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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing XPath 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 0.926% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.351% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Programming Languages
West Lothian
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
74 56 129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 68.52% 44.80% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 25 38 82
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £30,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £55,000 £45,000
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 West Lothian region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

West Lothian XPath Jobs Demand Trend

XPath
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) JDBC
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Process Server
2 2 (66.67%) BPEL
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Portal
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) JMS
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) WSDL
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 3 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) JDBC
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) JMS
2 2 (66.67%) WSDL
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Process Server
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Portal
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere MQ
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) AIX
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) BPEL
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) IBM