XML Contracts in the East of England

XML
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 45 102
Rank change year-on-year -30 +57 +10
Contract jobs citing XML 10 69 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.87% 3.62% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.38% 23.31% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 10
10th Percentile £441 £480 £420
25th Percentile £473 £488 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.56% -15.07%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £524
90th Percentile - £545 £539
England median daily rate £485 £520 £575
% change year-on-year -6.73% -9.57% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 36 4
10th Percentile - - £59.50
25th Percentile £31.25 - £66.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% -39.65% +32.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.79% -38.57% +43.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 186 296 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.27% 15.54% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 142 176
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £414 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £517
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -6.77% -1.17%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £695 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 65 15
10th Percentile £58.25 £41.20 -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -25.22% +6.98%
75th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.43 £66.25 £73.75
England median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for XML in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Hertfordshire -22 5 £550 - 22
Cambridgeshire - 3 £488 - 23
Bedfordshire -6 1 £425 -15.00% 12
Norfolk - 1 - - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (40.00%) Apache
1 4 (40.00%) IIS
1 4 (40.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Maximo
2 1 (10.00%) SAP MDG
2 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (10.00%) Akamai
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) BGP
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DMVPN
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) DWDM
1 1 (10.00%) GLBP
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (10.00%) IGRP
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) IPsec
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) MPLS
1 1 (10.00%) Multicast
1 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (10.00%) OSPF
1 1 (10.00%) SNMP
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (40.00%) DB2
3 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Hudson
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Maximo Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Junior
4 2 (20.00%) Junior Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Junior Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Support Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) IFS Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) IT Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Maximo Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) SOAP
1 5 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
4 1 (10.00%) EDI
4 1 (10.00%) IDoc
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) FMCG
1 1 (10.00%) Life Science
1 1 (10.00%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Workflow
3 4 (40.00%) CAFM
3 4 (40.00%) Facilities Management
3 4 (40.00%) ITSM
3 4 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (40.00%) Service Design
3 4 (40.00%) Service Management
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) System Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Data Repair
5 1 (10.00%) Due Diligence
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (10.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCDP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (10.00%) GxP
2 1 (10.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) IBM
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
3 2 (20.00%) Workday
4 1 (10.00%) Arista
4 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) IFS
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) Riverbed
4 1 (10.00%) Sybase
4 1 (10.00%) Zscaler