XML Contract Job Trends in East London

XML
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring XML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 14 34
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -4
Contract jobs citing XML 4 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in East London 3.64% 9.56% 2.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% 32.50% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 7
10th Percentile £526 - £534
25th Percentile £535 - £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £400 £561
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -28.67% -3.32%
75th Percentile - - £925
90th Percentile - £487 -
London median daily rate £528 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +0.48% -8.70% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 24 40 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 21.82% 29.41% 19.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 48
10th Percentile £411 £300 £450
25th Percentile £450 £400 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £425 £533
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -20.19% +10.36%
75th Percentile - £541 £650
90th Percentile £616 £601 £816
London median daily rate £540 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £55.75 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - -
Median hourly rate £58.75 - -
75th Percentile £60.63 - -
90th Percentile £61.75 - -
London median hourly rate £52.72 £49.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.51% -17.50% -7.69%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

XML job vacancy trend in East London

XML
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing XML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing XML

XML
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing XML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing XML

XML
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Tower Hamlets +3 4 £540 +9.09%
XML
London

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Gradle
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (25.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Backend Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (75.00%) JPA
2 3 (75.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Sass
4 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (25.00%) JMS
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Process Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle