XPath Job Trends in the UK excluding London

XPath (XML Path Language)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring XPath skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 - 670
Rank change year-on-year - - -88
Permanent jobs citing XPath 4 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - 0.007%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.033% - 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £61,375 - £39,500
25th Percentile £61,563 - £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £66,563 - £79,375
90th Percentile £67,125 - £80,500
UK median annual salary £72,000 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +55.56%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

XPath falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,114 8,264 16,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.64% 23.84% 27.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,795 5,229 11,106
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,509 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

XPath
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing XPath relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

XPath job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

XPath
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing XPath.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing XPath

XPath
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XPath within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland - 2 £63,750 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3
XPath
UK

XPath
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (50.00%) Elite 3E
1 2 (50.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Workday Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) XSLT
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Jakarta EE
3 2 (50.00%) Middleware
4 1 (25.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Workday
2 1 (25.00%) Intapp