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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 239 198
Rank change year-on-year +9 -41 +6
Contract jobs citing XML 365 284 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 1.04% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.22% 4.75% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 177 280
10th Percentile £350 £302 £399
25th Percentile £400 £400 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -0.05%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £613
90th Percentile £715 £643 £744
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 29
10th Percentile £36.00 - £44.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £43.00 £92.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -53.51% +89.86% -32.80%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile £88.25 - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £92.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -53.51% +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 6,999 5,982 7,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.18% 21.86% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,673 3,827 5,524
10th Percentile £356 £359 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £671
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 68 161
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £31.25
25th Percentile £45.00 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -4 192 £520 -2.80% 31
North of England -27 51 £425 -15.25% 23
North West +3 42 £402 -9.15% 12
South East -34 38 £425 +21.43% 32
East of England +9 31 £550 - 16
Midlands -33 24 £429 -23.97% 19
West Midlands -33 21 £429 -24.34% 11
South West -3 10 £400 -9.86% 13
Yorkshire -46 9 £581 +2.51% 10
East Midlands -26 3 - - 8
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 (5.48%) WebLogic
2 18 (4.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 13 (3.56%) Confluence
4 11 (3.01%) Apache
4 11 (3.01%) WebSphere
5 9 (2.47%) JBoss
6 7 (1.92%) Appian
6 7 (1.92%) MQSeries
7 6 (1.64%) Anypoint
7 6 (1.64%) Mule
7 6 (1.64%) nginx
8 5 (1.37%) Oracle Service Bus
8 5 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (1.10%) Mule ESB
10 3 (0.82%) Documentum
10 3 (0.82%) IIS
10 3 (0.82%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.27%) SAS
11 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (3.01%) FrameMaker
2 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.27%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.19%) SAP Payroll
2 7 (1.92%) BusinessWorks
2 7 (1.92%) SAP HCM
3 6 (1.64%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 5 (1.37%) Maximo
4 5 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.37%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.55%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.55%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.55%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (20.27%) Azure
2 63 (17.26%) AWS
3 23 (6.30%) OCI
4 22 (6.03%) GitHub
5 19 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (4.93%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.93%) SaaS
7 17 (4.66%) GCP
8 16 (4.38%) Serverless
9 15 (4.11%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (3.84%) Tricentis Tosca
11 13 (3.56%) Apigee
12 12 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (3.29%) PaaS
13 11 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (2.74%) Boomi
14 10 (2.74%) IaaS
14 10 (2.74%) SuccessFactors
15 9 (2.47%) Amazon S3
15 9 (2.47%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.22%) HTTPS
2 23 (6.30%) HTTP
3 10 (2.74%) Firewall
4 8 (2.19%) SSL
5 4 (1.10%) NFC
5 4 (1.10%) PPP
6 3 (0.82%) VPN
7 2 (0.55%) 5G
7 2 (0.55%) BGP
7 2 (0.55%) DNS
7 2 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.55%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (0.55%) MPLS
7 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.27%) FTP
8 1 (0.27%) NAS
8 1 (0.27%) Network Security
8 1 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.27%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.97%) Relational Database
2 39 (10.68%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (5.48%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.56%) DataStage
4 13 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.29%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (3.29%) RDBMS
6 11 (3.01%) Oracle Database
7 10 (2.74%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.47%) Power BI
8 9 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.19%) Amazon QuickSight
9 8 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (2.19%) DB2
9 8 (2.19%) MySQL
10 7 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.92%) Metadata
11 6 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.37%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 46 (12.60%) JIRA
2 38 (10.41%) Git
3 36 (9.86%) Postman
4 27 (7.40%) Jenkins
5 25 (6.85%) Selenium
6 20 (5.48%) JUnit
7 18 (4.93%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.29%) Eclipse
9 9 (2.47%) GitLab
10 8 (2.19%) Browser DevTools
10 8 (2.19%) Firebug
10 8 (2.19%) IntelliJ
10 8 (2.19%) SoapUI
10 8 (2.19%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.92%) Robot Framework
11 7 (1.92%) Toad
12 6 (1.64%) Maven
12 6 (1.64%) SpecFlow
12 6 (1.64%) TestRail
12 6 (1.64%) Zephyr
General
1 119 (32.60%) Social Skills
2 84 (23.01%) Finance
3 54 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (13.15%) Banking
5 40 (10.96%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.11%) Publishing
7 12 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.01%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.74%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.74%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.47%) Back Office
11 8 (2.19%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.19%) Private Banking
12 7 (1.92%) Legal
13 5 (1.37%) Automotive
13 5 (1.37%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (1.37%) Front Office
13 5 (1.37%) Retail
14 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 117 (32.05%) Developer
2 54 (14.79%) Analyst
3 26 (7.12%) Business Analyst
3 26 (7.12%) Senior
4 25 (6.85%) Consultant
5 21 (5.75%) Lead
5 21 (5.75%) Software Engineer
6 18 (4.93%) Architect
7 17 (4.66%) Integration Developer
8 15 (4.11%) Data Engineer
9 14 (3.84%) Author
9 14 (3.84%) Technical Author
10 13 (3.56%) Support Engineer
10 13 (3.56%) webMethods Developer
11 12 (3.29%) Java Developer
12 10 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.47%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.47%) Technical Analyst
14 8 (2.19%) DBA
14 8 (2.19%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (53.42%) JSON
2 113 (30.96%) REST
3 112 (30.68%) SOAP
4 46 (12.60%) OAuth
5 41 (11.23%) Web Services
5 41 (11.23%) XSLT
6 38 (10.41%) HTML
7 29 (7.95%) JMS
7 29 (7.95%) RESTful
8 22 (6.03%) .NET
9 21 (5.75%) JWT
9 21 (5.75%) Oracle Fusion
9 21 (5.75%) Spring
10 20 (5.48%) J2EE
11 18 (4.93%) Middleware
11 18 (4.93%) OAuth2
12 17 (4.66%) CSS
13 16 (4.38%) Hibernate
13 16 (4.38%) Swagger
13 16 (4.38%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.84%) Data Structures
2 13 (3.56%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.01%) Replication
4 9 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.19%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.19%) AS400
5 8 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 7 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.64%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.37%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.10%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.10%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.51%) Linux
2 19 (5.21%) Unix
2 19 (5.21%) Windows
3 5 (1.37%) AIX
3 5 (1.37%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.82%) Android
4 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (34.52%) Agile
2 121 (33.15%) DevOps
3 80 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (20.55%) CI/CD
5 49 (13.42%) Migration
6 47 (12.88%) Test Automation
7 44 (12.05%) ETL
7 44 (12.05%) Microservices
7 44 (12.05%) Validation
8 43 (11.78%) ERP
9 41 (11.23%) Deployment Automation
10 40 (10.96%) Scrum
11 38 (10.41%) Data Migration
12 37 (10.14%) Computer Science
13 36 (9.86%) Data Modelling
14 33 (9.04%) Software Engineering
15 31 (8.49%) API Management
16 29 (7.95%) Integration Patterns
16 29 (7.95%) SDLC
16 29 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (36.71%) SQL
2 110 (30.14%) Java
3 59 (16.16%) Python
4 55 (15.07%) C#
4 55 (15.07%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.48%) PowerShell
6 16 (4.38%) PL/SQL
7 14 (3.84%) XPath
8 10 (2.74%) C++
8 10 (2.74%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.19%) ABAP
9 8 (2.19%) RPG
9 8 (2.19%) Scala
10 7 (1.92%) Groovy
11 6 (1.64%) Korn
12 5 (1.37%) Perl
12 5 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.10%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.10%) VBA
14 3 (0.82%) C
Qualifications
1 88 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 71 (19.45%) SC Cleared
3 55 (15.07%) Degree
4 30 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.29%) HNC
6 12 (3.29%) HND
7 10 (2.74%) ISTQB
8 9 (2.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (1.92%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.37%) CCNP
10 5 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.37%) ISEB
10 5 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.37%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.37%) PMP
11 4 (1.10%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.82%) CEH
12 3 (0.82%) GIAC
12 3 (0.82%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.75%) Data Quality
1 21 (5.75%) QA
2 5 (1.37%) GAAP
3 4 (1.10%) SEPA
4 3 (0.82%) IFRS
4 3 (0.82%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.55%) Basel III
5 2 (0.55%) EMIR
5 2 (0.55%) GDPR
5 2 (0.55%) HL7
5 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.55%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.55%) PSD2
5 2 (0.55%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.27%) DICOM
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 40 (10.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (3.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.29%) Control-M
3 10 (2.74%) Ansible
4 9 (2.47%) Puppet
5 8 (2.19%) logstash
6 7 (1.92%) Kibana
6 7 (1.92%) TIBCO Hawk
7 5 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.82%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.55%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.55%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.55%) QRadar
9 2 (0.55%) Terraform
9 2 (0.55%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.27%) Grafana
10 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.27%) Podman
10 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (24.38%) Oracle
2 46 (12.60%) SAP
3 40 (10.96%) IBM
4 38 (10.41%) Microsoft
5 26 (7.12%) webMethods
6 16 (4.38%) Workday
7 15 (4.11%) MuleSoft
8 12 (3.29%) TIBCO
9 11 (3.01%) Pega
9 11 (3.01%) Software AG
9 11 (3.01%) Splunk
10 9 (2.47%) Cisco
10 9 (2.47%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.19%) Axway
11 8 (2.19%) Informatica
11 8 (2.19%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.92%) BEA
12 7 (1.92%) Veracode
13 5 (1.37%) F5
13 5 (1.37%) Solace