Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for XAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XAML over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 679 800
Rank change year-on-year +94 +121 -128
Contract jobs citing XAML 1 14 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.024% 0.056%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.008% 0.069% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 39
10th Percentile - £338 £485
25th Percentile - £541 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile - £650 -
90th Percentile - £688 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 £475
% change year-on-year - +26.32% +16.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

XAML is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,750 20,243 31,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.57% 34.85% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,074 14,597 23,243
10th Percentile £350 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 460 505
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.12 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £78.00 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £49.75
% change year-on-year +2.56% +22.49% +19.88%

XAML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XAML in the UK

XAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XAML in the UK

XAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XAML in the UK

XAML
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XAML within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Work from Home +117 1 - - 2
England +78 1 - - 6
UK excluding London +62 1 - - 5
East of England +4 1 - -

XAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# WPF Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PhD