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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 547 613
Rank change year-on-year -15 +66 +181
Contract jobs citing XPath 12 4 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.011% 0.045%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% 0.034% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 12
10th Percentile - - £437
25th Percentile £350 £425 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £560
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -19.70% +14.83%
75th Percentile £434 £475 £670
90th Percentile £481 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £419 - £588
% change year-on-year - - +30.56%

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 11,215 11,737 14,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 32.13% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,376 7,579 10,346
10th Percentile £344 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £623 £640 £663
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 283 435
10th Percentile £29.00 £24.62 £33.09
25th Percentile £42.81 £40.06 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% -0.81%
75th Percentile £67.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 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 +6 7 £363 - 9
Work from Home +16 5 £400 -11.11% 6
London - 5 £350 - 7
Yorkshire - 2 £419 -
UK excluding London - 2 £419 - 4
North of England - 2 £419 -

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 3 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (8.33%) CICS
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (8.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) GitHub
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) DB2
2 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
2 5 (41.67%) Cucumber
2 5 (41.67%) Git
2 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (41.67%) Postman
2 5 (41.67%) SpecFlow
2 5 (41.67%) TestRail
2 5 (41.67%) Zephyr
3 4 (33.33%) Selenium
4 1 (8.33%) Ant
4 1 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Publishing
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Tester
2 3 (25.00%) TIBCO Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Integration Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 2 (16.67%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Workday Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Workday Integration Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Manual Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) XML
2 7 (58.33%) XSLT
3 6 (50.00%) JSON
3 6 (50.00%) Web Services
4 5 (41.67%) J2EE
4 5 (41.67%) Playwright
4 5 (41.67%) REST
5 4 (33.33%) SOAP
5 4 (33.33%) WSDL
6 3 (25.00%) JMS
6 3 (25.00%) OC4J
6 3 (25.00%) TIBCO EMS
6 3 (25.00%) XSD
7 1 (8.33%) CSS
7 1 (8.33%) HTML
7 1 (8.33%) OAuth
7 1 (8.33%) RESTful
7 1 (8.33%) Spring
7 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
7 1 (8.33%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) DataPower
1 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) API Testing
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Test Management
2 5 (41.67%) Validation
3 4 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 4 (33.33%) SDLC
3 4 (33.33%) SOA
3 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
4 3 (25.00%) OOP
4 3 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 3 (25.00%) RUP
4 3 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (25.00%) UML
5 2 (16.67%) OO
5 2 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) Python
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (8.33%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) BEA
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) TIBCO
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Workday