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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 645 549 575
Rank change year-on-year -96 +26 +69
Contract jobs citing XPath 17 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.012% 0.035%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% 0.037% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 3
10th Percentile £443 £384 £365
25th Percentile £493 £420 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.07% +7.78% -3.23%
75th Percentile £650 £545 £556
90th Percentile £866 £578 £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £370 -
% change year-on-year +28.38% - -

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 14,292 10,813 13,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.02% 33.32% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,289 7,288 9,322
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 265 525
10th Percentile £34.01 £27.68 £31.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.22 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% +4.00%

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 11 July 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 5 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 11 July 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
Work from Home -39 14 £530 -
London -47 7 £650 -
England -99 7 £650 +75.68% 2
UK excluding London -101 1 £475 +28.38% 2
Scotland - 1 £475 -

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 (41.18%) IIS
2 6 (35.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) CICS
3 1 (5.88%) CMS
3 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Elite 3E
2 1 (5.88%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (5.88%) OCI
3 1 (5.88%) PaaS
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (76.47%) SQL Server
2 7 (41.18%) MS Access
3 6 (35.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (29.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.88%) Db2
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
1 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 6 (35.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (35.29%) Visual Studio
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
4 1 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.88%) XPEDITER
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Software Developer
3 4 (23.53%) .NET Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Lead
3 4 (23.53%) Lead Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Lead Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Developer
4 2 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) C# VB.NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (82.35%) XSLT
2 13 (76.47%) .NET
2 13 (76.47%) XML
3 8 (47.06%) ASP.NET
3 8 (47.06%) HTML
3 8 (47.06%) JSON
3 8 (47.06%) SOAP
3 8 (47.06%) Web Services
4 7 (41.18%) REST
4 7 (41.18%) WinForms
5 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET Web API
5 6 (35.29%) WCF
6 5 (29.41%) Apache FOP
7 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
7 2 (11.76%) RESTful
8 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
8 1 (5.88%) HTML5
8 1 (5.88%) LINQ to SQL
8 1 (5.88%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) DataPower
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Workflow
3 5 (29.41%) Workflow Development
4 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (11.76%) OOP
6 1 (5.88%) Data Modelling
6 1 (5.88%) Database Tuning
6 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce
6 1 (5.88%) ERP
6 1 (5.88%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (5.88%) MVC
6 1 (5.88%) OO
6 1 (5.88%) Product Management
6 1 (5.88%) SOA
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) SQL
1 12 (70.59%) T-SQL
1 12 (70.59%) VB.NET
2 8 (47.06%) C#
3 7 (41.18%) PL/SQL
3 7 (41.18%) VBA
4 5 (29.41%) VBScript
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) Intapp
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Workday