XSD Contract Job Trends in Central London

XML Schema Definition (XSD)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring XSD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - +56
Contract jobs citing XSD 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.049% - 0.074%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% - 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £459
25th Percentile £414 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 - £570
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £441 - £629
90th Percentile - - £654
London median daily rate £428 £743 £670
% change year-on-year -42.42% +10.82% +11.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

XSD 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 455 580 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.44% 24.95% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 357 437
10th Percentile £361 £413 £403
25th Percentile £435 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £810
London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £44.38 £27.67 -
25th Percentile £47.19 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%

XSD
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XSD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

XSD job vacancy trend in Central London

XSD
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing XSD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing XSD

XSD
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing XSD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing XSD

XSD
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 XSD within the Central London region over the 6 months to 26 December 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 - 1 £428 -
XSD
London

XSD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft