XPath (XML Path Language)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for XPath skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited XPath over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 945 1144
Rank change year-on-year +84 +199 -286
Permanent jobs citing XPath 49 34 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.033% 0.059%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 0.076% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 34 21 61
10th Percentile £41,050 - £40,000
25th Percentile £50,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £69,375 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,550 £65,000 £79,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% -4.76%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,299 44,724 84,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.71% 43.25% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 25,064 28,554 44,071
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% +7.00%

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 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for XPath in the UK

XPath
Top 7 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 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +121 49 £55,000 +22.22% 1
London +165 44 £55,000 -13.73% 1
Work from Home +97 24 £54,000 -15.29%
UK excluding London -33 5 £37,500 -16.67%
Yorkshire +86 3 £37,500 -16.67%
North of England +45 3 £37,500 -16.67%
South East +11 2 £55,000 -

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 30 (61.22%) CMS
2 10 (20.41%) EPiServer
3 7 (14.29%) IIS
4 6 (12.24%) SharePoint
5 3 (6.12%) WebSphere
6 2 (4.08%) Apache
6 2 (4.08%) Apache Solr
6 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
6 2 (4.08%) GlassFish
6 2 (4.08%) JCAPS
6 2 (4.08%) WebLogic
6 2 (4.08%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 14 (28.57%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (28.57%) SDL Web 8
2 2 (4.08%) Adaptiv
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.82%) Azure
2 16 (32.65%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (28.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 14 (28.57%) NuGet
4 7 (14.29%) Google Analytics
5 3 (6.12%) AWS
5 3 (6.12%) SaaS
6 2 (4.08%) GCP
7 1 (2.04%) OCI
7 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) Internet
2 2 (4.08%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (81.63%) SQL Server
2 11 (22.45%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.04%) Power BI
4 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (79.59%) Visual Studio
2 28 (57.14%) Git
3 14 (28.57%) git-flow
3 14 (28.57%) JIRA
3 14 (28.57%) Moq
3 14 (28.57%) NUnit
3 14 (28.57%) Octopus Deploy
3 14 (28.57%) Sourcetree
3 14 (28.57%) SpecFlow
3 14 (28.57%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.08%) Ant
4 2 (4.08%) JUnit
4 2 (4.08%) Maven
4 2 (4.08%) Subversion
4 2 (4.08%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.04%) Selenium
General
1 14 (28.57%) Finance
1 14 (28.57%) Marketing
2 8 (16.33%) Law
3 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Back Office
5 2 (4.08%) Legal
5 2 (4.08%) Retail
5 2 (4.08%) Wholesale Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (69.39%) Developer
2 18 (36.73%) Senior
3 15 (30.61%) C# Developer
3 15 (30.61%) Full Stack Developer
3 15 (30.61%) Senior Developer
4 14 (28.57%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 14 (28.57%) Senior C# Developer
4 14 (28.57%) Senior Full Stack Developer
5 8 (16.33%) .NET Developer
6 7 (14.29%) Applications Support
6 7 (14.29%) Support Engineer
7 6 (12.24%) Applications Developer
7 6 (12.24%) Development Engineer
7 6 (12.24%) Development Support Engineer
7 6 (12.24%) Web Engineer
7 6 (12.24%) Web Support Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) .NET Applications Developer
8 4 (8.16%) SharePoint Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Applications Support Analyst
9 3 (6.12%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (91.84%) XML
2 43 (87.76%) .NET
3 40 (81.63%) ASP.NET
3 40 (81.63%) Web Services
4 37 (75.51%) SOAP
5 25 (51.02%) REST
6 24 (48.98%) .NET Framework
6 24 (48.98%) HTML
7 23 (46.94%) React
8 21 (42.86%) CSS
8 21 (42.86%) jQuery
8 21 (42.86%) JSON
9 18 (36.73%) XSLT
10 16 (32.65%) RESTful
11 14 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
11 14 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC 5
11 14 (28.57%) Autofac
11 14 (28.57%) Entity Framework
11 14 (28.57%) Ninject
11 14 (28.57%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
1 14 (28.57%) Legacy Code
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.04%) Derivative
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Equities
4 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (75.51%) Agile
2 32 (65.31%) DevOps
3 30 (61.22%) MVC
3 30 (61.22%) Scrum
4 22 (44.90%) OO
5 21 (42.86%) Computer Science
6 19 (38.78%) Full Stack Development
7 18 (36.73%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (32.65%) API Development
8 16 (32.65%) Content Management
8 16 (32.65%) Unit Testing
9 14 (28.57%) Architectural Design
9 14 (28.57%) E-Commerce
9 14 (28.57%) Inversion of Control
9 14 (28.57%) Issue Tracking
9 14 (28.57%) Line Management
9 14 (28.57%) Mentoring
9 14 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
9 14 (28.57%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 48 (97.96%) SQL
2 43 (87.76%) C#
3 40 (81.63%) T-SQL
4 24 (48.98%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.16%) Java
6 3 (6.12%) Python
6 3 (6.12%) VB.NET
7 2 (4.08%) C
7 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (44.90%) Degree
2 7 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) COREP
2 1 (2.04%) IFRS
2 1 (2.04%) IFRS 17
2 1 (2.04%) IFRS 9
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (34.69%) Microsoft
2 14 (28.57%) Adobe
2 14 (28.57%) Cognizant
3 7 (14.29%) Google
4 3 (6.12%) Oracle
5 2 (4.08%) Talend
6 1 (2.04%) IBM