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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 193 185
Rank change year-on-year -48 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing XML 317 412 561
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 1.30% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.96% 5.91% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 235 348
10th Percentile £344 £320 £400
25th Percentile £425 £416 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £630
90th Percentile £700 £630 £779
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 37
10th Percentile £31.25 - £45.88
25th Percentile £38.38 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 £43.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - -11.74% -2.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile £93.13 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £43.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - -11.74% -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 6,389 6,973 9,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.69% 22.07% 22.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,282 4,455 6,720
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 140 191
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.00 £37.75
25th Percentile £41.82 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +15.95% -13.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £71.73 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £51.44 £64.18 £56.40
% change year-on-year -19.85% +13.79% -13.23%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 20 October 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 -42 161 £525 +2.44% 79
South East -9 40 £475 +26.67% 63
North of England -25 35 £525 -6.96% 33
East of England -4 32 £488 -2.50% 17
North West -2 28 £488 +9.55% 21
Midlands -33 19 £429 -14.20% 15
South West +18 16 £375 -6.25% 6
West Midlands -27 15 £429 -23.60% 10
Yorkshire -41 6 £700 +21.95% 8
East Midlands -12 4 £270 -33.54% 5
North East -3 1 £200 -65.22% 4
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 14 (4.42%) Confluence
2 13 (4.10%) MQSeries
3 12 (3.79%) Apache
4 11 (3.47%) IIS
5 9 (2.84%) WebSphere
6 7 (2.21%) Appian
6 7 (2.21%) WebLogic
7 6 (1.89%) JBoss
7 6 (1.89%) Mule
7 6 (1.89%) nginx
8 5 (1.58%) Anypoint
8 5 (1.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.95%) Alfresco
9 3 (0.95%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.63%) Camunda
10 2 (0.63%) CICS
10 2 (0.63%) CMS
10 2 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.47%) FrameMaker
3 7 (2.21%) Siemens NX
4 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 7 (2.21%) Maximo
1 7 (2.21%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.95%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.32%) Endur
4 1 (0.32%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.32%) SAP MRS
4 1 (0.32%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (25.24%) Azure
2 49 (15.46%) AWS
3 24 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (6.94%) GitHub
5 15 (4.73%) Serverless
6 13 (4.10%) Power Automate
7 11 (3.47%) GCP
7 11 (3.47%) SaaS
8 10 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (3.15%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (2.84%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.84%) Nutanix
10 8 (2.52%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.21%) Tricentis Tosca
12 6 (1.89%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.58%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.94%) HTTPS
2 21 (6.62%) HTTP
3 9 (2.84%) NFC
3 9 (2.84%) PPP
4 8 (2.52%) SSL
5 7 (2.21%) Firewall
6 3 (0.95%) LAN
6 3 (0.95%) VPN
7 2 (0.63%) AMQP
7 2 (0.63%) BGP
7 2 (0.63%) DNS
7 2 (0.63%) DSL
7 2 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.63%) Internet
7 2 (0.63%) MPLS
7 2 (0.63%) SMS
8 1 (0.32%) NAS
8 1 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (14.83%) SQL Server
2 38 (11.99%) Relational Database
3 13 (4.10%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.79%) MySQL
4 12 (3.79%) Oracle Database
5 11 (3.47%) DB2
5 11 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.52%) Redis
7 7 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
8 6 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.89%) Big Data
8 6 (1.89%) DataStage
8 6 (1.89%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.58%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.58%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 44 (13.88%) JIRA
2 42 (13.25%) Git
3 27 (8.52%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.31%) Selenium
5 17 (5.36%) GitLab
5 17 (5.36%) JUnit
6 15 (4.73%) Eclipse
7 14 (4.42%) Cucumber
7 14 (4.42%) Postman
7 14 (4.42%) SoapUI
8 11 (3.47%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (2.84%) Firebug
9 9 (2.84%) Valgrind
10 8 (2.52%) Maven
10 8 (2.52%) SonarQube
11 7 (2.21%) Robot Framework
12 6 (1.89%) Ant
12 6 (1.89%) IntelliJ
13 5 (1.58%) Gradle
13 5 (1.58%) PVCS
General
1 90 (28.39%) Social Skills
2 60 (18.93%) Finance
3 46 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (13.56%) Banking
5 26 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.10%) Publishing
7 11 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.84%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.84%) Back Office
8 9 (2.84%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.21%) Private Banking
11 5 (1.58%) Automotive
11 5 (1.58%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.58%) Front Office
11 5 (1.58%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.63%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 114 (35.96%) Developer
2 46 (14.51%) Analyst
3 33 (10.41%) Senior
4 23 (7.26%) Business Analyst
4 23 (7.26%) Software Engineer
5 18 (5.68%) Integration Developer
6 17 (5.36%) Consultant
7 16 (5.05%) Support Engineer
8 15 (4.73%) Applications Engineer
9 14 (4.42%) Architect
9 14 (4.42%) Author
9 14 (4.42%) Technical Author
10 12 (3.79%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.79%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.47%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.15%) Development Engineer
12 10 (3.15%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.15%) webMethods Developer
13 9 (2.84%) Linux Engineer
13 9 (2.84%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (53.00%) JSON
2 91 (28.71%) REST
3 90 (28.39%) SOAP
4 52 (16.40%) HTML
5 38 (11.99%) Web Services
6 28 (8.83%) RESTful
7 26 (8.20%) CSS
8 24 (7.57%) OAuth
8 24 (7.57%) Spring
9 22 (6.94%) JMS
10 20 (6.31%) React
11 19 (5.99%) .NET
12 18 (5.68%) Kafka
13 17 (5.36%) AngularJS
14 16 (5.05%) XSLT
15 14 (4.42%) SGML
16 13 (4.10%) Hibernate
16 13 (4.10%) Spring Boot
17 12 (3.79%) J2EE
18 11 (3.47%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.05%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.84%) Smartcard
3 9 (2.84%) Virtual Team
4 8 (2.52%) Replication
5 7 (2.21%) AS400
5 7 (2.21%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 6 (1.89%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.58%) Derivative
7 5 (1.58%) DTCC
7 5 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.26%) CMDB
8 4 (1.26%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.26%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 42 (13.25%) Linux
2 28 (8.83%) Windows
3 26 (8.20%) Unix
4 9 (2.84%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.58%) AIX
5 5 (1.58%) Android
5 5 (1.58%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.63%) CentOS
6 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (38.17%) Agile
2 100 (31.55%) DevOps
3 77 (24.29%) CI/CD
4 60 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (17.67%) Test Automation
6 39 (12.30%) ETL
7 38 (11.99%) Scrum
8 36 (11.36%) Migration
9 35 (11.04%) Microservices
10 32 (10.09%) Deployment Automation
10 32 (10.09%) Software Engineering
11 28 (8.83%) Workflow
12 26 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (7.89%) OO
13 25 (7.89%) User Experience
14 22 (6.94%) Data Migration
14 22 (6.94%) Decision-Making
14 22 (6.94%) SDLC
15 21 (6.62%) API Management
15 21 (6.62%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 124 (39.12%) SQL
2 101 (31.86%) Java
3 73 (23.03%) JavaScript
4 70 (22.08%) Python
5 46 (14.51%) C#
6 25 (7.89%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.68%) C++
8 15 (4.73%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.15%) RPG
9 10 (3.15%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.84%) C
11 7 (2.21%) VBA
12 6 (1.89%) Groovy
12 6 (1.89%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.89%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.26%) ABAP
13 4 (1.26%) Bicep
13 4 (1.26%) Korn
13 4 (1.26%) Perl
13 4 (1.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 90 (28.39%) Security Cleared
2 76 (23.97%) SC Cleared
3 40 (12.62%) Degree
4 16 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.79%) HNC
5 12 (3.79%) HND
6 9 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.58%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.95%) CEH
9 3 (0.95%) GIAC
9 3 (0.95%) GWAPT
10 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.63%) PMP
11 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.46%) QA
2 28 (8.83%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.21%) EMIR
4 6 (1.89%) SEPA
5 5 (1.58%) MiFID
6 4 (1.26%) HL7
7 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.95%) GAAP
7 3 (0.95%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.95%) SLA
7 3 (0.95%) WCAG
8 2 (0.63%) DICOM
9 1 (0.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.32%) GxP
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 40 (12.62%) Docker
2 6 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.05%) Ansible
3 12 (3.79%) Control-M
4 7 (2.21%) Kibana
5 6 (1.89%) logstash
6 5 (1.58%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (1.26%) Puppet
7 4 (1.26%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.95%) Terraform
9 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.32%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 52 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 49 (15.46%) Oracle
3 33 (10.41%) IBM
4 25 (7.89%) SAP
5 17 (5.36%) ServiceNow
6 16 (5.05%) webMethods
7 10 (3.15%) Cisco
8 9 (2.84%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.52%) Axway
9 8 (2.52%) Blue Prism
9 8 (2.52%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.52%) Software AG
9 8 (2.52%) Workday
10 7 (2.21%) Pega
10 7 (2.21%) Veracode
11 6 (1.89%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.89%) Solace
12 5 (1.58%) Informatica
12 5 (1.58%) Splunk
12 5 (1.58%) VMware