XPath Contracts in England

XPath (XML Path Language)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for XPath skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XPath over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 644 750
Rank change year-on-year +127 +106 -158
Contract jobs citing XPath 18 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.038% 0.041%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.17% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 28
10th Percentile £458 £327 £439
25th Percentile £545 £365 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.43% -11.43% -
75th Percentile £560 £575 £638
90th Percentile £591 £624 £700
UK median daily rate £560 £458 £525
% change year-on-year +22.40% -12.86% -

All Programming Languages
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +104 16 £560 +6.67% 1
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 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) OCI
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 7 (38.89%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 7 (38.89%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (38.89%) Geospatial Data
2 7 (38.89%) Power BI
2 7 (38.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (11.11%) DB2
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.11%) MariaDB
3 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Zephyr
3 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Arabic Language
3 2 (11.11%) French Language
3 2 (11.11%) German Language
3 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Japanese Language
3 2 (11.11%) Korean Language
3 2 (11.11%) Spanish Language
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Billing
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Business Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Lead
1 5 (27.78%) Technical Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Technical Business Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) ETL Developer
4 2 (11.11%) TIBCO Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) TIBCO Support
5 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Database Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Integration Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Market Data Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (94.44%) XML
2 9 (50.00%) XSLT
3 7 (38.89%) Middleware
4 6 (33.33%) Web Services
5 4 (22.22%) XSD
6 3 (16.67%) JSON
7 2 (11.11%) SOAP
7 2 (11.11%) TIBCO EMS
8 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
8 1 (5.56%) React
8 1 (5.56%) REST
8 1 (5.56%) Spring
8 1 (5.56%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Derivative
3 1 (5.56%) Equities
3 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Unix
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) Kanban
2 9 (50.00%) Scrum
3 7 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (38.89%) Dimensional Modelling
3 7 (38.89%) Kimball Methodology
3 7 (38.89%) Project Management
4 6 (33.33%) ERP
4 6 (33.33%) Release Management
5 5 (27.78%) Data Conversion
5 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
5 5 (27.78%) Design Thinking
5 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
5 5 (27.78%) Regression Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (27.78%) System Integration Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
8 2 (11.11%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) PL/SQL
3 7 (38.89%) XQuery
4 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) DataFlex
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) COREP
2 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.56%) IFRS
2 1 (5.56%) IFRS 17
2 1 (5.56%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (5.56%) Control-M
2 1 (5.56%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Oracle
2 7 (38.89%) SAP
3 5 (27.78%) Workday
4 3 (16.67%) IBM
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) TIBCO
6 1 (5.56%) Bloomberg
6 1 (5.56%) Refinitiv
6 1 (5.56%) Sybase