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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 221 156
Rank change year-on-year -99 -65 +45
Contract jobs citing XML 350 321 533
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 1.16% 1.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.13% 5.22% 7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 235 273
10th Percentile £325 £360 £363
25th Percentile £400 £415 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £602
90th Percentile £713 £638 £685
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 67
10th Percentile £28.60 £29.42 -
25th Percentile £29.30 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% -3.49% -38.57%
75th Percentile £45.85 £43.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £59.50 £47.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -4.82% -3.49% -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 8,472 6,144 7,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.65% 22.25% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,559 4,235 5,084
10th Percentile £364 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £648 £675
90th Percentile £750 £772 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 147 231
10th Percentile £28.93 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £46.80 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £79.22 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.45% +2.09% -10.42%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -48 172 £550 +4.76% 70
South East -58 59 £460 -3.16% 21
Midlands -34 42 £418 -2.79% 15
North of England -70 42 £390 -13.33% 12
North West -62 34 £390 -13.33% 5
West Midlands -44 30 £411 -11.56% 7
South West -43 15 £550 +46.67% 10
East Midlands -1 11 £525 +67.20% 8
East of England -29 9 £450 -18.18% 5
Yorkshire -44 8 £399 -24.05% 7
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 20 (5.71%) Confluence
2 12 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.86%) Mule
3 10 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
4 9 (2.57%) Anypoint
5 8 (2.29%) IIS
6 5 (1.43%) CMS
6 5 (1.43%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.43%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.57%) Apache
8 2 (0.57%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.57%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.29%) CICS
9 1 (0.29%) JBoss
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.29%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.29%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 19 (5.43%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (4.29%) NetSuite
2 15 (4.29%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (3.71%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (2.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (2.00%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (1.71%) Maximo
6 6 (1.71%) Oracle FAH
7 5 (1.43%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (1.14%) Elite 3E
8 4 (1.14%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (1.14%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 4 (1.14%) Oracle Internet Expenses
8 4 (1.14%) Oracle iProcurement
8 4 (1.14%) Summit
9 3 (0.86%) Findur
10 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.57%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 81 (23.14%) Azure
2 36 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (9.71%) AWS
4 31 (8.86%) Boomi
5 20 (5.71%) GCP
5 20 (5.71%) GitHub
6 18 (5.14%) AtomSphere
7 17 (4.86%) SaaS
8 15 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (4.29%) Serverless
9 12 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (3.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (3.43%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.86%) Azure Functions
10 10 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.57%) Entra ID
12 8 (2.29%) IaaS
12 8 (2.29%) iPaaS
12 8 (2.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.29%) HTTP
2 7 (2.00%) FTP
3 6 (1.71%) SSL
4 4 (1.14%) 3GPP
4 4 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.86%) Network Security
6 2 (0.57%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.57%) Internet
6 2 (0.57%) Intranet
6 2 (0.57%) RTCP
6 2 (0.57%) RTP
6 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.57%) WAN
6 2 (0.57%) Wireless
6 2 (0.57%) XCAP
7 1 (0.29%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.29%) DNS
7 1 (0.29%) NAS
7 1 (0.29%) SAN
7 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 28 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 19 (5.43%) RDBMS
4 16 (4.57%) Oracle Database
5 13 (3.71%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.71%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (3.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 12 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.14%) Metadata
7 11 (3.14%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.86%) Power BI
8 10 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.00%) MySQL
11 6 (1.71%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.71%) DataStage
12 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.86%) Db2
Development Applications
1 36 (10.29%) Git
2 33 (9.43%) JIRA
3 25 (7.14%) Postman
4 15 (4.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 15 (4.29%) Visual Studio
5 10 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (2.57%) Jenkins
6 9 (2.57%) Selenium
7 8 (2.29%) GitLab
7 8 (2.29%) Maven
8 7 (2.00%) Gradle
8 7 (2.00%) JMeter
9 6 (1.71%) JDeveloper
9 6 (1.71%) REST Assured
9 6 (1.71%) SoapUI
10 5 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.43%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.43%) JUnit
11 4 (1.14%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.14%) WebDriver
General
1 122 (34.86%) Social Skills
2 80 (22.86%) Finance
3 71 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 28 (8.00%) Banking
6 12 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.57%) Legal
8 8 (2.29%) General Ledger
8 8 (2.29%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.29%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.00%) Retail
10 6 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.71%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.14%) Advertising
11 4 (1.14%) Front Office
11 4 (1.14%) Marketing
11 4 (1.14%) Military
11 4 (1.14%) Publishing
12 3 (0.86%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 104 (29.71%) Developer
2 50 (14.29%) Consultant
3 38 (10.86%) Senior
4 37 (10.57%) Analyst
5 30 (8.57%) Implementation Consultant
6 28 (8.00%) Architect
7 20 (5.71%) Senior Developer
8 18 (5.14%) Business Analyst
8 18 (5.14%) Data Engineer
9 13 (3.71%) Payroll Consultant
9 13 (3.71%) Software Engineer
10 11 (3.14%) Oracle Developer
11 10 (2.86%) C# Developer
11 10 (2.86%) Lead
11 10 (2.86%) Technical Consultant
12 9 (2.57%) Integration Architect
12 9 (2.57%) Integration Developer
12 9 (2.57%) Integration Specialist
12 9 (2.57%) Software Developer
12 9 (2.57%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (50.00%) JSON
2 120 (34.29%) REST
3 104 (29.71%) SOAP
4 46 (13.14%) .NET
4 46 (13.14%) Web Services
5 44 (12.57%) Middleware
6 31 (8.86%) OAuth
6 31 (8.86%) XSLT
7 24 (6.86%) Kafka
8 22 (6.29%) OAuth2
9 21 (6.00%) HTML
10 19 (5.43%) CSS
10 19 (5.43%) JWT
10 19 (5.43%) RESTful
11 18 (5.14%) EDI
12 15 (4.29%) Swagger
13 13 (3.71%) .NET Framework
13 13 (3.71%) ActiveX
14 11 (3.14%) ASP.NET
14 11 (3.14%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.86%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (3.43%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.14%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 8 (2.29%) CMDB
7 7 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (1.71%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.43%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.43%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.43%) Derivative
9 5 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.43%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.14%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.00%) Linux
2 18 (5.14%) Unix
3 16 (4.57%) Windows
4 4 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.57%) VMS
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (25.14%) Agile
3 76 (21.71%) DevOps
4 72 (20.57%) CI/CD
5 58 (16.57%) Validation
6 56 (16.00%) Workflow
7 47 (13.43%) Migration
8 42 (12.00%) Data Modelling
9 41 (11.71%) Integration Patterns
10 35 (10.00%) Data Mapping
10 35 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 33 (9.43%) Scrum
11 33 (9.43%) Test Automation
12 32 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (8.86%) API Management
13 31 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 30 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (8.29%) Event-Driven
16 27 (7.71%) ERP
16 27 (7.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 158 (45.14%) SQL
2 57 (16.29%) JavaScript
3 56 (16.00%) Java
4 52 (14.86%) Python
5 43 (12.29%) C#
6 39 (11.14%) T-SQL
7 29 (8.29%) PL/SQL
8 18 (5.14%) Groovy
9 17 (4.86%) C++
10 16 (4.57%) PowerShell
10 16 (4.57%) VB
10 16 (4.57%) VB6
11 15 (4.29%) VBA
12 10 (2.86%) VB.NET
13 9 (2.57%) Bicep
14 6 (1.71%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.71%) XPath
15 5 (1.43%) ABAP
15 5 (1.43%) R
16 4 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 85 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 66 (18.86%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.86%) Degree
4 11 (3.14%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.14%) ISTQB
5 10 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 6 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.71%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.43%) ISEB
8 4 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.57%) CISSP
9 2 (0.57%) GIAC
9 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.57%) SSCP
10 1 (0.29%) CISM
10 1 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.29%) QA
2 20 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.57%) ISO 20022
4 7 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.00%) GDPR
5 5 (1.43%) WCAG
6 4 (1.14%) GRC
6 4 (1.14%) HL7
7 3 (0.86%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.57%) SLA
9 1 (0.29%) COREP
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.29%) DICOM
9 1 (0.29%) FINREP
9 1 (0.29%) IFRS
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.29%) NIST
9 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.29%) SEPA
9 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (2.86%) Docker
2 4 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.57%) Ansible
2 9 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (2.29%) Terraform
4 3 (0.86%) WMI
5 2 (0.57%) Grafana
5 2 (0.57%) QRadar
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.29%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.29%) vRealize
6 1 (0.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 100 (28.57%) Oracle
2 76 (21.71%) Microsoft
3 31 (8.86%) ServiceNow
4 26 (7.43%) SAP
5 21 (6.00%) IBM
5 21 (6.00%) MuleSoft
5 21 (6.00%) Salesforce
6 16 (4.57%) Workday
7 13 (3.71%) Google
8 9 (2.57%) webMethods
9 8 (2.29%) Databricks
10 5 (1.43%) Kronos
10 5 (1.43%) TIBCO
11 4 (1.14%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.14%) Dell
11 4 (1.14%) Informatica
11 4 (1.14%) Intapp
11 4 (1.14%) Okta
11 4 (1.14%) Pega
11 4 (1.14%) WSO2