XML Contract Job Trends in the East of England

XML
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring XML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 81 45
Rank change year-on-year -20 -36 +52
Contract jobs citing XML 9 5 69
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.41% 0.50% 3.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.95% 3.14% 23.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £416 £470 £480
25th Percentile £422 £491 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £456 £575 £538
90th Percentile £468 - £545
England median daily rate £525 £485 £535
% change year-on-year +8.25% -9.35% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 36
10th Percentile £30.92 - -
25th Percentile £32.56 - -
Median hourly rate £36.75 - £43.00
75th Percentile £40.23 - -
90th Percentile £41.44 - -
England median hourly rate £42.00 £57.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.12% +34.02% -38.57%

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 228 159 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.34% 15.81% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 106 149
10th Percentile £410 £325 £325
25th Percentile £461 £415 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £490 £498
Median % change year-on-year +9.69% -1.51% -4.33%
75th Percentile £613 £609 £575
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 56
10th Percentile £17.12 - -
25th Percentile £43.38 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +62.79% -21.82%
75th Percentile £73.46 £81.35 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.53 £81.95 £65.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

XML job vacancy trend in the East of England

XML
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing XML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing XML

XML
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing XML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing XML

XML
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 10 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
Hertfordshire -15 6 £450 -18.18% 2
Bedfordshire - 2 £438 -
Cambridgeshire +6 1 - - 3
XML
England

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) FrameMaker
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Newman
1 3 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Publishing
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Author
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Author
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SEO Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) JSON
1 3 (33.33%) Pandas
1 3 (33.33%) pytest
1 3 (33.33%) XML Schema
2 2 (22.22%) Great Expectations
2 2 (22.22%) SGML
2 2 (22.22%) XSD
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (22.22%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) API Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (33.33%) ETL
2 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 3 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Data Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Desktop Publishing
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 1 (11.11%) ERP
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) HNC
1 2 (22.22%) HND
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle