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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 58 64
Rank change year-on-year -19 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing XML 8 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.72% 0.47% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.52% 2.07% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £417 £270 £223
25th Percentile £428 £285 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £314 £363
Median % change year-on-year +50.08% -13.38% -27.50%
75th Percentile £528 £339 £501
90th Percentile £549 £350 £583
England median daily rate £525 £475 £534
% change year-on-year +10.53% -11.05% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
England median hourly rate £46.80 £27.76 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.59% -35.44% -39.65%

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 145 145 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.04% 22.62% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 124 92
10th Percentile £393 £257 £233
25th Percentile £412 £315 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £396 £425
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -6.94% -4.23%
75th Percentile £575 £478 £568
90th Percentile £600 £535 £625
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £15.18 - -
25th Percentile £17.65 £21.67 £10.90
Median hourly rate £22.24 £23.41 £21.73
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +7.73% -
75th Percentile £26.35 £25.16 £27.50
90th Percentile £28.54 - £35.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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

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 6 June 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 - 5 £418 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 3 £525 - 1
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 (50.00%) CMS
2 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) FrameMaker
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) Gatling
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Gradle
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) Postman
2 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (25.00%) TestNG
3 1 (12.50%) Hudson
3 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
3 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Content Coordinator
1 3 (37.50%) Coordinator
1 3 (37.50%) Web Content Coordinator
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) IFS Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) IFS Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) Swagger
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) AI
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Experience
1 3 (37.50%) Digital Customer Experience
1 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
1 3 (37.50%) Optimization Problems
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) SEO
1 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) API Testing
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) Observability
2 2 (25.00%) OOP
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe
1 1 (12.50%) IFS
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) SAP
1 1 (12.50%) Sybase