XPath Contract Job Trends

XPath (XML Path Language)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring XPath skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 519 561
Rank change year-on-year -80 +42 +138
Contract jobs citing XPath 19 4 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.041% 0.014% 0.046%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 0.040% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 8
10th Percentile £346 £432 £476
25th Percentile £350 £540 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £619 £560
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +10.49% +20.43%
75th Percentile £400 £661 £578
90th Percentile £453 £669 £633
UK excluding London median daily rate £419 £638 -
% change year-on-year -34.31% - -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,891 9,982 12,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 28.06% 34.10% 29.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,571 6,737 9,128
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 243 478
10th Percentile £41.94 £22.60 £31.06
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.87 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.77% +2.20% -

XPath
Job Vacancy Trend

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

XPath job vacancy trend in the UK

XPath
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing XPath.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing XPath

XPath
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XPath over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for XPath in the UK

XPath
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing XPath.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing XPath

XPath
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 April 2026. 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
England -94 14 £363 -43.14% 3
London - 12 £350 -
Work from Home - 9 £400 -
Yorkshire -58 2 £419 +13.18%
North of England -68 2 £419 +13.18%
UK excluding London -100 2 £419 -34.31% 4

XPath
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (36.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 7 (36.84%) WebLogic
1 7 (36.84%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.26%) CICS
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (36.84%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (5.26%) NetSuite
2 1 (5.26%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) GitHub
3 7 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.26%) OCI
4 1 (5.26%) PaaS
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) DB2
2 7 (36.84%) Relational Database
2 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) JIRA
2 9 (47.37%) Cucumber
2 9 (47.37%) Git
2 9 (47.37%) SpecFlow
2 9 (47.37%) TestRail
2 9 (47.37%) Zephyr
3 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
3 8 (42.11%) Postman
4 7 (36.84%) Selenium
5 1 (5.26%) GitLab
5 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.26%) XPEDITER
General
1 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
2 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
1 7 (36.84%) Tester
2 6 (31.58%) TIBCO Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Automation Tester
4 3 (15.79%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) Manual Tester
5 2 (10.53%) Test Leader
6 1 (5.26%) Automation Test Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Business Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Oracle Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (84.21%) XML
2 10 (52.63%) JSON
2 10 (52.63%) REST
3 9 (47.37%) SOAP
3 9 (47.37%) Web Services
3 9 (47.37%) XSLT
4 8 (42.11%) J2EE
4 8 (42.11%) Playwright
4 8 (42.11%) WSDL
5 7 (36.84%) JMS
5 7 (36.84%) OC4J
5 7 (36.84%) TIBCO EMS
5 7 (36.84%) XSD
6 1 (5.26%) JWT
6 1 (5.26%) OAuth
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (5.26%) RESTful
6 1 (5.26%) Spring
6 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) DataPower
1 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.26%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) API Testing
2 9 (47.37%) Validation
3 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Defect Management
3 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) SOA
3 8 (42.11%) Test Management
4 7 (36.84%) Design Patterns
4 7 (36.84%) OOA/OOD
4 7 (36.84%) Resource Management
4 7 (36.84%) RUP
4 7 (36.84%) SDLC
4 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
4 7 (36.84%) UML
5 6 (31.58%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (31.58%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (21.05%) User Stories
7 3 (15.79%) ERP
7 3 (15.79%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Java
2 9 (47.37%) C#
2 9 (47.37%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (5.26%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle
2 8 (42.11%) IBM
3 7 (36.84%) BEA
3 7 (36.84%) TIBCO
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
5 2 (10.53%) SAP
5 2 (10.53%) Workday
6 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow