XPath (XML Path Language)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 693 800
Rank change year-on-year +116 +107 -150
Contract jobs citing XPath 14 25 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.042% 0.061%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 48
10th Percentile £392 £327 £405
25th Percentile £455 £365 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £599 £575 £625
90th Percentile £622 £624 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate - £360 £525
% change year-on-year - -31.43% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,769 20,649 32,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.59% 34.91% 36.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,080 14,885 23,465
10th Percentile £350 £394 £384
25th Percentile £425 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.46% +14.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 467 511
10th Percentile £31.70 £26.20 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.55 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +21.10% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £77.40 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
% change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +17.75%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XPath.

Daily rate trend for XPath in the UK

XPath
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XPath over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XPath in the UK

XPath
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XPath.

Hourly rate trend for XPath in the UK

XPath
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XPath within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +106 14 £560 +22.40% 1
London +101 12 £560 +1.82% 1
Work from Home +119 5 £593 +55.92%

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 2 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) OCI
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 7 (50.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 7 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
2 7 (50.00%) Power BI
2 7 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (14.29%) DB2
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) MariaDB
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (14.29%) MySQL
3 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
4 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Zephyr
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Arabic Language
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) French Language
3 2 (14.29%) German Language
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Japanese Language
3 2 (14.29%) Korean Language
3 2 (14.29%) Spanish Language
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Billing
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Technical Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Technical Business Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) ETL Developer
4 2 (14.29%) TIBCO Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) TIBCO Support
5 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Database Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Market Data Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) XML
2 5 (35.71%) XSLT
3 4 (28.57%) XSD
4 3 (21.43%) JSON
4 3 (21.43%) Middleware
5 2 (14.29%) SOAP
5 2 (14.29%) TIBCO EMS
5 2 (14.29%) Web Services
6 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
6 1 (7.14%) React
6 1 (7.14%) REST
6 1 (7.14%) Spring
6 1 (7.14%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Derivative
2 1 (7.14%) Equities
2 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Unix
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) Kanban
2 9 (64.29%) Scrum
3 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 7 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 7 (50.00%) Project Management
4 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
4 5 (35.71%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
7 2 (14.29%) Data Architecture
7 2 (14.29%) EAI
7 2 (14.29%) ERP
7 2 (14.29%) ETL
7 2 (14.29%) High Availability
7 2 (14.29%) Open Source
7 2 (14.29%) Release Management
7 2 (14.29%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) PL/SQL
3 7 (50.00%) XQuery
4 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.14%) C#
5 1 (7.14%) DataFlex
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) COREP
2 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
2 1 (7.14%) IFRS
2 1 (7.14%) IFRS 17
2 1 (7.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (7.14%) Control-M
2 1 (7.14%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Oracle
2 7 (50.00%) SAP
3 3 (21.43%) IBM
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 2 (14.29%) TIBCO
5 1 (7.14%) Bloomberg
5 1 (7.14%) Refinitiv
5 1 (7.14%) Sybase
5 1 (7.14%) Workday