XML Contracts in Chester

XML
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing XML 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 2.70% - 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.76% - 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £688 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £763 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £608 £392 £580
% change year-on-year +55.20% -32.40% -8.02%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 17 6 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 22.97% 11.11% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 11
10th Percentile £563 £391 £375
25th Percentile £609 £552 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £577 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.68% +9.90% +35.48%
75th Percentile £734 £610 £581
90th Percentile £750 £687 £588
Cheshire median daily rate £384 £448 £550
% change year-on-year -14.19% -18.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £51.00 - -

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in Chester

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for XML in Chester

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in Chester

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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%) Mule
1 2 (100.00%) Mule ESB
2 1 (50.00%) Anypoint
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft