XPath Contracts in England

XPath (XML Path Language)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring XPath skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XPath over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 527 634
Rank change year-on-year +46 +107 +119
Contract jobs citing XPath 4 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.040% 0.038%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.049% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 15
10th Percentile £412 £413 £327
25th Percentile £489 £508 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £560 £465
Median % change year-on-year +13.84% +20.43% -11.43%
75th Percentile £666 £579 £575
90th Percentile £671 £614 £624
UK median daily rate £619 £560 £458
% change year-on-year +10.49% +22.40% -12.86%

All Programming Languages
England

XPath falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

XPath
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for XPath in England

XPath
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XPath in England.

Daily rate trend for XPath in England

XPath
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XPath in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XPath in England

XPath
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XPath in England.

Hourly rate trend for XPath in England

XPath
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XPath within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 2 £656 -
London +26 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £370 -
North of England - 1 £370 -
XPath
UK

XPath
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Solr
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (25.00%) CICS
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Maven
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) XSD
2 3 (75.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) JAXB
3 2 (50.00%) JAX-RS
3 2 (50.00%) JAX-WS
3 2 (50.00%) React
3 2 (50.00%) XSL
4 1 (25.00%) JWT
4 1 (25.00%) OAuth
4 1 (25.00%) RAML
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (25.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) DataPower
2 1 (25.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) BPEL
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Situational Awareness
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) OOP
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) IBM