XML Contracts in the South East

XML
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 163 160 159
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -46
Contract jobs citing XML 37 66 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.67% 1.13% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.07% 6.27% 6.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 41 62
10th Percentile £335 £406 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +12.04%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £636
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £68.50 £45.63
25th Percentile - £70.00 £47.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +42.86% -9.48%
75th Percentile - - £62.88
90th Percentile - - £65.52
England median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -37.93% +52.63% -18.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East 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 730 1,052 1,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.21% 18.05% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 749 1,028
10th Percentile £313 £363 £354
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £667 £725 £673
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 41
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.13 £54.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% +4.05%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.72 £67.80
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 South East

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in the South East.

Daily rate trend for XML in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley -8 16 £480 -8.57% 6
Surrey +24 15 £450 +13.21% 10
Berkshire -23 12 £500 -4.76% 3
Hampshire -20 5 £450 -5.26% 6
Buckinghamshire +29 4 £431 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (18.92%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (5.41%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) Azure
2 10 (27.03%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (24.32%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (24.32%) Power Platform
4 7 (18.92%) Azure Functions
4 7 (18.92%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (18.92%) Serverless
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (10.81%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (10.81%) Power Automate
5 4 (10.81%) PowerApps
6 3 (8.11%) Azure API Management
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.41%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (2.70%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub
8 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.70%) PaaS
8 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.70%) BGP
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.70%) IOS XR
2 1 (2.70%) MPLS
2 1 (2.70%) NFC
2 1 (2.70%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
3 5 (13.51%) Data Lake
3 5 (13.51%) Power BI
4 4 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
5 3 (8.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.70%) MySQL
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) JIRA
2 8 (21.62%) Git
3 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
4 5 (13.51%) Bitbucket
4 5 (13.51%) Visual Studio
5 4 (10.81%) Artifactory
6 2 (5.41%) JMeter
6 2 (5.41%) Selenium
6 2 (5.41%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.70%) Appium
7 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.70%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.70%) GoogleTest
7 1 (2.70%) JUnit
7 1 (2.70%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (2.70%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.70%) TestNG
7 1 (2.70%) Valgrind
7 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.70%) Xcode
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Software Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) Integration Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Data Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Development Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) Software Development Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Test Development Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Tester
6 3 (8.11%) Applications Support
6 3 (8.11%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (51.35%) JSON
2 11 (29.73%) SOAP
3 10 (27.03%) .NET
4 8 (21.62%) REST
5 7 (18.92%) RESTful
6 6 (16.22%) HTML
7 5 (13.51%) .NET Framework
8 4 (10.81%) ADO
9 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
9 3 (8.11%) ARM Templates
9 3 (8.11%) OAuth
9 3 (8.11%) OpenID
9 3 (8.11%) Web Services
10 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
10 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET
10 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (5.41%) Blazor
10 2 (5.41%) CSS
10 2 (5.41%) jQuery
10 2 (5.41%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Smart Meter
2 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.70%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Linux
1 9 (24.32%) Windows
2 5 (13.51%) Embedded Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Android
3 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Agile
2 12 (32.43%) DevOps
2 12 (32.43%) Scrum
3 11 (29.73%) Project Delivery
3 11 (29.73%) Test Automation
4 10 (27.03%) Software Engineering
5 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
5 8 (21.62%) Data Modelling
5 8 (21.62%) User Stories
6 7 (18.92%) Analytics
6 7 (18.92%) Manual Testing
7 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (16.22%) Computer Science
7 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (16.22%) ETL
7 6 (16.22%) OO
8 5 (13.51%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (13.51%) Data Protection
8 5 (13.51%) Data Science
8 5 (13.51%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) SQL
2 17 (45.95%) C#
3 9 (24.32%) Python
4 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.51%) C++
5 5 (13.51%) T-SQL
6 4 (10.81%) X++
7 3 (8.11%) Java
7 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) CCNP
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) GDPR
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.70%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (10.81%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Ansible
1 1 (2.70%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Ab Initio
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle
3 4 (10.81%) Informatica
3 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.41%) Adobe
4 2 (5.41%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) Nokia
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.70%) Remedy
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow