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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 244 211
Rank change year-on-year -6 -33 -21
Contract jobs citing XML 350 255 424
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 0.98% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.82% 4.38% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 155 290
10th Percentile £350 £338 £390
25th Percentile £401 £400 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -6.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £614
90th Percentile £715 £635 £750
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 24
10th Percentile £40.95 - £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% -35.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 £50.60
90th Percentile £89.60 - £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 7,262 5,823 7,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.82% 22.38% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,871 3,732 5,612
10th Percentile £358 £363 £355
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 75 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.35 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.38 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £76.26 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -27 187 £525 -1.87% 31
North of England -31 52 £402 -23.43% 19
North West +1 41 £400 -10.06% 16
South East -22 38 £475 +35.71% 34
Midlands -33 27 £445 -21.52% 15
West Midlands -37 23 £440 -22.40% 14
East of England -3 19 £675 - 8
Yorkshire -57 11 £531 -6.31% 2
South West -12 8 £438 +25.00% 9
East Midlands -24 4 £525 +16.67% 1
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 19 (5.43%) WebLogic
2 17 (4.86%) Confluence
2 17 (4.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (3.14%) Apache
4 10 (2.86%) WebSphere
5 9 (2.57%) Appian
6 8 (2.29%) JBoss
7 7 (2.00%) MQSeries
8 5 (1.43%) Anypoint
8 5 (1.43%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (1.14%) Mule
9 4 (1.14%) Oracle Service Bus
10 3 (0.86%) Documentum
11 2 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
12 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.29%) CMS
12 1 (0.29%) SAS
12 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.71%) FrameMaker
2 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.29%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.29%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.57%) SAP Payroll
2 8 (2.29%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (2.00%) BusinessWorks
3 7 (2.00%) SAP HCM
4 5 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (1.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 5 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (1.14%) Maximo
5 4 (1.14%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.86%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.86%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.57%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.57%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.57%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (21.14%) Azure
2 57 (16.29%) AWS
3 26 (7.43%) OCI
4 21 (6.00%) Power Platform
5 19 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (5.43%) SaaS
6 16 (4.57%) GCP
6 16 (4.57%) GitHub
7 14 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (4.00%) PaaS
7 14 (4.00%) Tricentis Tosca
8 13 (3.71%) Apigee
8 13 (3.71%) Serverless
9 12 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (3.43%) IaaS
10 11 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (3.14%) Boomi
11 8 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.29%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.57%) HTTPS
2 21 (6.00%) HTTP
3 10 (2.86%) Firewall
4 8 (2.29%) SSL
5 3 (0.86%) FTP
5 3 (0.86%) NFC
5 3 (0.86%) 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 (0.29%) DNS
7 1 (0.29%) Network Security
7 1 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.29%) SMS
7 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.14%) Relational Database
2 36 (10.29%) SQL Server
3 22 (6.29%) MongoDB
4 20 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 14 (4.00%) Oracle Database
6 14 (4.00%) RDBMS
7 13 (3.71%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (3.43%) Power BI
9 11 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.86%) Metadata
11 9 (2.57%) DataStage
12 7 (2.00%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.00%) DB2
12 7 (2.00%) MySQL
13 6 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (13.14%) JIRA
2 45 (12.86%) Postman
3 38 (10.86%) Git
4 29 (8.29%) Jenkins
5 25 (7.14%) Selenium
6 20 (5.71%) JUnit
7 17 (4.86%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.14%) Eclipse
9 10 (2.86%) GitLab
9 10 (2.86%) SoapUI
10 8 (2.29%) IntelliJ
10 8 (2.29%) Maven
10 8 (2.29%) SonarQube
11 7 (2.00%) Robot Framework
11 7 (2.00%) Toad
12 6 (1.71%) MSTest
12 6 (1.71%) SpecFlow
12 6 (1.71%) TestRail
12 6 (1.71%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 117 (33.43%) Social Skills
2 80 (22.86%) Finance
3 63 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (11.14%) Banking
5 38 (10.86%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.14%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.57%) Publishing
8 9 (2.57%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.29%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.29%) Legal
9 8 (2.29%) Private Banking
