Hybrid/Remote XPath Contract Job Trends

XPath (XML Path Language)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring XPath skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 314 384
Rank change year-on-year +3 +70 +182
Contract jobs citing XPath 7 2 7
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.069% 0.016% 0.039%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.20% 0.047% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £350 - £415
25th Percentile £363 £425 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £560
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -19.64% +40.00%
75th Percentile - £475 £561
90th Percentile £450 - £674
UK median daily rate £363 £638 £560
% change year-on-year -43.14% +13.76% +24.53%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

XPath falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,567 4,295 5,715
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.03% 35.40% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,369 2,852 4,196
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £787 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 60 147
10th Percentile £35.48 £21.25 £34.70
25th Percentile £52.94 £26.50 £51.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.88% -4.48% -3.85%
75th Percentile £67.06 £66.63 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%

XPath
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XPath and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

XPath job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

XPath
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing XPath.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing XPath

XPath
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing XPath over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

XPath daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

XPath
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) GitHub
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Cucumber
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) JIRA
1 6 (85.71%) SpecFlow
1 6 (85.71%) TestRail
1 6 (85.71%) Zephyr
2 5 (71.43%) Postman
3 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (57.14%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Tester
2 3 (42.86%) Automation Tester
3 2 (28.57%) Manual Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
4 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Workday Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) XML
2 6 (85.71%) JSON
2 6 (85.71%) REST
3 5 (71.43%) Playwright
4 1 (14.29%) J2EE
4 1 (14.29%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) API Testing
1 6 (85.71%) Defect Management
1 6 (85.71%) SDLC
1 6 (85.71%) Sprint Planning
1 6 (85.71%) Sprint Retrospective
1 6 (85.71%) Test Management
1 6 (85.71%) Validation
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) User Stories
4 2 (28.57%) ERP
4 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) Line Management
5 1 (14.29%) OO
5 1 (14.29%) OOP
5 1 (14.29%) Order Management
5 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
1 6 (85.71%) Java
1 6 (85.71%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Workday