DATA ANALYSIS OF IT JOB POSTINGS IN CZECH LABOUR MARKET

A basic exploratory data analysis of vacancies published at the Czech Labour Offices website is addressed. We analyse the characteristics of the vacancies like the salary, required educational level and others. We address the jobs located in the capital and focus in more detail on jobs in the Information Technology industry. The main contribution of the paper is in the data extraction and the data preparation part and the code which can be used to retrieve the data is shown in the paper, using the XPath formal language expressions to address the relevant parts of the document in the eXtensible Markup Language format. In the outcomes of the elementary statistical analysis, it has been observed, that the vacancies in the Information Technology industry show higher requirements on the level of education and that the median value of the minimum salary offered is at around 40000 CZK, which is considerably higher value compared with the vacancies in all the industries.