XML Contracts in the City of London

XML
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for XML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XML over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 97 121
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 -20
Contract jobs citing XML 39 78 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.77% 2.14% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.11% 7.51% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 37 64
10th Percentile £430 £331 £465
25th Percentile £463 £435 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -11.58% +7.95%
75th Percentile £743 £638 £638
90th Percentile £775 £800 £700
Central London median daily rate £553 £525 £598
% change year-on-year +5.24% -12.13% +8.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

XML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 481 1,039 1,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.84% 28.57% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 674 1,041
10th Percentile £405 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £505 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £551 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -11.92% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +171.43%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - +171.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for XML in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (5.13%) CMS
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) SAP CO
1 2 (5.13%) SAP FI
1 2 (5.13%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (2.56%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (2.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.56%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (2.56%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) Azure
2 13 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (28.21%) Entra ID
4 6 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
4 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 6 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 6 (15.38%) PowerApps
5 5 (12.82%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (7.69%) Azure API Management
7 3 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (7.69%) GitHub
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Functions
8 2 (5.13%) SaaS
8 2 (5.13%) Serverless
9 1 (2.56%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (2.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.38%) Power BI
3 2 (5.13%) MySQL
3 2 (5.13%) Redis
4 1 (2.56%) Data Hub
4 1 (2.56%) DB2
4 1 (2.56%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (7.69%) SpecFlow
3 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (2.56%) Android Studio
4 1 (2.56%) Moq
4 1 (2.56%) MSTest
4 1 (2.56%) Selenium
4 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (41.03%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Financial Institution
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Arabic Language
6 1 (2.56%) French Language
6 1 (2.56%) German Language
6 1 (2.56%) Japanese Language
6 1 (2.56%) Korean Language
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Publishing
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Senior
3 8 (20.51%) Architect
4 7 (17.95%) Senior Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Platform Architect
5 6 (15.38%) Power Platform Architect
6 4 (10.26%) Backend Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Senior Software Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Software Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Systems Architect
7 3 (7.69%) Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Lead
8 2 (5.13%) Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) Data Modeller
8 2 (5.13%) SAP CO Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) SAP Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) SAP FI Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Backend Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (43.59%) JSON
2 9 (23.08%) HTML
3 8 (20.51%) .NET
3 8 (20.51%) REST
4 7 (17.95%) CSS
5 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
7 4 (10.26%) .NET Core
7 4 (10.26%) jQuery
8 3 (7.69%) .NET Framework
8 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET
8 3 (7.69%) HTML5
8 3 (7.69%) SOAP
8 3 (7.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 3 (7.69%) Web Services
8 3 (7.69%) XML Schema
8 3 (7.69%) XSD
9 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (5.13%) CSS3
9 2 (5.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) BYOD
2 2 (5.13%) Contactless
2 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.13%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.56%) DTCC
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 15 (38.46%) DevOps
3 14 (35.90%) Agile
4 8 (20.51%) Scrum
5 6 (15.38%) B2C
5 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (15.38%) XML Parsing
6 5 (12.82%) Front End Development
7 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.26%) Microservices
7 4 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (10.26%) Test Automation
8 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (7.69%) Data Transformation
8 3 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
8 3 (7.69%) Migration
8 3 (7.69%) SDLC
8 3 (7.69%) Test Strategy
8 3 (7.69%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) PowerShell
2 13 (33.33%) C#
3 11 (28.21%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.38%) Bicep
5 4 (10.26%) Java
5 4 (10.26%) SQL
6 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.13%) ABAP
8 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.56%) Perl
8 1 (2.56%) Python
8 1 (2.56%) SOQL
8 1 (2.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) CCNA
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.56%) ISEB
4 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) GAAP
3 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.56%) ACF2
3 1 (2.56%) IAG
3 1 (2.56%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.56%) Ansible
2 1 (2.56%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (2.56%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) SAP
3 2 (5.13%) Apple
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco
4 1 (2.56%) IBM
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Solace
4 1 (2.56%) Sybase