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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 226 204
Rank change year-on-year -7 -22 -5
Contract jobs citing XML 369 314 459
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.18% 1.08% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.27% 4.95% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 194 295
10th Percentile £341 £206 £392
25th Percentile £400 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -3.34%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £613
90th Percentile £710 £635 £744
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 1 31
10th Percentile £31.25 - £45.88
25th Percentile £40.75 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £43.00 £92.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -53.51% +89.86% -2.56%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 £68.50
90th Percentile £85.55 - £78.75
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £92.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -53.51% +89.86% -2.56%

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 6,997 6,338 8,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.33% 21.83% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,682 4,059 5,962
10th Percentile £350 £357 £375
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £630 £666 £675
90th Percentile £731 £800 £770
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 85 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.75 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 -13 177 £515 -2.83% 48
North of England -19 51 £450 -10.27% 19
South East -30 43 £425 +75.26% 20
North West -8 41 £425 -3.95% 14
East of England +10 36 £550 - 6
Midlands -35 31 £429 -19.17% 15
West Midlands -27 28 £429 -23.97% 9
South West +1 13 £375 -15.49% 11
Yorkshire -43 10 £650 +14.64% 5
East Midlands -15 3 - - 6
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 18 (4.88%) WebLogic
2 14 (3.79%) Apache
3 13 (3.52%) Confluence
4 9 (2.44%) JBoss
4 9 (2.44%) WebSphere
5 8 (2.17%) Anypoint
5 8 (2.17%) Mule
6 7 (1.90%) Appian
6 7 (1.90%) IIS
6 7 (1.90%) MQSeries
6 7 (1.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (1.63%) nginx
8 4 (1.08%) Mule ESB
9 3 (0.81%) Documentum
10 2 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.27%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.27%) CMS
11 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.98%) FrameMaker
3 9 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.54%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.27%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.17%) Maximo
2 7 (1.90%) SAP HCM
2 7 (1.90%) SAP Payroll
3 5 (1.36%) BusinessWorks
4 4 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.81%) Oracle 11i
6 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.54%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.54%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.27%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 88 (23.85%) Azure
2 61 (16.53%) AWS
3 24 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (6.23%) GitHub
5 21 (5.69%) GCP
6 17 (4.61%) Serverless
7 16 (4.34%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.79%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.79%) SaaS
8 14 (3.79%) Tricentis Tosca
9 13 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (3.25%) OCI
10 12 (3.25%) SuccessFactors
11 10 (2.71%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.44%) Apigee
12 9 (2.44%) Boomi
12 9 (2.44%) Nutanix
13 8 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.13%) HTTPS
2 29 (7.86%) HTTP
3 13 (3.52%) Firewall
4 8 (2.17%) SSL
5 5 (1.36%) NFC
5 5 (1.36%) PPP
6 3 (0.81%) VPN
7 2 (0.54%) 5G
7 2 (0.54%) AMQP
7 2 (0.54%) BGP
7 2 (0.54%) DNS
7 2 (0.54%) DSL
7 2 (0.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.54%) MPLS
7 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.27%) NAS
8 1 (0.27%) Network Security
8 1 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.27%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (14.63%) Relational Database
2 41 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.42%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.52%) DataStage
6 12 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.25%) MySQL
6 12 (3.25%) RDBMS
7 10 (2.71%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.44%) DB2
8 9 (2.44%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
9 8 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (2.17%) Metadata
10 7 (1.90%) MariaDB
10 7 (1.90%) Power BI
10 7 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 51 (13.82%) JIRA
2 48 (13.01%) Git
3 36 (9.76%) Postman
4 32 (8.67%) Jenkins
5 26 (7.05%) Selenium
6 21 (5.69%) JUnit
7 19 (5.15%) Cucumber
8 15 (4.07%) Eclipse
9 12 (3.25%) SoapUI
10 11 (2.98%) GitLab
11 10 (2.71%) Browser DevTools
11 10 (2.71%) Firebug
11 10 (2.71%) IntelliJ
12 8 (2.17%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.90%) Maven
13 7 (1.90%) Robot Framework
13 7 (1.90%) Toad
14 6 (1.63%) PVCS
14 6 (1.63%) SpecFlow
14 6 (1.63%) Zephyr
General
1 124 (33.60%) Social Skills
2 69 (18.70%) Finance
3 60 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 35 (9.49%) Banking
6 14 (3.79%) Publishing
7 13 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.98%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.71%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.71%) Back Office
