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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 233 206
Rank change year-on-year -1 -27 -5
Contract jobs citing XML 360 329 470
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 1.08% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.16% 4.93% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 200 299
10th Percentile £340 £212 £359
25th Percentile £400 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -3.34%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £622
90th Percentile £700 £631 £744
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 34
10th Percentile £31.25 - £45.88
25th Percentile £40.75 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £43.00 £92.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -53.51% +89.86% -2.56%
75th Percentile £47.50 £93.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.88 - £78.38
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £92.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -53.51% +89.86% -2.56%

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 6,983 6,671 8,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.42% 21.82% 21.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 4,248 6,048
10th Percentile £350 £359 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 98 172
10th Percentile £31.15 £26.43 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.30 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -15.72%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 -33 172 £520 -2.80% 34
North of England -22 48 £450 -12.45% 24
South East -24 41 £438 +28.68% 33
North West +1 39 £430 -2.94% 12
East of England +20 36 £550 - 9
Midlands -28 30 £429 -19.17% 16
West Midlands -27 27 £429 -23.97% 10
South West +2 14 £375 -30.23% 9
Yorkshire -32 9 £650 +14.64% 10
East Midlands -13 3 - - 6
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 (5.00%) WebLogic
2 14 (3.89%) Apache
3 11 (3.06%) Confluence
3 11 (3.06%) MQSeries
4 9 (2.50%) JBoss
4 9 (2.50%) WebSphere
5 8 (2.22%) IIS
6 7 (1.94%) Anypoint
6 7 (1.94%) Appian
6 7 (1.94%) Mule
6 7 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (1.67%) nginx
8 3 (0.83%) Documentum
8 3 (0.83%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.56%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.28%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.28%) CMS
10 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.06%) FrameMaker
3 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.11%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.22%) Maximo
2 7 (1.94%) SAP HCM
2 7 (1.94%) SAP Payroll
3 5 (1.39%) BusinessWorks
4 4 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.11%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.56%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.28%) Endur
7 1 (0.28%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.28%) SAP MRS
7 1 (0.28%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.28%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 83 (23.06%) Azure
2 60 (16.67%) AWS
3 23 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (6.39%) GitHub
4 20 (5.56%) GCP
5 17 (4.72%) Serverless
6 16 (4.44%) Power Platform
7 14 (3.89%) Tricentis Tosca
8 13 (3.61%) Power Automate
8 13 (3.61%) SaaS
9 12 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
10 10 (2.78%) Amazon S3
10 10 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (2.50%) Boomi
11 9 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.50%) Nutanix
12 8 (2.22%) Apigee
12 8 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.94%) AtomSphere
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.06%) HTTPS
2 28 (7.78%) HTTP
3 11 (3.06%) Firewall
4 8 (2.22%) SSL
5 7 (1.94%) NFC
5 7 (1.94%) PPP
6 4 (1.11%) VPN
7 3 (0.83%) BGP
7 3 (0.83%) MPLS
8 2 (0.56%) AMQP
8 2 (0.56%) DSL
8 2 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.28%) 5G
9 1 (0.28%) DNS
9 1 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.28%) FTP
9 1 (0.28%) NAS
9 1 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (14.72%) Relational Database
2 42 (11.67%) SQL Server
3 22 (6.11%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.61%) DataStage
6 12 (3.33%) MySQL
7 11 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.06%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.06%) RDBMS
8 10 (2.78%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.50%) DB2
9 9 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
10 8 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.94%) Big Data
11 7 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.94%) MariaDB
11 7 (1.94%) Metadata
11 7 (1.94%) Power BI
11 7 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (14.17%) JIRA
2 49 (13.61%) Git
3 32 (8.89%) Jenkins
4 27 (7.50%) Postman
5 25 (6.94%) Selenium
6 22 (6.11%) JUnit
7 19 (5.28%) Cucumber
8 17 (4.72%) Eclipse
9 14 (3.89%) GitLab
10 10 (2.78%) Browser DevTools
10 10 (2.78%) Firebug
10 10 (2.78%) IntelliJ
10 10 (2.78%) Maven
11 9 (2.50%) SoapUI
12 8 (2.22%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.94%) Robot Framework
13 7 (1.94%) Toad
13 7 (1.94%) Valgrind
14 6 (1.67%) Gradle
14 6 (1.67%) PVCS
General
1 116 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.33%) Finance
3 59 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 35 (9.72%) Banking
6 14 (3.89%) Publishing
7 12 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.78%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.78%) Back Office
10 8 (2.22%) Private Banking
11 6 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.67%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.39%) Automotive
12 5 (1.39%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.39%) Front Office
12 5 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.39%) Retail
13 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 121 (33.61%) Developer
2 51 (14.17%) Analyst
3 30 (8.33%) Senior
4 29 (8.06%) Consultant
5 23 (6.39%) Software Engineer
6 21 (5.83%) Business Analyst
7 17 (4.72%) Integration Developer
7 17 (4.72%) Support Engineer
8 16 (4.44%) Data Engineer
8 16 (4.44%) Java Developer
9 15 (4.17%) Architect
10 14 (3.89%) Author
10 14 (3.89%) Technical Author
11 13 (3.61%) webMethods Developer
12 12 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
13 10 (2.78%) Lead
13 10 (2.78%) Senior Developer
13 10 (2.78%) Technical Engineer
13 10 (2.78%) Technical Support
13 10 (2.78%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (53.33%) JSON
2 109 (30.28%) SOAP
3 105 (29.17%) REST
4 42 (11.67%) Web Services
5 41 (11.39%) HTML
6 34 (9.44%) OAuth
7 33 (9.17%) RESTful
8 32 (8.89%) XSLT
9 29 (8.06%) JMS
10 28 (7.78%) Spring
11 21 (5.83%) .NET
11 21 (5.83%) Kafka
12 20 (5.56%) CSS
12 20 (5.56%) Hibernate
13 17 (4.72%) J2EE
13 17 (4.72%) XSD
14 15 (4.17%) AngularJS
14 15 (4.17%) OAuth2
14 15 (4.17%) Spring Boot
15 14 (3.89%) SGML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 15 (4.17%) Replication
3 9 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.22%) AS400
4 8 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.94%) Algorithms
5 7 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.94%) Smartcard
5 7 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 7 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.39%) Derivative
7 5 (1.39%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.39%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.56%) Linux
2 28 (7.78%) Windows
3 24 (6.67%) Unix
4 8 (2.22%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.39%) AIX
7 3 (0.83%) Android
8 2 (0.56%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (37.50%) Agile
2 116 (32.22%) DevOps
3 83 (23.06%) CI/CD
4 73 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (16.39%) Test Automation
6 45 (12.50%) Migration
7 44 (12.22%) Microservices
8 42 (11.67%) Scrum
9 40 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
10 39 (10.83%) ETL
11 35 (9.72%) Software Engineering
11 35 (9.72%) Validation
12 34 (9.44%) Data Migration
13 33 (9.17%) Data Modelling
14 30 (8.33%) Computer Science
15 28 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (7.50%) API Management
16 27 (7.50%) Workflow
17 26 (7.22%) SDLC
18 25 (6.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 143 (39.72%) SQL
2 121 (33.61%) Java
3 68 (18.89%) JavaScript
4 65 (18.06%) Python
5 51 (14.17%) C#
6 22 (6.11%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.89%) PL/SQL
8 13 (3.61%) C++
8 13 (3.61%) T-SQL
9 11 (3.06%) XPath
10 9 (2.50%) ABAP
11 8 (2.22%) RPG
11 8 (2.22%) Scala
12 7 (1.94%) Groovy
12 7 (1.94%) VBA
13 5 (1.39%) C
13 5 (1.39%) Korn
13 5 (1.39%) Perl
13 5 (1.39%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.11%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 99 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 80 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 49 (13.61%) Degree
4 25 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.33%) HNC
5 12 (3.33%) HND
6 10 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 9 (2.50%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.94%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.67%) ISEB
10 3 (0.83%) CEH
10 3 (0.83%) GIAC
10 3 (0.83%) GWAPT
10 3 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.83%) OCP
10 3 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.83%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.78%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.22%) QA
3 5 (1.39%) SEPA
4 3 (0.83%) HL7
4 3 (0.83%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.83%) SLA
5 2 (0.56%) EMIR
6 1 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) DICOM
6 1 (0.28%) GAAP
6 1 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) GxP
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (13.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.33%) Ansible
3 10 (2.78%) Control-M
4 8 (2.22%) logstash
4 8 (2.22%) Puppet
5 7 (1.94%) Kibana
6 5 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (1.39%) TIBCO Hawk
7 4 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.83%) Terraform
9 2 (0.56%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.56%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.56%) Podman
9 2 (0.56%) QRadar
10 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (20.00%) Oracle
2 49 (13.61%) Microsoft
3 41 (11.39%) SAP
4 39 (10.83%) IBM
5 27 (7.50%) webMethods
6 13 (3.61%) ServiceNow
7 12 (3.33%) MuleSoft
8 11 (3.06%) Software AG
9 10 (2.78%) Cisco
9 10 (2.78%) Splunk
9 10 (2.78%) TIBCO
10 8 (2.22%) Axway
10 8 (2.22%) Blue Prism
10 8 (2.22%) Workday
11 7 (1.94%) Veracode
12 6 (1.67%) Pega
13 5 (1.39%) BEA
13 5 (1.39%) Computacenter
13 5 (1.39%) EMC
13 5 (1.39%) Salesforce