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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 259 161
Rank change year-on-year -36 -98 +28
Contract jobs citing XML 318 237 561
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.98% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.92% 4.34% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 169 296
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £420 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £534
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -11.05% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £585 £625
90th Percentile £704 £638 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £534
% change year-on-year +5.32% -11.05% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 69
10th Percentile £29.37 £22.10 -
25th Percentile £33.63 £23.98 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £27.76 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.59% -35.44% -39.65%
75th Percentile £48.75 £61.08 £51.25
90th Percentile £55.20 £80.68 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £46.80 £27.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.33% -37.21% -39.65%

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 8,108 5,455 7,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.56% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,343 3,782 5,423
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £414 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £633 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 105 244
10th Percentile £31.62 £31.07 £22.58
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £79.60 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -59 149 £550 +4.76% 47
South East -41 61 £525 +10.53% 31
North of England -64 50 £397 -11.81% 14
North West -33 43 £393 -12.78% 6
Midlands -39 26 £425 -15.00% 11
West Midlands -46 18 £425 -22.73% 6
South West -17 13 £600 +29.73% 10
East of England -22 9 £450 -18.18% 4
East Midlands -19 8 £471 +50.08% 5
Yorkshire -61 7 £463 -9.76% 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 (5.66%) Confluence
2 12 (3.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (2.83%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.52%) Oracle Workflow
4 8 (2.52%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.89%) IIS
6 5 (1.57%) CMS
6 5 (1.57%) Mule
6 5 (1.57%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.26%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.26%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.94%) Mule ESB
8 3 (0.94%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.63%) Appian
9 2 (0.63%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.31%) Apache
10 1 (0.31%) CICS
10 1 (0.31%) JBoss
Applications
1 29 (9.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.63%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.14%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (2.83%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (2.20%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (2.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 6 (1.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (1.89%) Summit
5 5 (1.57%) Maximo
5 5 (1.57%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (1.57%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (1.26%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.94%) Findur
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.63%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.63%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.63%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.63%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 57 (17.92%) Azure
2 29 (9.12%) AWS
3 21 (6.60%) OCI
4 20 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (4.72%) GitHub
5 15 (4.72%) Power Platform
6 14 (4.40%) SaaS
7 13 (4.09%) Boomi
7 13 (4.09%) PaaS
8 12 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (3.77%) Serverless
9 11 (3.46%) IaaS
10 10 (3.14%) GCP
11 9 (2.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (2.20%) Azure Functions
13 7 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.20%) FTP
2 6 (1.89%) HTTP
3 4 (1.26%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.63%) FIX Connectivity
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 (0.31%) DNS
5 1 (0.31%) Firewall
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) Intranet
5 1 (0.31%) NAS
5 1 (0.31%) Network Security
5 1 (0.31%) SAN
5 1 (0.31%) SMS
5 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.38%) Relational Database
1 33 (10.38%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.92%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (5.97%) RDBMS
4 17 (5.35%) Oracle Database
5 15 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 14 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.77%) Power BI
8 10 (3.14%) Metadata
8 10 (3.14%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (2.83%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.83%) MySQL
9 9 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.94%) DataStage
13 3 (0.94%) Db2
Development Applications
1 34 (10.69%) Postman
2 26 (8.18%) JIRA
3 25 (7.86%) Git
4 11 (3.46%) SoapUI
5 9 (2.83%) GitLab
6 8 (2.52%) Maven
7 7 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (2.20%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.57%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.26%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.26%) JMeter
9 4 (1.26%) JUnit
9 4 (1.26%) Subversion
10 3 (0.94%) ClearCase
10 3 (0.94%) Gradle
10 3 (0.94%) MSTest
10 3 (0.94%) Newman
10 3 (0.94%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.63%) ERwin
11 2 (0.63%) JDeveloper
General
1 108 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.38%) Finance
3 61 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (11.95%) Banking
5 23 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.09%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.77%) Legal
8 11 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.52%) Military
10 7 (2.20%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.57%) Front Office
11 5 (1.57%) Marketing
12 4 (1.26%) Advertising
12 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.26%) Publishing
13 3 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.63%) Aviation
14 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (22.33%) Developer
2 51 (16.04%) Consultant
3 43 (13.52%) Analyst
4 30 (9.43%) Implementation Consultant
5 27 (8.49%) Business Analyst
6 22 (6.92%) Senior
7 20 (6.29%) Data Engineer
8 19 (5.97%) Lead
9 17 (5.35%) Architect
10 14 (4.40%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.09%) Payroll Consultant
12 11 (3.46%) Integration Specialist
13 10 (3.14%) C# Developer
14 8 (2.52%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (2.52%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.52%) Technical Consultant
14 8 (2.52%) Workflow Consultant
15 7 (2.20%) Cloud Specialist
15 7 (2.20%) Oracle Specialist
15 7 (2.20%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (45.91%) JSON
2 87 (27.36%) SOAP
3 85 (26.73%) REST
4 45 (14.15%) Web Services
5 34 (10.69%) .NET
5 34 (10.69%) Middleware
6 32 (10.06%) XSLT
7 28 (8.81%) OAuth
8 25 (7.86%) Oracle Fusion
9 24 (7.55%) HTML
10 21 (6.60%) JWT
11 18 (5.66%) CSS
11 18 (5.66%) RESTful
12 17 (5.35%) Kafka
13 16 (5.03%) Swagger
14 13 (4.09%) EDI
14 13 (4.09%) OAuth2
14 13 (4.09%) XSD
14 13 (4.09%) YAML
15 11 (3.46%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.40%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.52%) Fixed Income
3 8 (2.52%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.20%) Credit Risk
4 7 (2.20%) Derivative
4 7 (2.20%) Market Risk
5 6 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.57%) Digital Wallet
6 5 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.26%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.94%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.23%) Linux
2 17 (5.35%) Unix
3 7 (2.20%) Windows
4 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.63%) VMS
5 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (26.73%) Agile
2 78 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (19.18%) DevOps
4 46 (14.47%) Validation
5 43 (13.52%) Integration Patterns
6 41 (12.89%) CI/CD
7 39 (12.26%) ERP
8 36 (11.32%) Workflow
9 35 (11.01%) Migration
10 34 (10.69%) Data Modelling
11 32 (10.06%) ETL
12 29 (9.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (9.12%) User Acceptance Testing
13 26 (8.18%) Requirements Gathering
14 25 (7.86%) Data Mapping
15 24 (7.55%) Scrum
15 24 (7.55%) SDLC
15 24 (7.55%) Software Engineering
16 23 (7.23%) Unit Testing
17 21 (6.60%) AI
Programming Languages
1 138 (43.40%) SQL
2 48 (15.09%) Java
3 43 (13.52%) C#
4 40 (12.58%) Python
5 37 (11.64%) JavaScript
6 33 (10.38%) T-SQL
7 20 (6.29%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.14%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.83%) VB
9 9 (2.83%) VB6
10 8 (2.52%) C++
11 7 (2.20%) VBA
12 4 (1.26%) Bicep
12 4 (1.26%) Groovy
12 4 (1.26%) XPath
13 3 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.94%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.63%) Korn
14 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 77 (24.21%) Security Cleared
2 58 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.12%) Degree
4 13 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.26%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.26%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.26%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.94%) CCNP
8 3 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.94%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.94%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.63%) HNC
9 2 (0.63%) HND
9 2 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.60%) QA
2 14 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.20%) GDPR
4 5 (1.57%) HL7
4 5 (1.57%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.57%) PSD2
5 4 (1.26%) GAAP
5 4 (1.26%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.94%) FATCA
6 3 (0.94%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.63%) Basel III
7 2 (0.63%) IFRS
7 2 (0.63%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.63%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.63%) SLA
7 2 (0.63%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 11 (3.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.31%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.89%) Terraform
3 5 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.26%) Control-M
5 2 (0.63%) Ansible
5 2 (0.63%) Grafana
5 2 (0.63%) TIBCO Hawk
6 1 (0.31%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.31%) QRadar
6 1 (0.31%) vRealize
6 1 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 91 (28.62%) Oracle
2 50 (15.72%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.86%) Workday
4 24 (7.55%) SAP
5 19 (5.97%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.40%) MuleSoft
7 12 (3.77%) IBM
8 8 (2.52%) Databricks
8 8 (2.52%) Pega
9 6 (1.89%) Dell
9 6 (1.89%) Google
9 6 (1.89%) Informatica
9 6 (1.89%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.57%) webMethods
11 4 (1.26%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.26%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.26%) Charles River
11 4 (1.26%) Citrix
11 4 (1.26%) InterSystems
11 4 (1.26%) Kronos