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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 255 190
Rank change year-on-year -16 -65 +4
Contract jobs citing XML 360 239 473
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 0.98% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.60% 4.32% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 161 294
10th Percentile £350 £358 £375
25th Percentile £400 £425 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.19% -2.05%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £613
90th Percentile £695 £650 £748
UK median daily rate £475 £479 £540
% change year-on-year -0.84% -11.30% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 46
10th Percentile £40.75 £22.73 £43.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £25.54 £44.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £60.13 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +26.59% -34.48%
75th Percentile £54.13 £93.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £59.50 - £63.13
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £60.13 £47.50
% change year-on-year -21.00% +26.59% -34.48%

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 7,829 5,537 7,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.20% 22.60% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,252 3,758 5,402
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -0.37% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 86 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.30 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.19 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.38 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.20 £83.48 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -23 172 £525 - 36
North of England -29 65 £400 -10.66% 26
South East -26 62 £500 +8.11% 25
North West -9 54 £397 -11.21% 18
Midlands -35 30 £450 -5.43% 21
West Midlands -37 23 £450 -18.18% 11
East of England -13 13 £675 - 11
Yorkshire -52 11 £456 -29.81% 3
East Midlands -32 7 £525 +46.65% 10
South West -22 6 £475 +26.67% 20
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 (5.28%) Confluence
2 17 (4.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 15 (4.17%) WebLogic
4 10 (2.78%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.94%) Apache
6 6 (1.67%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (1.39%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.39%) Appian
7 5 (1.39%) Mule
8 4 (1.11%) JBoss
8 4 (1.11%) Oracle Service Bus
9 3 (0.83%) CMS
9 3 (0.83%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.83%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 2 (0.56%) Documentum
10 2 (0.56%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.28%) SAS
11 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.11%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.28%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (2.50%) SAP Payroll
3 7 (1.94%) BusinessWorks
3 7 (1.94%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (1.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.94%) SAP HCM
4 6 (1.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (1.39%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (1.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 5 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (1.11%) Maximo
6 4 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.83%) Findur
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle 11i
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.83%) Summit
7 3 (0.83%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.56%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 71 (19.72%) Azure
2 50 (13.89%) AWS
3 27 (7.50%) OCI
4 23 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (6.11%) SaaS
6 20 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 18 (5.00%) GCP
7 18 (5.00%) GitHub
8 15 (4.17%) PaaS
8 15 (4.17%) Serverless
9 13 (3.61%) Boomi
9 13 (3.61%) IaaS
10 12 (3.33%) Apigee
11 11 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (2.78%) Tricentis Tosca
13 9 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (2.22%) Kong
15 7 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.11%) HTTP
2 14 (3.89%) HTTPS
3 8 (2.22%) Firewall
4 5 (1.39%) FTP
5 4 (1.11%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.56%) 5G
6 2 (0.56%) BGP
6 2 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.56%) FIX Connectivity
6 2 (0.56%) MPLS
6 2 (0.56%) NFC
6 2 (0.56%) PPP
6 2 (0.56%) RTCP
6 2 (0.56%) RTP
6 2 (0.56%) SSL
6 2 (0.56%) VPN
6 2 (0.56%) XCAP
7 1 (0.28%) DNS
7 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (12.22%) Relational Database
2 39 (10.83%) SQL Server
3 22 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (5.83%) MongoDB
5 19 (5.28%) RDBMS
6 18 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 18 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
8 15 (4.17%) Power BI
9 13 (3.61%) Oracle Database
10 10 (2.78%) Metadata
10 10 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (2.50%) DataStage
12 8 (2.22%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.94%) DB2
13 7 (1.94%) MySQL
14 6 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 4 (1.11%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 48 (13.33%) JIRA
2 43 (11.94%) Postman
3 37 (10.28%) Git
4 24 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 18 (5.00%) JUnit
5 18 (5.00%) Selenium
6 14 (3.89%) Cucumber
7 13 (3.61%) SoapUI
8 12 (3.33%) Maven
9 10 (2.78%) Eclipse
10 8 (2.22%) GitLab
11 7 (1.94%) Toad
12 6 (1.67%) SpecFlow
12 6 (1.67%) TestRail
12 6 (1.67%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.39%) MSTest
14 4 (1.11%) IntelliJ
14 4 (1.11%) Subversion
15 3 (0.83%) Ant
15 3 (0.83%) Mockito
General
1 110 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 78 (21.67%) Finance
3 69 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.00%) Banking
5 35 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.28%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.61%) Legal
8 11 (3.06%) Investment Banking
8 11 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.67%) Military
10 5 (1.39%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.39%) General Ledger
10 5 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.11%) Advertising
11 4 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.11%) Publishing
11 4 (1.11%) Retail
12 3 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.83%) Back Office
12 3 (0.83%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (26.11%) Developer
2 56 (15.56%) Consultant
3 54 (15.00%) Analyst
4 33 (9.17%) Implementation Consultant
5 27 (7.50%) Business Analyst
6 23 (6.39%) Senior
7 20 (5.56%) Lead
8 18 (5.00%) Architect
9 17 (4.72%) Data Engineer
9 17 (4.72%) Software Engineer
10 13 (3.61%) Payroll Consultant
11 12 (3.33%) DBA
11 12 (3.33%) Integration Developer
12 10 (2.78%) Technical Analyst
13 9 (2.50%) Java Developer
13 9 (2.50%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 9 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.50%) Tester
14 8 (2.22%) Applications Developer
14 8 (2.22%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (50.28%) JSON
2 111 (30.83%) SOAP
3 109 (30.28%) REST
4 50 (13.89%) Web Services
5 39 (10.83%) XSLT
6 36 (10.00%) OAuth
7 29 (8.06%) Oracle Fusion
8 28 (7.78%) HTML
9 26 (7.22%) .NET
9 26 (7.22%) JWT
10 21 (5.83%) Middleware
10 21 (5.83%) RESTful
11 20 (5.56%) JMS
12 19 (5.28%) Kafka
12 19 (5.28%) Swagger
13 18 (5.00%) CSS
13 18 (5.00%) XSD
14 14 (3.89%) J2EE
14 14 (3.89%) Spring
14 14 (3.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.61%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.06%) Public Cloud
3 10 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.22%) Fixed Income
5 8 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.22%) Replication
6 7 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.67%) CMDB
7 6 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.39%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.39%) Derivative
8 5 (1.39%) Digital Wallet
9 4 (1.11%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 39 (10.83%) Linux
2 23 (6.39%) Unix
3 15 (4.17%) Windows
4 5 (1.39%) AIX
5 4 (1.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.56%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) VMS
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (33.89%) Agile
2 101 (28.06%) DevOps
3 90 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (17.78%) CI/CD
5 52 (14.44%) Validation
6 44 (12.22%) ERP
7 41 (11.39%) Data Modelling
7 41 (11.39%) Migration
8 40 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
9 38 (10.56%) Requirements Gathering
10 36 (10.00%) ETL
11 32 (8.89%) Scrum
11 32 (8.89%) Test Automation
11 32 (8.89%) Workflow
12 31 (8.61%) Microservices
12 31 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (8.06%) Computer Science
13 29 (8.06%) Mentoring
13 29 (8.06%) Software Engineering
14 28 (7.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 149 (41.39%) SQL
2 85 (23.61%) Java
3 51 (14.17%) C#
4 47 (13.06%) Python
5 43 (11.94%) JavaScript
6 39 (10.83%) T-SQL
7 17 (4.72%) PL/SQL
7 17 (4.72%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.61%) XPath
9 8 (2.22%) Groovy
10 7 (1.94%) ABAP
10 7 (1.94%) Korn
11 6 (1.67%) C++
11 6 (1.67%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.39%) Perl
13 4 (1.11%) Bicep
13 4 (1.11%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.11%) Scala
14 3 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.83%) RPG
Qualifications
1 87 (24.17%) Security Cleared
2 65 (18.06%) SC Cleared
3 37 (10.28%) Degree
4 20 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.06%) ISTQB
7 10 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.67%) ISEB
9 5 (1.39%) CCNP
9 5 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.39%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.39%) PMP
10 4 (1.11%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.56%) CCNA
11 2 (0.56%) OCP
11 2 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.22%) QA
2 12 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.39%) GDPR
3 5 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.39%) PSD2
4 4 (1.11%) GAAP
5 3 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.83%) FATCA
5 3 (0.83%) ISO 8583
5 3 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.56%) Basel III
6 2 (0.56%) HL7
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.56%) SEPA
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (6.11%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.94%) TIBCO Hawk
3 6 (1.67%) Ansible
3 6 (1.67%) Control-M
4 5 (1.39%) logstash
4 5 (1.39%) Puppet
5 4 (1.11%) Kibana
6 3 (0.83%) Grafana
7 2 (0.56%) CloudHub
7 2 (0.56%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.56%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.56%) QRadar
7 2 (0.56%) Terraform
8 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.28%) Podman
8 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 99 (27.50%) Oracle
2 39 (10.83%) Microsoft
3 32 (8.89%) SAP
4 30 (8.33%) IBM
5 15 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 15 (4.17%) webMethods
5 15 (4.17%) Workday
6 14 (3.89%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.78%) Splunk
8 9 (2.50%) Pega
8 9 (2.50%) TIBCO
9 8 (2.22%) Informatica
10 7 (1.94%) BEA
10 7 (1.94%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.67%) Bloomberg
11 6 (1.67%) Google
11 6 (1.67%) Software AG
12 5 (1.39%) Cisco
12 5 (1.39%) Computacenter
13 4 (1.11%) Citrix
126 XML jobs in England