XSD Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

XML Schema Definition (XSD)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring XSD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing XSD 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.24% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £473 - -
East of England median daily rate £450 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hertfordshire

XSD 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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 77 68 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 9.10% 20.80% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 45 39
10th Percentile £200 £425 £325
25th Percentile £463 £465 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +53.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £600
90th Percentile £738 - £703
East of England median daily rate £550 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -1.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 47
10th Percentile £43.60 £65.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.43% +87.62% -1.15%
75th Percentile £72.75 £81.35 -
90th Percentile £75.88 £82.10 £65.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £43.00
% change year-on-year -19.43% +87.62% -18.10%

XSD
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XSD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

XSD job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

XSD
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing XSD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing XSD

XSD
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing XSD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing XSD

XSD
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSD within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2026. 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
Stevenage - 2 £450 -
XSD
East of England

XSD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Newman
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XML Schema
2 1 (50.00%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks