XML Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

XML
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring XML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing XML 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.83% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £523 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 - -
75th Percentile £673 - -
90th Percentile £704 - -
East of England median daily rate £581 - £413
% change year-on-year - - -28.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.83 - -
Median hourly rate £32.00 - -
75th Percentile £34.17 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 54 73 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 14.96% 23.10% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 46 41
10th Percentile £363 £336 £350
25th Percentile £403 £358 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £440 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £518 £613
90th Percentile £651 £575 £719
East of England median daily rate £513 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +13.89% -10.00% -8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £32.11 - £32.81
25th Percentile £35.54 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £49.80 - £66.75
90th Percentile £53.43 - £83.70
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year - +17.12% -15.27%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

XML job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing XML

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Cambridgeshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing XML

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 24 January 2026. 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
Cambridge - 2 £606 - 1
Peterborough - 1 - - 2
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East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) ChatGPT
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Hudson
General
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) IFS Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) SEO Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Repair
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) SEO
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) IFS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase
1 1 (33.33%) Virgin Media
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