XML Contract Job Trends in England

XML
UK > England

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

 6 months to
11 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 249 166
Rank change year-on-year -69 -83 +24
Contract jobs citing XML 333 287 554
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 1.06% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.89% 4.75% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 207 293
10th Percentile £339 £375 £375
25th Percentile £403 £435 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -4.88% -10.87%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £619
90th Percentile £715 £627 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £485 £510
% change year-on-year +8.25% -4.90% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 68
10th Percentile £29.07 £25.85 -
25th Percentile £29.92 £30.00 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -12.79% -38.57%
75th Percentile £44.90 £63.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £59.50 £89.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +5.33% -12.79% -38.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,564 6,037 7,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.02% 22.27% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,648 4,147 5,498
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £428 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £777 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 139 263
10th Percentile £30.30 £31.15 £23.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £48.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +16.07% +0.67% -14.42%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

XML job vacancy trend in England

XML
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XML

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for XML in England

XML
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XML

XML
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing XML in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for XML in England

XML
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 XML within the England region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
London -42 165 £550 +1.40% 33
South East -54 55 £500 +5.26% 19
North of England -75 47 £391 -13.06% 8
North West -55 38 £390 -13.33% 7
Midlands -45 30 £425 -1.16% 11
West Midlands -57 22 £425 -15.00% 6
South West -31 14 £550 +46.67% 9
East of England -26 11 £450 -18.18% 4
Yorkshire -47 9 £463 -11.90%
East Midlands -15 8 £471 +50.08% 5
XML
UK

XML
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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (6.31%) Confluence
2 12 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.70%) Oracle Workflow
4 8 (2.40%) IIS
4 8 (2.40%) Mule
5 7 (2.10%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.50%) CMS
7 4 (1.20%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.90%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.60%) Appian
9 2 (0.60%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.60%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.30%) Apache
10 1 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.30%) CICS
10 1 (0.30%) JBoss
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (9.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.10%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.60%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 12 (3.60%) Oracle EBS
1 12 (3.60%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (3.00%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (2.10%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.80%) Maximo
4 6 (1.80%) Oracle Assets
4 6 (1.80%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (1.80%) Summit
5 5 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.50%) Oracle FAH
5 5 (1.50%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (1.20%) Elite 3E
6 4 (1.20%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (1.20%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 4 (1.20%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (1.20%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 4 (1.20%) Oracle iProcurement
6 4 (1.20%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (20.72%) Azure
2 31 (9.31%) AWS
3 30 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (6.61%) Boomi
5 18 (5.41%) GitHub
6 14 (4.20%) Power Platform
6 14 (4.20%) SaaS
7 13 (3.90%) GCP
7 13 (3.90%) Serverless
8 12 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (3.00%) AtomSphere
10 9 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.40%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.10%) OCI
13 6 (1.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.70%) HTTP
2 8 (2.40%) FTP
3 4 (1.20%) 3GPP
3 4 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.90%) Network Security
4 3 (0.90%) SSL
5 2 (0.60%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.60%) Internet
5 2 (0.60%) Intranet
5 2 (0.60%) RTCP
5 2 (0.60%) RTP
5 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.60%) WAN
5 2 (0.60%) Wireless
5 2 (0.60%) XCAP
6 1 (0.30%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.30%) DNS
6 1 (0.30%) NAS
6 1 (0.30%) SAN
6 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 32 (9.61%) Relational Database
3 20 (6.01%) RDBMS
4 18 (5.41%) Oracle Database
5 15 (4.50%) NoSQL
6 14 (4.20%) MongoDB
6 14 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (3.90%) Metadata
8 11 (3.30%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (3.30%) Power BI
9 10 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (2.70%) MySQL
10 9 (2.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 8 (2.40%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.80%) DataStage
13 5 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 3 (0.90%) Db2
Development Applications
1 32 (9.61%) Git
2 30 (9.01%) JIRA
3 29 (8.71%) Postman
4 9 (2.70%) GitLab
4 9 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.70%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (2.40%) Maven
5 8 (2.40%) SoapUI
5 8 (2.40%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (2.40%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.80%) JDeveloper
6 6 (1.80%) JMeter
6 6 (1.80%) Selenium
7 5 (1.50%) Eclipse
7 5 (1.50%) Gradle
7 5 (1.50%) JUnit
8 4 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.20%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.20%) TeamCity
General
1 114 (34.23%) Social Skills
2 73 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (20.72%) Finance
4 30 (9.01%) Banking
5 26 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.00%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.70%) Legal
9 7 (2.10%) General Ledger
9 7 (2.10%) Retail
10 6 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.80%) Military
10 6 (1.80%) Publishing
11 5 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.50%) Marketing
12 4 (1.20%) Advertising
13 3 (0.90%) Front Office
13 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 95 (28.53%) Developer
2 50 (15.02%) Consultant
3 40 (12.01%) Analyst
4 30 (9.01%) Implementation Consultant
5 29 (8.71%) Senior
6 25 (7.51%) Business Analyst
7 22 (6.61%) Data Engineer
8 21 (6.31%) Architect
9 15 (4.50%) Senior Developer
10 13 (3.90%) Payroll Consultant
11 12 (3.60%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.30%) Lead
13 10 (3.00%) Oracle Developer
14 9 (2.70%) Applications Developer
14 9 (2.70%) C# Developer
14 9 (2.70%) Integration Architect
14 9 (2.70%) Technical Consultant
15 8 (2.40%) Integration Engineer
15 8 (2.40%) Integration Specialist
15 8 (2.40%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (48.95%) JSON
2 104 (31.23%) REST
3 93 (27.93%) SOAP
4 47 (14.11%) Web Services
5 43 (12.91%) .NET
6 37 (11.11%) Middleware
7 34 (10.21%) XSLT
8 23 (6.91%) OAuth
9 22 (6.61%) HTML
10 20 (6.01%) Kafka
11 18 (5.41%) CSS
12 16 (4.80%) RESTful
13 15 (4.50%) EDI
13 15 (4.50%) JWT
14 14 (4.20%) OAuth2
14 14 (4.20%) Swagger
15 12 (3.60%) .NET Framework
16 10 (3.00%) AngularJS
16 10 (3.00%) ASP.NET
17 9 (2.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.50%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.00%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (2.10%) Credit Risk
4 7 (2.10%) Derivative
4 7 (2.10%) Fixed Income
4 7 (2.10%) Market Risk
5 6 (1.80%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (1.80%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.80%) CMDB
5 6 (1.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.50%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.50%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.50%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.50%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.20%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.21%) Unix
2 19 (5.71%) Linux
3 9 (2.70%) Windows
4 3 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.60%) VMS
5 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (26.13%) Agile
3 67 (20.12%) DevOps
4 60 (18.02%) CI/CD
5 56 (16.82%) Workflow
6 49 (14.71%) Validation
7 44 (13.21%) Migration
8 40 (12.01%) Data Modelling
9 39 (11.71%) Integration Patterns
10 35 (10.51%) User Acceptance Testing
11 31 (9.31%) Data Mapping
12 29 (8.71%) ERP
12 29 (8.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 28 (8.41%) Scrum
14 27 (8.11%) ETL
14 27 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 26 (7.81%) Software Engineering
16 24 (7.21%) AI
17 23 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
18 22 (6.61%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 157 (47.15%) SQL
2 49 (14.71%) Java
3 47 (14.11%) JavaScript
3 47 (14.11%) Python
4 42 (12.61%) C#
5 39 (11.71%) T-SQL
6 28 (8.41%) PL/SQL
7 15 (4.50%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.20%) C++
9 11 (3.30%) Groovy
10 10 (3.00%) VB.NET
11 9 (2.70%) VB
11 9 (2.70%) VB6
12 8 (2.40%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.40%) VBA
13 6 (1.80%) Bicep
13 6 (1.80%) XPath
14 4 (1.20%) C
15 3 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.90%) R
Qualifications
1 78 (23.42%) Security Cleared
2 58 (17.42%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.11%) Degree
4 9 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.50%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.20%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.60%) CISSP
8 2 (0.60%) GIAC
8 2 (0.60%) HNC
8 2 (0.60%) HND
8 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.60%) SSCP
9 1 (0.30%) CISM
9 1 (0.30%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.21%) QA
2 19 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.40%) GDPR
4 6 (1.80%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.80%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.50%) HL7
6 4 (1.20%) WCAG
7 3 (0.90%) FATCA
7 3 (0.90%) GRC
7 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.90%) PSD2
7 3 (0.90%) SLA
8 2 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.30%) COREP
9 1 (0.30%) DICOM
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.30%) SEPA
9 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 11 (3.30%) Docker
2 3 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.30%) RACF
Systems Management
1 11 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.40%) Ansible
3 7 (2.10%) Terraform
4 5 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.60%) Grafana
5 2 (0.60%) QRadar
5 2 (0.60%) WMI
6 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.30%) vRealize
6 1 (0.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 92 (27.63%) Oracle
2 63 (18.92%) Microsoft
3 27 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 19 (5.71%) SAP
5 18 (5.41%) Workday
6 17 (5.11%) IBM
6 17 (5.11%) MuleSoft
7 11 (3.30%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.00%) Google
9 7 (2.10%) Databricks
10 6 (1.80%) Dell
10 6 (1.80%) webMethods
11 5 (1.50%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.50%) Kronos
12 4 (1.20%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.20%) Intapp
12 4 (1.20%) InterSystems
12 4 (1.20%) Pega
13 3 (0.90%) Citrix
13 3 (0.90%) OpenLink
79 XML jobs in England