XML Contracts in Edinburgh

XML
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 57 63 105
Rank change year-on-year +6 +42 -3
Contract jobs citing XML 10 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.60% 1.10% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.99% 4.95% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £448 £461 £451
25th Percentile £470 £478 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -4.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £581
90th Percentile £720 £584 £593
Scotland median daily rate £494 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -17.67% +23.08% +1.30%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 143 182 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.88% 22.33% 29.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 121 319
10th Percentile £400 £363 £406
25th Percentile £417 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -1.54% -2.50%
75th Percentile £529 £619 £538
90th Percentile £600 £700 £613
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for XML in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for XML in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for XML in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (20.00%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
1 1 (10.00%) MSTest
1 1 (10.00%) NUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Postman
1 1 (10.00%) Ranorex
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
1 6 (60.00%) ServiceNow Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Migration Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) JSON
2 7 (70.00%) CSS
2 7 (70.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) Playwright
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) CMDB
2 2 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Service Delivery
3 6 (60.00%) Coaching
4 4 (40.00%) ITSM
5 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
6 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (20.00%) Project Management
6 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Exploratory Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 1 (10.00%) SDLC
7 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (20.00%) GRC
1 2 (20.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) ServiceNow