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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 231 166
Rank change year-on-year -87 -65 +36
Contract jobs citing XML 348 312 497
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 1.13% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.56% 4.56% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 218 265
10th Percentile £313 £357 £363
25th Percentile £400 £415 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £618 £575 £619
90th Percentile £709 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 24 44
10th Percentile £27.66 - -
25th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £34.75 £42.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -0.58% -38.57%
75th Percentile £42.06 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £44.14 £81.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £42.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -18.24% -1.16% -38.57%

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 9,788 6,843 8,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.84% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 4,702 5,580
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 164 185
10th Percentile £29.35 £31.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -13.04% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.72 £75.00 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.83%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -51 189 £539 +2.62% 171
South East -52 50 £402 -15.37% 37
Midlands -31 36 £415 -3.49% 28
North of England -78 36 £375 -16.67% 27
North West -58 28 £375 -16.67% 15
West Midlands -42 27 £410 -11.83% 16
South West -27 17 £550 +46.67% 20
East of England -38 10 £480 -12.82% 13
East Midlands -13 8 £494 +82.96% 12
Yorkshire -43 8 £355 -33.95% 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 22 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.60%) Confluence
3 9 (2.59%) Anypoint
3 9 (2.59%) Mule
3 9 (2.59%) Oracle Workflow
4 8 (2.30%) IIS
5 7 (2.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (1.72%) WebSphere
7 5 (1.44%) WebLogic
8 4 (1.15%) Apache
8 4 (1.15%) CMS
9 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.86%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.29%) CICS
10 1 (0.29%) JBoss
10 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.29%) Mule ESB
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.57%) Windchill
6 1 (0.29%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.29%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 19 (5.46%) Oracle EBS
2 16 (4.60%) NetSuite
3 15 (4.31%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (3.45%) Oracle Receivables
5 10 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (2.30%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (1.72%) Maximo
7 6 (1.72%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (1.72%) Oracle FAH
8 5 (1.44%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
9 4 (1.15%) Elite 3E
9 4 (1.15%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 4 (1.15%) Oracle Internet Expenses
9 4 (1.15%) Oracle iProcurement
9 4 (1.15%) Summit
10 3 (0.86%) Findur
10 3 (0.86%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.86%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.86%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 85 (24.43%) Azure
2 41 (11.78%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (11.21%) AWS
4 34 (9.77%) Boomi
5 22 (6.32%) GCP
6 21 (6.03%) GitHub
7 18 (5.17%) AtomSphere
8 17 (4.89%) Azure Service Bus
9 15 (4.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (4.31%) SaaS
10 13 (3.74%) Power Platform
11 11 (3.16%) Azure Functions
11 11 (3.16%) Serverless
12 10 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.59%) Entra ID
13 9 (2.59%) iPaaS
14 8 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (2.30%) Power Automate
15 7 (2.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.02%) HTTP
2 6 (1.72%) FTP
2 6 (1.72%) SSL
3 4 (1.15%) Network Security
3 4 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.86%) Wireless
5 2 (0.57%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.57%) Internet
5 2 (0.57%) Intranet
5 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.57%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.29%) DNS
6 1 (0.29%) Firewall
6 1 (0.29%) NAS
6 1 (0.29%) NFC
6 1 (0.29%) SAN
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.77%) SQL Server
2 29 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 20 (5.75%) Oracle Database
4 15 (4.31%) RDBMS
5 11 (3.16%) Metadata
5 11 (3.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 11 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.59%) MySQL
7 8 (2.30%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.30%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.01%) DataStage
8 7 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.72%) Power BI
10 5 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.44%) Tableau
11 4 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.15%) Parquet
12 3 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 41 (11.78%) Git
2 33 (9.48%) JIRA
3 25 (7.18%) Postman
4 17 (4.89%) Selenium
5 16 (4.60%) Visual Studio
6 15 (4.31%) Team Foundation Server
7 14 (4.02%) Jenkins
8 11 (3.16%) JMeter
9 10 (2.87%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (2.59%) GitLab
10 9 (2.59%) SoapUI
11 8 (2.30%) eggPlant
11 8 (2.30%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.30%) WebDriver
12 7 (2.01%) Gradle
13 6 (1.72%) JDeveloper
13 6 (1.72%) LoadRunner
13 6 (1.72%) Maven
14 5 (1.44%) Cucumber
