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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 521 581
Rank change year-on-year -118 +60 +86
Contract jobs citing XPath 11 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.014% 0.032%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.082% 0.040% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £418 £384 £376
25th Percentile £449 £420 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £485 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.07% -5.37% +13.89%
75th Percentile £650 £545 £591
90th Percentile £790 £578 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate - £370 -

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 13,433 10,018 13,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.88% 34.04% 30.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,762 6,782 9,286
10th Percentile £358 £355 £350
25th Percentile £417 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £650
90th Percentile £717 £751 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 231 531
10th Percentile £36.25 £26.32 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +2.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 12 June 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 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 12 June 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 -47 7 £650 - 2
London -61 6 £569 - 2
England -113 6 £569 +53.72% 2

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 (18.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (18.18%) WebLogic
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
2 1 (9.09%) CICS
2 1 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Elite 3E
2 2 (18.18%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (9.09%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (9.09%) OCI
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) Db2
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (9.09%) MS Access
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
2 1 (9.09%) XPEDITER
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Applications Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# Application Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Oracle Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Web Applications Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Web Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) TIBCO Developer
3 1 (9.09%) VB.NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) SOAP
1 8 (72.73%) Web Services
1 8 (72.73%) XSLT
2 7 (63.64%) XML
3 5 (45.45%) .NET
3 5 (45.45%) REST
4 3 (27.27%) J2EE
4 3 (27.27%) WSDL
5 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
5 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
5 2 (18.18%) HTML
5 2 (18.18%) JMS
5 2 (18.18%) JSON
5 2 (18.18%) OC4J
5 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 2 (18.18%) TIBCO EMS
5 2 (18.18%) XSD
6 1 (9.09%) CSS
6 1 (9.09%) CSS3
6 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) DataPower
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
1 1 (9.09%) Replication
1 1 (9.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) SOA
2 3 (27.27%) Workflow
2 3 (27.27%) Workflow Development
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (18.18%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (18.18%) OOP
3 2 (18.18%) Resource Management
3 2 (18.18%) RUP
3 2 (18.18%) UML
4 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) E-Commerce
4 1 (9.09%) ERP
4 1 (9.09%) OO
4 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
1 4 (36.36%) T-SQL
1 4 (36.36%) VB.NET
2 2 (18.18%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.09%) VBA
3 1 (9.09%) VBScript
3 1 (9.09%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (9.09%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) IBM
2 3 (27.27%) Intapp
3 2 (18.18%) BEA
3 2 (18.18%) TIBCO
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (9.09%) Workday