XPath Contract Job Trends in London

XPath (XML Path Language)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring XPath skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 - 395
Rank change year-on-year - - +160
Contract jobs citing XPath 11 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.077% - 0.072%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.20% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 11
10th Percentile £343 - £435
25th Percentile £348 - £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £560
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.00%
75th Percentile £377 - £651
90th Percentile £400 - £670
England median daily rate £356 £656 £560
% change year-on-year -45.71% +17.11% +24.53%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,407 6,025 7,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.82% 38.62% 36.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,634 4,097 5,349
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 40 69
10th Percentile £25.40 £35.68 £26.15
25th Percentile £35.25 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £51.44 £51.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.12% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64.75 £65.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £97.50 £73.92
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

XPath
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XPath relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

XPath job vacancy trend in London

XPath
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing XPath.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing XPath

XPath
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing XPath.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing XPath

XPath
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XPath within the London region over the 6 months to 11 December 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
Central London - 1 £363 -
XPath
England

XPath
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 5 (45.45%) WebLogic
1 5 (45.45%) WebSphere
2 1 (9.09%) CICS
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (9.09%) NetSuite
2 1 (9.09%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
2 1 (9.09%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) GitHub
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) DB2
2 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
2 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 4 (36.36%) Cucumber
2 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) SpecFlow
2 4 (36.36%) TestRail
2 4 (36.36%) Zephyr
3 3 (27.27%) Git
3 3 (27.27%) Postman
3 3 (27.27%) Selenium
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) TIBCO Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Tester
3 3 (27.27%) Automation Tester
3 3 (27.27%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Manual Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Workday Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) XML
2 7 (63.64%) Web Services
2 7 (63.64%) XSLT
3 6 (54.55%) J2EE
3 6 (54.55%) SOAP
3 6 (54.55%) WSDL
4 5 (45.45%) JMS
4 5 (45.45%) JSON
4 5 (45.45%) OC4J
4 5 (45.45%) TIBCO EMS
4 5 (45.45%) XSD
5 3 (27.27%) Playwright
5 3 (27.27%) REST
6 1 (9.09%) JWT
6 1 (9.09%) OAuth
6 1 (9.09%) RESTful
6 1 (9.09%) Spring
6 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) DataPower
1 1 (9.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) SOA
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Design Patterns
2 5 (45.45%) OOA/OOD
2 5 (45.45%) Resource Management
2 5 (45.45%) RUP
2 5 (45.45%) UML
3 4 (36.36%) API Testing
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Defect Management
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Validation
4 3 (27.27%) ERP
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (27.27%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Test Management
5 2 (18.18%) Order Management
5 2 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) Python
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (9.09%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) IBM
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 5 (45.45%) BEA
2 5 (45.45%) TIBCO
3 2 (18.18%) Workday
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) SAP