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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 248 218
Rank change year-on-year +4 -30 -23
Contract jobs citing XML 359 264 412
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.00% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.93% 4.45% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 158 285
10th Percentile £350 £324 £396
25th Percentile £400 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% -5.68% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £593 £630
90th Percentile £715 £642 £750
UK median daily rate £477 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -4.70% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 24
10th Percentile £41.15 - £46.12
25th Percentile £42.13 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +89.86% -32.80%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 £50.60
90th Percentile £95.00 - £77.70
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -48.65% +89.86% -35.04%

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 7,282 5,930 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.02% 22.35% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,876 3,765 5,694
10th Percentile £358 £363 £360
25th Percentile £415 £430 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 76 183
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £25.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £43.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.03 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -19 191 £525 -1.87% 39
North of England -27 54 £402 -23.43% 9
North West -3 43 £401 -9.83% 6
South East -27 36 £475 +35.71% 33
Midlands -31 25 £429 -24.34% 15
East of England +5 23 £581 - 9
West Midlands -31 22 £429 -24.34% 11
Yorkshire -46 11 £531 -6.31% 3
South West -13 10 £400 -9.86% 7
East Midlands -21 3 - - 4
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 19 (5.29%) WebLogic
2 17 (4.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 16 (4.46%) Confluence
4 11 (3.06%) Apache
5 10 (2.79%) WebSphere
6 9 (2.51%) Appian
7 8 (2.23%) JBoss
8 7 (1.95%) MQSeries
9 6 (1.67%) nginx
10 5 (1.39%) Anypoint
10 5 (1.39%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (1.11%) Mule
11 4 (1.11%) Oracle Service Bus
12 3 (0.84%) Documentum
13 2 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.28%) Alfresco
14 1 (0.28%) CMS
14 1 (0.28%) SAS
14 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.23%) FrameMaker
2 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.51%) SAP Payroll
2 8 (2.23%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (1.95%) BusinessWorks
3 7 (1.95%) SAP HCM
4 5 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (1.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 5 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (1.11%) Maximo
5 4 (1.11%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle 11i
7 2 (0.56%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.56%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.56%) Summit
7 2 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 75 (20.89%) Azure
2 63 (17.55%) AWS
3 26 (7.24%) OCI
4 21 (5.85%) GitHub
5 20 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (5.57%) Power Platform
6 19 (5.29%) SaaS
7 17 (4.74%) GCP
7 17 (4.74%) Serverless
8 14 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (3.90%) PaaS
8 14 (3.90%) Tricentis Tosca
9 13 (3.62%) Apigee
9 13 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (3.34%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (3.34%) Boomi
10 12 (3.34%) IaaS
11 10 (2.79%) Power Automate
12 8 (2.23%) Kong
13 7 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.36%) HTTPS
2 23 (6.41%) HTTP
3 10 (2.79%) Firewall
4 8 (2.23%) SSL
5 3 (0.84%) NFC
5 3 (0.84%) PPP
6 2 (0.56%) 5G
6 2 (0.56%) BGP
6 2 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.56%) FIX Connectivity
6 2 (0.56%) FTP
6 2 (0.56%) MPLS
6 2 (0.56%) VPN
7 1 (0.28%) DNS
7 1 (0.28%) Network Security
7 1 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.28%) SMS
7 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (12.81%) Relational Database
2 35 (9.75%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.85%) MongoDB
4 18 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.90%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.90%) RDBMS
7 12 (3.34%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (3.06%) Oracle Database
9 10 (2.79%) Metadata
9 10 (2.79%) Power BI
9 10 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.51%) DataStage
11 7 (1.95%) DB2
11 7 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.39%) MySQL
14 4 (1.11%) Big Data
14 4 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (14.21%) JIRA
2 43 (11.98%) Postman
3 38 (10.58%) Git
4 29 (8.08%) Jenkins
5 25 (6.96%) Selenium
6 19 (5.29%) JUnit
7 17 (4.74%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.06%) Eclipse
9 10 (2.79%) SoapUI
10 9 (2.51%) GitLab
11 8 (2.23%) IntelliJ
11 8 (2.23%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.95%) Maven
12 7 (1.95%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.95%) Toad
13 6 (1.67%) SpecFlow
13 6 (1.67%) TestRail
13 6 (1.67%) Zephyr
14 5 (1.39%) Bitbucket
15 4 (1.11%) Browser DevTools
General
1 118 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 80 (22.28%) Finance
3 59 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 41 (11.42%) Banking
6 19 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.34%) Investment Banking
8 11 (3.06%) Publishing
8 11 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.23%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.23%) Private Banking
10 7 (1.95%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.95%) Legal
11 5 (1.39%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (1.39%) Military
11 5 (1.39%) Retail
12 4 (1.11%) Back Office
12 4 (1.11%) Front Office
12 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 123 (34.26%) Developer
2 55 (15.32%) Analyst
3 28 (7.80%) Senior
4 24 (6.69%) Business Analyst
4 24 (6.69%) Consultant
5 19 (5.29%) Lead
6 18 (5.01%) Architect
7 17 (4.74%) Integration Developer
7 17 (4.74%) Software Engineer
8 13 (3.62%) Data Engineer
8 13 (3.62%) webMethods Developer
9 12 (3.34%) Java Developer
10 10 (2.79%) Senior Developer
10 10 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.51%) Author
11 9 (2.51%) Integration Specialist
11 9 (2.51%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (2.51%) Technical Author
11 9 (2.51%) Tester
12 8 (2.23%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (55.15%) JSON
2 127 (35.38%) REST
3 126 (35.10%) SOAP
4 49 (13.65%) OAuth
5 47 (13.09%) XSLT
6 42 (11.70%) Web Services
7 37 (10.31%) HTML
8 29 (8.08%) JMS
9 28 (7.80%) RESTful
10 25 (6.96%) Oracle Fusion
11 24 (6.69%) .NET
11 24 (6.69%) JWT
12 20 (5.57%) Middleware
12 20 (5.57%) Spring
13 18 (5.01%) XSD
14 17 (4.74%) J2EE
14 17 (4.74%) OAuth2
14 17 (4.74%) Swagger
15 16 (4.46%) CSS
15 16 (4.46%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.62%) Data Structures
2 12 (3.34%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.06%) Replication
4 10 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (2.79%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.79%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.23%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.23%) AS400
5 8 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.23%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.95%) Fixed Income
6 7 (1.95%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.67%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.39%) Digital Wallet
8 5 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.70%) Linux
2 22 (6.13%) Unix
3 15 (4.18%) Windows
4 5 (1.39%) AIX
5 4 (1.11%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.84%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (34.82%) DevOps
2 124 (34.54%) Agile
3 84 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (21.17%) CI/CD
5 49 (13.65%) ERP
6 48 (13.37%) Validation
7 47 (13.09%) Test Automation
8 44 (12.26%) Microservices
9 42 (11.70%) Migration
10 41 (11.42%) Deployment Automation
10 41 (11.42%) Scrum
11 40 (11.14%) ETL
12 39 (10.86%) Data Modelling
13 36 (10.03%) Integration Patterns
14 35 (9.75%) Computer Science
15 32 (8.91%) Requirements Gathering
15 32 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (8.64%) Software Engineering
17 30 (8.36%) API Management
17 30 (8.36%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 131 (36.49%) SQL
2 103 (28.69%) Java
3 55 (15.32%) C#
3 55 (15.32%) Python
4 51 (14.21%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.29%) PowerShell
6 16 (4.46%) PL/SQL
7 13 (3.62%) XPath
8 10 (2.79%) C++
9 8 (2.23%) RPG
9 8 (2.23%) Scala
10 7 (1.95%) ABAP
10 7 (1.95%) Groovy
10 7 (1.95%) Korn
10 7 (1.95%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.39%) Perl
11 5 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.11%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.56%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 95 (26.46%) Security Cleared
2 76 (21.17%) SC Cleared
3 49 (13.65%) Degree
4 27 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.79%) ISTQB
7 9 (2.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (2.23%) HNC
8 8 (2.23%) HND
9 6 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.39%) CCNP
10 5 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.39%) ISEB
10 5 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.39%) PMP
11 3 (0.84%) CEH
11 3 (0.84%) GIAC
11 3 (0.84%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.57%) QA
2 13 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.39%) PSD2
4 4 (1.11%) GAAP
4 4 (1.11%) GDPR
5 3 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.84%) HL7
5 3 (0.84%) ISO 8583
5 3 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.56%) Basel III
6 2 (0.56%) EMIR
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.56%) SEPA
6 2 (0.56%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.28%) FATCA
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 41 (11.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.79%) Ansible
2 10 (2.79%) Control-M
3 9 (2.51%) Puppet
4 8 (2.23%) logstash
5 7 (1.95%) Kibana
5 7 (1.95%) TIBCO Hawk
6 5 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.56%) CloudHub
7 2 (0.56%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.56%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.56%) QRadar
7 2 (0.56%) Terraform
8 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.28%) Grafana
8 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.28%) Podman
8 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (25.35%) Oracle
2 43 (11.98%) SAP
3 39 (10.86%) IBM
4 35 (9.75%) Microsoft
5 26 (7.24%) webMethods
6 15 (4.18%) MuleSoft
6 15 (4.18%) Workday
7 12 (3.34%) TIBCO
8 11 (3.06%) Pega
8 11 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.06%) Software AG
9 9 (2.51%) Cisco
9 9 (2.51%) Splunk
10 8 (2.23%) Axway
10 8 (2.23%) Informatica
10 8 (2.23%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.95%) BEA
11 7 (1.95%) Veracode
12 5 (1.39%) F5
12 5 (1.39%) Solace