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

 6 months to
21 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 231 163
Rank change year-on-year -79 -68 +40
Contract jobs citing XML 360 310 510
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 1.12% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.67% 4.53% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 220 267
10th Percentile £320 £358 £363
25th Percentile £400 £415 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £614 £575 £606
90th Percentile £706 £681 £670
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 24 53
10th Percentile £27.66 - -
25th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £34.75 £42.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -0.58% -38.57%
75th Percentile £42.06 £43.75 £45.00
90th Percentile £44.14 £81.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £42.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -18.24% -1.16% -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 9,818 6,843 8,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.50% 24.83% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,465 4,702 5,616
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 165 209
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.96
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.43
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.47% -1.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.61 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +20.37% -4.00% -10.00%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -43 185 £540 +2.86% 31
South East -50 60 £460 -3.16% 27
North of England -84 41 £375 -16.67% 13
Midlands -32 36 £415 -3.38% 15
North West -51 33 £390 -13.33% 5
West Midlands -41 25 £408 -12.37% 9
South West -44 17 £550 +46.67% 8
East of England -32 11 £450 -18.18% 7
East Midlands -12 10 £494 +57.32% 6
Yorkshire -39 8 £355 -32.38% 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 20 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.44%) Confluence
3 9 (2.50%) Anypoint
3 9 (2.50%) Mule
3 9 (2.50%) Oracle Workflow
4 8 (2.22%) IIS
5 7 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.39%) CMS
6 5 (1.39%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.39%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.11%) Apache
8 3 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.83%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.28%) CICS
9 1 (0.28%) JBoss
9 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.28%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.56%) Windchill
6 1 (0.28%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.28%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 19 (5.28%) Oracle EBS
2 16 (4.44%) NetSuite
3 15 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (3.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (2.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (1.67%) Maximo
7 6 (1.67%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (1.67%) Oracle FAH
8 5 (1.39%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
9 4 (1.11%) Elite 3E
9 4 (1.11%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 4 (1.11%) Oracle Internet Expenses
9 4 (1.11%) Oracle iProcurement
9 4 (1.11%) Summit
10 3 (0.83%) Findur
10 3 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.83%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.83%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (22.78%) Azure
2 38 (10.56%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (10.28%) AWS
4 34 (9.44%) Boomi
5 22 (6.11%) GCP
6 20 (5.56%) GitHub
7 18 (5.00%) AtomSphere
7 18 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (4.44%) SaaS
9 14 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
10 13 (3.61%) Serverless
11 10 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (2.78%) Power Platform
12 9 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.50%) Azure Functions
12 9 (2.50%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.50%) iPaaS
13 7 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.94%) IaaS
13 7 (1.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.61%) HTTP
2 6 (1.67%) FTP
2 6 (1.67%) SSL
3 4 (1.11%) Network Security
3 4 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.83%) Wireless
5 2 (0.56%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.56%) Internet
5 2 (0.56%) Intranet
5 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.56%) WAN
6 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.28%) DNS
6 1 (0.28%) Firewall
6 1 (0.28%) NAS
6 1 (0.28%) NFC
6 1 (0.28%) SAN
6 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.61%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 20 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 19 (5.28%) RDBMS
5 14 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.33%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (3.06%) Metadata
7 11 (3.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 8 (2.22%) MySQL
9 6 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.67%) DataStage
9 6 (1.67%) Power BI
9 6 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.39%) Tableau
11 4 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.11%) Parquet
12 3 (0.83%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (10.83%) Git
2 33 (9.17%) JIRA
3 25 (6.94%) Postman
4 17 (4.72%) Selenium
5 16 (4.44%) Visual Studio
6 15 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 12 (3.33%) Jenkins
7 12 (3.33%) JMeter
8 10 (2.78%) Oracle Forms
9 9 (2.50%) SoapUI
10 8 (2.22%) eggPlant
10 8 (2.22%) GitLab
11 7 (1.94%) Gradle
11 7 (1.94%) Maven
11 7 (1.94%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.94%) WebDriver
12 6 (1.67%) JDeveloper
12 6 (1.67%) LoadRunner
13 5 (1.39%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.39%) REST Assured
General
1 123 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 84 (23.33%) Finance
3 76 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.72%) Banking
5 31 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (2.78%) Legal
8 9 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.22%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.94%) General Ledger
10 7 (1.94%) Retail
11 6 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.39%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.11%) Advertising
13 4 (1.11%) Front Office
13 4 (1.11%) Marketing
13 4 (1.11%) Publishing
14 3 (0.83%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 105 (29.17%) Developer
2 51 (14.17%) Consultant
3 48 (13.33%) Senior
4 36 (10.00%) Analyst
5 33 (9.17%) Architect
6 30 (8.33%) Implementation Consultant
7 23 (6.39%) Senior Developer
8 17 (4.72%) Business Analyst
9 16 (4.44%) Data Engineer
10 14 (3.89%) Lead
11 13 (3.61%) Payroll Consultant
12 12 (3.33%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Oracle Developer
14 10 (2.78%) C# Developer
14 10 (2.78%) Integration Developer
14 10 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.78%) Test Analyst
15 9 (2.50%) Integration Architect
15 9 (2.50%) Software Developer
15 9 (2.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (49.17%) JSON
2 123 (34.17%) REST
3 113 (31.39%) SOAP
4 53 (14.72%) Middleware
5 51 (14.17%) .NET
5 51 (14.17%) Web Services
6 36 (10.00%) Kafka
7 33 (9.17%) OAuth
7 33 (9.17%) XSLT
8 29 (8.06%) HTML
9 21 (5.83%) EDI
9 21 (5.83%) OAuth2
10 20 (5.56%) CSS
10 20 (5.56%) JWT
10 20 (5.56%) RESTful
11 13 (3.61%) ActiveX
12 12 (3.33%) SAML
12 12 (3.33%) Swagger
13 11 (3.06%) GraphQL
13 11 (3.06%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (3.89%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 9 (2.50%) CMDB
7 8 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.67%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.67%) Taxonomies
10 5 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.39%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.39%) Derivative
10 5 (1.39%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.11%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.78%) Linux
2 25 (6.94%) Unix
3 16 (4.44%) Windows
4 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.56%) VMS
6 1 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (24.72%) Agile
3 82 (22.78%) DevOps
4 78 (21.67%) CI/CD
5 63 (17.50%) Validation
6 55 (15.28%) Workflow
7 49 (13.61%) Test Automation
8 43 (11.94%) Integration Patterns
8 43 (11.94%) Migration
9 40 (11.11%) Data Modelling
9 40 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
10 37 (10.28%) Scrum
10 37 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (9.72%) Data Mapping
12 33 (9.17%) API Management
13 32 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (8.89%) Event-Driven
14 31 (8.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 28 (7.78%) ERP
15 28 (7.78%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 162 (45.00%) SQL
2 71 (19.72%) Java
3 70 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 63 (17.50%) Python
5 35 (9.72%) C#
5 35 (9.72%) T-SQL
6 26 (7.22%) PL/SQL
7 17 (4.72%) C++
7 17 (4.72%) Groovy
8 16 (4.44%) VB
8 16 (4.44%) VB6
9 15 (4.17%) VB.NET
9 15 (4.17%) VBA
10 10 (2.78%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.67%) Bicep
11 6 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.67%) XPath
12 5 (1.39%) ABAP
12 5 (1.39%) R
12 5 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 73 (20.28%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.50%) Degree
4 14 (3.89%) ISTQB
5 11 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 10 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.22%) ISEB
8 6 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.67%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.56%) CISSP
10 2 (0.56%) GIAC
10 2 (0.56%) SSCP
11 1 (0.28%) CISM
11 1 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.33%) QA
2 21 (5.83%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.33%) ISO 20022
4 7 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.94%) GDPR
5 5 (1.39%) HL7
5 5 (1.39%) WCAG
6 4 (1.11%) GRC
7 3 (0.83%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.56%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) COREP
9 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.28%) DICOM
9 1 (0.28%) FINREP
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.28%) NIST
9 1 (0.28%) PMO
9 1 (0.28%) SEPA
9 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (2.78%) Docker
2 4 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.28%) RACF
4 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (2.78%) Ansible
1 10 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.39%) HP Fortify
4 4 (1.11%) Control-M
5 3 (0.83%) WMI
6 2 (0.56%) QRadar
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.28%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.28%) Grafana
7 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.28%) vRealize
7 1 (0.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 107 (29.72%) Oracle
2 78 (21.67%) Microsoft
3 37 (10.28%) SAP
4 33 (9.17%) ServiceNow
5 32 (8.89%) IBM
6 25 (6.94%) MuleSoft
7 23 (6.39%) Salesforce
8 18 (5.00%) Workday
9 16 (4.44%) Google
10 11 (3.06%) Databricks
11 10 (2.78%) webMethods
12 7 (1.94%) TIBCO
13 6 (1.67%) Informatica
13 6 (1.67%) WSO2
14 5 (1.39%) Kronos
15 4 (1.11%) Intapp
15 4 (1.11%) Okta
15 4 (1.11%) Pega
16 3 (0.83%) Confluent
16 3 (0.83%) Splunk
91 XML jobs in England