XML Contracts in the Thames Valley

XML
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 118 133
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 -20
Contract jobs citing XML 16 32 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 1.10% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.65% 6.39% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 21
10th Percentile £200 £427 £215
25th Percentile £413 £481 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £650
90th Percentile £623 £600 -
South East median daily rate £450 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +2.00% +11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% +42.86% -10.03%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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 344 501 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.89% 17.29% 17.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 361 442
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £616 £625 £588
90th Percentile £673 £694 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 5
10th Percentile £56.58 £52.90 £30.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +63.75%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £62.00 £80.48 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £64.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -4.50% +39.46% -3.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for XML in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Berkshire -26 12 £500 -4.76% 6
Buckinghamshire +30 4 £431 - 1
XML
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (43.75%) Azure Functions
3 7 (43.75%) Serverless
4 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (18.75%) Azure API Management
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 1 (6.25%) PaaS
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) BGP
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (6.25%) IOS XR
1 1 (6.25%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (25.00%) Power BI
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.25%) MySQL
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (18.75%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (6.25%) Android Studio
4 1 (6.25%) Appium
4 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) JMeter
4 1 (6.25%) JUnit
4 1 (6.25%) Postman
4 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
4 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
4 1 (6.25%) TestNG
4 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
4 1 (6.25%) Xcode
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Applications Support
4 2 (12.50%) Automation Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Integration Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Tester
5 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Design Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) JSON
2 4 (25.00%) .NET
2 4 (25.00%) HTML
2 4 (25.00%) REST
3 3 (18.75%) ARM Templates
3 3 (18.75%) OAuth
3 3 (18.75%) OpenID
3 3 (18.75%) SOAP
4 2 (12.50%) CSS
4 2 (12.50%) jQuery
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.25%) Ajax
5 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.25%) NETCONF
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js
5 1 (6.25%) NumPy
5 1 (6.25%) Pandas
5 1 (6.25%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) Spring
5 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 4 (25.00%) Smart Meter
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Unix
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Analytics
2 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
2 5 (31.25%) Data Science
2 5 (31.25%) ETL
2 5 (31.25%) User Stories
3 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 4 (25.00%) ETL Development
3 4 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) B2C
4 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
4 3 (18.75%) OO
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 3 (18.75%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Ab Initio
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Nokia
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) Remedy
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow