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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 58 62
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +18
Contract jobs citing XML 4 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.50% 0.88% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.94% 5.04% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £264 -
25th Percentile £260 £345 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £406 £500
Median % change year-on-year -33.54% -18.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £280 £500 -
90th Percentile - £569 -
England median daily rate £500 £510 £575
% change year-on-year -1.96% -11.30% -

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 206 139 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.81% 17.38% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 106 148
10th Percentile £268 £306 £313
25th Percentile £355 £329 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £448 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -5.79% -
75th Percentile £488 £550 £538
90th Percentile £573 £620 £650
England median daily rate £512 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -6.86% -0.90% -3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.39 - -
25th Percentile £20.60 - -
Median hourly rate £21.96 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +230.54%
75th Percentile £24.05 - -
90th Percentile £24.71 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% +5.59% -5.40%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for XML 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

XML
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 20 September 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
Derbyshire +1 2 - - 2
Northamptonshire -10 1 £270 -20.59%
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 4
XML
England

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (25.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Documentum
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AtomSphere
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Boomi
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Twin
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) OpenText
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Solace
2 1 (25.00%) Workday