The first table below looks at the demand for XPath skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XPath over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XPath (XML Path Language)
Rank 186 192 149
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -43
Permanent jobs citing XPath 16 2 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.303% 0.042% 0.485%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.613% 0.078% 1.072%
Number of salaries quoted 16 2 20
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,750 £45,000 £39,750
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Programming Languages
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2608 2559 1959
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 49.45% 53.52% 45.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2292 2304 1749
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XPath
England

XPath
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands XPath Salary Trend

XPath
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XPath across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Warwickshire - 9 £45,000 -
Solihull - 3 £32,500 -
Coventry - 2 £32,076 -
Staffordshire - 1 £22,500 -
Worcestershire - 1 £27,500 -
XPath
England

XPath
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 32 (88.89%) XML
2 31 (86.11%) SQL Server
3 30 (83.33%) .NET
4 27 (75.00%) C#
4 27 (75.00%) Web Services
5 26 (72.22%) CSS
6 25 (69.44%) ASP.NET
6 25 (69.44%) XSLT
7 24 (66.67%) JavaScript
7 24 (66.67%) SQL
8 22 (61.11%) HTML
9 20 (55.56%) MVC
9 20 (55.56%) OO
10 19 (52.78%) SOA
11 17 (47.22%) T-SQL
11 17 (47.22%) Wealth Management
12 12 (33.33%) WCF
13 10 (27.78%) jQuery
14 9 (25.00%) XSD
14 9 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
15 8 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
16 7 (19.44%) XSL
16 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
17 6 (16.67%) Windows
17 6 (16.67%) Ajax
17 6 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
18 5 (13.89%) OOP
18 5 (13.89%) HTML5
18 5 (13.89%) CSS3
19 4 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 3

XPath
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 32 (88.89%) XML
2 30 (83.33%) .NET
3 27 (75.00%) Web Services
4 26 (72.22%) CSS
5 25 (69.44%) ASP.NET
5 25 (69.44%) XSLT
6 22 (61.11%) HTML
7 12 (33.33%) WCF
8 10 (27.78%) jQuery
9 9 (25.00%) XSD
10 7 (19.44%) XSL
11 6 (16.67%) Ajax
12 5 (13.89%) HTML5
12 5 (13.89%) CSS3
13 4 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 4 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 4
13 4 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
13 4 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 2
13 4 (11.11%) Ninject
13 4 (11.11%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (5.556%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 2 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.778%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.778%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.556%) HTTP
2 1 (2.778%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (86.11%) SQL Server
2 9 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (8.333%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.333%) MySQL
5 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Moq
1 4 (11.11%) NUnit
General
1 2 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Developer
2 10 (27.78%) Technical Leader
3 9 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 8 (22.22%) .NET Developer
4 8 (22.22%) Senior C# Developer
4 8 (22.22%) Senior .NET Developer
5 7 (19.44%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (19.44%) ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (19.44%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (19.44%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Software Developer
7 3 (8.333%) PHP Developer
7 3 (8.333%) BizTalk Developer
8 2 (5.556%) Trainee
8 2 (5.556%) Product Manager
8 2 (5.556%) Trainee Developer
8 2 (5.556%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (5.556%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.556%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.556%) SaaS
2 1 (2.778%) Data Extraction
2 1 (2.778%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (2.778%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) MVC
1 20 (55.56%) OO
2 19 (52.78%) SOA
3 17 (47.22%) Wealth Management
4 6 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (13.89%) OOP
6 4 (11.11%) TDD
7 3 (8.333%) Scrum
7 3 (8.333%) E-Commerce
8 2 (5.556%) Refactoring
8 2 (5.556%) Unit Testing
8 2 (5.556%) UML
8 2 (5.556%) B2B
8 2 (5.556%) Web Design
9 1 (2.778%) Validation
9 1 (2.778%) ETL
9 1 (2.778%) Analytics
9 1 (2.778%) Web Application Development
9 1 (2.778%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 27 (75.00%) C#
2 24 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 24 (66.67%) SQL
3 17 (47.22%) T-SQL
4 4 (11.11%) XQuery
4 4 (11.11%) VB.NET
5 3 (8.333%) Java
5 3 (8.333%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (2.778%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.778%) Google
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