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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 840 949 1151
Rank change year-on-year +109 +202 -298
Permanent jobs citing XPath 50 28 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 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% +20.00%
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 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
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 18 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 18 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 +113 50 £55,000 +22.22% 2
London +152 45 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Work from Home +94 24 £54,000 -10.74%
UK excluding London -48 5 £37,500 -16.67%
Yorkshire +75 3 £37,500 -16.67%
North of England +44 3 £37,500 -16.67%
South East -4 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 31 (62.00%) CMS
2 10 (20.00%) EPiServer
3 7 (14.00%) IIS
4 6 (12.00%) SharePoint
5 3 (6.00%) WebSphere
6 2 (4.00%) Apache
6 2 (4.00%) Apache Solr
6 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
6 2 (4.00%) GlassFish
6 2 (4.00%) JCAPS
6 2 (4.00%) WebLogic
6 2 (4.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (30.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (30.00%) SDL Web 8
2 2 (4.00%) Adaptiv
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 16 (32.00%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (30.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 15 (30.00%) NuGet
4 7 (14.00%) Google Analytics
5 3 (6.00%) AWS
5 3 (6.00%) SaaS
6 2 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) OCI
7 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) Internet
2 2 (4.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (82.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (22.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (80.00%) Visual Studio
2 29 (58.00%) Git
3 15 (30.00%) git-flow
3 15 (30.00%) JIRA
3 15 (30.00%) Moq
3 15 (30.00%) NUnit
3 15 (30.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 15 (30.00%) Sourcetree
3 15 (30.00%) SpecFlow
3 15 (30.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.00%) Ant
4 2 (4.00%) JUnit
4 2 (4.00%) Maven
4 2 (4.00%) Subversion
4 2 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.00%) Selenium
General
1 15 (30.00%) Marketing
2 14 (28.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Law
4 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Back Office
6 2 (4.00%) Legal
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
6 2 (4.00%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (70.00%) Developer
2 19 (38.00%) Senior
3 16 (32.00%) C# Developer
3 16 (32.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 16 (32.00%) Senior Developer
4 15 (30.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 15 (30.00%) Senior C# Developer
4 15 (30.00%) Senior Full Stack Developer
5 8 (16.00%) .NET Developer
6 7 (14.00%) Applications Support
6 7 (14.00%) Support Engineer
7 6 (12.00%) Applications Developer
7 6 (12.00%) Development Engineer
7 6 (12.00%) Development Support Engineer
7 6 (12.00%) Web Engineer
7 6 (12.00%) Web Support Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) .NET Applications Developer
8 4 (8.00%) SharePoint Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Applications Support Analyst
9 3 (6.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (92.00%) XML
2 44 (88.00%) .NET
3 41 (82.00%) ASP.NET
3 41 (82.00%) Web Services
4 38 (76.00%) SOAP
5 25 (50.00%) .NET Framework
5 25 (50.00%) HTML
5 25 (50.00%) REST
6 24 (48.00%) React
7 22 (44.00%) CSS
7 22 (44.00%) jQuery
8 21 (42.00%) JSON
9 18 (36.00%) XSLT
10 17 (34.00%) RESTful
11 15 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
11 15 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC 5
11 15 (30.00%) Autofac
11 15 (30.00%) Code First Entity Framework
11 15 (30.00%) Entity Framework
11 15 (30.00%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) Greenfield Project
1 15 (30.00%) Legacy Code
2 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.00%) Derivative
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Equities
4 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (76.00%) Agile
2 33 (66.00%) DevOps
3 31 (62.00%) MVC
3 31 (62.00%) Scrum
4 23 (46.00%) OO
5 22 (44.00%) Computer Science
6 20 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
7 19 (38.00%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (34.00%) API Development
8 17 (34.00%) Unit Testing
9 16 (32.00%) Content Management
10 15 (30.00%) Architectural Design
10 15 (30.00%) E-Commerce
10 15 (30.00%) Inversion of Control
10 15 (30.00%) Issue Tracking
10 15 (30.00%) Line Management
10 15 (30.00%) Mentoring
10 15 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
10 15 (30.00%) Responsive Web Design
10 15 (30.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 49 (98.00%) SQL
2 44 (88.00%) C#
3 41 (82.00%) T-SQL
4 25 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.00%) Java
6 3 (6.00%) Python
6 3 (6.00%) VB.NET
7 2 (4.00%) C
7 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (46.00%) Degree
2 7 (14.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) COREP
2 1 (2.00%) IFRS
2 1 (2.00%) IFRS 17
2 1 (2.00%) IFRS 9
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (30.00%) Adobe
2 15 (30.00%) Cognizant
3 7 (14.00%) Google
4 3 (6.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) Talend
6 1 (2.00%) IBM