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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 701 857 940
Rank change year-on-year +156 +83 +231
Permanent jobs citing XPath 1 50 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.048% 0.029%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.006% 0.15% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 0 32 18
10th Percentile - £38,350 £36,133
25th Percentile - £50,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £54,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £68,125 £54,500
90th Percentile - £85,750 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -16.67% -10.00%

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 16,692 33,778 40,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 32.58% 42.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,847 25,159 26,741
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,500 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,810 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.21% -2.16% +4.76%

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
Top 5 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 31 May 2025. 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
UK excluding London +180 1 - - 1
England +122 1 - - 2
Work from Home +100 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +54 1 - -
North of England +36 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Cantonese Language
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Sterling
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk