XML Contracts in the UK excluding London

XML
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 211 179
Rank change year-on-year +39 -32 -46
Contract jobs citing XML 248 264 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.16% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.46% 6.39% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 170 291
10th Percentile £363 £350 £354
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +9.47% +11.76%
75th Percentile £617 £625 £575
90th Percentile £648 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% +1.85% +10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 12 16
10th Percentile - £63.25 £37.42
25th Percentile - £70.00 £42.18
Median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.69% +52.63% -18.10%
75th Percentile £51.25 £75.00 £62.29
90th Percentile £85.00 - £71.27
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.69% +52.63% -21.30%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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 3,323 4,131 6,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.12% 19.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,175 3,067 4,314
10th Percentile £325 £350 £360
25th Percentile £406 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.73%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £692 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 89 137
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.22 £19.95
25th Percentile £43.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.47 £65.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.36% +19.82% +20.56%
75th Percentile £67.56 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £79.19 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -25.49% +23.81% +16.67%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing XML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
East of England +58 69 £500 +3.90% 17
North of England +4 60 £534 -8.87% 23
South West +32 47 £550 +15.79% 16
North West +11 39 £528 -9.35% 17
South East -26 33 £431 -17.86% 37
Yorkshire +6 21 £625 +8.70% 5
Midlands -1 21 £600 +20.00% 22
Scotland +36 17 £481 -3.75% 3
West Midlands +8 17 £600 +52.77% 16
North East +7 4 £431 -40.55% 1
East Midlands -3 4 £363 -27.50% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
Wales +1 2 £210 -8.70% 5
XML
UK

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 19 (7.66%) Confluence
2 10 (4.03%) Apache
3 5 (2.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.81%) JBoss
5 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.81%) WildFly
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 18 (7.26%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.84%) Acrobat
3 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.23%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.61%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.61%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.61%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.81%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.81%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 41 (16.53%) Azure
2 24 (9.68%) AWS
3 22 (8.87%) Serverless
4 18 (7.26%) Power Platform
5 14 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.24%) GCP
7 12 (4.84%) GitHub
8 10 (4.03%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.63%) Kong
10 8 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (3.23%) Boomi
10 8 (3.23%) Power Automate
11 6 (2.42%) Apigee
11 6 (2.42%) Azure Functions
11 6 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.42%) Azure Stack
11 6 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.42%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.26%) HTTP
2 17 (6.85%) TCP/IP
3 12 (4.84%) DNS
4 11 (4.44%) Firewall
5 9 (3.63%) VPN
6 6 (2.42%) Kerberos
7 5 (2.02%) FTP
8 3 (1.21%) BIG-IP
8 3 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (1.21%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.21%) SSL
9 2 (0.81%) AMQP
9 2 (0.81%) LAN
9 2 (0.81%) MQTT
9 2 (0.81%) WAN
10 1 (0.40%) 4G
10 1 (0.40%) DMZ
10 1 (0.40%) SIGTRAN
10 1 (0.40%) SS7
10 1 (0.40%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.85%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.05%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.65%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (5.65%) RDBMS
5 13 (5.24%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.84%) MySQL
6 12 (4.84%) NoSQL
7 10 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.03%) SQLite
8 9 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.63%) Power BI
9 6 (2.42%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (2.02%) Big Data
10 5 (2.02%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 34 (13.71%) Git
2 27 (10.89%) JIRA
3 20 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.44%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (3.63%) CircleCI
6 9 (3.63%) GitLab
6 9 (3.63%) Travis CI
7 8 (3.23%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.82%) JUnit
9 5 (2.02%) Checkstyle
9 5 (2.02%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.61%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.61%) JMeter
10 4 (1.61%) SoapUI
10 4 (1.61%) Subversion
11 3 (1.21%) Mockito
11 3 (1.21%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.21%) Selenium
12 2 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
General
1 67 (27.02%) Publishing
2 43 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 19 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.65%) Telecoms
5 12 (4.84%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.84%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.44%) Finance
7 9 (3.63%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.23%) Banking
9 6 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.02%) Marketing
11 4 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.61%) Retail
12 3 (1.21%) Billing
12 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Electronics
14 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.40%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 89 (35.89%) Author
1 89 (35.89%) Technical Author
2 48 (19.35%) Developer
3 28 (11.29%) Architect
4 13 (5.24%) Analyst
4 13 (5.24%) Senior
4 13 (5.24%) Software Engineer
5 11 (4.44%) DBA
5 11 (4.44%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 10 (4.03%) Data Engineer
7 8 (3.23%) Data Architect
8 6 (2.42%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (2.42%) Business Analyst
8 6 (2.42%) Consultant
8 6 (2.42%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 6 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.42%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.02%) Power Platform Developer
9 5 (2.02%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (2.02%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (30.65%) SGML
2 75 (30.24%) JSON
3 33 (13.31%) HTML
4 24 (9.68%) REST
4 24 (9.68%) Web Services
5 20 (8.06%) .NET
5 20 (8.06%) SOAP
6 19 (7.66%) RESTful
7 18 (7.26%) CSS
8 15 (6.05%) .NET Framework
9 13 (5.24%) Kafka
9 13 (5.24%) XSLT
10 9 (3.63%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (3.63%) YAML
11 7 (2.82%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.82%) LDAP
11 7 (2.82%) OpenID
12 6 (2.42%) jQuery
12 6 (2.42%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.66%) Data Structures
2 16 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.84%) Animation
4 8 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.42%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.42%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.42%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.02%) Smart Meter
6 5 (2.02%) Verilog
6 5 (2.02%) VHDL
7 3 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.21%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.81%) CMDB
8 2 (0.81%) IoT
8 2 (0.81%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.81%) NHS
8 2 (0.81%) PKI
8 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.40%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.40%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.45%) Linux
1 16 (6.45%) Unix
1 16 (6.45%) Windows
2 10 (4.03%) Android
3 5 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.61%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.81%) zOS
6 1 (0.40%) AIX
6 1 (0.40%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (34.68%) Agile
2 64 (25.81%) Desktop Publishing
3 50 (20.16%) DevOps
4 34 (13.71%) Scrum
5 29 (11.69%) Data Management
6 27 (10.89%) Test Automation
7 26 (10.48%) CI/CD
8 25 (10.08%) CAD
9 24 (9.68%) Software Engineering
10 21 (8.47%) Data Modelling
11 20 (8.06%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (7.66%) OO
13 18 (7.26%) Data Protection
14 17 (6.85%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (6.05%) Analytics
15 15 (6.05%) Containerisation
15 15 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
16 14 (5.65%) Data Mapping
16 14 (5.65%) ETL
16 14 (5.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (18.95%) SQL
2 43 (17.34%) JavaScript
3 34 (13.71%) Python
4 31 (12.50%) C#
4 31 (12.50%) Java
5 14 (5.65%) C
6 13 (5.24%) C++
7 12 (4.84%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.63%) Bash
9 6 (2.42%) Go
9 6 (2.42%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.02%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.02%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.02%) X++
11 4 (1.61%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.21%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.21%) SOQL
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 67 (27.02%) HND
2 64 (25.81%) HNC
3 29 (11.69%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.45%) Degree
5 12 (4.84%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.85%) QA
2 12 (4.84%) Def Stans
3 6 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.42%) GDPR
4 3 (1.21%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) HL7
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
6 1 (0.40%) PMO
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (6.85%) Docker
2 7 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.61%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.40%) ACF2
4 1 (0.40%) IAG
4 1 (0.40%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (4.03%) Grafana
1 10 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.63%) Ansible
2 9 (3.63%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (3.63%) Kibana
2 9 (3.63%) logstash
2 9 (3.63%) Progress Chef
2 9 (3.63%) Prometheus
2 9 (3.63%) Puppet
2 9 (3.63%) Terraform
3 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.40%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 36 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.50%) Oracle
3 18 (7.26%) Adobe
4 13 (5.24%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.84%) SAP
6 9 (3.63%) Informatica
6 9 (3.63%) Splunk
7 6 (2.42%) Cadence
7 6 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.42%) Talend
8 5 (2.02%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.61%) FIS
10 3 (1.21%) F5
10 3 (1.21%) Google
11 2 (0.81%) Ariba
11 2 (0.81%) IBM
11 2 (0.81%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.40%) Remedy
12 1 (0.40%) Software AG
12 1 (0.40%) TIBCO