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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 57 62
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing XML 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.35% 0.55% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 3.13% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £346 -
25th Percentile £260 £356 -
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 - - -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%

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 210 128 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.59% 17.53% 18.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 98 128
10th Percentile £269 £309 £300
25th Percentile £359 £340 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £442 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -9.33% +2.63%
75th Percentile £500 £510 £569
90th Percentile £625 £577 £650
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £21.21 - £27.86
25th Percentile £22.64 - £38.41
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +184.77%
75th Percentile £25.13 - £60.50
90th Percentile £25.14 - £63.20
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +17.12% -14.62%

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

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

XML
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 1 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
Derbyshire +1 1 - - 3
Northamptonshire -11 1 £270 -20.59%
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 4
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 1 (33.33%) Alfresco
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Documentum
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AtomSphere
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) JDBC
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Twin
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) PLM
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) OpenText
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Solace
2 1 (33.33%) Workday