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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 856 932 1136
Rank change year-on-year +76 +204 -280
Permanent jobs citing XPath 51 28 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.028% 0.058%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 0.065% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 34 17 56
10th Percentile £41,050 £38,453 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,500 £40,000 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £69,375 £56,000 £55,625
90th Percentile £82,550 £65,000 £77,375
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 33,238 43,130 87,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.26% 43.34% 53.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 27,636 43,338
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 19 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 19 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 +99 51 £55,000 +22.22% 2
London +143 46 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Work from Home +85 24 £54,000 -10.74%
UK excluding London -21 5 £37,500 -16.67%
Yorkshire +74 3 £37,500 -16.67%
North of England +37 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 32 (62.75%) CMS
2 10 (19.61%) EPiServer
3 7 (13.73%) IIS
4 6 (11.76%) SharePoint
5 3 (5.88%) WebSphere
6 2 (3.92%) Apache
6 2 (3.92%) Apache Solr
6 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
6 2 (3.92%) GlassFish
6 2 (3.92%) JCAPS
6 2 (3.92%) WebLogic
6 2 (3.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (31.37%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (31.37%) SDL Web 8
2 2 (3.92%) Adaptiv
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) Azure
2 16 (31.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 16 (31.37%) Azure DevOps
2 16 (31.37%) NuGet
3 7 (13.73%) Google Analytics
4 3 (5.88%) AWS
4 3 (5.88%) SaaS
5 2 (3.92%) GCP
6 1 (1.96%) OCI
6 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) Internet
2 2 (3.92%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (82.35%) SQL Server
2 11 (21.57%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.96%) Power BI
4 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (80.39%) Visual Studio
2 30 (58.82%) Git
3 16 (31.37%) git-flow
3 16 (31.37%) JIRA
3 16 (31.37%) Moq
3 16 (31.37%) NUnit
3 16 (31.37%) Octopus Deploy
3 16 (31.37%) Sourcetree
3 16 (31.37%) SpecFlow
3 16 (31.37%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.92%) Ant
4 2 (3.92%) JUnit
4 2 (3.92%) Maven
4 2 (3.92%) Subversion
4 2 (3.92%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 16 (31.37%) Marketing
2 14 (27.45%) Finance
3 8 (15.69%) Law
4 7 (13.73%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Back Office
6 2 (3.92%) Legal
6 2 (3.92%) Retail
6 2 (3.92%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (70.59%) Developer
2 20 (39.22%) Senior
3 17 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 17 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
3 17 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 16 (31.37%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 16 (31.37%) Senior C# Developer
4 16 (31.37%) Senior Full Stack Developer
5 8 (15.69%) .NET Developer
6 7 (13.73%) Applications Support
6 7 (13.73%) Support Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Applications Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Development Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Development Support Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Web Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Web Support Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) .NET Applications Developer
8 4 (7.84%) SharePoint Developer
9 3 (5.88%) Applications Support Analyst
9 3 (5.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (92.16%) XML
2 45 (88.24%) .NET
3 42 (82.35%) ASP.NET
3 42 (82.35%) Web Services
4 39 (76.47%) SOAP
5 26 (50.98%) .NET Framework
5 26 (50.98%) HTML
6 25 (49.02%) React
6 25 (49.02%) REST
7 23 (45.10%) CSS
7 23 (45.10%) jQuery
8 21 (41.18%) JSON
9 18 (35.29%) RESTful
9 18 (35.29%) XSLT
10 16 (31.37%) ASP.NET MVC
10 16 (31.37%) ASP.NET MVC 5
10 16 (31.37%) Autofac
10 16 (31.37%) Entity Framework
10 16 (31.37%) Ninject
10 16 (31.37%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Greenfield Project
1 16 (31.37%) Legacy Code
2 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.92%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.96%) Derivative
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Equities
4 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (76.47%) Agile
2 34 (66.67%) DevOps
3 32 (62.75%) MVC
3 32 (62.75%) Scrum
4 24 (47.06%) OO
5 23 (45.10%) Computer Science
6 21 (41.18%) Full Stack Development
7 20 (39.22%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (35.29%) API Development
8 18 (35.29%) Unit Testing
9 16 (31.37%) Architectural Design
9 16 (31.37%) Content Management
9 16 (31.37%) E-Commerce
9 16 (31.37%) Inversion of Control
9 16 (31.37%) Issue Tracking
9 16 (31.37%) Line Management
9 16 (31.37%) Mentoring
9 16 (31.37%) Performance Tuning
9 16 (31.37%) Responsive Web Design
9 16 (31.37%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 50 (98.04%) SQL
2 45 (88.24%) C#
3 42 (82.35%) T-SQL
4 26 (50.98%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.84%) Java
6 3 (5.88%) Python
6 3 (5.88%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.92%) C
7 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (47.06%) Degree
2 7 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) COREP
2 1 (1.96%) IFRS
2 1 (1.96%) IFRS 17
2 1 (1.96%) IFRS 9
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (31.37%) Adobe
2 16 (31.37%) Cognizant
3 7 (13.73%) Google
4 3 (5.88%) Oracle
5 2 (3.92%) Talend
6 1 (1.96%) IBM