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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 240 226
Rank change year-on-year +1 -14 -35
Contract jobs citing XML 351 265 405
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 1.01% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.89% 4.51% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 161 277
10th Percentile £350 £324 £392
25th Percentile £400 £400 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £641 £595 £615
90th Percentile £720 £638 £750
UK median daily rate £477 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -4.70% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 24
10th Percentile £41.15 - £46.12
25th Percentile £42.13 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +89.86% -32.80%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 £50.60
90th Percentile £95.00 - £77.70
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -48.65% +89.86% -35.04%

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 7,181 5,874 7,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.06% 22.35% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,802 3,734 5,663
10th Percentile £356 £363 £358
25th Percentile £415 £430 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £661 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £762
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 77 183
10th Percentile £34.00 £26.25 £26.80
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 £68.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.80 £77.31
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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -11 184 £525 -1.87% 35
North of England -28 55 £414 -21.24% 17
North West -3 44 £402 -9.66% 7
South East -35 35 £450 +28.57% 39
Midlands -43 24 £429 -24.34% 16
East of England +5 23 £581 - 16
West Midlands -24 21 £429 -24.34% 9
Yorkshire -44 11 £531 -6.31% 9
South West -10 10 £400 -9.86% 11
East Midlands -24 3 - - 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 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 8 (2.28%) 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%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.57%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.57%) Summit
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 47 (13.39%) Relational Database
2 34 (9.69%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.98%) MongoDB
4 17 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.99%) RDBMS
6 12 (3.42%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.42%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (2.85%) Metadata
7 10 (2.85%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.56%) DataStage
8 9 (2.56%) Power BI
8 9 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.99%) DB2
9 7 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.42%) MySQL
12 4 (1.14%) Big Data
12 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
1 118 (33.62%) Social Skills
2 79 (22.51%) Finance
3 53 (15.10%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.25%) Banking
4 43 (12.25%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.42%) Investment Banking
7 11 (3.13%) Publishing
7 11 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.28%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.28%) Private Banking
9 7 (1.99%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.99%) Legal
10 5 (1.42%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (1.42%) Retail
11 4 (1.14%) Back Office
11 4 (1.14%) Front Office
11 4 (1.14%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 119 (33.90%) Developer
2 52 (14.81%) Analyst
3 26 (7.41%) Senior
4 23 (6.55%) Business Analyst
4 23 (6.55%) Consultant
5 21 (5.98%) Lead
6 18 (5.13%) Architect
6 18 (5.13%) Software Engineer
7 15 (4.27%) Integration Developer
8 13 (3.70%) webMethods Developer
9 12 (3.42%) Data Engineer
9 12 (3.42%) Java Developer
10 10 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.56%) Author
11 9 (2.56%) Senior Developer
11 9 (2.56%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (2.56%) Technical Author
12 8 (2.28%) DBA
12 8 (2.28%) Technical Business Analyst
12 8 (2.28%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (54.99%) JSON
2 120 (34.19%) REST
3 119 (33.90%) SOAP
4 47 (13.39%) OAuth
5 43 (12.25%) XSLT
6 39 (11.11%) Web Services
7 38 (10.83%) HTML
8 29 (8.26%) JMS
9 28 (7.98%) RESTful
10 24 (6.84%) .NET
10 24 (6.84%) Oracle Fusion
11 23 (6.55%) JWT
12 21 (5.98%) Spring
13 19 (5.41%) J2EE
13 19 (5.41%) 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%) Fixed Income
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%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.97%) Linux
2 21 (5.98%) 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
2 123 (35.04%) Agile
3 79 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (21.65%) CI/CD
5 47 (13.39%) ERP
5 47 (13.39%) Test Automation
5 47 (13.39%) Validation
6 46 (13.11%) Microservices
7 41 (11.68%) Deployment Automation
7 41 (11.68%) Migration
7 41 (11.68%) Scrum
8 38 (10.83%) ETL
9 37 (10.54%) Data Modelling
10 33 (9.40%) Computer Science
10 33 (9.40%) Integration Patterns
11 31 (8.83%) API Management
11 31 (8.83%) Software Engineering
12 30 (8.55%) Data Migration
12 30 (8.55%) Requirements Gathering
12 30 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (36.75%) SQL
2 104 (29.63%) Java
3 55 (15.67%) C#
3 55 (15.67%) Python
4 51 (14.53%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 17 (4.84%) PL/SQL
7 13 (3.70%) XPath
8 10 (2.85%) C++
9 8 (2.28%) RPG
9 8 (2.28%) Scala
10 7 (1.99%) ABAP
10 7 (1.99%) Korn
10 7 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.71%) Groovy
12 5 (1.42%) Perl
12 5 (1.42%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.14%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.57%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 93 (26.50%) Security Cleared
2 73 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 48 (13.68%) Degree
4 26 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.85%) ISTQB
7 9 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (2.28%) HNC
8 8 (2.28%) HND
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%) HL7
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%) 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 90 (25.64%) 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