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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 249 215
Rank change year-on-year +2 -34 -16
Contract jobs citing XML 351 267 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 1.00% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.93% 4.49% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 162 288
10th Percentile £350 £324 £400
25th Percentile £400 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% -5.68% -1.35%
75th Percentile £638 £599 £613
90th Percentile £722 £638 £744
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 27
10th Percentile £40.80 - £43.00
25th Percentile £41.69 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £43.00 £92.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -53.51% +89.86% -30.40%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile £93.65 - £74.40
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £92.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -53.51% +89.86% -32.80%

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 7,122 5,944 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.98% 22.29% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,772 3,787 5,697
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £427 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £662
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 78 182
10th Percentile £34.20 £26.25 £26.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.56 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 25 January 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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -23 182 £525 -1.87% 36
North of England -30 55 £414 -21.24% 28
North West -1 44 £402 -9.66% 11
South East -25 34 £438 +25.00% 57
East of England +6 26 £581 - 27
Midlands -33 24 £429 -24.34% 21
West Midlands -35 21 £429 -24.34% 8
Yorkshire -46 11 £531 -6.31% 14
South West -9 10 £400 -9.86% 21
East Midlands -25 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 (5.70%) WebLogic
2 17 (4.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 15 (4.27%) Confluence
4 11 (3.13%) Apache
5 10 (2.85%) WebSphere
6 9 (2.56%) JBoss
7 8 (2.28%) Appian
8 7 (1.99%) MQSeries
9 6 (1.71%) Anypoint
9 6 (1.71%) Mule
9 6 (1.71%) nginx
9 6 (1.71%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (1.14%) Mule ESB
10 4 (1.14%) Oracle Service Bus
11 3 (0.85%) Documentum
12 2 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.28%) CMS
13 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.85%) FrameMaker
2 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.28%) SAP Payroll
2 7 (1.99%) BusinessWorks
2 7 (1.99%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (1.99%) SAP HCM
3 6 (1.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 5 (1.42%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.42%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (1.14%) Maximo
5 4 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.57%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.57%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.57%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.57%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (21.08%) Azure
2 62 (17.66%) AWS
3 25 (7.12%) OCI
4 21 (5.98%) GitHub
5 19 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 18 (5.13%) SaaS
7 17 (4.84%) GCP
7 17 (4.84%) Serverless
8 14 (3.99%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (3.99%) Tricentis Tosca
9 13 (3.70%) Apigee
9 13 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (3.70%) PaaS
10 12 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (3.13%) IaaS
12 10 (2.85%) Boomi
12 10 (2.85%) Power Automate
13 8 (2.28%) Kong
14 7 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.55%) HTTPS
2 23 (6.55%) HTTP
3 10 (2.85%) Firewall
4 8 (2.28%) SSL
5 3 (0.85%) NFC
5 3 (0.85%) PPP
6 2 (0.57%) 5G
6 2 (0.57%) BGP
6 2 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.57%) FIX Connectivity
6 2 (0.57%) MPLS
6 2 (0.57%) VPN
7 1 (0.28%) DNS
7 1 (0.28%) FTP
7 1 (0.28%) Network Security
7 1 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.28%) SMS
7 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.11%) Relational Database
2 34 (9.69%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.98%) MongoDB
4 17 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.70%) RDBMS
7 12 (3.42%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.42%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (2.85%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.56%) DataStage
9 9 (2.56%) Metadata
9 9 (2.56%) Power BI
9 9 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.99%) DB2
10 7 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.42%) MySQL
13 4 (1.14%) Big Data
13 4 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (13.96%) JIRA
2 40 (11.40%) Postman
3 37 (10.54%) Git
4 28 (7.98%) Jenkins
5 25 (7.12%) Selenium
6 20 (5.70%) JUnit
7 18 (5.13%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.13%) Eclipse
9 9 (2.56%) GitLab
9 9 (2.56%) SoapUI
10 8 (2.28%) IntelliJ
10 8 (2.28%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.99%) Maven
11 7 (1.99%) Robot Framework
11 7 (1.99%) Toad
12 6 (1.71%) SpecFlow
12 6 (1.71%) TestRail
12 6 (1.71%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.42%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.42%) Browser DevTools
General
1 117 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 79 (22.51%) Finance
3 52 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.25%) Public Sector
5 42 (11.97%) Banking
6 17 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.99%) Publishing
8 11 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 11 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.56%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.28%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.28%) Private Banking
11 7 (1.99%) Legal
12 5 (1.42%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.42%) Retail
13 4 (1.14%) Automotive
13 4 (1.14%) Front Office
13 4 (1.14%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 118 (33.62%) Developer
2 51 (14.53%) Analyst
3 26 (7.41%) Senior
4 23 (6.55%) Consultant
5 22 (6.27%) Business Analyst
6 21 (5.98%) Lead
7 18 (5.13%) Architect
7 18 (5.13%) Software Engineer
8 15 (4.27%) Integration Developer
9 13 (3.70%) webMethods Developer
10 12 (3.42%) Author
10 12 (3.42%) Data Engineer
10 12 (3.42%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.42%) Technical Author
11 10 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.56%) Senior Developer
12 9 (2.56%) Technical Analyst
13 8 (2.28%) DBA
13 8 (2.28%) Technical Business Analyst
13 8 (2.28%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (54.70%) JSON
2 118 (33.62%) REST
2 118 (33.62%) SOAP
3 47 (13.39%) OAuth
4 43 (12.25%) XSLT
5 39 (11.11%) Web Services
6 38 (10.83%) HTML
7 29 (8.26%) JMS
8 27 (7.69%) RESTful
9 24 (6.84%) Oracle Fusion
10 23 (6.55%) .NET
10 23 (6.55%) JWT
11 21 (5.98%) Spring
12 19 (5.41%) J2EE
13 18 (5.13%) Middleware
14 17 (4.84%) CSS
14 17 (4.84%) OAuth2
14 17 (4.84%) XSD
15 16 (4.56%) Hibernate
15 16 (4.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.70%) Cloud Native
1 13 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.13%) Replication
3 9 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 8 (2.28%) Algorithms
4 8 (2.28%) AS400
4 8 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.28%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.28%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.71%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 6 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.42%) CMDB
7 5 (1.42%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.14%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.97%) Linux
2 20 (5.70%) Unix
3 15 (4.27%) Windows
4 5 (1.42%) AIX
5 4 (1.14%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.85%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (35.33%) DevOps
2 122 (34.76%) Agile
3 76 (21.65%) CI/CD
3 76 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (13.39%) ERP
4 47 (13.39%) Test Automation
4 47 (13.39%) Validation
5 45 (12.82%) Microservices
6 41 (11.68%) Deployment Automation
6 41 (11.68%) Migration
6 41 (11.68%) Scrum
7 38 (10.83%) ETL
8 37 (10.54%) Data Modelling
9 32 (9.12%) Computer Science
9 32 (9.12%) Integration Patterns
10 31 (8.83%) API Management
10 31 (8.83%) Software Engineering
11 30 (8.55%) Data Migration
11 30 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 127 (36.18%) SQL
2 104 (29.63%) Java
3 55 (15.67%) Python
4 54 (15.38%) C#
5 51 (14.53%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.41%) PowerShell
7 17 (4.84%) PL/SQL
8 13 (3.70%) XPath
9 10 (2.85%) C++
10 8 (2.28%) RPG
10 8 (2.28%) Scala
11 7 (1.99%) ABAP
11 7 (1.99%) Korn
11 7 (1.99%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.71%) Groovy
13 5 (1.42%) Perl
13 5 (1.42%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.14%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.57%) BeanShell
15 2 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 94 (26.78%) Security Cleared
2 74 (21.08%) SC Cleared
3 50 (14.25%) Degree
4 26 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.13%) HNC
6 11 (3.13%) HND
7 10 (2.85%) ISTQB
8 9 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.42%) CCNP
9 5 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.42%) ISEB
9 5 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.42%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.42%) PMP
10 3 (0.85%) CEH
10 3 (0.85%) GIAC
10 3 (0.85%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.98%) QA
2 13 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.42%) GAAP
4 4 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.14%) PSD2
5 3 (0.85%) GDPR
5 3 (0.85%) IFRS
5 3 (0.85%) ISO 8583
5 3 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.57%) Basel III
6 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.57%) EMIR
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.57%) SEPA
7 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.28%) DICOM
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (11.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 15 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.85%) Ansible
2 10 (2.85%) Control-M
3 9 (2.56%) Puppet
4 8 (2.28%) logstash
5 7 (1.99%) Kibana
5 7 (1.99%) TIBCO Hawk
6 5 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.85%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.57%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.57%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.57%) QRadar
8 2 (0.57%) Terraform
9 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.28%) Grafana
9 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.28%) Podman
9 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (25.36%) Oracle
2 42 (11.97%) SAP
3 39 (11.11%) IBM
4 35 (9.97%) Microsoft
5 26 (7.41%) webMethods
6 15 (4.27%) MuleSoft
7 13 (3.70%) Workday
8 12 (3.42%) TIBCO
9 11 (3.13%) Pega
9 11 (3.13%) ServiceNow
9 11 (3.13%) Software AG
9 11 (3.13%) Splunk
10 9 (2.56%) Cisco
11 8 (2.28%) Axway
11 8 (2.28%) Informatica
11 8 (2.28%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.99%) BEA
12 7 (1.99%) Veracode
13 5 (1.42%) F5
13 5 (1.42%) Solace