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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 582 691
Rank change year-on-year +68 +109 +111
Contract jobs citing XPath 5 18 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.041% 0.037%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.050% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 16
10th Percentile £432 £458 £328
25th Percentile £540 £545 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £560 £458
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% +22.40% -12.86%
75th Percentile £661 £560 £563
90th Percentile £669 £591 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 - £360
% change year-on-year - - -31.43%

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 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 4 £638 +13.84% 1
UK excluding London - 3 £638 -
South East - 2 £656 -
London +20 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £370 -
North of England - 1 £370 -

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 2 (40.00%) Apache Solr
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Maven
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
2 4 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) XSLT
3 3 (60.00%) XSD
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) JAXB
4 2 (40.00%) JAX-RS
4 2 (40.00%) JAX-WS
4 2 (40.00%) OAuth
4 2 (40.00%) React
4 2 (40.00%) XSL
5 1 (20.00%) IDoc
5 1 (20.00%) JWT
5 1 (20.00%) OpenID
5 1 (20.00%) RAML
5 1 (20.00%) RESTful
5 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) DataPower
2 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) BPEL
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Situational Awareness
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) OOP
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow