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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 534 609
Rank change year-on-year +32 +75 +153
Contract jobs citing XPath 4 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.015% 0.033% 0.030%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.044% 0.11% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - £376 £327
25th Percentile £360 £416 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £513 £463
Median % change year-on-year -27.80% +10.81% -5.23%
75th Percentile £380 £591 £588
90th Percentile - £619 £653
UK median daily rate £485 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +7.78% - -7.79%

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 9,074 11,149 15,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.10% 30.93% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,244 8,024 11,555
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -1.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 434 412
10th Percentile £29.07 £35.52 £27.39
25th Percentile £38.97 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +3.59% +16.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £83.42 £75.00 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £57.13 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.60% - +18.92%

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
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 19 July 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
London +35 3 - - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £370 - 2
North of England - 1 £370 - 2
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%) CICS
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Workday Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) JWT
3 2 (50.00%) OAuth
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) WSDL
3 2 (50.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) J2EE
4 1 (25.00%) RAML
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) DataPower
1 2 (50.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Line Management
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Workday