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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 256 162
Rank change year-on-year -61 -94 +29
Contract jobs citing XML 317 252 560
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 1.01% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.83% 4.46% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 177 297
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £409 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -8.22%
75th Percentile £625 £577 £622
90th Percentile £713 £633 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 68
10th Percentile £29.07 £22.73 -
25th Percentile £29.92 £25.54 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £57.63 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.46% +34.02% -38.57%
75th Percentile £44.90 £90.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £59.50 £92.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.38 £43.00
% change year-on-year +44.27% -36.33% -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 8,281 5,656 7,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.06% 22.58% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,470 3,926 5,494
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £740 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 115 264
10th Percentile £30.61 £32.69 £23.07
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.87% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.14 £81.01 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -62 149 £550 +0.92% 31
South East -49 53 £525 +10.53% 25
North of England -74 50 £390 -13.33% 10
North West -46 41 £383 -15.00% 7
Midlands -36 29 £425 -15.00% 9
West Midlands -44 21 £425 -22.73% 2
South West -24 13 £575 +21.05% 8
East of England -22 11 £450 -18.18% 6
Yorkshire -48 9 £463 -9.76% 2
East Midlands -12 8 £471 +50.08% 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 18 (5.68%) Confluence
2 11 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.52%) Oracle Workflow
4 7 (2.21%) Mule
5 6 (1.89%) Anypoint
5 6 (1.89%) IIS
5 6 (1.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.89%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.58%) CMS
7 3 (0.95%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.95%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.63%) Appian
8 2 (0.63%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.63%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.32%) Apache
9 1 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.32%) CICS
9 1 (0.32%) JBoss
9 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.63%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.84%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (2.21%) Oracle Receivables
2 7 (2.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 6 (1.89%) Maximo
3 6 (1.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 6 (1.89%) Summit
4 5 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.58%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.58%) Oracle Cash Management
4 5 (1.58%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.58%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.58%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (1.26%) Elite 3E
5 4 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (1.26%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.95%) Findur
6 3 (0.95%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.63%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 62 (19.56%) Azure
2 29 (9.15%) AWS
3 24 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (5.68%) Boomi
5 16 (5.05%) GitHub
5 16 (5.05%) Power Platform
6 14 (4.42%) OCI
6 14 (4.42%) SaaS
7 13 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (4.10%) Serverless
8 11 (3.47%) GCP
9 9 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (2.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (2.52%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.52%) IaaS
10 8 (2.52%) PaaS
11 7 (2.21%) AtomSphere
11 7 (2.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.52%) FTP
2 6 (1.89%) HTTP
3 4 (1.26%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.63%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.63%) RTCP
4 2 (0.63%) RTP
4 2 (0.63%) SSL
4 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.63%) XCAP
5 1 (0.32%) DNS
5 1 (0.32%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.32%) Internet
5 1 (0.32%) Intranet
5 1 (0.32%) NAS
5 1 (0.32%) Network Security
5 1 (0.32%) SAN
5 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.99%) SQL Server
2 29 (9.15%) Relational Database
3 18 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (5.68%) RDBMS
4 17 (5.36%) Oracle Database
5 15 (4.73%) NoSQL
6 14 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (4.10%) MongoDB
7 13 (4.10%) Power BI
8 12 (3.79%) Metadata
9 11 (3.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (3.15%) Oracle Reports
10 10 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (2.84%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.84%) MySQL
12 5 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (1.26%) DataStage
13 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (0.95%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (8.83%) Git
2 27 (8.52%) JIRA
2 27 (8.52%) Postman
3 9 (2.84%) GitLab
4 8 (2.52%) Maven
4 8 (2.52%) SoapUI
5 7 (2.21%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.21%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.89%) Selenium
7 5 (1.58%) Eclipse
7 5 (1.58%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.58%) JMeter
8 4 (1.26%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.26%) Gradle
8 4 (1.26%) JUnit
8 4 (1.26%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.26%) Subversion
9 3 (0.95%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.95%) MSTest
9 3 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 111 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 69 (21.77%) Finance
3 68 (21.45%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (11.04%) Banking
5 25 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.79%) Legal
6 12 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.47%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.21%) General Ledger
9 7 (2.21%) Military
10 5 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.58%) Marketing
11 4 (1.26%) Advertising
11 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.26%) Front Office
11 4 (1.26%) Publishing
11 4 (1.26%) Retail
12 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 84 (26.50%) Developer
2 49 (15.46%) Consultant
3 44 (13.88%) Analyst
4 30 (9.46%) Implementation Consultant
5 28 (8.83%) Business Analyst
6 22 (6.94%) Data Engineer
6 22 (6.94%) Senior
7 20 (6.31%) Architect
8 15 (4.73%) Lead
9 13 (4.10%) Payroll Consultant
10 10 (3.15%) C# Developer
10 10 (3.15%) Senior Developer
11 9 (2.84%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.52%) Integration Architect
12 8 (2.52%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (2.52%) Integration Specialist
12 8 (2.52%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (2.52%) Technical Business Analyst
12 8 (2.52%) Technical Consultant
12 8 (2.52%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (47.00%) JSON
2 98 (30.91%) REST
3 89 (28.08%) SOAP
4 42 (13.25%) Web Services
5 40 (12.62%) .NET
5 40 (12.62%) Middleware
6 30 (9.46%) XSLT
7 23 (7.26%) OAuth
8 21 (6.62%) HTML
9 17 (5.36%) JWT
9 17 (5.36%) Kafka
9 17 (5.36%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (5.05%) CSS
10 16 (5.05%) EDI
10 16 (5.05%) RESTful
11 14 (4.42%) Swagger
12 12 (3.79%) OAuth2
13 11 (3.47%) .NET Framework
14 10 (3.15%) AngularJS
15 9 (2.84%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.42%) Product Ownership
2 8 (2.52%) Derivative
2 8 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.21%) Credit Risk
3 7 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.21%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.21%) Fixed Income
3 7 (2.21%) Market Risk
4 6 (1.89%) CMDB
4 6 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.58%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.58%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (1.58%) Taxonomies
6 4 (1.26%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.95%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.68%) Unix
2 16 (5.05%) Linux
3 9 (2.84%) Windows
4 3 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.63%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (28.08%) Agile
1 89 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (19.24%) DevOps
3 57 (17.98%) CI/CD
4 48 (15.14%) Validation
5 46 (14.51%) Workflow
6 45 (14.20%) Integration Patterns
7 37 (11.67%) ETL
7 37 (11.67%) Migration
8 35 (11.04%) Data Modelling
9 34 (10.73%) ERP
9 34 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (10.09%) User Acceptance Testing
11 29 (9.15%) Data Mapping
12 28 (8.83%) Scrum
13 25 (7.89%) Requirements Gathering
13 25 (7.89%) SDLC
14 24 (7.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (7.26%) AI
15 23 (7.26%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 147 (46.37%) SQL
2 49 (15.46%) Java
3 45 (14.20%) JavaScript
4 42 (13.25%) C#
5 39 (12.30%) Python
6 38 (11.99%) T-SQL
7 20 (6.31%) PL/SQL
8 14 (4.42%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.84%) C++
9 9 (2.84%) VB
9 9 (2.84%) VB6
10 8 (2.52%) Groovy
11 7 (2.21%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.21%) VBA
12 6 (1.89%) Bicep
13 5 (1.58%) XPath
14 3 (0.95%) C
14 3 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 76 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 57 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.20%) Degree
4 12 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.58%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.26%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.26%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.26%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.63%) CCNP
9 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.63%) HNC
9 2 (0.63%) HND
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.62%) QA
2 19 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.84%) GDPR
4 6 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.58%) HL7
5 5 (1.58%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.26%) GAAP
6 4 (1.26%) WCAG
7 3 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.95%) FATCA
7 3 (0.95%) GRC
7 3 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.95%) PSD2
8 2 (0.63%) Basel III
8 2 (0.63%) IFRS
8 2 (0.63%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.63%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.63%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (3.47%) Docker
2 3 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.32%) RACF
Systems Management
1 11 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.21%) Terraform
3 5 (1.58%) Ansible
3 5 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.95%) Control-M
5 2 (0.63%) Grafana
5 2 (0.63%) WMI
6 1 (0.32%) QRadar
6 1 (0.32%) vRealize
6 1 (0.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 85 (26.81%) Oracle
2 57 (17.98%) Microsoft
3 26 (8.20%) SAP
4 25 (7.89%) ServiceNow
4 25 (7.89%) Workday
5 17 (5.36%) MuleSoft
6 11 (3.47%) IBM
7 9 (2.84%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.52%) Google
9 7 (2.21%) Databricks
9 7 (2.21%) Pega
10 6 (1.89%) Dell
10 6 (1.89%) webMethods
11 5 (1.58%) Informatica
11 5 (1.58%) Kronos
12 4 (1.26%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.26%) Intapp
12 4 (1.26%) InterSystems
13 3 (0.95%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.95%) Okta