XPath (XML Path Language)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring XPath skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited XPath over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 807 859 1196
Rank change year-on-year +52 +337 -278
Permanent jobs citing XPath 35 28 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.035% 0.045%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.13% 0.086% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 17 18 40
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,840 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,500 £40,000 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £55,625 £57,813
90th Percentile £99,750 £65,750 £70,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -18.18% +22.22%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

XPath
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XPath as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XPath in the UK

XPath
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing XPath.

Salary trend for XPath in the UK

XPath
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XPath over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for XPath in the UK

XPath
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XPath within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England +44 35 £65,000 +44.44% 1
London +105 29 £67,500 +3.85% 1
Work from Home +48 9 £65,000 -
UK excluding London -46 6 £37,500 -16.67%
Yorkshire +51 3 £37,500 -16.67%
North of England +2 3 £37,500 -16.67%
Midlands -19 2 £76,250 +106.89%
East Midlands -26 2 £76,250 +106.89%
South East -2 1 - -

XPath
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (60.00%) CMS
2 7 (20.00%) IIS
3 6 (17.14%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.71%) EPiServer
4 2 (5.71%) GlassFish
4 2 (5.71%) JCAPS
4 2 (5.71%) WebLogic
4 2 (5.71%) WebSphere
4 2 (5.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (51.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (51.43%) SDL Web 8
2 2 (5.71%) Adaptiv
3 1 (2.86%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 18 (51.43%) NuGet
2 7 (20.00%) Google Analytics
3 2 (5.71%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) FTP
1 2 (5.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (77.14%) SQL Server
2 9 (25.71%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) BaseX
3 1 (2.86%) eXist-db
3 1 (2.86%) MarkLogic
3 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (77.14%) Visual Studio
2 20 (57.14%) Git
3 18 (51.43%) git-flow
3 18 (51.43%) JIRA
3 18 (51.43%) Moq
3 18 (51.43%) NUnit
3 18 (51.43%) Octopus Deploy
3 18 (51.43%) Sourcetree
3 18 (51.43%) SpecFlow
3 18 (51.43%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.71%) Ant
4 2 (5.71%) JUnit
4 2 (5.71%) Maven
4 2 (5.71%) Subversion
5 1 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 18 (51.43%) Marketing
2 8 (22.86%) Law
3 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Back Office
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Wholesale Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (88.57%) Developer
2 21 (60.00%) Senior
3 19 (54.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 19 (54.29%) Senior Developer
4 18 (51.43%) C# Developer
4 18 (51.43%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 18 (51.43%) Senior C# Developer
4 18 (51.43%) Senior Full Stack Developer
5 4 (11.43%) .NET Developer
5 4 (11.43%) SharePoint Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Applications Support
7 1 (2.86%) Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Risk Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Risk Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (88.57%) XML
2 30 (85.71%) .NET
3 29 (82.86%) HTML
4 27 (77.14%) ASP.NET
4 27 (77.14%) SOAP
4 27 (77.14%) Web Services
5 26 (74.29%) React
6 25 (71.43%) CSS
6 25 (71.43%) jQuery
7 20 (57.14%) .NET Framework
8 18 (51.43%) ASP.NET MVC
8 18 (51.43%) ASP.NET MVC 5
8 18 (51.43%) Autofac
8 18 (51.43%) Code First Entity Framework
8 18 (51.43%) Entity Framework
8 18 (51.43%) Ninject
8 18 (51.43%) RESTful
8 18 (51.43%) Semantic HTML
9 11 (31.43%) HTML5
10 9 (25.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (51.43%) Greenfield Project
1 18 (51.43%) Legacy Code
2 2 (5.71%) Credit Risk
2 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (2.86%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) Agile
2 25 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 25 (71.43%) OO
3 22 (62.86%) Full Stack Development
4 21 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (57.14%) DevOps
5 20 (57.14%) MVC
5 20 (57.14%) Scrum
6 18 (51.43%) API Development
6 18 (51.43%) Architectural Design
6 18 (51.43%) Architectural Patterns
6 18 (51.43%) E-Commerce
6 18 (51.43%) Inversion of Control
6 18 (51.43%) Issue Tracking
6 18 (51.43%) Line Management
6 18 (51.43%) Mentoring
6 18 (51.43%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (51.43%) Responsive Web Design
6 18 (51.43%) SOLID
6 18 (51.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (91.43%) SQL
2 30 (85.71%) C#
3 28 (80.00%) JavaScript
4 27 (77.14%) T-SQL
5 3 (8.57%) VB.NET
6 2 (5.71%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) Python
7 1 (2.86%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 26 (74.29%) Degree
2 7 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Control-M
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Adobe
1 18 (51.43%) Cognizant
2 7 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Siemens