Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (Jabber)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for XMPP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XMPP over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 700 804
Rank change year-on-year +123 +104 -136
Contract jobs citing XMPP 17 16 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.027% 0.057%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 39
10th Percentile £156 - £155
25th Percentile £203 £185 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £198 £225
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -12.22% -41.94%
75th Percentile £314 £239 £500
90th Percentile £375 £430 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £205 £190 £170
% change year-on-year +7.89% +11.76% -4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £13.87 - £33.15
25th Percentile £14.18 - -
Median hourly rate £14.48 - £36.00
75th Percentile £16.25 - -
90th Percentile £16.49 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.87 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XMPP 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 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 8,875 13,886 24,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 23.26% 27.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,163 10,138 17,667
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 153 241
10th Percentile £21.01 £31.60 £22.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.84 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.81% +30.61% +8.89%

XMPP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XMPP in the UK

XMPP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XMPP in the UK

XMPP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XMPP over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XMPP in the UK

XMPP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XMPP in the UK

XMPP
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XMPP within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +118 17 £205 +3.80% 2
London +113 10 £255 -26.09% 2
UK excluding London +59 6 £205 +7.89%
South East +17 4 £205 +7.89%
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
Work from Home +125 1 £400 -3.03% 3

XMPP
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (17.65%) OneDrive
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Stack
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) VPN
2 6 (35.29%) WebEx
3 4 (23.53%) VLAN
4 3 (17.65%) DHCP
4 3 (17.65%) DNS
4 3 (17.65%) LAN
4 3 (17.65%) WAN
4 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (11.76%) MGCP
5 2 (11.76%) SCCP
5 2 (11.76%) VoIP
6 1 (5.88%) Firewall
6 1 (5.88%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Desktop Support
2 3 (17.65%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 3 (17.65%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (17.65%) Deskside Support
2 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Hardware Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.88%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) BYOD
2 2 (11.76%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Handset
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 13 (76.47%) Windows 10
3 10 (58.82%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.88%) Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Customer Service
2 5 (29.41%) Customer Experience
3 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
3 4 (23.53%) User Experience
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
4 2 (11.76%) Proactive Maintenance
4 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) CCIE
2 1 (5.88%) CCIE Collaboration
2 1 (5.88%) CCNP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) AppManager
1 3 (17.65%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco UCCE
2 1 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Nessus
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) ServiceNow
2 6 (35.29%) Cisco
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Ivanti
3 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 1 (5.88%) Computacenter