XML Contracts in England

XML
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring XML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XML over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 179 205
Rank change year-on-year -90 +26 -19
Contract jobs citing XML 217 482 708
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.89% 1.28% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.99% 6.43% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 313 487
10th Percentile £358 £394 £370
25th Percentile £409 £463 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% -0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £675
90th Percentile £650 £744 £760
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 31 9
10th Percentile £22.73 - £60.00
25th Percentile £25.54 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £60.13 £47.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.59% -32.14% +45.83%
75th Percentile £93.75 £51.25 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.13 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +26.59% -32.14% +47.37%

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 5,444 7,491 12,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.45% 19.93% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,764 5,388 9,210
10th Percentile £363 £343 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £798 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 156 144
10th Percentile £26.76 £20.77 £25.40
25th Percentile £51.16 £35.00 £44.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £83.38 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +32.65%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for XML in England

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in England.

Daily rate trend for XML in England

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in England over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in England

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in England.

Hourly rate trend for XML in England

XML
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing XML in England over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for XML in England

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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 3 April 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 -74 129 £513 -10.87% 212
South East +51 38 £459 +1.94% 63
North of England +2 37 £448 -15.99% 44
North West -3 31 £447 -16.09% 21
Midlands +14 8 £563 -8.16% 32
West Midlands +10 7 £575 -7.07% 16
Yorkshire +10 6 £588 +41.57% 21
East of England +35 3 - - 25
South West -9 3 £375 -28.57% 25
East Midlands +14 1 £358 -22.59% 15
XML
UK

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (5.99%) WebLogic
2 10 (4.61%) MQSeries
3 8 (3.69%) Anypoint
4 7 (3.23%) Confluence
4 7 (3.23%) Mule
5 6 (2.76%) Apache
6 4 (1.84%) Moodle
6 4 (1.84%) Mule ESB
6 4 (1.84%) NetWeaver
6 4 (1.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (1.84%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.38%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (1.38%) Camunda
7 3 (1.38%) CMS
8 2 (0.92%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.92%) Drupal
8 2 (0.92%) IIS
8 2 (0.92%) JBoss
8 2 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.46%) JCAPS
Applications
1 9 (4.15%) Siemens NX
2 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.84%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.92%) Notepad++
4 2 (0.92%) Trello
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (5.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (4.61%) Teamcenter
3 7 (3.23%) Oracle Assets
3 7 (3.23%) Oracle Cash Management
3 7 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (1.84%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 3 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.92%) BASE24
6 2 (0.92%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.46%) Actimize
7 1 (0.46%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 41 (18.89%) Azure
2 22 (10.14%) AWS
3 21 (9.68%) Serverless
4 15 (6.91%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.45%) SaaS
6 12 (5.53%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (5.07%) Power Automate
8 10 (4.61%) PowerApps
9 8 (3.69%) Azure Functions
10 6 (2.76%) Azure API Management
10 6 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.76%) GitHub
11 5 (2.30%) OCI
12 4 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.84%) SuccessFactors
13 3 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.38%) iPaaS
13 3 (1.38%) PaaS
14 2 (0.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.06%) HTTP
2 8 (3.69%) SSL
3 4 (1.84%) SNMP
3 4 (1.84%) VPN
4 3 (1.38%) BGP
4 3 (1.38%) LTE
4 3 (1.38%) MPLS
4 3 (1.38%) NAS
4 3 (1.38%) Network Security
4 3 (1.38%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (1.38%) SSH
4 3 (1.38%) Telnet
4 3 (1.38%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.92%) ATM
5 2 (0.92%) DWDM
5 2 (0.92%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.92%) Firewall
5 2 (0.92%) MQTT
5 2 (0.92%) SMS
5 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.90%) Relational Database
2 27 (12.44%) Oracle Reports
2 27 (12.44%) SQL Server
3 24 (11.06%) MongoDB
3 24 (11.06%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (10.14%) NoSQL
4 22 (10.14%) RDBMS
5 20 (9.22%) MySQL
6 13 (5.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (2.30%) Redis
9 3 (1.38%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 3 (1.38%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.92%) Big Data
10 2 (0.92%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.92%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.92%) Parquet
10 2 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (11.52%) Git
2 20 (9.22%) JIRA
3 10 (4.61%) GitLab
4 7 (3.23%) Postman
5 6 (2.76%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.76%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.84%) JUnit
6 4 (1.84%) Maven
6 4 (1.84%) PHPUnit
6 4 (1.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (1.84%) Toad
7 3 (1.38%) Ant
7 3 (1.38%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.38%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.92%) ERwin
8 2 (0.92%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.92%) MagicDraw
8 2 (0.92%) Selenium
8 2 (0.92%) Subversion
8 2 (0.92%) XMLSpy
General
1 61 (28.11%) Finance
2 39 (17.97%) Social Skills
3 37 (17.05%) Banking
4 27 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.99%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.53%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.15%) Front Office
7 9 (4.15%) Retail
8 5 (2.30%) General Ledger
8 5 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.84%) Back Office
9 4 (1.84%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.38%) Marketing
11 2 (0.92%) Automotive
11 2 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.92%) Law
11 2 (0.92%) Local Government
11 2 (0.92%) Military
11 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (42.86%) Developer
2 33 (15.21%) Architect
3 26 (11.98%) Senior
4 16 (7.37%) Analyst
4 16 (7.37%) Senior Developer
5 15 (6.91%) DBA
6 14 (6.45%) Java Developer
7 11 (5.07%) Oracle Developer
7 11 (5.07%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 9 (4.15%) Applications Engineer
8 9 (4.15%) Configuration Engineer
8 9 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.69%) Consultant
9 8 (3.69%) MuleSoft Developer
9 8 (3.69%) ServiceNow Architect
10 7 (3.23%) Administrator
10 7 (3.23%) CRM Architect
10 7 (3.23%) Lead
10 7 (3.23%) SAP Developer
11 6 (2.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (48.39%) JSON
2 56 (25.81%) SOAP
3 47 (21.66%) REST
4 44 (20.28%) HTML
5 38 (17.51%) Web Services
6 32 (14.75%) CSS
7 29 (13.36%) Kafka
8 24 (11.06%) .NET
8 24 (11.06%) XSLT
9 21 (9.68%) RESTful
10 17 (7.83%) Middleware
11 14 (6.45%) .NET Framework
11 14 (6.45%) AngularJS
11 14 (6.45%) WCF
12 12 (5.53%) ASP.NET Web API
13 11 (5.07%) Ajax
13 11 (5.07%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (4.61%) EDI
14 10 (4.61%) JDBC
14 10 (4.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.15%) CMDB
1 9 (4.15%) Derivative
2 8 (3.69%) Virtual Team
3 7 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 6 (2.76%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.76%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.76%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.30%) iSeries
5 5 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.30%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.30%) PKI
5 5 (2.30%) Replication
6 4 (1.84%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.84%) AS400
6 4 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.84%) e-Learning
6 4 (1.84%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.83%) Unix
1 17 (7.83%) Windows
2 16 (7.37%) Linux
3 2 (0.92%) CentOS
3 2 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (32.26%) Agile
2 34 (15.67%) DevOps
2 34 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (11.06%) Analytics
4 23 (10.60%) CI/CD
4 23 (10.60%) Migration
5 22 (10.14%) User Experience
6 19 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (8.76%) Data Modelling
6 19 (8.76%) Microservices
7 18 (8.29%) Mentoring
7 18 (8.29%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (7.37%) API Management
8 16 (7.37%) Data Migration
8 16 (7.37%) ITSM
8 16 (7.37%) Scrum
8 16 (7.37%) Test Automation
9 15 (6.91%) Configuration Management
9 15 (6.91%) Data Management
9 15 (6.91%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 99 (45.62%) SQL
2 53 (24.42%) Java
3 42 (19.35%) JavaScript
4 33 (15.21%) Python
5 25 (11.52%) C#
6 24 (11.06%) PL/SQL
7 14 (6.45%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.61%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.23%) ABAP
10 6 (2.76%) DataWeave
10 6 (2.76%) Perl
11 5 (2.30%) ActionScript
11 5 (2.30%) ActionScript 2.0
11 5 (2.30%) C
11 5 (2.30%) C++
11 5 (2.30%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.30%) RPG
12 4 (1.84%) PHP
13 3 (1.38%) Korn
13 3 (1.38%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 33 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.69%) Degree
4 4 (1.84%) ISEB
4 4 (1.84%) ISTQB
4 4 (1.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.92%) OCP
6 2 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.92%) Sun Certification
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.46%) CCDP
7 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.53%) QA
3 5 (2.30%) SEPA
4 3 (1.38%) SLA
5 2 (0.92%) HL7
5 2 (0.92%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.46%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) PSD2
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (5.07%) Docker
2 7 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.38%) FreeRADIUS
3 3 (1.38%) iptables
4 2 (0.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.46%) vSphere
5 1 (0.46%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 8 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.23%) CloudHub
3 6 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.84%) Ansible
4 4 (1.84%) Grafana
5 3 (1.38%) Cacti
5 3 (1.38%) Control-M
5 3 (1.38%) Nagios
5 3 (1.38%) Netcool
5 3 (1.38%) Proxmox
5 3 (1.38%) Puppet
5 3 (1.38%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.92%) Istio
6 2 (0.92%) Terraform
7 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.46%) Graylog
7 1 (0.46%) logstash
7 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.46%) SCOM
Vendors
1 54 (24.88%) Oracle
2 36 (16.59%) Microsoft
3 24 (11.06%) SAP
4 19 (8.76%) IBM
5 18 (8.29%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.61%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.76%) Splunk
8 5 (2.30%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.84%) Cisco
9 4 (1.84%) CODA
9 4 (1.84%) Cognos
9 4 (1.84%) Murex
9 4 (1.84%) Nokia
9 4 (1.84%) OpenText
9 4 (1.84%) Qualtrics
9 4 (1.84%) Sybase
9 4 (1.84%) VMware
9 4 (1.84%) webMethods
10 3 (1.38%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
440 XML jobs Nationwide