XML Contracts in the North West

XML
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 108 130
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 -26
Contract jobs citing XML 38 50 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.37% 1.56% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.63% 8.35% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 37 34
10th Percentile £461 £358 £325
25th Percentile £505 £463 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +6.06% -1.00%
75th Percentile £534 £650 £538
90th Percentile £583 £685 £636
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £31.75
25th Percentile - - £37.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 - £40.62
75th Percentile - - £43.50
90th Percentile - - £43.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year -37.93% +51.04% -17.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West 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 498 599 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.93% 18.65% 24.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 475 740
10th Percentile £350 £337 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.21%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £740 £646 £650
England median daily rate £550 £568 £563
% change year-on-year -3.08% +0.89% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 26
10th Percentile £37.63 £35.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.10 £25.69
Median hourly rate £47.31 £42.80 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% +5.37% +19.46%
75th Percentile £71.87 £45.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.05 - £62.50
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in the North West.

Daily rate trend for XML in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the North West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Manchester +34 24 £534 +4.20% 5
Cheshire -2 10 £510 -5.12% 3
Cumbria - 3 £470 - 1
Merseyside +9 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (13.16%) Apache
1 5 (13.16%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (13.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (50.00%) Serverless
2 7 (18.42%) Azure
3 6 (15.79%) Azure Stack
3 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon S3
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (13.16%) AWS
4 5 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (13.16%) Snowflake
5 2 (5.26%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.63%) OCI
6 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (42.11%) Oracle Reports
2 14 (36.84%) MongoDB
2 14 (36.84%) NoSQL
2 14 (36.84%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (36.84%) RDBMS
2 14 (36.84%) Relational Database
3 6 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (15.79%) Snowflake Schema
4 5 (13.16%) Big Data
4 5 (13.16%) SQLite
5 3 (7.89%) Oracle Database
5 3 (7.89%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
1 5 (13.16%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) Mockito
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (5.26%) JUnit
4 1 (2.63%) JMeter
4 1 (2.63%) Selenium
4 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (13.16%) Manufacturing
1 5 (13.16%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.63%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) DBA
1 14 (36.84%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 10 (26.32%) Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Architect
3 6 (15.79%) Data Architect
4 5 (13.16%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Data Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior
6 3 (7.89%) Android Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (7.89%) React Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Android Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (65.79%) JSON
2 14 (36.84%) Kafka
3 6 (15.79%) REST
4 5 (13.16%) Jetpack Compose
5 4 (10.53%) Android Jetpack
6 3 (7.89%) React Native
7 2 (5.26%) RxJava
8 1 (2.63%) .NET
8 1 (2.63%) Dagger
8 1 (2.63%) HTML
8 1 (2.63%) Retrofit
8 1 (2.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Data Structures
1 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
1 6 (15.79%) Reference Data
2 3 (7.89%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.89%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Android
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (71.05%) Agile
2 15 (39.47%) DevOps
2 15 (39.47%) Mentoring
3 14 (36.84%) Database Security
3 14 (36.84%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (28.95%) Data Management
5 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
6 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
7 6 (15.79%) Analytics
7 6 (15.79%) Android Development
7 6 (15.79%) Change Management
7 6 (15.79%) Data Architecture
7 6 (15.79%) Data Governance
7 6 (15.79%) Data Lineage
7 6 (15.79%) Data Mapping
7 6 (15.79%) Data Modelling
7 6 (15.79%) Data Protection
7 6 (15.79%) GAP Analysis
7 6 (15.79%) Microservices
7 6 (15.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) Java
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
3 6 (15.79%) C#
3 6 (15.79%) Python
4 5 (13.16%) Kotlin
5 3 (7.89%) PL/SQL
5 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) Informatica
2 5 (13.16%) Talend
3 1 (2.63%) HP