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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 277 160
Rank change year-on-year -7 -117 +49
Contract jobs citing XML 338 218 558
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.90% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.25% 4.00% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 153 309
10th Percentile £350 £365 £406
25th Percentile £400 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £613 £588 £625
90th Percentile £692 £650 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 72
10th Percentile £31.45 £22.73 -
25th Percentile £40.75 £25.54 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £60.13 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +39.84% -40.69%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £57.35 - £84.60
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £27.38 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.48% -36.33% -40.69%

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 7,947 5,454 7,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.69% 22.40% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,297 3,781 5,342
10th Percentile £361 £368 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.23% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 100 218
10th Percentile £34.25 £30.13 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -17 163 £545 +3.81% 29
North of England -42 64 £393 -12.44% 17
South East -37 58 £513 +28.13% 25
North West -18 57 £391 -12.57% 10
Midlands -64 22 £468 -15.00% 8
West Midlands -56 14 £461 -18.00% 4
East of England -21 10 £625 +28.21% 3
East Midlands -24 8 £525 +46.65% 4
South West -26 7 £550 +46.67% 7
Yorkshire -51 7 £431 -21.59% 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 17 (5.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 14 (4.14%) Confluence
3 11 (3.25%) WebSphere
4 10 (2.96%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.78%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (1.48%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.48%) CMS
6 5 (1.48%) Mule
7 4 (1.18%) IIS
7 4 (1.18%) Oracle Service Bus
7 4 (1.18%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.89%) Apache
8 3 (0.89%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.89%) Mule ESB
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.59%) Appian
9 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.30%) JBoss
10 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.48%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.59%) FrameMaker
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (2.96%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.37%) Maximo
3 7 (2.07%) BusinessWorks
3 7 (2.07%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (2.07%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (2.07%) SAP Payroll
4 6 (1.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (1.78%) Summit
5 5 (1.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (1.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 5 (1.48%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (1.48%) SAP HCM
5 5 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (1.18%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.89%) Findur
7 3 (0.89%) Oracle 11i
7 3 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.89%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.59%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 67 (19.82%) Azure
2 38 (11.24%) AWS
3 26 (7.69%) OCI
4 19 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (5.62%) GCP
5 18 (5.33%) Power Platform
5 18 (5.33%) SaaS
6 15 (4.44%) PaaS
6 15 (4.44%) Serverless
7 14 (4.14%) GitHub
8 13 (3.85%) Apigee
8 13 (3.85%) IaaS
9 10 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (2.66%) Boomi
10 9 (2.66%) Kong
11 8 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.07%) Azure API Management
12 7 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.33%) HTTP
2 9 (2.66%) HTTPS
3 8 (2.37%) FTP
4 6 (1.78%) Firewall
5 4 (1.18%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.59%) DNS
6 2 (0.59%) FIX Connectivity
6 2 (0.59%) Network Security
6 2 (0.59%) RTCP
6 2 (0.59%) RTP
6 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.59%) VPN
6 2 (0.59%) XCAP
7 1 (0.30%) 5G
7 1 (0.30%) BGP
7 1 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.30%) MPLS
7 1 (0.30%) NAS
7 1 (0.30%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.31%) Relational Database
2 36 (10.65%) SQL Server
3 22 (6.51%) RDBMS
4 21 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.92%) NoSQL
6 19 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (5.03%) MongoDB
8 15 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
8 15 (4.44%) Power BI
9 14 (4.14%) Oracle Database
10 13 (3.85%) Metadata
11 10 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (2.66%) MySQL
13 8 (2.37%) Data Lake
13 8 (2.37%) DB2
14 7 (2.07%) DataStage
15 6 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 4 (1.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 37 (10.95%) Postman
2 30 (8.88%) JIRA
3 29 (8.58%) Git
4 13 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.55%) SoapUI
6 10 (2.96%) Maven
7 8 (2.37%) JUnit
8 7 (2.07%) GitLab
9 6 (1.78%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.48%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.48%) Selenium
11 4 (1.18%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.18%) Subversion
11 4 (1.18%) TestRail
11 4 (1.18%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.89%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.89%) Firebug
12 3 (0.89%) MSTest
12 3 (0.89%) REST Assured
General
1 113 (33.43%) Social Skills
2 71 (21.01%) Finance
3 67 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (11.24%) Banking