11 8 (2.17%) Private Banking
12 6 (1.63%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.36%) Automotive
13 5 (1.36%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (1.36%) Front Office
13 5 (1.36%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.36%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.36%) Retail
14 4 (1.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 121 (32.79%) Developer
2 52 (14.09%) Analyst
3 30 (8.13%) Consultant
4 26 (7.05%) Senior
5 23 (6.23%) Business Analyst
6 22 (5.96%) Software Engineer
7 17 (4.61%) Architect
7 17 (4.61%) Integration Developer
7 17 (4.61%) Support Engineer
8 16 (4.34%) Data Engineer
8 16 (4.34%) Java Developer
9 14 (3.79%) Author
9 14 (3.79%) Technical Author
10 13 (3.52%) webMethods Developer
11 11 (2.98%) Lead
12 10 (2.71%) Technical Engineer
12 10 (2.71%) Technical Support
12 10 (2.71%) Technical Support Engineer
13 9 (2.44%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (54.20%) JSON
2 115 (31.17%) SOAP
3 109 (29.54%) REST
4 43 (11.65%) Web Services
5 41 (11.11%) HTML
5 41 (11.11%) OAuth
6 35 (9.49%) XSLT
7 34 (9.21%) RESTful
8 29 (7.86%) JMS
9 25 (6.78%) Spring
10 21 (5.69%) .NET
10 21 (5.69%) CSS
11 20 (5.42%) JWT
12 19 (5.15%) Hibernate
13 17 (4.61%) J2EE
13 17 (4.61%) Kafka
13 17 (4.61%) OAuth2
14 16 (4.34%) XSD
15 15 (4.07%) AngularJS
15 15 (4.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.34%) Cloud Native
1 16 (4.34%) Data Structures
2 11 (2.98%) Replication
3 9 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 8 (2.17%) AS400
4 8 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.90%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.36%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.36%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.36%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.36%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.30%) Linux
2 26 (7.05%) Windows
3 19 (5.15%) Unix
4 6 (1.63%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.36%) AIX
5 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.81%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (37.13%) Agile
2 126 (34.15%) DevOps
3 84 (22.76%) CI/CD
4 76 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (15.99%) Test Automation
6 46 (12.47%) Migration
7 43 (11.65%) Microservices
7 43 (11.65%) Scrum
8 41 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
9 40 (10.84%) Validation
10 38 (10.30%) ETL
11 36 (9.76%) Data Migration
12 35 (9.49%) Data Modelling
13 34 (9.21%) Software Engineering
14 32 (8.67%) Computer Science
14 32 (8.67%) ERP
15 28 (7.59%) API Management
15 28 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (7.32%) SDLC
17 26 (7.05%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 143 (38.75%) SQL
2 115 (31.17%) Java
3 67 (18.16%) Python
4 65 (17.62%) JavaScript
5 52 (14.09%) C#
6 23 (6.23%) PowerShell
7 16 (4.34%) PL/SQL
8 13 (3.52%) T-SQL
9 12 (3.25%) XPath
10 11 (2.98%) C++
11 9 (2.44%) ABAP
12 8 (2.17%) RPG
12 8 (2.17%) Scala
13 7 (1.90%) Groovy
13 7 (1.90%) VBA
14 5 (1.36%) Korn
14 5 (1.36%) Perl
14 5 (1.36%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.08%) DataWeave
15 4 (1.08%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 101 (27.37%) Security Cleared
2 81 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 52 (14.09%) Degree
4 27 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.25%) HNC
5 12 (3.25%) HND
6 11 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.71%) ISTQB
7 10 (2.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 7 (1.90%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.63%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.63%) ISEB
10 3 (0.81%) CCNP
10 3 (0.81%) CEH
10 3 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.81%) GIAC
10 3 (0.81%) OCP
10 3 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.86%) QA
2 26 (7.05%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.08%) SEPA
4 3 (0.81%) HL7
4 3 (0.81%) SLA
5 2 (0.54%) EMIR
5 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.54%) PSD2
6 1 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) DICOM
6 1 (0.27%) GAAP
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) GxP
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (11.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (4.34%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.52%) Ansible
3 11 (2.98%) Control-M
4 9 (2.44%) logstash
4 9 (2.44%) Puppet
5 8 (2.17%) Kibana
6 5 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (1.36%) TIBCO Hawk
7 4 (1.08%) Terraform
7 4 (1.08%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.81%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.54%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.54%) Podman
9 2 (0.54%) QRadar
10 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.27%) Grafana
10 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (21.68%) Oracle
2 51 (13.82%) Microsoft
3 43 (11.65%) SAP
4 39 (10.57%) IBM
5 27 (7.32%) webMethods
6 13 (3.52%) MuleSoft
6 13 (3.52%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.98%) Software AG
7 11 (2.98%) Splunk
8 10 (2.71%) TIBCO
9 9 (2.44%) Cisco
9 9 (2.44%) Workday
10 8 (2.17%) Axway
10 8 (2.17%) Blue Prism
11 7 (1.90%) Veracode
12 6 (1.63%) Pega
12 6 (1.63%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.36%) BEA
13 5 (1.36%) EMC
13 5 (1.36%) Salesforce