89%) Automated Testing
5 7 (38.89%) jQuery
6 6 (33.33%) HTML5
6 6 (33.33%) Ajax
6 6 (33.33%) Python
7 5 (27.78%) OOD
7 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET
7 5 (27.78%) .NET
7 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
7 5 (27.78%) XQuery
7 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (27.78%) .NET Framework
7 5 (27.78%) SWIFT
7 5 (27.78%) WCF
7 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
8 4 (22.22%) J2EE
8 4 (22.22%) Windows
8 4 (22.22%) Linux
9 3 (16.67%) JMS

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 14 (77.78%) XML
2 10 (55.56%) Regular Expression
3 8 (44.44%) Web Services
4 7 (38.89%) CSS
4 7 (38.89%) jQuery
5 6 (33.33%) HTML5
5 6 (33.33%) Ajax
6 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET
6 5 (27.78%) .NET
6 5 (27.78%) .NET Framework
6 5 (27.78%) WCF
7 4 (22.22%) J2EE
8 3 (16.67%) JMS
8 3 (16.67%) WSDL
8 3 (16.67%) JDBC
8 3 (16.67%) Servlets
8 3 (16.67%) SOAP
8 3 (16.67%) WebSphere
9 2 (11.11%) Spring
9 2 (11.11%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Portal
1 3 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Process Server
1 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 2 (11.11%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
1 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) BigTable
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.556%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Subversion
1 2 (11.11%) Maven
1 2 (11.11%) Selenium
1 2 (11.11%) JMeter
1 2 (11.11%) Eclipse
1 2 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (5.556%) NUnit
2 1 (5.556%) Jasmine
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Back Office
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 5 (27.78%) .NET Developer
3 5 (27.78%) C# Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Senior C# Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Senior .NET Developer
3 5 (27.78%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) SWIFT
2 2 (11.11%) Market Risk
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (11.11%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) AIX
2 3 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) OO
1 7 (38.89%) Automated Testing
2 5 (27.78%) OOD
2 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
3 3 (16.67%) SOA
3 3 (16.67%) TDD
3 3 (16.67%) MVC
3 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Web Application Development
4 2 (11.11%) BPEL
4 2 (11.11%) Refactoring
4 2 (11.11%) Complex Event Processing
4 2 (11.11%) System Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (11.11%) Workflow
5 1 (5.556%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
1 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) C#
3 6 (33.33%) Python
4 5 (27.78%) XQuery
5 3 (16.67%) C++
5 3 (16.67%) Perl
5 3 (16.67%) Ruby
6 1 (5.556%) C
6 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.556%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) IBM
4 1 (5.556%) Lombardi
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Undertake database design work, primarily on Microsoft SQL server... The candidate should be able to demonstrate: Excellent knowledge of software development using C# and ASP.NET and Microsoft ...
Change Recruitment Group
Salary: £40000 per annum + Excellent company benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013