XSD Contracts with Work from Home Options

XML Schema Definition (XSD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for XSD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XSD over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 446 602
Rank change year-on-year +102 +156 -131
Contract jobs citing XSD 3 20 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.080% 0.046%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.083% 0.32% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 12
10th Percentile - £393 £370
25th Percentile - £419 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £476
Median % change year-on-year - +10.24% +0.53%
75th Percentile - £600 £557
90th Percentile - - £595
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £531
% change year-on-year - +12.94% +11.84%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

XSD 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 WFH option and 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 3,628 6,337 13,017
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.12% 25.29% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,541 4,715 9,595
10th Percentile £335 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £640
90th Percentile £788 £750 £735
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 81 125
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.40
25th Percentile - £43.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

XSD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing XSD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

XSD trend for jobs with a WFH option

XSD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing XSD.

XSD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

XSD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (66.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
1 2 (66.67%) MariaDB
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Arabic Language
1 2 (66.67%) French Language
1 2 (66.67%) German Language
1 2 (66.67%) Japanese Language
1 2 (66.67%) Korean Language
1 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) TIBCO Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) TIBCO Support
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Support
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) TIBCO EMS
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) EAI
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Value Proposition
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) TIBCO