XML Contracts in the City of London

XML
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 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 103 89 102
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +15
Contract jobs citing XML 16 38 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 1.73% 2.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.34% 7.92% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 37
10th Percentile £373 £430 £331
25th Percentile £434 £463 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £571 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +8.81% -11.58%
75th Percentile £659 £743 £638
90th Percentile £730 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £513 £553 £525
% change year-on-year -7.24% +5.24% -12.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 479 480 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.28% 21.85% 28.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 343 676
10th Percentile £413 £401 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £551 £625
% change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for XML in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (18.75%) Confluence
2 2 (12.50%) Anypoint
3 1 (6.25%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (6.25%) Mule
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) BASE24
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Apple Pay
3 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) ATM
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Data Mart
3 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.25%) Crucible
General
1 6 (37.50%) Banking
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Back Office
4 1 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Front Office
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Data Migration Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Migration Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) MuleSoft Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Payments Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Business Solution Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Scientist
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Middle Office Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB DBA
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) JSON
2 4 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) SOAP
3 3 (18.75%) Web Services
4 2 (12.50%) .NET
4 2 (12.50%) FpML
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) RAML
4 2 (12.50%) XSLT
5 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.25%) CSS
5 1 (6.25%) EDI
5 1 (6.25%) Kafka
5 1 (6.25%) Middleware
5 1 (6.25%) MUnit
5 1 (6.25%) Murex MxML
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js
5 1 (6.25%) OAuth
5 1 (6.25%) Plotly
5 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (6.25%) CMDB
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Equities
2 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) API Management
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
3 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 2 (12.50%) API Design
4 2 (12.50%) API Development
4 2 (12.50%) API Integration
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) ITSM
4 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Work Breakdown Structure
4 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Bicep
5 1 (6.25%) C
5 1 (6.25%) C++
5 1 (6.25%) COBOL
5 1 (6.25%) DataWeave
5 1 (6.25%) Groovy
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SEPA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 8583
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
2 1 (6.25%) PSD2
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) CloudHub
2 1 (6.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) MuleSoft
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Murex
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) TIBCO