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 7 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 203 195
Rank change year-on-year +42 -8 -20
Contract jobs citing XML 483 557 1,096
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.48% 1.29% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.67% 5.84% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 355 790
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £430 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.39% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £700
90th Percentile £675 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 19
10th Percentile - £39.21 £18.58
25th Percentile - £50.44 £24.42
Median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% +55.56% -31.30%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £53.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 £44.49
% change year-on-year -38.57% +57.34% -32.10%

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 7,236 9,530 19,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.21% 22.04% 26.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,875 7,022 14,169
10th Percentile £360 £381 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £688
90th Percentile £824 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.26% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 159 189
10th Percentile £27.45 £35.85 £18.58
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £42.73
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +23.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.65 £78.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £59.03 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.03% -1.62% +23.51%

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 7 September 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing XML in England over the 6 months to 7 September 2024.

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 7 September 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 +21 267 £525 -9.48% 28
East of England +68 69 £500 +2.56% 8
South East +28 54 £318 -35.70% 17
Midlands +19 39 £500 -14.89% 6
West Midlands +17 31 £563 -6.25% 4
North of England -50 24 £575 -1.08% 16
South West +21 19 £519 -3.49% 5
Yorkshire -24 15 £625 +4.17% 5
North West -18 9 £463 -14.35% 11
East Midlands +1 7 £406 -18.75% 2
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 30 (6.21%) Confluence
2 14 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.69%) MQSeries
4 10 (2.07%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (1.24%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.83%) Apache
8 3 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.62%) SAS
9 2 (0.41%) IIS
9 2 (0.41%) JBoss
9 2 (0.41%) WordPress
10 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.21%) CMS
10 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.21%) StreamWeaver
10 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.07%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.21%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.07%) NetSuite
1 10 (2.07%) Oracle EBS
1 10 (2.07%) Oracle EBS R12
2 8 (1.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 6 (1.24%) SAP CO
3 6 (1.24%) SAP FI
3 6 (1.24%) SAP FI/CO
3 6 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.83%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 4 (0.83%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.62%) Endur
5 3 (0.62%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 3 (0.62%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.62%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.62%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 182 (37.68%) Azure
2 120 (24.84%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (9.94%) AWS
4 43 (8.90%) Entra ID
5 35 (7.25%) GitHub
6 31 (6.42%) Power Platform
7 24 (4.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 24 (4.97%) Azure Service Bus
8 22 (4.55%) GCP
9 19 (3.93%) PowerApps
10 18 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (3.11%) Power Automate
12 13 (2.69%) Boomi
13 12 (2.48%) Serverless
14 10 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.86%) Kong
15 9 (1.86%) SaaS
16 7 (1.45%) Azure Functions
16 7 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 6 (1.24%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.73%) HTTP
2 13 (2.69%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.48%) Firewall
3 12 (2.48%) VPN
4 10 (2.07%) DNS
4 10 (2.07%) SSH
4 10 (2.07%) SSL
5 6 (1.24%) Internet
6 5 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (0.83%) BGP
7 4 (0.83%) MPLS
8 3 (0.62%) 5G
8 3 (0.62%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.41%) AMQP
9 2 (0.41%) DWDM
9 2 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.41%) Network Security
9 2 (0.41%) RSVP
9 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (19.67%) SQL Server
2 45 (9.32%) MySQL
3 35 (7.25%) Relational Database
4 27 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.14%) Redis
6 17 (3.52%) Power BI
7 15 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (3.11%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (2.90%) Big Data
8 14 (2.90%) MongoDB
8 14 (2.90%) RDBMS
9 13 (2.69%) MariaDB
10 10 (2.07%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.07%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 9 (1.86%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.24%) SAP HANA
13 5 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.04%) Oracle Database
13 5 (1.04%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 84 (17.39%) Git
2 44 (9.11%) JIRA
3 32 (6.63%) Android Studio
4 23 (4.76%) SpecFlow
5 21 (4.35%) Jenkins
6 16 (3.31%) Cucumber
6 16 (3.31%) GitLab
7 15 (3.11%) Visual Studio
8 13 (2.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 13 (2.69%) JUnit
9 10 (2.07%) Browser DevTools
9 10 (2.07%) Firebug