10 6 (1.71%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.43%) Military
11 5 (1.43%) Retail
12 4 (1.14%) Back Office
13 3 (0.86%) Front Office
13 3 (0.86%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (33.14%) Developer
2 55 (15.71%) Analyst
3 28 (8.00%) Senior
4 25 (7.14%) Consultant
5 24 (6.86%) Business Analyst
6 18 (5.14%) Architect
6 18 (5.14%) Lead
6 18 (5.14%) Software Engineer
7 16 (4.57%) Data Engineer
7 16 (4.57%) Integration Developer
8 13 (3.71%) webMethods Developer
9 12 (3.43%) Java Developer
10 10 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.57%) Senior Developer
11 9 (2.57%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (2.57%) Tester
12 8 (2.29%) DBA
12 8 (2.29%) Integration Specialist
12 8 (2.29%) Technical Business Analyst
13 7 (2.00%) Analyst Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (55.71%) JSON
2 119 (34.00%) REST
3 117 (33.43%) SOAP
4 47 (13.43%) XSLT
5 44 (12.57%) Web Services
6 42 (12.00%) OAuth
7 30 (8.57%) HTML
8 27 (7.71%) JMS
9 26 (7.43%) .NET
10 25 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
11 24 (6.86%) JWT
12 23 (6.57%) RESTful
13 20 (5.71%) Spring
14 19 (5.43%) Middleware
14 19 (5.43%) Swagger
15 17 (4.86%) J2EE
16 16 (4.57%) CSS
16 16 (4.57%) Hibernate
16 16 (4.57%) XSD
17 15 (4.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.71%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.14%) Replication
3 10 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.57%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.29%) AS400
5 8 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.00%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.71%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (1.71%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.43%) CMDB
8 5 (1.43%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.29%) Linux
2 24 (6.86%) Unix
3 15 (4.29%) Windows
4 5 (1.43%) AIX
5 4 (1.14%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.86%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (33.71%) DevOps
2 116 (33.14%) Agile
3 87 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (20.29%) CI/CD
5 48 (13.71%) Validation
6 47 (13.43%) ERP
7 45 (12.86%) Test Automation
8 43 (12.29%) ETL
9 40 (11.43%) Migration
10 39 (11.14%) Scrum
11 38 (10.86%) Microservices
12 36 (10.29%) Data Modelling
12 36 (10.29%) Integration Patterns
13 35 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
13 35 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
14 34 (9.71%) Software Engineering
15 31 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (8.57%) Computer Science
16 30 (8.57%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 130 (37.14%) SQL
2 99 (28.29%) Java
3 56 (16.00%) C#
4 49 (14.00%) JavaScript
5 48 (13.71%) Python
6 22 (6.29%) PowerShell
7 17 (4.86%) PL/SQL
8 13 (3.71%) XPath
9 9 (2.57%) C++
9 9 (2.57%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.29%) RPG
10 8 (2.29%) Scala
11 7 (2.00%) ABAP
11 7 (2.00%) Groovy
11 7 (2.00%) Korn
11 7 (2.00%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.43%) Perl
13 4 (1.14%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 94 (26.86%) Security Cleared
2 75 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 42 (12.00%) Degree
4 22 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.86%) ISTQB
7 9 (2.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.71%) HNC
8 6 (1.71%) HND
8 6 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.43%) CCNP
9 5 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.43%) ISEB
9 5 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.43%) PMP
10 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.86%) CEH
10 3 (0.86%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.00%) QA
2 13 (3.71%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.43%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.43%) PSD2
4 4 (1.14%) GAAP
4 4 (1.14%) GDPR
5 3 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.86%) FATCA
5 3 (0.86%) HL7
5 3 (0.86%) ISO 8583
5 3 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.57%) Basel III
6 2 (0.57%) EMIR
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.57%) SEPA
7 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) DICOM
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 36 (10.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (3.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.86%) Ansible
2 10 (2.86%) Control-M
3 9 (2.57%) Puppet
4 8 (2.29%) logstash
5 7 (2.00%) Kibana
5 7 (2.00%) TIBCO Hawk
6 5 (1.43%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.57%) CloudHub
7 2 (0.57%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.57%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.57%) QRadar
7 2 (0.57%) Terraform
8 1 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.29%) Grafana
8 1 (0.29%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.29%) Podman
8 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (27.43%) Oracle
2 41 (11.71%) SAP
3 39 (11.14%) IBM
4 35 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 26 (7.43%) webMethods
6 15 (4.29%) MuleSoft
6 15 (4.29%) Workday
7 12 (3.43%) TIBCO
8 11 (3.14%) Software AG
9 9 (2.57%) Cisco
9 9 (2.57%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.57%) Splunk
10 8 (2.29%) Axway
10 8 (2.29%) Informatica
10 8 (2.29%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.00%) BEA
11 7 (2.00%) Veracode
12 6 (1.71%) Pega
13 5 (1.43%) Computacenter
13 5 (1.43%) Google