XML Contracts in England

XML
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for XML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XML over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 214 187
Rank change year-on-year +56 -27 -41
Contract jobs citing XML 562 635 1,112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.52% 1.27% 1.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.54% 5.51% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 444 802
10th Percentile £408 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £744 £792 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £545 £530
% change year-on-year -0.92% +2.83% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 15 18
10th Percentile - £55.00 £32.59
25th Percentile - £70.00 £42.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.69% +48.72% -16.46%
75th Percentile £51.25 £75.00 £64.38
90th Percentile £84.60 - £68.98
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -40.69% +49.48% -16.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

XML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,458 11,526 19,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.23% 23.07% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,308 8,536 14,406
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 137 210
10th Percentile £22.50 £28.30 £22.45
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.26
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +53 327 £550 -1.35% 106
East of England +62 66 £475 -1.30% 16
North of England -2 52 £534 -7.13% 15
South West +51 49 £550 +14.58% 9
South East -6 37 £450 -11.76% 35
North West +12 36 £534 -7.85% 9
Midlands +4 18 £600 +20.00% 22
Yorkshire +13 15 £645 +24.64% 6
West Midlands +12 14 £600 +30.43% 17
North East +7 5 £423 -41.25%
East Midlands +5 4 £300 -40.00% 5
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 31 (5.52%) Confluence
2 11 (1.96%) Apache
3 8 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.71%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.36%) CMS
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.36%) SAS
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.20%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.14%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.36%) Mingle
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.42%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.07%) ION MarketView
4 5 (0.89%) Adobe Campaign
4 5 (0.89%) Endur
5 4 (0.71%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.71%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.71%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.53%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
6 3 (0.53%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.36%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.36%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 198 (35.23%) Azure
2 135 (24.02%) Azure DevOps
3 70 (12.46%) Entra ID
4 43 (7.65%) Power Platform
5 37 (6.58%) GitHub
5 37 (6.58%) Serverless
6 34 (6.05%) Azure Logic Apps
7 30 (5.34%) AWS
8 27 (4.80%) PowerApps
9 26 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (4.45%) Azure API Management
11 24 (4.27%) Power Automate
12 21 (3.74%) Azure Key Vault
12 21 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
13 20 (3.56%) Azure Functions
14 19 (3.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 16 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (2.67%) GCP
17 13 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
18 12 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.23%) BGP
1 35 (6.23%) MPLS
2 23 (4.09%) Firewall
2 23 (4.09%) RSVP
3 19 (3.38%) HSRP
3 19 (3.38%) SNMP
3 19 (3.38%) VPLS
4 18 (3.20%) Ethernet VPN
5 17 (3.02%) IPv4
5 17 (3.02%) VRRP
6 16 (2.85%) Cisco IOS
6 16 (2.85%) IOS XR
7 15 (2.67%) HTTP
8 12 (2.14%) FIX Connectivity
9 11 (1.96%) TCP/IP
9 11 (1.96%) VPN
10 10 (1.78%) 5G
10 10 (1.78%) Network Security
11 9 (1.60%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 9 (1.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (26.87%) SQL Server
2 32 (5.69%) Oracle Reports
3 30 (5.34%) MySQL
4 29 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (4.98%) Power BI
6 26 (4.63%) Relational Database
7 24 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (3.91%) NoSQL
9 18 (3.20%) MongoDB
9 18 (3.20%) RDBMS
10 17 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (2.49%) Redis
12 13 (2.31%) Data Lake
13 12 (2.14%) Big Data
14 11 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (1.78%) SQLite
16 7 (1.25%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
16 7 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 66 (11.74%) Git
2 54 (9.61%) JIRA
3 32 (5.69%) SpecFlow
4 30 (5.34%) Visual Studio
5 21 (3.74%) Jenkins
6 18 (3.20%) Selenium
7 13 (2.31%) TeamCity
8 12 (2.14%) WebDriver
9 10 (1.78%) JUnit
10 9 (1.60%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.42%) GitLab
11 8 (1.42%) JMeter
12 7 (1.25%) Postman
12 7 (1.25%) Visual Studio Team System
13 6 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (1.07%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.07%) Maven
13 6 (1.07%) SoapUI
13 6 (1.07%) Travis CI
General
1 102 (18.15%) Social Skills
2 96 (17.08%) Finance
3 65 (11.57%) Publishing
4 50 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.27%) Banking
7 20 (3.56%) Financial Institution
8 19 (3.38%) Front Office
9 15 (2.67%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.14%) Aerospace
10 12 (2.14%) Back Office
11 9 (1.60%) Local Government
11 9 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.25%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.25%) Retail
13 6 (1.07%) Marketing
14 5 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (30.43%) Developer
2 107 (19.04%) Senior
3 89 (15.84%) Author
3 89 (15.84%) Technical Author
4 73 (12.99%) Senior Developer
5 61 (10.85%) Architect
6 44 (7.83%) Software Developer
7 42 (7.47%) Analyst
8 36 (6.41%) Senior Software Developer
9 33 (5.87%) Backend Developer
10 31 (5.52%) Software Engineer
11 30 (5.34%) Azure Developer
12 25 (4.45%) Lead
13 23 (4.09%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.91%) Senior Backend Developer
15 21 (3.74%) Consultant
16 19 (3.38%) C# Developer
17 17 (3.02%) Data Architect
17 17 (3.02%) IP Expert
17 17 (3.02%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (36.48%) JSON
2 127 (22.60%) .NET
3 90 (16.01%) HTML
4 81 (14.41%) SOAP
5 80 (14.23%) REST
6 76 (13.52%) SGML
7 62 (11.03%) Web Services
8 61 (10.85%) .NET Framework
9 45 (8.01%) AngularJS
10 44 (7.83%) CSS
11 40 (7.12%) .NET Core
12 35 (6.23%) NETCONF
12 35 (6.23%) YANG
13 28 (4.98%) LDAP
13 28 (4.98%) Servlets
14 27 (4.80%) JSP
14 27 (4.80%) RESTful
14 27 (4.80%) SPML
15 26 (4.63%) SailPoint
16 24 (4.27%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.68%) Product Ownership
2 26 (4.63%) Data Structures
3 25 (4.45%) Distributed Architecture
4 22 (3.91%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.02%) Derivative
6 15 (2.67%) Reference Data
7 14 (2.49%) Fixed Income
8 13 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.14%) Animation
10 10 (1.78%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.42%) Contactless
11 8 (1.42%) Mainframe
12 7 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.07%) Client/Server
14 5 (0.89%) PKI
14 5 (0.89%) Smart Meter
14 5 (0.89%) Verilog
14 5 (0.89%) VHDL
14 5 (0.89%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.89%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.12%) Unix
2 35 (6.23%) Linux
3 33 (5.87%) Windows
4 10 (1.78%) Android
5 7 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.36%) zOS
8 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.18%) Solaris
8 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (40.57%) Agile
2 205 (36.48%) DevOps
3 148 (26.33%) Scrum
4 140 (24.91%) CI/CD
5 70 (12.46%) B2C
6 64 (11.39%) Desktop Publishing
7 59 (10.50%) Test Automation
8 54 (9.61%) Data Modelling
9 50 (8.90%) Software Engineering
10 48 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (6.76%) Business Intelligence
12 37 (6.58%) Mentoring
13 36 (6.41%) Migration
14 35 (6.23%) Microservices
15 33 (5.87%) Data Management
16 32 (5.69%) Analytics
17 29 (5.16%) Continuous Integration
17 29 (5.16%) SDLC
18 28 (4.98%) CAD
19 27 (4.80%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 159 (28.29%) C#
2 152 (27.05%) SQL
3 127 (22.60%) PowerShell
4 109 (19.40%) JavaScript
5 87 (15.48%) Java
6 65 (11.57%) Python
7 44 (7.83%) Bicep
8 20 (3.56%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.85%) PL/SQL
9 16 (2.85%) T-SQL
10 13 (2.31%) Perl
10 13 (2.31%) XPath
11 11 (1.96%) C++
12 10 (1.78%) Bash
13 9 (1.60%) ABAP
14 8 (1.42%) Apex Code
15 7 (1.25%) C
15 7 (1.25%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.25%) SOQL
15 7 (1.25%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 66 (11.74%) HND
2 64 (11.39%) HNC
3 49 (8.72%) Security Cleared
4 48 (8.54%) Degree
5 20 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (3.56%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.60%) CCIE
6 9 (1.60%) CCIE Service Provider
6 9 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.25%) CCNP
8 6 (1.07%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.53%) CCNA
9 3 (0.53%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.36%) CISSP
10 2 (0.36%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.18%) SANS
11 1 (0.18%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.39%) QA
2 16 (2.85%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.14%) Def Stans
4 9 (1.60%) Dodd-Frank
4 9 (1.60%) EMIR
4 9 (1.60%) MiFID
5 8 (1.42%) GDPR
6 7 (1.25%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.71%) GAAP
7 4 (0.71%) ISO 15022
7 4 (0.71%) NCSC
8 3 (0.53%) GRC
9 2 (0.36%) HL7
9 2 (0.36%) NIST
9 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.36%) PMO
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) IFRS
10 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 97 (17.26%) Active Directory
2 26 (4.63%) IAG
3 25 (4.45%) ACF2
3 25 (4.45%) RACF
4 18 (3.20%) Docker
4 18 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.71%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.18%) Cronacle
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (3.56%) Ansible
2 16 (2.85%) Terraform
3 10 (1.78%) Kibana
3 10 (1.78%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.78%) logstash
3 10 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (1.42%) Grafana
5 7 (1.25%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.07%) Puppet
7 5 (0.89%) PingFederate
8 3 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.36%) Control-M
9 2 (0.36%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.18%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 161 (28.65%) Microsoft
2 62 (11.03%) Oracle
3 34 (6.05%) Nokia
3 34 (6.05%) ServiceNow
4 24 (4.27%) Cisco
4 24 (4.27%) SAP
5 23 (4.09%) Adobe
5 23 (4.09%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.38%) Sybase
7 16 (2.85%) Fortinet
8 14 (2.49%) ION Trading
9 13 (2.31%) Bloomberg
10 12 (2.14%) MarketAxess
10 12 (2.14%) Tradeweb
11 10 (1.78%) Informatica
12 9 (1.60%) CyberArk
12 9 (1.60%) F5
12 9 (1.60%) Palo Alto
13 8 (1.42%) BeyondTrust
13 8 (1.42%) IBM