9 10 (2.07%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (1.86%) CircleCI
10 9 (1.86%) Travis CI
11 8 (1.66%) Maven
12 7 (1.45%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.45%) Gradle
12 7 (1.45%) Selenium
12 7 (1.45%) SonarQube
General
1 103 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 85 (17.60%) Finance
3 66 (13.66%) Publishing
4 50 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (7.04%) Banking
6 31 (6.42%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.48%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.07%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.86%) Private Banking
11 8 (1.66%) Back Office
11 8 (1.66%) Front Office
11 8 (1.66%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.45%) Local Government
12 7 (1.45%) Marketing
13 5 (1.04%) Billing
13 5 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.04%) Retail
14 4 (0.83%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 211 (43.69%) Developer
2 89 (18.43%) Senior
3 67 (13.87%) Author
3 67 (13.87%) Technical Author
4 63 (13.04%) Senior Developer
5 43 (8.90%) Architect
6 37 (7.66%) Analyst
7 34 (7.04%) Backend Developer
8 31 (6.42%) Android Developer
9 26 (5.38%) Java Developer
10 23 (4.76%) Senior Backend Developer
10 23 (4.76%) Software Engineer
11 22 (4.55%) Consultant
11 22 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
12 21 (4.35%) Software Developer
13 18 (3.73%) Azure Developer
14 17 (3.52%) Technical Support
15 16 (3.31%) Senior Software Developer
16 13 (2.69%) Integration Developer
17 12 (2.48%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (29.81%) JSON
2 121 (25.05%) HTML
3 98 (20.29%) .NET
4 86 (17.81%) CSS
5 84 (17.39%) REST
6 75 (15.53%) SOAP
7 73 (15.11%) Web Services
8 64 (13.25%) SGML
9 43 (8.90%) .NET Core
10 40 (8.28%) .NET Framework
11 36 (7.45%) React
12 34 (7.04%) AngularJS
13 31 (6.42%) Android Jetpack
13 31 (6.42%) Jetpack Compose
14 28 (5.80%) RESTful
15 27 (5.59%) YAML
16 26 (5.38%) Spring
17 24 (4.97%) JSP
18 21 (4.35%) LDAP
19 20 (4.14%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.22%) Product Ownership
2 40 (8.28%) Mobile App
3 39 (8.07%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (1.86%) AS400
6 9 (1.86%) iSeries
6 9 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.66%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.66%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.04%) Verilog
9 5 (1.04%) VHDL
9 5 (1.04%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.83%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.83%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 42 (8.70%) Linux
2 36 (7.45%) Android
2 36 (7.45%) Unix
3 24 (4.97%) Windows
4 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.41%) CentOS
7 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.21%) Solaris
7 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (44.93%) Agile
2 163 (33.75%) DevOps
3 128 (26.50%) Scrum
4 122 (25.26%) CI/CD
5 82 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (13.25%) Desktop Publishing
7 43 (8.90%) B2C
7 43 (8.90%) Migration
8 41 (8.49%) Design Patterns
9 39 (8.07%) Test Automation
10 36 (7.45%) Microservices
11 35 (7.25%) SDLC
12 34 (7.04%) TDD
13 33 (6.83%) Data Modelling
13 33 (6.83%) User Experience
14 32 (6.63%) Software Engineering
14 32 (6.63%) Unit Testing
15 31 (6.42%) MVVM
15 31 (6.42%) OO
16 30 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 134 (27.74%) SQL
2 124 (25.67%) JavaScript
3 103 (21.33%) Java
4 101 (20.91%) C#
5 76 (15.73%) PowerShell
6 49 (10.14%) Python
7 39 (8.07%) Bicep
8 31 (6.42%) Kotlin
9 28 (5.80%) C++
10 21 (4.35%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.31%) C
12 15 (3.11%) PL/SQL
13 14 (2.90%) Bash
14 9 (1.86%) ABAP
14 9 (1.86%) Perl
14 9 (1.86%) RPG
14 9 (1.86%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.04%) Apex Code
15 5 (1.04%) X++
16 4 (0.83%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 67 (13.87%) HND
2 64 (13.25%) HNC
3 30 (6.21%) Degree
4 28 (5.80%) Security Cleared
5 16 (3.31%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CCDP
11 1 (0.21%) CCNA
11 1 (0.21%) CCNP
11 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.21%) OCP
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.66%) QA
2 13 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.04%) ISO 15022
3 5 (1.04%) WCAG
4 2 (0.41%) GAAP
5 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.21%) EMIR
5 1 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.21%) HL7
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.21%) MiFID
5 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (13.25%) Active Directory
2 33 (6.83%) Docker
3 17 (3.52%) ACF2
3 17 (3.52%) IAG
3 17 (3.52%) RACF
4 4 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.62%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.93%) Terraform
3 14 (2.90%) Ansible
4 12 (2.48%) Grafana
5 11 (2.28%) Kibana
5 11 (2.28%) logstash
6 10 (2.07%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.86%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (1.86%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.86%) Puppet
8 5 (1.04%) Control-M
9 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.21%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.21%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 116 (24.02%) Microsoft
2 59 (12.22%) Oracle
3 28 (5.80%) SAP
4 27 (5.59%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.31%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.69%) IBM
7 9 (1.86%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.86%) Splunk
7 9 (1.86%) Sybase
8 8 (1.66%) BeyondTrust
8 8 (1.66%) Calypso
8 8 (1.66%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.24%) F5
10 5 (1.04%) Dell
10 5 (1.04%) Nokia
10 5 (1.04%) Pega
11 4 (0.83%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.83%) Google
11 4 (0.83%) Informatica
11 4 (0.83%) TIBCO