XML Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

XML
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring XML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 66 57
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing XML 11 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.94% 0.39% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.86% 1.57% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £420 £270 £234
25th Percentile £438 £285 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £314 £351
Median % change year-on-year +67.20% -10.60% -29.75%
75th Percentile £575 £339 £432
90th Percentile - £350 £555
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -4.82% -3.49% -38.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 140 191 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.01% 24.77% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 160 98
10th Percentile £400 £256 £305
25th Percentile £425 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.30% -9.61% -2.28%
75th Percentile £584 £473 £550
90th Percentile £600 £537 £621
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £14.33 £20.39 £22.04
25th Percentile £15.52 £20.60 £22.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.96 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.29% -12.18% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £24.05 £28.75
90th Percentile £27.50 £24.71 £47.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

XML job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing XML

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing XML

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. 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
Leicestershire - 7 £438 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 3 £525 - 3
Derbyshire -5 1 £550 - 2
XML
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (36.36%) CMS
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
1 4 (36.36%) JMeter
2 2 (18.18%) Gatling
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Gradle
2 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Maven
2 2 (18.18%) Postman
2 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
2 2 (18.18%) TestNG
2 2 (18.18%) Zephyr
3 1 (9.09%) Hudson
3 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Content Coordinator
1 3 (27.27%) Coordinator
1 3 (27.27%) Web Content Coordinator
2 2 (18.18%) Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Functional Tester
3 1 (9.09%) IFS Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) IFS Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Tester
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Data Migration Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) HTML
1 3 (27.27%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) JSON
2 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
2 2 (18.18%) Playwright
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) SOAP
2 2 (18.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Validation
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) AI
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Experience
3 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Digital Customer Experience
3 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Optimization Problems
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) SEO
4 2 (18.18%) API Testing
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Data Reconciliation
4 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Observability
4 2 (18.18%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) ABAP
2 2 (18.18%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) IFS
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Sybase