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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 553 610
Rank change year-on-year +1 +57 +193
Contract jobs citing XPath 5 4 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.011% 0.042%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.046% 0.034% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £395
25th Percentile - £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £646
Median % change year-on-year - -30.29% +31.67%
75th Percentile - £475 £670
90th Percentile - - £705
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £588
% change year-on-year - - +17.50%

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 10,910 11,880 15,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.61% 32.06% 31.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,138 7,737 10,860
10th Percentile £344 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £663
90th Percentile £732 £765 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.10% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 314 440
10th Percentile £29.00 £25.26 £32.32
25th Percentile £41.60 £40.75 £47.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £79.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.77%

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 21 October 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 +4 3 - - 7
London - 3 - - 1
Work from Home +20 2 - - 5

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 (40.00%) CICS
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Ant
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Integration Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Workday Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Workday Integration Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
3 3 (60.00%) XML
4 2 (40.00%) J2EE
4 2 (40.00%) JSON
4 2 (40.00%) JWT
4 2 (40.00%) OAuth
4 2 (40.00%) RESTful
4 2 (40.00%) SOAP
4 2 (40.00%) Spring
4 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (40.00%) WSDL
5 1 (20.00%) CSS
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) DataPower
1 2 (40.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Functional Programming
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) SOA
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) Workday