XPath (XML Path Language)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for XPath skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited XPath over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 865 925 1145
Rank change year-on-year +60 +220 -292
Permanent jobs citing XPath 49 27 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.028% 0.055%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 0.064% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 32 17 53
10th Percentile £38,350 £38,453 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £68,125 £56,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £65,000 £74,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +5.26%

All Programming Languages
UK

XPath is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +4.76% +5.00%

XPath
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XPath as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XPath in the UK

XPath
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing XPath.

Salary trend for XPath in the UK

XPath
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XPath over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for XPath in the UK

XPath
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XPath within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +96 49 £54,000 +20.00% 3
London +187 45 £55,000 -15.38% 1
Work from Home +85 22 £53,000 -12.40% 3
UK excluding London -40 4 £37,500 -16.67% 2
Yorkshire +71 3 £37,500 -16.67%
North of England +40 3 £37,500 -16.67%
South East -6 1 - - 1

XPath
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (67.35%) CMS
2 10 (20.41%) EPiServer
3 7 (14.29%) IIS
4 6 (12.24%) SharePoint
5 2 (4.08%) GlassFish
5 2 (4.08%) JCAPS
5 2 (4.08%) WebLogic
5 2 (4.08%) WebSphere
5 2 (4.08%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (2.04%) Apache
6 1 (2.04%) Apache Solr
6 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 17 (34.69%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (34.69%) SDL Web 8
2 2 (4.08%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.78%) Azure
2 17 (34.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 17 (34.69%) NuGet
3 16 (32.65%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (14.29%) Google Analytics
5 2 (4.08%) AWS
5 2 (4.08%) SaaS
6 1 (2.04%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) Internet
2 2 (4.08%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 9 (18.37%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (85.71%) Visual Studio
2 31 (63.27%) Git
3 17 (34.69%) git-flow
3 17 (34.69%) JIRA
3 17 (34.69%) Moq
3 17 (34.69%) NUnit
3 17 (34.69%) Octopus Deploy
3 17 (34.69%) Sourcetree
3 17 (34.69%) SpecFlow
3 17 (34.69%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.08%) Ant
4 2 (4.08%) JUnit
4 2 (4.08%) Maven
4 2 (4.08%) Subversion
4 2 (4.08%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.04%) Selenium
General
1 17 (34.69%) Marketing
2 12 (24.49%) Finance
3 8 (16.33%) Law
4 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Back Office
6 2 (4.08%) Banking
6 2 (4.08%) Legal
6 2 (4.08%) Retail
6 2 (4.08%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (71.43%) Developer
2 21 (42.86%) Senior
3 18 (36.73%) C# Developer
3 18 (36.73%) Full Stack Developer
3 18 (36.73%) Senior Developer
4 17 (34.69%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 17 (34.69%) Senior C# Developer
4 17 (34.69%) Senior Full Stack Developer
5 8 (16.33%) .NET Developer
6 7 (14.29%) Applications Support
6 7 (14.29%) Support Engineer
7 6 (12.24%) Applications Developer
7 6 (12.24%) Development Engineer
7 6 (12.24%) Development Support Engineer
7 6 (12.24%) Web Engineer
7 6 (12.24%) Web Support Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) .NET Applications Developer
8 4 (8.16%) SharePoint Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Applications Support Analyst
9 3 (6.12%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (91.84%) .NET
1 45 (91.84%) XML
2 42 (85.71%) ASP.NET
2 42 (85.71%) Web Services
3 40 (81.63%) SOAP
4 27 (55.10%) .NET Framework
4 27 (55.10%) HTML
5 26 (53.06%) React
6 24 (48.98%) CSS
6 24 (48.98%) jQuery
6 24 (48.98%) REST
7 19 (38.78%) JSON
7 19 (38.78%) RESTful
8 18 (36.73%) XSLT
9 17 (34.69%) ASP.NET MVC
9 17 (34.69%) ASP.NET MVC 5
9 17 (34.69%) Autofac
9 17 (34.69%) Entity Framework
9 17 (34.69%) Ninject
9 17 (34.69%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.69%) Greenfield Project
1 17 (34.69%) Legacy Code
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (81.63%) Agile
2 35 (71.43%) DevOps
3 33 (67.35%) MVC
3 33 (67.35%) Scrum
4 24 (48.98%) Computer Science
4 24 (48.98%) OO
5 21 (42.86%) Full Stack Development
6 20 (40.82%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (36.73%) API Development
7 18 (36.73%) Unit Testing
8 17 (34.69%) Architectural Design
8 17 (34.69%) Architectural Patterns
8 17 (34.69%) E-Commerce
8 17 (34.69%) Inversion of Control
8 17 (34.69%) Issue Tracking
8 17 (34.69%) Line Management
8 17 (34.69%) Mentoring
8 17 (34.69%) Performance Tuning
8 17 (34.69%) Responsive Web Design
8 17 (34.69%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 48 (97.96%) SQL
2 45 (91.84%) C#
3 42 (85.71%) T-SQL
4 27 (55.10%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.12%) Java
5 3 (6.12%) Python
5 3 (6.12%) VB.NET
6 2 (4.08%) C
6 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (51.02%) Degree
2 7 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (34.69%) Adobe
1 17 (34.69%) Cognizant
2 16 (32.65%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.29%) Google
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Talend