5 26 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.14%) Investment Banking
7 13 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.96%) Legal
10 6 (1.78%) Military
11 5 (1.48%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.18%) Advertising
12 4 (1.18%) Front Office
12 4 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.18%) Publishing
13 3 (0.89%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.89%) Marketing
14 2 (0.59%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.59%) Law
14 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (24.56%) Developer
2 61 (18.05%) Consultant
3 43 (12.72%) Analyst
4 33 (9.76%) Implementation Consultant
5 27 (7.99%) Business Analyst
6 20 (5.92%) Lead
7 18 (5.33%) Architect
7 18 (5.33%) Senior
8 15 (4.44%) Data Engineer
8 15 (4.44%) Software Engineer
9 13 (3.85%) Payroll Consultant
10 12 (3.55%) DBA
11 9 (2.66%) Applications Developer
11 9 (2.66%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 9 (2.66%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (2.37%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.37%) Technical Business Analyst
12 8 (2.37%) Workflow Consultant
13 7 (2.07%) Integration Consultant
13 7 (2.07%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (48.22%) JSON
2 96 (28.40%) SOAP
3 90 (26.63%) REST
4 51 (15.09%) Web Services
5 40 (11.83%) XSLT
6 37 (10.95%) OAuth
7 29 (8.58%) JWT
8 28 (8.28%) Oracle Fusion
9 27 (7.99%) .NET
9 27 (7.99%) Middleware
10 24 (7.10%) HTML
10 24 (7.10%) Kafka
11 20 (5.92%) RESTful
12 19 (5.62%) Swagger
13 18 (5.33%) CSS
14 17 (5.03%) EDI
14 17 (5.03%) XSD
15 16 (4.73%) OAuth2
16 15 (4.44%) JMS
17 14 (4.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.55%) Data Structures
3 10 (2.96%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.96%) Public Cloud
4 8 (2.37%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.07%) Derivative
5 7 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.07%) Replication
6 6 (1.78%) Credit Risk
6 6 (1.78%) Market Risk
6 6 (1.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.48%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.48%) Digital Wallet
7 5 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.18%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.58%) Linux
2 20 (5.92%) Unix
3 12 (3.55%) Windows
4 5 (1.48%) AIX
5 2 (0.59%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.59%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (28.99%) Agile
2 85 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (21.89%) DevOps
4 42 (12.43%) CI/CD
5 41 (12.13%) Data Modelling
5 41 (12.13%) Integration Patterns
6 40 (11.83%) ERP
6 40 (11.83%) Validation
7 37 (10.95%) Migration
8 33 (9.76%) Requirements Gathering
9 32 (9.47%) Workflow
10 31 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (8.88%) ETL
12 28 (8.28%) Computer Science
12 28 (8.28%) SDLC
13 26 (7.69%) Microservices
14 25 (7.40%) Mentoring
14 25 (7.40%) Unit Testing
14 25 (7.40%) User Acceptance Testing
15 24 (7.10%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (39.94%) SQL
2 57 (16.86%) Java
3 41 (12.13%) Python
4 40 (11.83%) C#
5 36 (10.65%) JavaScript
6 32 (9.47%) T-SQL
7 17 (5.03%) PL/SQL
8 12 (3.55%) XPath
9 11 (3.25%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.07%) C++
10 7 (2.07%) Korn
11 6 (1.78%) ABAP
11 6 (1.78%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.48%) Perl
13 4 (1.18%) Bicep
14 3 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.89%) Groovy
14 3 (0.89%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.59%) R
15 2 (0.59%) VB6
Qualifications
1 82 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 61 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 37 (10.95%) Degree
4 20 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.18%) CCNP
7 4 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.89%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.89%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.59%) HNC
9 2 (0.59%) HND
9 2 (0.59%) ISEB
9 2 (0.59%) OCP
9 2 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.33%) QA
2 11 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.78%) GDPR
4 5 (1.48%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.48%) PSD2
5 4 (1.18%) GAAP
5 4 (1.18%) HL7
6 3 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.89%) FATCA
6 3 (0.89%) ISO 8583
6 3 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.59%) Basel III
7 2 (0.59%) IFRS
7 2 (0.59%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.59%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.59%) SEPA
7 2 (0.59%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) DICOM
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (5.03%) Docker
2 2 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.07%) TIBCO Hawk
3 4 (1.18%) Control-M
4 3 (0.89%) Grafana
4 3 (0.89%) logstash
4 3 (0.89%) QRadar
5 2 (0.59%) Ansible
5 2 (0.59%) CloudHub
5 2 (0.59%) Fluentd
5 2 (0.59%) Terraform
6 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.30%) Kibana
6 1 (0.30%) Podman
6 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.30%) Puppet
6 1 (0.30%) vRealize
6 1 (0.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 101 (29.88%) Oracle
2 40 (11.83%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.58%) SAP
4 27 (7.99%) IBM
5 19 (5.62%) Workday
6 18 (5.33%) ServiceNow
7 15 (4.44%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.66%) Splunk
9 8 (2.37%) Informatica
9 8 (2.37%) Pega
9 8 (2.37%) TIBCO
9 8 (2.37%) webMethods
10 7 (2.07%) BEA
10 7 (2.07%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.78%) Databricks
11 6 (1.78%) Dell
12 5 (1.48%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.48%) Google
13 4 (1.18%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.18%) Charles River