XML Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

XML
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring XML skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 44 51
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +19
Contract jobs citing XML 4 24 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.67% 3.33% 2.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.35% 14.81% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 23 12
10th Percentile £421 £448 -
25th Percentile £434 £490 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £567 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% -5.50% +8.60%
75th Percentile £484 £625 £688
90th Percentile £494 £650 -
West Midlands median daily rate £430 £567 £600
% change year-on-year -24.16% -5.50% +21.21%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

XML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 92 162 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.33% 22.50% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 102 112
10th Percentile £350 £375 £319
25th Percentile £413 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £456
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +20.55% -15.12%
75th Percentile £617 £672 £639
90th Percentile £688 £749 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% -5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +214.29% -69.83%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in Birmingham

XML
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing XML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing XML

XML
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing XML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing XML

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Release Management
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Pega