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 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 510 570
Rank change year-on-year -107 +60 +99
Contract jobs citing XPath 8 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.021% 0.030%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.063% 0.061% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £374 £432 £376
25th Percentile - £540 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £619 £513
Median % change year-on-year -35.35% +20.73% +13.89%
75th Percentile £430 £661 £591
90th Percentile £476 £669 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate - £638 -

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 12,679 9,864 12,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.86% 34.04% 29.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,340 6,705 9,004
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £711 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.53% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 238 486
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.07 £33.63
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £46.48
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £78.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +3.20% -

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
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 3 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 May 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
London -59 6 £415 - 2
England -111 6 £415 -34.90% 3
Work from Home -38 4 £400 - 1

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 2 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) CICS
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (12.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (12.50%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (12.50%) OCI
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) DB2
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Postman
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (25.00%) TestRail
2 2 (25.00%) Zephyr
3 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
3 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (12.50%) XPEDITER
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Technical Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) TIBCO Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) SOAP
1 5 (62.50%) Web Services
1 5 (62.50%) XML
2 4 (50.00%) XSLT
3 3 (37.50%) J2EE
3 3 (37.50%) JSON
3 3 (37.50%) REST
3 3 (37.50%) WSDL
4 2 (25.00%) JMS
4 2 (25.00%) OC4J
4 2 (25.00%) Playwright
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) TIBCO EMS
4 2 (25.00%) XSD
5 1 (12.50%) .NET
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 1 (12.50%) CSS
5 1 (12.50%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) jQuery
5 1 (12.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) DataPower
1 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 1 (12.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) API Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (25.00%) OOP
3 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (25.00%) RUP
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) UML
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) SOLID
4 1 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (12.50%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) BEA
3 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 2 (25.00%) TIBCO
3 2 (25.00%) Workday
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow