XML Contracts in the East Midlands

XML
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring XML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XML over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 62 66
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing XML 3 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.52% 0.65% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 3.79% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 17
10th Percentile £270 £218 -
25th Percentile £285 £263 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £314 £331 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -33.75% +2.56%
75th Percentile £339 £432 £625
90th Percentile £350 £555 -
England median daily rate £475 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -11.05% -2.91% +3.53%

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 114 132 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.62% 17.25% 22.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 89 213
10th Percentile £256 £263 £308
25th Percentile £312 £318 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £540
90th Percentile £537 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.70% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.67 £10.90 -
Median hourly rate £23.41 £23.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% - -
75th Percentile £25.16 £28.44 -
90th Percentile - £35.93 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for XML in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the East Midlands

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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 21 May 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £314 - 9
Derbyshire - 1 - - 1
XML
England

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) BASE24 Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) JDBC
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) APACS
1 1 (33.33%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Solace