XML Contracts in Wales

XML
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 45 34 55
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 -4
Contract jobs citing XML 2 29 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.50% 4.60% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.25% 16.96% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 19
10th Percentile - £202 £413
25th Percentile - £218 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £494 £638
90th Percentile - £669 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +9.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 Wales 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 89 171 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 22.19% 27.10% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 133 143
10th Percentile £293 £313 £400
25th Percentile £381 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +22.45%
75th Percentile £531 £586 £629
90th Percentile £589 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £15.38 - -
25th Percentile £15.66 - -
Median hourly rate £18.14 - £20.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.55%
75th Percentile £21.29 - -
90th Percentile £22.77 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for XML in Wales

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for XML in Wales

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in Wales

XML
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Wales 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
South Wales -11 2 £210 -53.33% 5
XML
UK

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) tSQLt
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior SQL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) NHS
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Health Informatics
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Informatics
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) RedGate