XPath Contracts

XPath (XML Path Language)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 573 655
Rank change year-on-year +47 +82 +190
Contract jobs citing XPath 4 14 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.032% 0.056%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.038% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 15
10th Percentile £384 £376 £330
25th Percentile £420 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% +10.22% -4.71%
75th Percentile £545 £591 £601
90th Percentile £578 £619 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £370 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -11.15%

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 10,441 13,271 18,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.66% 30.58% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,047 9,322 13,425
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £753 £775 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 538 447
10th Percentile £26.46 £31.25 £28.84
25th Percentile £34.75 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £79.74 £75.00 £79.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% +18.92%

XPath
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XPath as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XPath in the UK

XPath
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XPath.

Daily rate trend for XPath in the UK

XPath
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XPath over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XPath in the UK

XPath
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XPath.

Hourly rate trend for XPath in the UK

XPath
Top 6 Contract 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 2 July 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
England +49 2 £370 -27.80% 78
Work from Home +36 1 - - 66
London +29 1 - - 12
Yorkshire - 1 £370 - 4
UK excluding London - 1 £370 - 67
North of England - 1 £370 - 12

XPath
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (25.00%) CICS
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Ant
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Architect
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) XSLT
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) BAPI
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) IDoc
3 1 (25.00%) OpenID
3 1 (25.00%) RAML
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) SAML
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) WSDL
3 1 (25.00%) XSD
3 1 (25.00%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) DataPower
1 1 (25.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) API Management
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow