XPath Contracts with Work from Home Options

XPath (XML Path Language)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring XPath skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XPath over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 439 610
Rank change year-on-year +103 +171 -111
Contract jobs citing XPath 5 18 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.034% 0.075% 0.030%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.098% 0.21% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £325 £363
25th Percentile £613 £329 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +64.47% -24.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £638 £497 £539
90th Percentile - £601 £540
UK median daily rate £513 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +13.89% -8.63% +10.67%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

XPath falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,080 8,696 16,767
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.43% 36.42% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,656 6,423 12,512
10th Percentile £356 £381 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 187 184
10th Percentile £29.38 £26.96 £20.25
25th Percentile £44.88 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

XPath
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing XPath as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

XPath trend for jobs with a WFH option

XPath
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing XPath.

XPath daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

XPath
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (20.00%) Jetty
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) FTP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (20.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) DB2
2 2 (40.00%) MariaDB
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Arabic Language
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) French Language
2 2 (40.00%) German Language
2 2 (40.00%) Japanese Language
2 2 (40.00%) Korean Language
2 2 (40.00%) Spanish Language
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) TIBCO Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) TIBCO Support
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) JSON
2 3 (60.00%) SOAP
2 3 (60.00%) XSLT
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) TIBCO EMS
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) XSD
4 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (20.00%) J2EE
4 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) API Management
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) EAI
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) SOA
4 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Order Management
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) DataFlex
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (20.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) IBM
3 2 (40.00%) TIBCO