XAML Contract Job Trends in England

Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring XAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 - 525
Rank change year-on-year - - +55
Contract jobs citing XAML 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.011% - 0.009%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.041% - 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £825
Median % change year-on-year - - +78.38%
75th Percentile - - £838
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £825
% change year-on-year -9.09% -33.33% +73.68%

All Programming Languages
England

XAML falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,101 9,227 10,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.99% 33.02% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,837 6,209 7,054
10th Percentile £363 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 262 300
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £48.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +1.56%
75th Percentile £70.75 £67.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.13 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.59%

XAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

XAML job vacancy trend in England

XAML
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XAML

XAML
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XAML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XAML

XAML
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XAML within the England region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
East of England - 4 - - 4
London - 1 £500 - 1
XAML
UK

XAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
2 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (80.00%) C# Developer
2 4 (80.00%) C# WPF Developer
2 4 (80.00%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 5 (100.00%) WPF
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (80.00%) Entity Framework
2 4 (80.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 4 (80.00%) Silverlight
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Change Control
2 4 (80.00%) Code Quality
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Dependency Injection
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (80.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (80.00%) MVVM
2 4 (80.00%) Physics
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) UML
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (80.00%) PhD