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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 47 104
Rank change year-on-year -31 +57 +6
Contract jobs citing XML 4 66 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% 3.46% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.68% 22.92% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile £456 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £519 £488 £523
90th Percentile - - £538
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 36 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - £43.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -40.69% +36.15%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.13 £43.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +39.84% -40.69% +52.63%

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 149 288 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.88% 15.09% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 148 165
10th Percentile £336 £325 £327
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £499 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -4.09% +4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £630
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 57 23
10th Percentile £65.00 - £21.00
25th Percentile £66.25 - £21.75
Median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.62% -33.85% +32.65%
75th Percentile £81.35 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.10 £66.25 £74.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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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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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 1 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
Essex +12 1 - - 6
Hertfordshire -25 1 - - 9
Norfolk - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £488 - 4
XML
England

XML
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Akamai
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DMVPN
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) DWDM
1 1 (25.00%) GLBP
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (25.00%) IGRP
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) SNMP
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) IFS Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ERP
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Repair
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCDP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) IFS
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Riverbed
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler