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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 247 162
Rank change year-on-year -65 -85 +41
Contract jobs citing XML 349 309 499
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 1.11% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.56% 4.38% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 221 269
10th Percentile £315 £355 £337
25th Percentile £402 £420 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile £620 £575 £606
90th Percentile £713 £688 £666
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £508
% change year-on-year +2.56% -3.94% -7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 44
10th Percentile £28.60 £31.25 -
25th Percentile £29.07 £38.38 -
Median hourly rate £29.54 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.31% - -38.57%
75th Percentile £41.75 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £43.38 £93.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £29.54 £42.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -30.91% -0.58% -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 9,806 7,059 8,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.38% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,437 4,805 5,494
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -5.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 169 179
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.54 £27.60
25th Percentile £51.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.83 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.35% -11.20% -1.44%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -40 189 £538 +2.38% 191
South East -57 47 £460 -3.16% 46
Midlands -26 42 £418 -2.79% 23
West Midlands -27 35 £415 -3.49% 15
North of England -76 27 £375 -21.05% 25
South West -30 19 £550 +46.67% 11
North West -61 19 £375 -17.22% 18
East of England -47 12 £509 +4.41% 12
Yorkshire -36 8 £378 -31.36% 4
East Midlands -13 6 £494 +82.96% 8
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 28 (8.02%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.58%) Confluence
3 9 (2.58%) Anypoint
3 9 (2.58%) Mule
3 9 (2.58%) Oracle Workflow
4 8 (2.29%) IIS
4 8 (2.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.72%) Apache
5 6 (1.72%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.43%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.86%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.57%) CMS
9 1 (0.29%) CICS
9 1 (0.29%) JBoss
9 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.29%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.01%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.72%) Windchill
4 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.29%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.29%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 20 (5.73%) Oracle EBS
2 18 (5.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (4.87%) NetSuite
4 15 (4.30%) Oracle Payables
5 12 (3.44%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (2.29%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (2.01%) Oracle FAH
8 6 (1.72%) Maximo
8 6 (1.72%) Oracle Assets
8 6 (1.72%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (1.43%) Workday HCM
10 4 (1.15%) Elite 3E
10 4 (1.15%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 4 (1.15%) Oracle Internet Expenses
10 4 (1.15%) Oracle iProcurement
11 3 (0.86%) SAP FI
12 2 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
12 2 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
12 2 (0.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 97 (27.79%) Azure
2 46 (13.18%) AWS
3 43 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (11.46%) Boomi
5 27 (7.74%) GCP
6 20 (5.73%) AtomSphere
6 20 (5.73%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (5.44%) Power Platform
8 18 (5.16%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (4.87%) Azure Functions
9 17 (4.87%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (4.87%) Serverless
10 16 (4.58%) GitHub
10 16 (4.58%) SaaS
11 15 (4.30%) Power Automate
12 13 (3.72%) iPaaS
13 10 (2.87%) Entra ID
14 9 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.73%) HTTP
2 7 (2.01%) FTP
3 6 (1.72%) SSL
4 4 (1.15%) Network Security
4 4 (1.15%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.86%) Wireless
6 2 (0.57%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.57%) Internet
6 2 (0.57%) Intranet
6 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.57%) WAN
7 1 (0.29%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.29%) DNS
7 1 (0.29%) Firewall
7 1 (0.29%) NAS
7 1 (0.29%) NFC
7 1 (0.29%) SAN
7 1 (0.29%) VPN
7 1 (0.29%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.32%) SQL Server
2 27 (7.74%) Relational Database
3 20 (5.73%) Oracle Database
4 12 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.44%) RDBMS
5 11 (3.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 10 (2.87%) Metadata
6 10 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (2.58%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.58%) MySQL
7 9 (2.58%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.72%) DataStage
8 6 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.43%) GIS
9 5 (1.43%) MS Access
9 5 (1.43%) Parquet
9 5 (1.43%) Power BI
9 5 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (14.33%) Git
2 33 (9.46%) JIRA
3 25 (7.16%) Postman
4 17 (4.87%) Selenium
4 17 (4.87%) Visual Studio
5 16 (4.58%) Jenkins
5 16 (4.58%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (3.44%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (3.15%) JMeter
8 9 (2.58%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.29%) eggPlant
9 8 (2.29%) GitLab
9 8 (2.29%) Gradle
9 8 (2.29%) SoapUI
9 8 (2.29%) WebDriver
10 6 (1.72%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.72%) JDeveloper
10 6 (1.72%) LoadRunner
10 6 (1.72%) Maven
11 5 (1.43%) Cypress.io
General
1 129 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 82 (23.50%) Finance
3 72 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (11.17%) Public Sector
5 30 (8.60%) Banking
6 14 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.15%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.01%) Retail
10 6 (1.72%) General Ledger
10 6 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.72%) Legal
10 6 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.43%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.43%) Front Office
11 5 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.15%) Aviation
12 4 (1.15%) Publishing
13 3 (0.86%) Marketing
13 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (33.81%) Developer
2 52 (14.90%) Senior
3 42 (12.03%) Architect
4 32 (9.17%) Analyst
5 26 (7.45%) Senior Developer
6 24 (6.88%) Consultant
7 19 (5.44%) Lead
8 17 (4.87%) Data Engineer
9 15 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.72%) Business Analyst
10 13 (3.72%) Integration Developer
11 12 (3.44%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.15%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 11 (3.15%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.15%) Test Analyst
13 10 (2.87%) C# Developer
13 10 (2.87%) Integration Architect
14 9 (2.58%) Integration Engineer
14 9 (2.58%) Oracle Developer
14 9 (2.58%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (53.87%) JSON
2 131 (37.54%) REST
3 125 (35.82%) SOAP
4 59 (16.91%) Middleware
5 56 (16.05%) .NET
5 56 (16.05%) Web Services
6 45 (12.89%) XSLT
7 37 (10.60%) OAuth
8 36 (10.32%) Kafka
9 32 (9.17%) HTML
10 24 (6.88%) RESTful
11 22 (6.30%) JWT
11 22 (6.30%) OAuth2
12 21 (6.02%) CSS
12 21 (6.02%) EDI
13 17 (4.87%) Swagger
14 15 (4.30%) SAML
15 14 (4.01%) ActiveX
15 14 (4.01%) GraphQL
16 13 (3.72%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.16%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.87%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.72%) Taxonomies
6 12 (3.44%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 9 (2.58%) CMDB
9 8 (2.29%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (2.01%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.72%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.43%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.43%) SCADA
13 4 (1.15%) Equities
13 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.02%) Linux
2 22 (6.30%) Unix
3 17 (4.87%) Windows
4 4 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.29%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.29%) VMS
5 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (31.23%) Problem-Solving
2 93 (26.65%) Agile
3 85 (24.36%) DevOps
4 83 (23.78%) CI/CD
5 62 (17.77%) Validation
6 49 (14.04%) Test Automation
7 48 (13.75%) Data Modelling
7 48 (13.75%) Integration Patterns
8 45 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 45 (12.89%) Workflow
9 41 (11.75%) Migration
10 40 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (10.89%) Event-Driven
11 38 (10.89%) Scrum
12 37 (10.60%) API Management
12 37 (10.60%) User Acceptance Testing
13 36 (10.32%) Data Mapping
14 35 (10.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 32 (9.17%) ERP
15 32 (9.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 135 (38.68%) SQL
2 80 (22.92%) Java
2 80 (22.92%) JavaScript
3 64 (18.34%) Python
4 49 (14.04%) C#
5 27 (7.74%) PL/SQL
6 19 (5.44%) C++
6 19 (5.44%) Groovy
7 17 (4.87%) VB
7 17 (4.87%) VB6
8 16 (4.58%) VBA
9 15 (4.30%) VB.NET
10 10 (2.87%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.29%) TypeScript
12 7 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.01%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.01%) XPath
13 6 (1.72%) Bicep
13 6 (1.72%) C
14 5 (1.43%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 103 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 81 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 42 (12.03%) Degree
4 16 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.01%) ISTQB
6 13 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 11 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.29%) ISEB
10 6 (1.72%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.15%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.57%) CISSP
13 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.57%) GIAC
13 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.57%) SSCP
14 1 (0.29%) CISM
14 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.88%) QA
2 24 (6.88%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.58%) Accessibility
4 14 (4.01%) GDPR
4 14 (4.01%) WCAG
5 13 (3.72%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.43%) GRC
6 5 (1.43%) HL7
7 4 (1.15%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.57%) NCSC
8 2 (0.57%) SLA
9 1 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.29%) DICOM
9 1 (0.29%) GMP
9 1 (0.29%) GxP
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.29%) NIST
9 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 14 (4.01%) Docker
2 5 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) RACF
4 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.15%) Ansible
3 10 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.43%) HP Fortify
5 4 (1.15%) Control-M
6 3 (0.86%) WMI
7 2 (0.57%) QRadar
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.29%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.29%) Grafana
8 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.29%) Kibana
8 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.29%) vRealize
8 1 (0.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 105 (30.09%) Oracle
2 85 (24.36%) Microsoft
3 40 (11.46%) SAP
4 38 (10.89%) IBM
5 31 (8.88%) ServiceNow
6 29 (8.31%) MuleSoft
7 24 (6.88%) Salesforce
8 22 (6.30%) Google
8 22 (6.30%) Workday
9 11 (3.15%) Databricks
10 10 (2.87%) TIBCO
10 10 (2.87%) webMethods
11 9 (2.58%) Informatica
11 9 (2.58%) WSO2
12 6 (1.72%) PTC
13 5 (1.43%) Kronos
14 4 (1.15%) Intapp
14 4 (1.15%) Okta
15 3 (0.86%) Confluent
15 3 (0.86%) Splunk
315 XML jobs in England