XML Contracts in Cheshire

XML
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 48 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -6
Contract jobs citing XML 2 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.45% 1.98% 2.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.38% 19.61% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile - £321 £303
25th Percentile - £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +2.00% -12.66%
75th Percentile - £515 £586
90th Percentile - - £588
North West median daily rate £448 £534 £580
% change year-on-year -16.20% -7.85% +16.48%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 84 51 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.71% 10.12% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 40 90
10th Percentile £322 £288 £325
25th Percentile £358 £318 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -16.67% +32.52%
75th Percentile £537 £509 £575
90th Percentile £615 £575 £620
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £11.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +508.70% - -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in Cheshire

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for XML in Cheshire

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford -5 2 £447 +39.47%
XML
North West

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) CICS
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SOAtest
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) General Ledger
1 2 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Parasoft