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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 49 59
Rank change year-on-year -28 +10 +15
Contract jobs citing XML 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.59% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.92% 1.11% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £488 - £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £358 £300
Median % change year-on-year +46.65% +19.33% -47.41%
75th Percentile £563 - £313
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% -1.82%

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 153 90 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.12% 16.73% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 71 68
10th Percentile £360 £311 £239
25th Percentile £402 £350 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £409
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +8.62% -3.82%
75th Percentile £550 £510 £525
90th Percentile £625 £550 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £15.84 - -
25th Percentile £19.29 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £23.64
75th Percentile £25.13 - £29.88
90th Percentile £25.14 - £53.73
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%

XML
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

XML
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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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 9 March 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
Nottinghamshire - 3 £525 -
Leicestershire - 2 - - 3
XML
England

XML
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 2 (33.33%) CMS
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Gatling
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Gradle
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
1 2 (33.33%) Postman
1 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 2 (33.33%) TestNG
2 1 (16.67%) Hudson
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Content Coordinator
1 2 (33.33%) Coordinator
1 2 (33.33%) Web Content Coordinator
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) IFS Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) IFS Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Support Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (33.33%) Playwright
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Swagger
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) API Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Customer Experience
2 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) OOP
2 2 (33.33%) Optimization Problems
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) SEO
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IFS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Sybase