X++ Contract Job Trends in London

X++
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring X++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 383 422
Rank change year-on-year +11 +39 +160
Contract jobs citing X++ 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.022% 0.026% 0.005%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.057% 0.065% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £410 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -25.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £494 £415 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £471 £410 £550
% change year-on-year +14.94% -25.45% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
London

X++ falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,282 6,112 7,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.39% 39.12% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,543 4,191 5,596
10th Percentile £368 £368 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -4.24% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £825
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 41 67
10th Percentile £22.99 £35.00 £25.60
25th Percentile £31.83 £40.06 £36.27
Median hourly rate £44.95 £49.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% -10.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63.06 £71.00 £66.05
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.79%

X++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing X++ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

X++ job vacancy trend in London

X++
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing X++.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing X++

X++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) General Ledger
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Batch Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft