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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 242 153
Rank change year-on-year -71 -89 +34
Contract jobs citing XML 350 304 547
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 1.10% 1.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.10% 4.96% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 223 285
10th Percentile £337 £360 £371
25th Percentile £400 £428 £430
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 £714 £629 £699
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -12.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 67
10th Percentile £29.07 £27.68 -
25th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -12.79% -38.57%
75th Percentile £46.80 £43.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £59.50 £59.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +5.33% -12.79% -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 8,530 6,125 7,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.21% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,592 4,224 5,184
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £430 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £809
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 139 235
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -16.00%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -61 174 £550 +4.76% 46
South East -63 59 £488 +2.63% 17
North of England -82 43 £383 -15.00% 7
Midlands -26 42 £418 -10.22% 11
North West -53 35 £383 -15.00% 3
West Midlands -35 33 £415 -17.00% 8
South West -33 14 £550 +46.67% 10
East Midlands -7 9 £438 +39.49% 3
East of England -33 9 £450 -18.18% 4
Yorkshire -44 8 £399 -24.05% 4
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%) Oracle Workflow
4 8 (2.29%) IIS
4 8 (2.29%) Mule
5 7 (2.00%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.43%) CMS
6 5 (1.43%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.14%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.57%) Apache
9 2 (0.57%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.57%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.29%) Appian
10 1 (0.29%) CICS
10 1 (0.29%) JBoss
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.29%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 18 (5.14%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (4.29%) Oracle Payables
3 14 (4.00%) NetSuite
4 13 (3.71%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (2.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (2.00%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (1.71%) Maximo
7 6 (1.71%) Oracle FAH
8 5 (1.43%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (1.43%) Summit
9 4 (1.14%) Elite 3E
9 4 (1.14%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (1.14%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 4 (1.14%) Oracle Internet Expenses
9 4 (1.14%) Oracle iProcurement
9 4 (1.14%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.86%) Findur
10 3 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (21.14%) Azure
2 34 (9.71%) AWS
3 31 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (8.86%) Boomi
4 19 (5.43%) GitHub
5 17 (4.86%) AtomSphere
5 17 (4.86%) GCP
5 17 (4.86%) SaaS
6 13 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (3.71%) Power Platform
7 12 (3.43%) Serverless
8 10 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.57%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (2.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (2.00%) Azure Functions
10 7 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.00%) iPaaS
10 7 (2.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.71%) HTTP
2 8 (2.29%) 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 38 (10.86%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.86%) Relational Database
3 20 (5.71%) RDBMS
4 18 (5.14%) Oracle Database
5 13 (3.71%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.71%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.71%) Oracle Reports
5 13 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.43%) Metadata
6 12 (3.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 11 (3.14%) Power BI
7 11 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (2.86%) MySQL
9 9 (2.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (2.00%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.71%) DataStage
12 5 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (0.86%) Db2
Development Applications
1 33 (9.43%) Git
1 33 (9.43%) JIRA
2 28 (8.00%) Postman
3 15 (4.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 15 (4.29%) Visual Studio
4 10 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (2.29%) GitLab
5 8 (2.29%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.00%) JMeter
6 7 (2.00%) Selenium
6 7 (2.00%) SoapUI
7 6 (1.71%) JDeveloper
7 6 (1.71%) Maven
8 5 (1.43%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.43%) Eclipse
8 5 (1.43%) Gradle
8 5 (1.43%) JUnit
9 4 (1.14%) Newman
9 4 (1.14%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 118 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 78 (22.29%) Finance
3 73 (20.86%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.71%) Banking
6 12 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.57%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.57%) Legal
9 8 (2.29%) General Ledger
10 7 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.00%) Retail
11 6 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.43%) Military
12 5 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.14%) Advertising
13 4 (1.14%) Front Office
13 4 (1.14%) Marketing
13 4 (1.14%) Publishing
14 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 106 (30.29%) Developer
2 51 (14.57%) Consultant
3 41 (11.71%) Analyst
4 36 (10.29%) Senior
5 30 (8.57%) Implementation Consultant
6 27 (7.71%) Architect
7 21 (6.00%) Business Analyst
7 21 (6.00%) Data Engineer
8 20 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 13 (3.71%) Payroll Consultant
10 11 (3.14%) C# Developer
10 11 (3.14%) Oracle Developer
10 11 (3.14%) Software Engineer
11 10 (2.86%) Integration Developer
11 10 (2.86%) Lead
11 10 (2.86%) Technical Consultant
12 9 (2.57%) Integration Architect
12 9 (2.57%) Software Developer
13 8 (2.29%) Applications Developer
13 8 (2.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (49.14%) JSON
2 114 (32.57%) REST
3 107 (30.57%) SOAP
4 51 (14.57%) Web Services
5 44 (12.57%) .NET
6 43 (12.29%) Middleware
7 34 (9.71%) XSLT
8 29 (8.29%) OAuth
9 22 (6.29%) Kafka
10 20 (5.71%) HTML
11 19 (5.43%) OAuth2
11 19 (5.43%) RESTful
12 17 (4.86%) CSS
12 17 (4.86%) EDI
13 16 (4.57%) JWT
14 15 (4.29%) Swagger
15 13 (3.71%) .NET Framework
15 13 (3.71%) ActiveX
16 11 (3.14%) ASP.NET
17 10 (2.86%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (3.43%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.00%) CMDB
6 7 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.71%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.71%) Credit Risk
7 6 (1.71%) Derivative
7 6 (1.71%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.71%) Market Risk
7 6 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (1.71%) Taxonomies
8 5 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.29%) Unix
2 18 (5.14%) Linux
3 14 (4.00%) Windows
4 3 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.57%) VMS
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (24.86%) Agile
3 67 (19.14%) DevOps
4 66 (18.86%) CI/CD
5 56 (16.00%) Workflow
6 51 (14.57%) Validation
7 44 (12.57%) Data Modelling
7 44 (12.57%) Migration
8 40 (11.43%) Integration Patterns
9 34 (9.71%) Data Mapping
9 34 (9.71%) User Acceptance Testing
10 31 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 29 (8.29%) API Management
11 29 (8.29%) ERP
11 29 (8.29%) Scrum
12 28 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (8.00%) Test Automation
13 27 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (7.71%) ETL
14 26 (7.43%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 162 (46.29%) SQL
2 53 (15.14%) JavaScript
3 52 (14.86%) Java
4 48 (13.71%) Python
5 43 (12.29%) C#
6 39 (11.14%) T-SQL
7 29 (8.29%) PL/SQL
8 18 (5.14%) Groovy
9 16 (4.57%) PowerShell
9 16 (4.57%) VB
9 16 (4.57%) VB6
10 15 (4.29%) C++
10 15 (4.29%) VBA
11 10 (2.86%) VB.NET
12 8 (2.29%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.71%) Bicep
13 6 (1.71%) XPath
14 5 (1.43%) R
15 4 (1.14%) C
15 4 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 82 (23.43%) Security Cleared
2 63 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.43%) Degree
4 11 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.57%) ISTQB
6 9 (2.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.43%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.43%) ISEB
9 4 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.57%) CISSP
11 2 (0.57%) GIAC
11 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.57%) SSCP
12 1 (0.29%) CEH
12 1 (0.29%) CISM
12 1 (0.29%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.43%) QA
2 18 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.29%) GDPR
4 7 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.71%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.43%) HL7
6 5 (1.43%) WCAG
7 4 (1.14%) GRC
8 3 (0.86%) FATCA
8 3 (0.86%) SLA
9 2 (0.57%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.29%) COREP
10 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.29%) FINREP
10 1 (0.29%) IFRS
10 1 (0.29%) NIST
10 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.29%) PMO
10 1 (0.29%) PSD2
10 1 (0.29%) SEPA
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
1 103 (29.43%) Oracle
2 70 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 28 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 24 (6.86%) SAP
5 19 (5.43%) IBM
5 19 (5.43%) MuleSoft
6 18 (5.14%) Workday
7 17 (4.86%) Salesforce
8 12 (3.43%) Google
9 9 (2.57%) webMethods
10 8 (2.29%) Databricks
11 6 (1.71%) Dell
12 5 (1.43%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.43%) Kronos
13 4 (1.14%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.14%) Intapp
13 4 (1.14%) InterSystems
13 4 (1.14%) Okta
13 4 (1.14%) Pega
13 4 (1.14%) TIBCO