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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 224 194
Rank change year-on-year -10 -30 -1
Contract jobs citing XML 358 325 508
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.18% 1.05% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.17% 4.86% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 199 315
10th Percentile £343 £211 £385
25th Percentile £404 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% -3.34%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £630 £750
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 35
10th Percentile £31.25 - £45.88
25th Percentile £40.75 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £48.72
75th Percentile £43.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 - £78.25
UK median hourly rate £43.00 - £48.72
% change year-on-year - - -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 6,919 6,683 8,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.77% 21.67% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,668 4,253 6,302
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £633 £670 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 98 183
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £41.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.15 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.34%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -25 172 £525 - 91
South East -13 41 £475 +61.02% 31
North of England -25 41 £500 -9.09% 24
East of England +18 38 £550 - 15
North West -8 31 £500 +12.36% 17
Midlands -36 29 £429 -14.20% 20
West Midlands -27 26 £429 -23.60% 8
South West +15 18 £375 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire -42 10 £575 +1.41% 7
East Midlands -19 3 - - 12
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 19 (5.31%) WebLogic
2 17 (4.75%) Apache
3 14 (3.91%) MQSeries
4 12 (3.35%) Confluence
4 12 (3.35%) WebSphere
5 11 (3.07%) IIS
6 10 (2.79%) JBoss
7 8 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (1.96%) Anypoint
8 7 (1.96%) Appian
8 7 (1.96%) Mule
9 6 (1.68%) nginx
10 3 (0.84%) Alfresco
10 3 (0.84%) Documentum
10 3 (0.84%) Mule ESB
11 2 (0.56%) Camunda
11 2 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.56%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.07%) FrameMaker
3 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.12%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (3.07%) Maximo
2 7 (1.96%) SAP HCM
2 7 (1.96%) SAP Payroll
3 5 (1.40%) BusinessWorks
4 4 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.12%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle 11i
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
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 EBS
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.28%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.28%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 87 (24.30%) Azure
2 64 (17.88%) AWS
3 28 (7.82%) GitHub
4 25 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (5.31%) GCP
6 17 (4.75%) Power Platform
7 16 (4.47%) Serverless
8 14 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
8 14 (3.91%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.91%) SaaS
8 14 (3.91%) Tricentis Tosca
9 12 (3.35%) SuccessFactors
10 10 (2.79%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.51%) Boomi
11 9 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.51%) Nutanix
12 7 (1.96%) Apigee
12 7 (1.96%) AtomSphere
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.82%) HTTPS
2 24 (6.70%) HTTP
3 11 (3.07%) Firewall
4 8 (2.23%) NFC
4 8 (2.23%) PPP
4 8 (2.23%) SSL
5 4 (1.12%) VPN
6 3 (0.84%) BGP
6 3 (0.84%) MPLS
7 2 (0.56%) AMQP
7 2 (0.56%) DNS
7 2 (0.56%) DSL
7 2 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.56%) LAN
8 1 (0.28%) DHCP
8 1 (0.28%) FTP
8 1 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.28%) SMS
8 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.41%) SQL Server
2 47 (13.13%) Relational Database
3 16 (4.47%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.63%) DB2
4 13 (3.63%) MySQL
5 12 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.07%) DataStage
7 9 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.51%) Oracle Database
8 8 (2.23%) Amazon QuickSight
8 8 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.96%) Big Data
9 7 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.96%) Power BI
9 7 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.68%) MariaDB
10 6 (1.68%) Metadata
11 5 (1.40%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 52 (14.53%) Git
2 50 (13.97%) JIRA
3 31 (8.66%) Jenkins
4 24 (6.70%) Selenium
5 23 (6.42%) Postman
6 22 (6.15%) JUnit
7 18 (5.03%) Cucumber
7 18 (5.03%) Eclipse
8 17 (4.75%) GitLab
9 10 (2.79%) IntelliJ
9 10 (2.79%) SoapUI
10 9 (2.51%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (2.51%) Firebug
10 9 (2.51%) Maven
11 8 (2.23%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.23%) Valgrind
12 7 (1.96%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.96%) Toad
13 6 (1.68%) Gradle
13 6 (1.68%) PVCS
General
1 111 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.44%) Finance
3 59 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.89%) Banking
5 36 (10.06%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.91%) Publishing
7 12 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.07%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.79%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.79%) Back Office
10 8 (2.23%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.23%) Private Banking
11 6 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.40%) Automotive
12 5 (1.40%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.40%) Front Office
12 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.40%) Retail
13 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (34.92%) Developer
2 51 (14.25%) Analyst
3 35 (9.78%) Senior
4 29 (8.10%) Consultant
5 24 (6.70%) Software Engineer
6 21 (5.87%) Business Analyst
7 17 (4.75%) Data Engineer
7 17 (4.75%) Integration Developer
8 16 (4.47%) Java Developer
8 16 (4.47%) Support Engineer
9 14 (3.91%) Architect
9 14 (3.91%) Author
9 14 (3.91%) Technical Author
10 13 (3.63%) webMethods Developer
11 12 (3.35%) Applications Engineer
12 11 (3.07%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.07%) Tester
13 10 (2.79%) Java Engineer
13 10 (2.79%) Lead
14 9 (2.51%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (51.96%) JSON
2 111 (31.01%) SOAP
3 104 (29.05%) REST
4 47 (13.13%) HTML
4 47 (13.13%) Web Services
5 32 (8.94%) OAuth
5 32 (8.94%) RESTful
6 30 (8.38%) Spring
7 29 (8.10%) JMS
8 28 (7.82%) XSLT
9 23 (6.42%) .NET
10 20 (5.59%) CSS
10 20 (5.59%) Hibernate
11 18 (5.03%) J2EE
11 18 (5.03%) Kafka
12 16 (4.47%) AngularJS
12 16 (4.47%) Spring Boot
12 16 (4.47%) XSD
13 14 (3.91%) OAuth2
13 14 (3.91%) SGML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.75%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.19%) Replication
3 11 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.51%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.23%) AS400
5 8 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.23%) Smartcard
5 8 (2.23%) Virtual Team
6 7 (1.96%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.68%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.40%) Derivative
8 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.12%) CMDB
9 4 (1.12%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 39 (10.89%) Linux
2 32 (8.94%) Windows
3 26 (7.26%) Unix
4 9 (2.51%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.23%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.84%) AIX
7 2 (0.56%) Android
7 2 (0.56%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (36.31%) Agile
2 116 (32.40%) DevOps
3 88 (24.58%) CI/CD
4 71 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (17.32%) Test Automation
6 45 (12.57%) Microservices
6 45 (12.57%) Migration
7 40 (11.17%) Deployment Automation
7 40 (11.17%) ETL
8 39 (10.89%) Scrum
9 36 (10.06%) Software Engineering
10 34 (9.50%) Validation
11 33 (9.22%) Data Migration
12 32 (8.94%) Data Modelling
13 30 (8.38%) Workflow
14 29 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (7.54%) API Management
15 27 (7.54%) Computer Science
15 27 (7.54%) Requirements Gathering
16 25 (6.98%) OO
Programming Languages
1 147 (41.06%) SQL
2 123 (34.36%) Java
3 72 (20.11%) JavaScript
3 72 (20.11%) Python
4 53 (14.80%) C#
5 22 (6.15%) PowerShell
6 17 (4.75%) C++
7 13 (3.63%) PL/SQL
7 13 (3.63%) T-SQL
8 11 (3.07%) RPG
9 10 (2.79%) XPath
10 9 (2.51%) ABAP
11 8 (2.23%) C
11 8 (2.23%) Scala
12 7 (1.96%) Groovy
12 7 (1.96%) VBA
13 4 (1.12%) DataWeave
13 4 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.84%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.84%) Perl
Qualifications
1 100 (27.93%) Security Cleared
2 83 (23.18%) SC Cleared
3 46 (12.85%) Degree
4 22 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.35%) HNC
5 12 (3.35%) HND
6 11 (3.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 10 (2.79%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.23%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.96%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.68%) ISEB
11 3 (0.84%) CEH
11 3 (0.84%) GIAC
11 3 (0.84%) GWAPT
11 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.84%) PMP
12 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.38%) QA
2 26 (7.26%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.12%) SEPA
4 3 (0.84%) HL7
4 3 (0.84%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.84%) SLA
5 2 (0.56%) EMIR
5 2 (0.56%) GAAP
6 1 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) DICOM
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 48 (13.41%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.91%) Ansible
3 11 (3.07%) Control-M
4 8 (2.23%) logstash
4 8 (2.23%) Puppet
5 7 (1.96%) Kibana
6 5 (1.40%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (1.40%) TIBCO Hawk
7 4 (1.12%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.84%) Terraform
9 2 (0.56%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.56%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.56%) QRadar
9 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 58 (16.20%) Oracle
2 55 (15.36%) Microsoft
3 43 (12.01%) IBM
4 41 (11.45%) SAP
5 27 (7.54%) webMethods
6 15 (4.19%) ServiceNow
7 12 (3.35%) MuleSoft
8 11 (3.07%) Cisco
8 11 (3.07%) Software AG
9 10 (2.79%) Splunk
9 10 (2.79%) TIBCO
10 8 (2.23%) Axway
10 8 (2.23%) Blue Prism
10 8 (2.23%) Workday
11 7 (1.96%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.96%) Veracode
12 6 (1.68%) Pega
13 5 (1.40%) Databricks
13 5 (1.40%) EMC
13 5 (1.40%) Solace