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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 85 105
Rank change year-on-year -18 +20 +9
Contract jobs citing XML 13 43 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.75% 1.98% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 8.45% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 39
10th Percentile £365 £448 £425
25th Percentile £392 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -10.42% +2.56%
75th Percentile £644 £775 £669
90th Percentile £708 - £832
Central London median daily rate £475 £525 £598
% change year-on-year -9.52% -12.13% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 - -

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 449 509 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.01% 23.46% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 353 589
10th Percentile £404 £401 £425
25th Percentile £449 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -9.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £763 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £625
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £69.47 - £53.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.58%

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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 22 June 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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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the City of London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
London Bridge - 1 - - 1
XML
Central 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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Anypoint
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Data Mart
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
2 2 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (7.69%) Crucible
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Back Office
5 1 (7.69%) Front Office
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Business Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Architect
4 1 (7.69%) DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) MongoDB DBA
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) JSON
2 4 (30.77%) REST
3 2 (15.38%) FpML
3 2 (15.38%) SOAP
3 2 (15.38%) Web Services
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) jQuery
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) Middleware
4 1 (7.69%) MUnit
4 1 (7.69%) Murex MxML
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) RAML
4 1 (7.69%) React
4 1 (7.69%) WSDL
4 1 (7.69%) XSD
4 1 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Derivative
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Equities
3 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.69%) PACS
3 1 (7.69%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) API Development
4 2 (15.38%) API Integration
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Work Breakdown Structure
4 2 (15.38%) Workflow
5 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
5 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (7.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SEPA
2 1 (7.69%) ISO 20022
2 1 (7.69%) ISO 9001
2 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) CloudHub
1 1 (7.69%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Bloomberg
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.69%) Murex
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) TIBCO