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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 854 917 1171
Rank change year-on-year +63 +254 -294
Permanent jobs citing XPath 51 29 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.031% 0.055%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 0.072% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 32 19 50
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,133 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £68,125 £56,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £65,500 £72,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +5.26%

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 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +89 51 £54,000 +20.00% 3
London +150 47 £55,000 -15.38% 1
Work from Home +66 22 £53,000 -18.46% 3
UK excluding London -56 4 £37,500 -16.67% 2
Yorkshire +53 3 £37,500 -16.67%
North of England +25 3 £37,500 -16.67%
South East -19 1 - - 1

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 35 (68.63%) CMS
2 10 (19.61%) EPiServer
3 7 (13.73%) IIS
4 6 (11.76%) SharePoint
5 2 (3.92%) GlassFish
5 2 (3.92%) JCAPS
5 2 (3.92%) WebLogic
5 2 (3.92%) WebSphere
5 2 (3.92%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (1.96%) Apache
6 1 (1.96%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 19 (37.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (37.25%) SDL Web 8
2 2 (3.92%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 19 (37.25%) Azure
1 19 (37.25%) NuGet
2 16 (31.37%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (13.73%) Google Analytics
4 2 (3.92%) AWS
4 2 (3.92%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) Internet
2 2 (3.92%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (86.27%) SQL Server
2 9 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (86.27%) Visual Studio
2 33 (64.71%) Git
3 19 (37.25%) git-flow
3 19 (37.25%) JIRA
3 19 (37.25%) Moq
3 19 (37.25%) NUnit
3 19 (37.25%) Octopus Deploy
3 19 (37.25%) Sourcetree
3 19 (37.25%) SpecFlow
3 19 (37.25%) 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 19 (37.25%) Marketing
2 12 (23.53%) Finance
3 8 (15.69%) Law
4 7 (13.73%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Back Office
6 2 (3.92%) Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Legal
6 2 (3.92%) Retail
6 2 (3.92%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (72.55%) Developer
2 23 (45.10%) Senior
3 20 (39.22%) C# Developer
3 20 (39.22%) Full Stack Developer
3 20 (39.22%) Senior Developer
4 19 (37.25%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 19 (37.25%) Senior C# Developer
4 19 (37.25%) 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%) .NET
1 47 (92.16%) XML
2 44 (86.27%) ASP.NET
2 44 (86.27%) Web Services
3 42 (82.35%) SOAP
4 29 (56.86%) .NET Framework
4 29 (56.86%) HTML
5 28 (54.90%) React
6 26 (50.98%) CSS
6 26 (50.98%) jQuery
7 24 (47.06%) REST
8 21 (41.18%) RESTful
9 19 (37.25%) ASP.NET MVC
9 19 (37.25%) ASP.NET MVC 5
9 19 (37.25%) Autofac
9 19 (37.25%) Code First Entity Framework
9 19 (37.25%) Entity Framework
9 19 (37.25%) JSON
9 19 (37.25%) Ninject
9 19 (37.25%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (37.25%) Greenfield Project
1 19 (37.25%) Legacy Code
2 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.92%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (82.35%) Agile
2 37 (72.55%) DevOps
3 35 (68.63%) MVC
3 35 (68.63%) Scrum
4 26 (50.98%) Computer Science
4 26 (50.98%) OO
5 23 (45.10%) Full Stack Development
6 22 (43.14%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (39.22%) API Development
7 20 (39.22%) Unit Testing
8 19 (37.25%) Architectural Design
8 19 (37.25%) Architectural Patterns
8 19 (37.25%) E-Commerce
8 19 (37.25%) Inversion of Control
8 19 (37.25%) Issue Tracking
8 19 (37.25%) Line Management
8 19 (37.25%) Mentoring
8 19 (37.25%) Performance Tuning
8 19 (37.25%) Responsive Web Design
8 19 (37.25%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 50 (98.04%) SQL
2 47 (92.16%) C#
3 44 (86.27%) T-SQL
4 29 (56.86%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.88%) Java
5 3 (5.88%) Python
5 3 (5.88%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.92%) C
6 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (52.94%) Degree
2 7 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Control-M
Vendors
1 19 (37.25%) Adobe
1 19 (37.25%) Cognizant
2 16 (31.37%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.73%) Google
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) Talend