14 5 (1.44%) Cypress.io
General
1 124 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 81 (23.28%) Finance
3 75 (21.55%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.20%) Banking
4 32 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.87%) Legal
5 10 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.30%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.01%) General Ledger
8 7 (2.01%) Retail
9 5 (1.44%) Marketing
9 5 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.15%) Advertising
10 4 (1.15%) Front Office
10 4 (1.15%) Publishing
11 3 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 104 (29.89%) Developer
2 49 (14.08%) Senior
3 39 (11.21%) Consultant
4 38 (10.92%) Analyst
5 36 (10.34%) Architect
6 24 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 20 (5.75%) Implementation Consultant
8 18 (5.17%) Data Engineer
9 17 (4.89%) Business Analyst
10 15 (4.31%) Lead
11 12 (3.45%) Software Engineer
11 12 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.16%) Oracle Developer
12 11 (3.16%) Test Analyst
13 10 (2.87%) C# Developer
13 10 (2.87%) Integration Architect
13 10 (2.87%) Integration Developer
14 9 (2.59%) Software Developer
15 8 (2.30%) Integration Specialist
15 8 (2.30%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (49.43%) JSON
2 119 (34.20%) REST
3 111 (31.90%) SOAP
4 53 (15.23%) Middleware
5 52 (14.94%) .NET
6 51 (14.66%) Web Services
7 37 (10.63%) XSLT
8 32 (9.20%) OAuth
9 31 (8.91%) HTML
9 31 (8.91%) Kafka
10 21 (6.03%) CSS
10 21 (6.03%) EDI
10 21 (6.03%) RESTful
11 20 (5.75%) JWT
11 20 (5.75%) OAuth2
12 13 (3.74%) ActiveX
13 12 (3.45%) SAML
13 12 (3.45%) Swagger
14 11 (3.16%) GraphQL
14 11 (3.16%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 8 (2.30%) CMDB
7 8 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.30%) Taxonomies
8 7 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.72%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.44%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.44%) Derivative
10 5 (1.44%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.44%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.15%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.05%) Linux
2 24 (6.90%) Unix
3 16 (4.60%) Windows
4 4 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
6 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (30.46%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (25.00%) Agile
3 80 (22.99%) CI/CD
3 80 (22.99%) DevOps
4 64 (18.39%) Validation
5 53 (15.23%) Workflow
6 50 (14.37%) Test Automation
7 44 (12.64%) Migration
8 41 (11.78%) Integration Patterns
9 39 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (10.92%) Data Modelling
10 38 (10.92%) User Acceptance Testing
11 37 (10.63%) Scrum
12 35 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (10.06%) Data Mapping
13 33 (9.48%) API Management
14 32 (9.20%) Event-Driven
15 31 (8.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 27 (7.76%) ERP
16 27 (7.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 155 (44.54%) SQL
2 76 (21.84%) Java
3 71 (20.40%) JavaScript
4 61 (17.53%) Python
5 38 (10.92%) C#
6 27 (7.76%) PL/SQL
7 26 (7.47%) T-SQL
8 18 (5.17%) C++
9 17 (4.89%) Groovy
10 16 (4.60%) VB
10 16 (4.60%) VB6
11 15 (4.31%) VB.NET
11 15 (4.31%) VBA
12 9 (2.59%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.01%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.72%) Bicep
14 6 (1.72%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.72%) XPath
15 5 (1.44%) C
15 5 (1.44%) R
Qualifications
1 92 (26.44%) Security Cleared
2 73 (20.98%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.62%) Degree
4 14 (4.02%) ISTQB
5 12 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 10 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.30%) ISEB
9 7 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.72%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.86%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.57%) CISSP
14 2 (0.57%) GIAC
14 2 (0.57%) SSCP
15 1 (0.29%) CISM
15 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.05%) QA
2 21 (6.03%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.74%) ISO 20022
4 10 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.59%) GDPR
6 8 (2.30%) WCAG
7 5 (1.44%) HL7
8 4 (1.15%) GRC
8 4 (1.15%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.57%) SLA
10 1 (0.29%) COREP
10 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.29%) DICOM
10 1 (0.29%) FINREP
10 1 (0.29%) IFRS
10 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.29%) NIST
10 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.29%) SEPA
10 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (2.87%) Docker
2 4 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) RACF
4 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (2.87%) Ansible
1 10 (2.87%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.44%) HP Fortify
4 4 (1.15%) Control-M
5 3 (0.86%) WMI
6 2 (0.57%) QRadar
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.29%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.29%) Kibana
7 1 (0.29%) vRealize
7 1 (0.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 103 (29.60%) Oracle
2 77 (22.13%) Microsoft
3 37 (10.63%) SAP
4 34 (9.77%) IBM
5 30 (8.62%) ServiceNow
6 25 (7.18%) MuleSoft
7 23 (6.61%) Salesforce
8 20 (5.75%) Workday
9 17 (4.89%) Google
10 11 (3.16%) Databricks
11 10 (2.87%) webMethods
12 7 (2.01%) TIBCO
13 6 (1.72%) Informatica
13 6 (1.72%) WSO2
14 5 (1.44%) Kronos
15 4 (1.15%) Intapp
15 4 (1.15%) Okta
16 3 (0.86%) Confluent
16 3 (0.86%) Dell
16 3 (0.86%) Splunk
287 XML jobs in England