XPath Contracts with Work from Home Options

XPath (XML Path Language)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for XPath skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XPath over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 458 595
Rank change year-on-year +119 +137 -119
Contract jobs citing XPath 5 16 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.063% 0.054%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.098% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 21
10th Percentile £565 £325 £450
25th Percentile £573 £329 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £380 £525
Median % change year-on-year +55.92% -27.62% -
75th Percentile £618 £497 £538
90th Percentile £630 £601 £588
UK median daily rate £560 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +24.44% -14.29% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

XPath is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,105 9,528 16,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.53% 37.31% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,700 6,968 12,584
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £788 £771 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 205 191
10th Percentile £26.50 £32.45 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.63% +11.80%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £88.38 £81.50 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.28 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.20% +20.55% +14.94%

XPath
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing XPath as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

XPath trend for jobs with a WFH option

XPath
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing XPath.

XPath daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

XPath
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) DB2
2 2 (40.00%) MariaDB
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Arabic Language
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) French Language
2 2 (40.00%) German Language
2 2 (40.00%) Japanese Language
2 2 (40.00%) Korean Language
2 2 (40.00%) Spanish Language
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) TIBCO Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) TIBCO Support
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) XML
1 4 (80.00%) XSLT
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) XSD
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Management
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) EAI
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) SOA
4 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) Design Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) Order Management
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) DataFlex
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (20.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (20.00%) Workday