XPath Contracts in the UK excluding London

XPath (XML Path Language)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 333 - 457
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing XPath 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% - 0.021%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.082% - 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £412 - -
25th Percentile £489 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £360
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.43%
75th Percentile £666 - £463
90th Percentile £671 - £470
UK median daily rate £619 £560 £458
% change year-on-year +10.49% +22.40% -12.86%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing XPath as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for XPath in the UK excluding London

XPath
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XPath in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for XPath in the UK excluding London

XPath
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for XPath in the UK excluding London

XPath
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XPath in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for XPath in the UK excluding London

XPath
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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 -
North of England - 1 £370 -
Yorkshire - 1 £370 -
XPath
UK

XPath
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (66.67%) Apache Solr
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (66.67%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Development Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSD
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) JAXB
2 2 (66.67%) JAX-RS
2 2 (66.67%) JAX-WS
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) XSL
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) BPEL
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Situational Awareness
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle