XML Contracts in London

XML
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 192 191
Rank change year-on-year +59 -1 -48
Contract jobs citing XML 325 381 617
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.83% 1.41% 1.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.34% 5.15% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 267 480
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £494 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -3.15% +11.90%
75th Percentile £632 £700 £695
90th Percentile £775 £806 £763
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £43.23 -
25th Percentile - £53.27 £38.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year - +77.22% -41.91%
75th Percentile - - £40.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.00 £72.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -39.31% +52.63% -18.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 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 4,426 7,398 12,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.99% 27.36% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,325 5,506 9,411
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £700
90th Percentile £820 £813 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 40 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £29.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £37.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.84 £66.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -44.18% +35.86% -0.35%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.80 £76.63 £79.65
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in London

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for XML in London

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in London

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in London

XML
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +7 49 £553 +5.24% 12
East London +6 13 £560 -2.61% 4
West London +14 2 £375 -11.76% 3
South London +2 1 £430 -8.99%
XML
England

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 17 (5.23%) Confluence
2 5 (1.54%) Apache
2 5 (1.54%) MQSeries
2 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.92%) CMS
3 3 (0.92%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.31%) IIS
5 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
5 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (4.62%) MS Visio
2 13 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.62%) Mingle
6 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.85%) ION MarketView
2 5 (1.54%) Endur
3 4 (1.23%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.23%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.23%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.23%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.62%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.62%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.31%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 148 (45.54%) Azure
2 112 (34.46%) Azure DevOps
3 62 (19.08%) Entra ID
4 30 (9.23%) Power Platform
5 29 (8.92%) GitHub
6 26 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 22 (6.77%) Azure API Management
8 21 (6.46%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (6.15%) PowerApps
10 19 (5.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 19 (5.85%) Power Automate
11 17 (5.23%) Azure Key Vault
12 15 (4.62%) AWS
12 15 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (4.31%) Serverless
14 13 (4.00%) Azure Functions
15 9 (2.77%) GCP
16 7 (2.15%) SaaS
17 6 (1.85%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.15%) BGP
1 33 (10.15%) MPLS
2 22 (6.77%) RSVP
3 19 (5.85%) HSRP
3 19 (5.85%) SNMP
3 19 (5.85%) VPLS
4 18 (5.54%) Ethernet VPN
5 17 (5.23%) IPv4
5 17 (5.23%) VRRP
6 15 (4.62%) Cisco IOS
6 15 (4.62%) IOS XR
7 12 (3.69%) Firewall
7 12 (3.69%) FIX Connectivity
8 9 (2.77%) Network Security
9 8 (2.46%) 5G
9 8 (2.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 8 (2.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 5 (1.54%) SSH
11 4 (1.23%) VPN
12 3 (0.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (40.31%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.38%) MySQL
3 22 (6.77%) Power BI
4 19 (5.85%) Oracle Reports
5 17 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.69%) Relational Database
7 10 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.46%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.15%) Big Data
9 7 (2.15%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 7 (2.15%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.15%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (2.15%) Redis
9 7 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.85%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.85%) OLTP
10 6 (1.85%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 39 (12.00%) Git
2 31 (9.54%) JIRA
3 28 (8.62%) SpecFlow
4 22 (6.77%) Visual Studio
5 15 (4.62%) Selenium
6 12 (3.69%) TeamCity
7 11 (3.38%) WebDriver
8 9 (2.77%) Jenkins
9 8 (2.46%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.46%) Visual Studio Team System
10 7 (2.15%) JUnit
11 5 (1.54%) Maven
11 5 (1.54%) MSI
11 5 (1.54%) Postman
11 5 (1.54%) WiX
12 4 (1.23%) JMeter
12 4 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.62%) FitNesse
13 2 (0.62%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.62%) SoapUI
General
1 84 (25.85%) Finance
2 60 (18.46%) Social Skills
3 41 (12.62%) Public Sector
4 35 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.08%) Banking
6 19 (5.85%) Financial Institution
7 18 (5.54%) Front Office
8 12 (3.69%) Back Office
9 8 (2.46%) Local Government
10 7 (2.15%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.92%) Marketing
13 3 (0.92%) Retail
14 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.62%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.62%) Publishing
15 1 (0.31%) Billing
15 1 (0.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 128 (39.38%) Developer
2 88 (27.08%) Senior
3 61 (18.77%) Senior Developer
4 39 (12.00%) Software Developer
5 33 (10.15%) Senior Software Developer
6 32 (9.85%) Analyst
7 30 (9.23%) Architect
8 27 (8.31%) Backend Developer
9 26 (8.00%) Lead
10 24 (7.38%) Azure Developer
11 18 (5.54%) Business Analyst
11 18 (5.54%) Consultant
12 17 (5.23%) IP Expert
12 17 (5.23%) Senior Backend Developer
13 16 (4.92%) C# Developer
13 16 (4.92%) Software Engineer
14 14 (4.31%) Java Developer
14 14 (4.31%) Network Engineer
15 13 (4.00%) Test Analyst
16 12 (3.69%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (36.62%) JSON
2 97 (29.85%) .NET
3 61 (18.77%) HTML
4 52 (16.00%) SOAP
5 51 (15.69%) Web Services
6 47 (14.46%) REST
7 46 (14.15%) .NET Framework
8 41 (12.62%) AngularJS
9 33 (10.15%) NETCONF
9 33 (10.15%) YANG
10 29 (8.92%) CSS
11 28 (8.62%) LDAP
12 27 (8.31%) JSP
12 27 (8.31%) Servlets
13 26 (8.00%) .NET Core
13 26 (8.00%) SailPoint
13 26 (8.00%) SPML
14 20 (6.15%) ARM Templates
15 19 (5.85%) Jinja
16 18 (5.54%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.38%) Product Ownership
2 24 (7.38%) Distributed Architecture
3 22 (6.77%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.92%) Derivative
5 13 (4.00%) Fixed Income
6 12 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.08%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.46%) Contactless
9 7 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.15%) Mainframe
9 7 (2.15%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.85%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.85%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.54%) Web 2.0
12 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.23%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.62%) Unix
2 18 (5.54%) Linux
3 17 (5.23%) Windows
4 1 (0.31%) Android
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (46.15%) DevOps
2 136 (41.85%) Agile
3 108 (33.23%) Scrum
4 105 (32.31%) CI/CD
5 61 (18.77%) B2C
6 36 (11.08%) Data Modelling
6 36 (11.08%) Test Automation
7 31 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (8.92%) Migration
9 27 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (8.00%) Microservices
10 26 (8.00%) RBAC
11 25 (7.69%) SDLC
11 25 (7.69%) Software Engineering
12 24 (7.38%) TDD
13 23 (7.08%) Mentoring
13 23 (7.08%) Test Strategy
14 21 (6.46%) Kanban
15 20 (6.15%) BDD
15 20 (6.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 117 (36.00%) C#
2 106 (32.62%) SQL
3 105 (32.31%) PowerShell
4 71 (21.85%) JavaScript
5 66 (20.31%) Java
6 36 (11.08%) Bicep
7 32 (9.85%) Python
8 16 (4.92%) XPath
9 13 (4.00%) Perl
10 12 (3.69%) TypeScript
11 11 (3.38%) T-SQL
12 10 (3.08%) PL/SQL
13 8 (2.46%) ABAP
14 7 (2.15%) XQuery
15 4 (1.23%) AWK
16 3 (0.92%) Bash
16 3 (0.92%) RPG
16 3 (0.92%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.62%) C
17 2 (0.62%) JSX
Qualifications
1 30 (9.23%) Degree
2 19 (5.85%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (5.54%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.77%) CCIE
4 9 (2.77%) CCIE Service Provider
5 7 (2.15%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.85%) CCNP
7 5 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.92%) CCNA
9 3 (0.92%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.31%) CISSP
10 1 (0.31%) ISEB
10 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.31%) SANS
10 1 (0.31%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (15.69%) QA
2 9 (2.77%) Dodd-Frank
2 9 (2.77%) EMIR
2 9 (2.77%) MiFID
3 8 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.23%) GAAP
4 4 (1.23%) ISO 15022
4 4 (1.23%) NCSC
5 3 (0.92%) GRC
5 3 (0.92%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.62%) HL7
6 2 (0.62%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) COREP
7 1 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 88 (27.08%) Active Directory
2 26 (8.00%) IAG
3 25 (7.69%) ACF2
3 25 (7.69%) RACF
4 13 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.92%) Docker
6 1 (0.31%) Cronacle
6 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (4.00%) Ansible
2 9 (2.77%) Terraform
3 6 (1.85%) FortiGate
3 6 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (0.92%) Kibana
4 3 (0.92%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.92%) logstash
5 2 (0.62%) Control-M
6 1 (0.31%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.31%) SCOM
6 1 (0.31%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 119 (36.62%) Microsoft
2 40 (12.31%) Oracle
3 31 (9.54%) Nokia
3 31 (9.54%) ServiceNow
4 23 (7.08%) Cisco
5 20 (6.15%) Sybase
6 19 (5.85%) SAP
7 15 (4.62%) Fortinet
8 13 (4.00%) Bloomberg
8 13 (4.00%) ION Trading
9 12 (3.69%) MarketAxess
9 12 (3.69%) Tradeweb
10 8 (2.46%) CyberArk
10 8 (2.46%) F5
10 8 (2.46%) IBM
11 7 (2.15%) BeyondTrust
11 7 (2.15%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.85%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.85%) Murex
12 6 (1.85%) Salesforce