XML Contracts in the City of London

XML
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for XML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XML over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 102 117
Rank change year-on-year +12 +15 -16
Contract jobs citing XML 40 72 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.83% 2.02% 1.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.25% 7.19% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 39 68
10th Percentile £430 £337 £482
25th Percentile £463 £435 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% -11.58% +7.95%
75th Percentile £771 £636 £628
90th Percentile £775 £800 £697
Central London median daily rate £538 £525 £594
% change year-on-year +2.38% -11.58% +7.95%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

XML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 485 1,002 1,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.25% 28.06% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 652 1,044
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £506 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £820 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.94
Median hourly rate - - £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +255.71%
75th Percentile - - £69.94
90th Percentile - - £74.18
Central London median hourly rate - - £62.25
% change year-on-year - - +255.71%

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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 12 May 2024.

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 1 (2.50%) Confluence
1 1 (2.50%) MQSeries
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP CO
1 2 (5.00%) SAP FI
1 2 (5.00%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.50%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.50%) SAP HCM
2 1 (2.50%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.50%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (17.50%) Power Platform
5 6 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (15.00%) Power Automate
5 6 (15.00%) PowerApps
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (7.50%) Azure API Management
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.50%) GitHub
8 1 (2.50%) SaaS
8 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.50%) Power BI
3 2 (5.00%) Redis
4 1 (2.50%) DB2
4 1 (2.50%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.50%) MySQL
4 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.50%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) SpecFlow
3 2 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) Android Studio
4 1 (2.50%) Moq
4 1 (2.50%) MSTest
4 1 (2.50%) Selenium
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Financial Institution
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Banking
5 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Arabic Language
6 1 (2.50%) French Language
6 1 (2.50%) German Language
6 1 (2.50%) Japanese Language
6 1 (2.50%) Korean Language
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Spanish Language
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Developer
2 11 (27.50%) Senior
3 8 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Architect
4 6 (15.00%) Platform Architect
4 6 (15.00%) Power Platform Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Backend Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Systems Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
7 2 (5.00%) Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Data Modeller
7 2 (5.00%) SAP CO Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) SAP FI Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Backend Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (45.00%) JSON
2 9 (22.50%) .NET
2 9 (22.50%) CSS
2 9 (22.50%) HTML
3 7 (17.50%) REST
4 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (12.50%) .NET Core
6 4 (10.00%) jQuery
6 4 (10.00%) XML Schema
7 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
7 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
7 3 (7.50%) React
7 3 (7.50%) SOAP
7 3 (7.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (7.50%) XSD
8 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (5.00%) CSS3
8 2 (5.00%) HTML5
8 2 (5.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Contactless
2 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.50%) AS400
3 1 (2.50%) BYOD
3 1 (2.50%) CMDB
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.50%) DTCC
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.50%) iSeries
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Unix
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (37.50%) Agile
2 15 (37.50%) DevOps
3 8 (20.00%) Scrum
4 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (15.00%) B2C
5 6 (15.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (15.00%) XML Parsing
6 5 (12.50%) Front End Development
7 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (7.50%) Data Modelling
8 3 (7.50%) Data Transformation
8 3 (7.50%) Integration Patterns
8 3 (7.50%) Microservices
8 3 (7.50%) Migration
8 3 (7.50%) TDD
8 3 (7.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 14 (35.00%) C#
3 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.50%) Bicep
5 6 (15.00%) SQL
6 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.00%) ABAP
7 2 (5.00%) Java
8 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.50%) C++
8 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.50%) Perl
8 1 (2.50%) Python
8 1 (2.50%) RPG
8 1 (2.50%) SOQL
8 1 (2.50%) VBA
8 1 (2.50%) VC++
8 1 (2.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) CCNA
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.50%) ISEB
5 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) GAAP
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.50%) MiFID
3 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) Control-M
2 1 (2.50%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (2.50%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) SAP
3 2 (5.00%) Apple
3 2 (5.00%) IBM
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Solace
4 1 (2.50%) Workday