XML Contracts in Cardiff

XML
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring XML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XML over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 31 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +12
Contract jobs citing XML 2 2 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.23% 1.01% 6.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.67% 2.94% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £191 - £201
25th Percentile £227 - £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £210 £213
Median % change year-on-year +37.99% -1.18% -66.00%
75th Percentile £356 - £233
90th Percentile £394 - £237
South Wales median daily rate £290 £210 £240
% change year-on-year +37.99% -12.50% -61.60%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 30 68 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 18.40% 34.17% 37.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 58 92
10th Percentile £306 £379 £300
25th Percentile £339 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £490 £512
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% -4.34% +7.84%
75th Percentile £528 £548 £586
90th Percentile £587 £614 £650
South Wales median daily rate £419 £450 £544
% change year-on-year -6.94% -17.24% +3.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for XML in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Cardiff over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
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%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) SOLID
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) HL7
1 1 (50.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) RedGate