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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 229 203
Rank change year-on-year 0 -26 +5
Contract jobs citing XML 377 310 452
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 1.08% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.36% 4.92% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 194 288
10th Percentile £337 £215 £392
25th Percentile £400 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -3.34%
75th Percentile £600 £587 £613
90th Percentile £710 £638 £739
UK median daily rate £475 £498 £550
% change year-on-year -4.52% -9.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 32
10th Percentile £31.25 - £45.09
25th Percentile £40.88 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £43.00 £92.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -53.51% +89.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 £67.75
90th Percentile £82.85 - £78.63
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £92.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -53.51% +89.86% -7.20%

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 7,030 6,295 7,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.25% 21.87% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,686 4,020 5,761
10th Percentile £351 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.39%
75th Percentile £633 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -6.45% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 77 165
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.20
25th Percentile £44.01 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.18 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -6.04% +16.82% -17.69%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -14 186 £520 -2.80% 63
North of England -27 50 £442 -11.86% 36
South East -27 42 £400 +14.29% 54
North West -6 40 £425 -3.95% 17
East of England +17 35 £550 - 25
Midlands -42 29 £429 -19.17% 30
West Midlands -23 26 £429 -23.97% 15
South West +5 14 £375 -15.49% 19
Yorkshire -36 10 £650 +14.64% 17
East Midlands -16 3 - - 13
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 (5.31%) WebLogic
2 14 (3.71%) Confluence
3 13 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (3.18%) Apache
5 9 (2.39%) JBoss
5 9 (2.39%) WebSphere
6 8 (2.12%) Anypoint
6 8 (2.12%) Mule
7 7 (1.86%) Appian
7 7 (1.86%) MQSeries
8 6 (1.59%) nginx
9 5 (1.33%) IIS
9 5 (1.33%) Oracle Service Bus
10 4 (1.06%) Mule ESB
11 3 (0.80%) Documentum
11 3 (0.80%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.27%) CMS
13 1 (0.27%) SAS
13 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.92%) FrameMaker
3 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.27%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.12%) SAP Payroll
2 7 (1.86%) BusinessWorks
2 7 (1.86%) SAP HCM
3 6 (1.59%) Maximo
4 5 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.80%) Oracle 11i
7 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.53%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.27%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.27%) SAP MRS
8 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 84 (22.28%) Azure
2 62 (16.45%) AWS
3 23 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (5.84%) GitHub
5 18 (4.77%) GCP
6 17 (4.51%) Power Platform
7 16 (4.24%) OCI
7 16 (4.24%) Serverless
8 15 (3.98%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (3.98%) SaaS
9 14 (3.71%) Power Automate
9 14 (3.71%) Tricentis Tosca
10 12 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (3.18%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (2.65%) Apigee
12 10 (2.65%) Boomi
13 9 (2.39%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.39%) PaaS
14 7 (1.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.96%) HTTPS
2 29 (7.69%) HTTP
3 10 (2.65%) Firewall
4 8 (2.12%) SSL
5 4 (1.06%) NFC
5 4 (1.06%) PPP
6 3 (0.80%) VPN
7 2 (0.53%) 5G
7 2 (0.53%) AMQP
7 2 (0.53%) BGP
7 2 (0.53%) DNS
7 2 (0.53%) DSL
7 2 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.53%) MPLS
7 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.27%) NAS
8 1 (0.27%) Network Security
8 1 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (15.65%) Relational Database
2 42 (11.14%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.57%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.45%) DataStage
6 12 (3.18%) MySQL
6 12 (3.18%) RDBMS
7 9 (2.39%) DB2
7 9 (2.39%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.39%) Oracle Database
7 9 (2.39%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (2.12%) Amazon QuickSight
8 8 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.12%) Metadata
8 8 (2.12%) Power BI
9 7 (1.86%) MariaDB
9 7 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 51 (13.53%) JIRA
2 47 (12.47%) Git
3 38 (10.08%) Postman
4 31 (8.22%) Jenkins
5 26 (6.90%) Selenium
6 21 (5.57%) JUnit
7 19 (5.04%) Cucumber
8 14 (3.71%) Eclipse
9 11 (2.92%) GitLab
9 11 (2.92%) SoapUI
10 10 (2.65%) Browser DevTools
10 10 (2.65%) Firebug
10 10 (2.65%) IntelliJ
11 8 (2.12%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.86%) Maven
12 7 (1.86%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.86%) Toad
13 6 (1.59%) PVCS
13 6 (1.59%) SpecFlow
13 6 (1.59%) Zephyr
General
1 128 (33.95%) Social Skills
2 77 (20.42%) Finance
3 63 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 40 (10.61%) Banking
6 15 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.98%) Publishing
7 12 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.92%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.65%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.65%) Back Office
10 8 (2.12%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.12%) Private Banking
11 6 (1.59%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.59%) Front Office
12 5 (1.33%) Automotive
12 5 (1.33%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.33%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.33%) Retail
13 4 (1.06%) Legal
Job Titles
1 123 (32.63%) Developer
2 58 (15.38%) Analyst
3 28 (7.43%) Consultant
3 28 (7.43%) Senior
4 24 (6.37%) Business Analyst
5 23 (6.10%) Software Engineer
6 17 (4.51%) Architect
6 17 (4.51%) Integration Developer
6 17 (4.51%) Support Engineer
7 15 (3.98%) Data Engineer
7 15 (3.98%) Java Developer
8 14 (3.71%) Author
8 14 (3.71%) Lead
8 14 (3.71%) Technical Author
9 13 (3.45%) webMethods Developer
10 10 (2.65%) Senior Developer
10 10 (2.65%) Technical Engineer
10 10 (2.65%) Technical Support
10 10 (2.65%) Technical Support Engineer
11 9 (2.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (53.32%) JSON
2 118 (31.30%) SOAP
3 107 (28.38%) REST
4 45 (11.94%) OAuth
4 45 (11.94%) Web Services
5 41 (10.88%) HTML
5 41 (10.88%) XSLT
6 35 (9.28%) RESTful
7 33 (8.75%) JMS
8 24 (6.37%) Spring
9 21 (5.57%) .NET
9 21 (5.57%) CSS
9 21 (5.57%) XSD
10 20 (5.31%) JWT
10 20 (5.31%) OAuth2
11 19 (5.04%) Hibernate
11 19 (5.04%) J2EE
12 17 (4.51%) Kafka
13 15 (3.98%) AngularJS
13 15 (3.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.24%) Data Structures
2 15 (3.98%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.92%) Replication
4 9 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.12%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.12%) AS400
5 8 (2.12%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.12%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 7 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.86%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.86%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.33%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.33%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.33%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.06%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.06%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.61%) Linux
2 24 (6.37%) Windows
3 20 (5.31%) Unix
4 5 (1.33%) AIX
4 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.80%) Android
5 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (34.75%) Agile
2 125 (33.16%) DevOps
3 83 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (20.95%) CI/CD
5 57 (15.12%) Test Automation
6 48 (12.73%) Migration
7 44 (11.67%) Scrum
8 43 (11.41%) Microservices
8 43 (11.41%) Validation
9 41 (10.88%) Deployment Automation
10 38 (10.08%) Data Modelling
10 38 (10.08%) ETL
11 37 (9.81%) Data Migration
12 36 (9.55%) ERP
13 35 (9.28%) Software Engineering
14 33 (8.75%) Computer Science
15 29 (7.69%) API Management
15 29 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (6.37%) Integration Patterns
16 24 (6.37%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 143 (37.93%) SQL
2 115 (30.50%) Java
3 65 (17.24%) Python
4 61 (16.18%) JavaScript
5 52 (13.79%) C#
6 20 (5.31%) PowerShell
7 17 (4.51%) PL/SQL
8 14 (3.71%) XPath
9 13 (3.45%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.65%) C++
11 9 (2.39%) ABAP
12 8 (2.12%) RPG
12 8 (2.12%) Scala
13 7 (1.86%) Groovy
13 7 (1.86%) VBA
14 6 (1.59%) Korn
15 5 (1.33%) Perl
15 5 (1.33%) Shell Script
16 4 (1.06%) DataWeave
16 4 (1.06%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 100 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 81 (21.49%) SC Cleared
3 54 (14.32%) Degree
4 28 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.18%) HNC
5 12 (3.18%) HND
6 11 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.65%) ISTQB
7 10 (2.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 7 (1.86%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.59%) ISEB
10 5 (1.33%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.80%) CCNP
11 3 (0.80%) CEH
11 3 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.80%) GIAC
11 3 (0.80%) OCP
11 3 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.80%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.16%) QA
2 25 (6.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.06%) SEPA
4 3 (0.80%) HL7
4 3 (0.80%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.80%) SLA
5 2 (0.53%) EMIR
5 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.53%) 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
System Software
1 42 (11.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.18%) Ansible
3 11 (2.92%) Control-M
4 9 (2.39%) logstash
4 9 (2.39%) Puppet
5 8 (2.12%) Kibana
6 7 (1.86%) TIBCO Hawk
7 5 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (1.06%) Terraform
8 4 (1.06%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.80%) CloudHub
10 2 (0.53%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.53%) QRadar
11 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.27%) Grafana
11 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (23.08%) Oracle
2 49 (13.00%) Microsoft
3 43 (11.41%) SAP
4 39 (10.34%) IBM
5 27 (7.16%) webMethods
6 14 (3.71%) MuleSoft
7 13 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 12 (3.18%) TIBCO
9 11 (2.92%) Software AG
9 11 (2.92%) Splunk
9 11 (2.92%) Workday
10 9 (2.39%) Cisco
11 8 (2.12%) Axway
11 8 (2.12%) Blue Prism
11 8 (2.12%) Pega
11 8 (2.12%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.86%) BEA
12 7 (1.86%) Veracode
13 6 (1.59%) Charles River
14 5 (1.33%) VMware