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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 223 205
Rank change year-on-year -9 -18 -9
Contract jobs citing XML 355 331 483
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 1.08% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.20% 4.98% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 202 306
10th Percentile £341 £213 £370
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 £591 £575 £625
90th Percentile £704 £630 £747
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 35
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 £43.75 £93.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 - £78.25
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 6,833 6,651 8,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.43% 21.74% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,604 4,233 6,202
10th Percentile £350 £360 £370
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £672 £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 164 101 176
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.75 £65.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% +23.22% -18.85%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -14.62% +19.20% -13.44%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -21 170 £520 -2.35% 37
North of England -22 47 £450 -12.45% 19
South East -28 39 £450 +32.35% 34
North West +2 38 £434 -1.92% 9
East of England +20 36 £550 - 8
Midlands -32 30 £429 -19.17% 21
West Midlands -21 27 £429 -23.97% 13
South West +11 14 £375 -30.23% 10
Yorkshire -39 9 £650 +14.64% 5
East Midlands -11 3 - - 7
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 (5.07%) WebLogic
2 14 (3.94%) Apache
3 11 (3.10%) Confluence
3 11 (3.10%) MQSeries
4 9 (2.54%) JBoss
4 9 (2.54%) WebSphere
5 8 (2.25%) IIS
6 7 (1.97%) Anypoint
6 7 (1.97%) Appian
6 7 (1.97%) Mule
6 7 (1.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (1.69%) nginx
8 3 (0.85%) Documentum
8 3 (0.85%) 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 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.10%) FrameMaker
3 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.13%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.25%) Maximo
2 7 (1.97%) SAP HCM
2 7 (1.97%) SAP Payroll
3 5 (1.41%) BusinessWorks
4 4 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.13%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.85%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (0.85%) 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%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.28%) SAP MRS
7 1 (0.28%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.28%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
7 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (23.10%) Azure
2 58 (16.34%) AWS
3 23 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (6.48%) GitHub
4 19 (5.35%) GCP
5 17 (4.79%) Serverless
6 16 (4.51%) Power Platform
7 14 (3.94%) Tricentis Tosca
8 13 (3.66%) Power Automate
8 13 (3.66%) SaaS
9 12 (3.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (3.38%) SuccessFactors
10 10 (2.82%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.54%) Boomi
11 9 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.54%) Nutanix
12 8 (2.25%) Apigee
12 8 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.97%) AtomSphere
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.17%) HTTPS
2 28 (7.89%) HTTP
3 11 (3.10%) Firewall
4 8 (2.25%) SSL
5 7 (1.97%) NFC
5 7 (1.97%) PPP
6 4 (1.13%) VPN
7 3 (0.85%) BGP
7 3 (0.85%) 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 50 (14.08%) Relational Database
2 42 (11.83%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.92%) MongoDB
4 17 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.66%) DataStage
6 11 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.82%) MySQL
7 10 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.82%) Oracle Database
7 10 (2.82%) RDBMS
8 9 (2.54%) DB2
9 8 (2.25%) Amazon QuickSight
9 8 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (1.97%) Big Data
10 7 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.97%) Metadata
10 7 (1.97%) Power BI
10 7 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 51 (14.37%) JIRA
2 48 (13.52%) Git
3 31 (8.73%) Jenkins
4 25 (7.04%) Postman
4 25 (7.04%) Selenium
5 22 (6.20%) JUnit
6 19 (5.35%) Cucumber
7 17 (4.79%) Eclipse
8 14 (3.94%) GitLab
9 10 (2.82%) IntelliJ
9 10 (2.82%) Maven
10 9 (2.54%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (2.54%) Firebug
10 9 (2.54%) SoapUI
11 8 (2.25%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.97%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.97%) Toad
12 7 (1.97%) Valgrind
13 6 (1.69%) Gradle
13 6 (1.69%) PVCS
General
1 114 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.59%) Finance
3 59 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 35 (9.86%) Banking
6 14 (3.94%) Publishing
7 12 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.10%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.82%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.82%) Back Office
10 8 (2.25%) Private Banking
11 6 (1.69%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.41%) Automotive
12 5 (1.41%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.41%) Front Office
12 5 (1.41%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.41%) Retail
13 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (33.52%) Developer
2 51 (14.37%) Analyst
3 30 (8.45%) Senior
4 29 (8.17%) Consultant
5 22 (6.20%) Software Engineer
6 21 (5.92%) Business Analyst
7 17 (4.79%) Integration Developer
8 16 (4.51%) Data Engineer
8 16 (4.51%) Support Engineer
9 15 (4.23%) Architect
9 15 (4.23%) Java Developer
10 14 (3.94%) Author
10 14 (3.94%) Technical Author
11 13 (3.66%) webMethods Developer
12 12 (3.38%) Applications Engineer
13 10 (2.82%) Lead
13 10 (2.82%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.54%) Technical Support
14 9 (2.54%) Technical Support Engineer
14 9 (2.54%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (52.96%) JSON
2 108 (30.42%) SOAP
3 104 (29.30%) REST
4 41 (11.55%) Web Services
5 40 (11.27%) HTML
6 33 (9.30%) OAuth
7 32 (9.01%) RESTful
8 31 (8.73%) XSLT
9 29 (8.17%) JMS
10 27 (7.61%) Spring
11 21 (5.92%) .NET
11 21 (5.92%) Kafka
12 19 (5.35%) CSS
12 19 (5.35%) Hibernate
13 17 (4.79%) J2EE
13 17 (4.79%) XSD
14 15 (4.23%) OAuth2
15 14 (3.94%) AngularJS
15 14 (3.94%) SGML
15 14 (3.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.51%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.23%) Replication
3 14 (3.94%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.25%) AS400
5 8 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.97%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.97%) Smartcard
6 7 (1.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 7 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.41%) Derivative
8 5 (1.41%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.13%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.42%) Linux
2 28 (7.89%) Windows
3 24 (6.76%) Unix
4 7 (1.97%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.41%) AIX
7 3 (0.85%) 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
1 134 (37.75%) Agile
2 114 (32.11%) DevOps
3 83 (23.38%) CI/CD
4 72 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (16.62%) Test Automation
6 45 (12.68%) Migration
7 43 (12.11%) Microservices
8 41 (11.55%) Scrum
9 40 (11.27%) Deployment Automation
10 39 (10.99%) ETL
11 35 (9.86%) Validation
12 34 (9.58%) Data Migration
12 34 (9.58%) Software Engineering
13 33 (9.30%) Data Modelling
14 30 (8.45%) Computer Science
15 28 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (7.61%) API Management
16 27 (7.61%) Workflow
17 25 (7.04%) Mentoring
17 25 (7.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 142 (40.00%) SQL
2 120 (33.80%) Java
3 66 (18.59%) JavaScript
4 64 (18.03%) Python
5 51 (14.37%) C#
6 22 (6.20%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.94%) PL/SQL
8 13 (3.66%) C++
8 13 (3.66%) T-SQL
9 11 (3.10%) XPath
10 9 (2.54%) ABAP
11 8 (2.25%) RPG
11 8 (2.25%) Scala
12 7 (1.97%) Groovy
12 7 (1.97%) VBA
13 5 (1.41%) C
13 5 (1.41%) Korn
13 5 (1.41%) Perl
14 4 (1.13%) DataWeave
14 4 (1.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 96 (27.04%) Security Cleared
2 77 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 49 (13.80%) Degree
4 25 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.38%) HNC
5 12 (3.38%) HND
6 10 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 9 (2.54%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.97%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.97%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.69%) ISEB
10 3 (0.85%) CEH
10 3 (0.85%) GIAC
10 3 (0.85%) GWAPT
10 3 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.85%) PMP
11 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.56%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.32%) QA
3 5 (1.41%) SEPA
4 3 (0.85%) HL7
4 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.85%) 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 46 (12.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.38%) Ansible
3 10 (2.82%) Control-M
4 8 (2.25%) logstash
4 8 (2.25%) Puppet
5 7 (1.97%) Kibana
6 5 (1.41%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (1.41%) TIBCO Hawk
7 4 (1.13%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.85%) Terraform
9 2 (0.56%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.56%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.56%) QRadar
10 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.28%) Podman
10 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (19.15%) Oracle
2 49 (13.80%) Microsoft
3 41 (11.55%) SAP
4 39 (10.99%) IBM
5 27 (7.61%) webMethods
6 13 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 12 (3.38%) MuleSoft
8 11 (3.10%) Software AG
9 10 (2.82%) Cisco
9 10 (2.82%) Splunk
9 10 (2.82%) TIBCO
10 8 (2.25%) Axway
10 8 (2.25%) Blue Prism
10 8 (2.25%) Workday
11 7 (1.97%) Veracode
12 6 (1.69%) Pega
13 5 (1.41%) BEA
13 5 (1.41%) Computacenter
13 5 (1.41%) EMC
13 5 (1.41%) Salesforce