XML Contracts in Central London

XML
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 86 118
Rank change year-on-year -31 +32 +6
Contract jobs citing XML 15 47 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.73% 2.03% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.01% 8.41% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 36
10th Percentile £314 £439 £450
25th Percentile £365 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £506 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% -15.63% +9.09%
75th Percentile £634 £556 £800
90th Percentile £674 £643 £866
London median daily rate £525 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +3.70% -15.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £87.50 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +77.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 498 559 905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.22% 24.16% 25.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 377 583
10th Percentile £383 £425 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £750 £838 £836
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £52.83 - -
25th Percentile £55.99 £25.40 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £25.79 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +142.34% -51.34% +11.58%
75th Percentile £76.25 £26.19 -
90th Percentile £83.75 - -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -44.03% +21.82%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for XML in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Central London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. 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
City of London -34 15 £434 -17.29% 5
Southwark - 1 - -
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) dbt
3 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (13.33%) DataStage
3 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.67%) Crucible
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 8 (53.33%) Banking
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Back Office
5 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (6.67%) Front Office
7 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Business Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Payments Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) ADO
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) FpML
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) jQuery
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) WSDL
3 1 (6.67%) XSD
3 1 (6.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (6.67%) Derivative
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Equities
2 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) PACS
2 1 (6.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Migration
3 6 (40.00%) Data Migration
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) ETL
6 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
7 2 (13.33%) Data Strategy
7 2 (13.33%) DevOps
7 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
7 2 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
7 2 (13.33%) Matrix Management
7 2 (13.33%) Matrix Organization
7 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
7 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (6.67%) Design Patterns
8 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Groovy
5 1 (6.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) SEPA
3 1 (6.67%) ISO 20022
3 1 (6.67%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow