XML Contracts in London

XML
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 131 186
Rank change year-on-year -97 +55 +1
Contract jobs citing XML 125 325 381
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.00% 1.82% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.82% 7.28% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 215 267
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.34% -3.56%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £806
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £43.23
25th Percentile £91.25 - £53.27
Median hourly rate £92.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% - +77.22%
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.13 £43.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +39.84% -40.69% +52.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for XML in London

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in London.

Daily rate trend for XML in London

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in London

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in London.

Hourly rate trend for XML in London

XML
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -25 19 £513 -7.24% 9
South London +13 8 £474 +10.17%
West London +13 3 £675 +80.00% 1
East London +6 3 £475 -15.18% 1
XML
England

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (8.00%) Confluence
2 9 (7.20%) MQSeries
3 7 (5.60%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.40%) Apache
4 3 (2.40%) Camunda
4 3 (2.40%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.60%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.60%) JBoss
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.60%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.80%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.80%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.80%) CMS
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.80%) Mule
6 1 (0.80%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.60%) Notepad++
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (9.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (5.60%) Oracle Assets
2 7 (5.60%) Oracle Cash Management
2 7 (5.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 7 (5.60%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (5.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (3.20%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 2 (1.60%) Misys Midas
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.80%) Actimize
5 1 (0.80%) BASE24
5 1 (0.80%) FastStats
5 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.40%) Azure
2 15 (12.00%) AWS
2 15 (12.00%) Power Platform
3 13 (10.40%) PowerApps
4 12 (9.60%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (8.00%) Power Automate
6 9 (7.20%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (7.20%) Serverless
7 6 (4.80%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.00%) GitHub
9 4 (3.20%) Azure API Management
9 4 (3.20%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.40%) SaaS
11 2 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.60%) HTTP
1 7 (5.60%) SSL
2 4 (3.20%) Network Security
2 4 (3.20%) VPN
2 4 (3.20%) Wireshark
3 3 (2.40%) BGP
3 3 (2.40%) Firewall
3 3 (2.40%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (2.40%) SNMP
3 3 (2.40%) SSH
3 3 (2.40%) Telnet
4 2 (1.60%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (1.60%) MPLS
4 2 (1.60%) SMS
5 1 (0.80%) ATM
5 1 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.80%) DNS
5 1 (0.80%) DSLAM
5 1 (0.80%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.80%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.80%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 11 (8.80%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.40%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.60%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.60%) Oracle Database
7 6 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.80%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.00%) MySQL
9 4 (3.20%) Redis
10 3 (2.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (2.40%) Tableau
11 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.60%) DB2
11 2 (1.60%) GIS
11 2 (1.60%) IMS/DB
11 2 (1.60%) Oracle Database 10g
11 2 (1.60%) Parquet
11 2 (1.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (10.40%) Git
2 11 (8.80%) JIRA
3 6 (4.80%) GitLab
3 6 (4.80%) Postman
4 5 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.00%) JUnit
4 5 (4.00%) SoapUI
5 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (2.40%) Ant
6 3 (2.40%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.60%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.60%) JMeter
7 2 (1.60%) MagicDraw
7 2 (1.60%) Maven
7 2 (1.60%) Mockito
7 2 (1.60%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.60%) Subversion
7 2 (1.60%) Toad
7 2 (1.60%) XMLSpy
8 1 (0.80%) Crucible
General
1 46 (36.80%) Finance
2 30 (24.00%) Banking
3 29 (23.20%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.20%) Front Office
5 9 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.00%) Back Office
6 5 (4.00%) General Ledger
6 5 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.20%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.20%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.60%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.60%) Marketing
8 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.80%) Law
9 1 (0.80%) Legal
9 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (44.00%) Developer
2 21 (16.80%) Architect
3 17 (13.60%) Analyst
4 14 (11.20%) Senior
5 10 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 10 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 9 (7.20%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.60%) CRM Architect
8 7 (5.60%) Oracle Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Lead
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Integration Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Network Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Report Developer
10 5 (4.00%) ServiceNow Architect
10 5 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (4.00%) Technical Business Analyst
11 4 (3.20%) CRM Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (52.80%) JSON
2 33 (26.40%) REST
3 32 (25.60%) SOAP
4 31 (24.80%) HTML
5 21 (16.80%) .NET
5 21 (16.80%) Web Services
6 19 (15.20%) CSS
7 14 (11.20%) .NET Framework
7 14 (11.20%) XSLT
8 13 (10.40%) ASP.NET Web API
8 13 (10.40%) WCF
9 12 (9.60%) Kafka
9 12 (9.60%) RESTful
10 10 (8.00%) AngularJS
10 10 (8.00%) Middleware
11 9 (7.20%) HTML5 Canvas
12 8 (6.40%) Spring
12 8 (6.40%) Spring Boot
13 7 (5.60%) FpML
13 7 (5.60%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.40%) Derivative
1 8 (6.40%) Fixed Income
2 6 (4.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.00%) iSeries
4 4 (3.20%) AS400
4 4 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.20%) PKI
4 4 (3.20%) Replication
4 4 (3.20%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.40%) CMDB
5 3 (2.40%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.40%) Linux
2 12 (9.60%) Unix
3 8 (6.40%) Windows
4 3 (2.40%) AIX
5 2 (1.60%) CentOS
5 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.80%) Android
6 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (29.60%) Agile
2 22 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (12.80%) Analytics
4 15 (12.00%) CI/CD
5 14 (11.20%) Performance Tuning
5 14 (11.20%) Workflow
6 13 (10.40%) DevOps
7 12 (9.60%) CRM
7 12 (9.60%) Microservices
7 12 (9.60%) SDLC
7 12 (9.60%) TDD
8 11 (8.80%) API Management
8 11 (8.80%) Web Development
9 10 (8.00%) Business Analysis
9 10 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (8.00%) ITSM
9 10 (8.00%) Migration
9 10 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (7.20%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (7.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 66 (52.80%) SQL
2 34 (27.20%) Java
3 30 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 25 (20.00%) C#
4 25 (20.00%) Python
5 18 (14.40%) PL/SQL
6 13 (10.40%) TypeScript
7 10 (8.00%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.00%) Perl
8 5 (4.00%) RPG
9 4 (3.20%) Groovy
10 3 (2.40%) ABAP
10 3 (2.40%) C
10 3 (2.40%) C++
10 3 (2.40%) Korn
10 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.60%) ActionScript
11 2 (1.60%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (1.60%) REXX
11 2 (1.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.80%) Degree
4 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.80%) OCP
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.80%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) QA
2 4 (3.20%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.20%) SEPA
3 3 (2.40%) HL7
3 3 (2.40%) SLA
4 2 (1.60%) DICOM
4 2 (1.60%) EMIR
4 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.60%) MiFID
5 1 (0.80%) GDPR
5 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.80%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.80%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.80%) NIST
5 1 (0.80%) PSD2
5 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (7.20%) Docker
2 5 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.40%) FreeRADIUS
3 3 (2.40%) iptables
4 2 (1.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.80%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 10 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.80%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (3.20%) Ansible
3 4 (3.20%) Grafana
4 3 (2.40%) Cacti
4 3 (2.40%) Control-M
4 3 (2.40%) Nagios
4 3 (2.40%) Netcool
4 3 (2.40%) Proxmox
4 3 (2.40%) Puppet
4 3 (2.40%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.60%) CloudHub
5 2 (1.60%) Istio
5 2 (1.60%) Kibana
5 2 (1.60%) Terraform
6 1 (0.80%) Graylog
6 1 (0.80%) logstash
6 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (23.20%) Oracle
2 20 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (12.00%) IBM
4 13 (10.40%) ServiceNow
5 9 (7.20%) SAP
6 6 (4.80%) Splunk
7 5 (4.00%) TIBCO
8 4 (3.20%) Bloomberg
8 4 (3.20%) Cisco
8 4 (3.20%) CODA
8 4 (3.20%) Cognos
8 4 (3.20%) MuleSoft
8 4 (3.20%) Murex
8 4 (3.20%) OpenText
8 4 (3.20%) Pega
8 4 (3.20%) Qualtrics
8 4 (3.20%) Sybase
9 3 (2.40%) Informatica
9 3 (2.40%) Nokia
9 3 (2.40%) VMware