XCAP Contract Job Trends in England

XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring XCAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 - 551
Rank change year-on-year - - +147
Contract jobs citing XCAP 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% - 0.005%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.029% - 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £400 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

XCAP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,487 3,363 5,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.29% 12.98% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,275 1,961 3,187
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £356 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 101 384
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.48
25th Percentile £18.78 £20.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.44 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% -26.32% +137.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £71.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.44 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -9.42% -31.58% +137.50%

XCAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

XCAP job vacancy trend in England

XCAP
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XCAP

XCAP
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 XCAP within the England region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Midlands - 1 £400 -
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
XCAP
UK

XCAP
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) RTCP
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#