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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 47 37
Rank change year-on-year -13 -10 +1
Contract jobs citing XML 8 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.31% 1.04% 3.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.26% 7.04% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 7
10th Percentile £447 £320 £325
25th Percentile £454 £321 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £392 £580
Median % change year-on-year +55.20% -32.40% -8.02%
75th Percentile £734 £469 £586
90th Percentile £751 - £589
North West median daily rate £450 £463 £600
% change year-on-year -2.70% -22.92% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.00 - -
Median hourly rate £32.00 - -
75th Percentile £34.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £32.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - +21.38%

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 152 71 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.80% 14.73% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 58 47
10th Percentile £313 £311 £324
25th Percentile £350 £359 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £448 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% -18.64% +15.18%
75th Percentile £464 £507 £586
90th Percentile £560 £620 £615
North West median daily rate £447 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -10.60% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £34.00 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £51.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.00 - -
90th Percentile £66.40 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +4.09% +45.63% -34.03%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Cheshire over the 6 months to 10 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 10 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
Knutsford -17 4 £582 +81.15%
Chester - 2 £725 - 2
Crewe - 1 - -
XML
North West

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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 (25.00%) CICS
1 2 (25.00%) Mule
1 2 (25.00%) Mule ESB
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Anypoint
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) SOAtest
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) General Ledger
4 2 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Test Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Business Process Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Process Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Process Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Process Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) J2EE
1 4 (50.00%) JSON
1 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (25.00%) VSAM
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) API Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Process Management
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) COBOL
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) JCL
2 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (25.00%) REXX
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Ab Initio
2 2 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (25.00%) Informatica
2 2 (25.00%) Parasoft
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft