XML Schema Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

XML Schema
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring XML Schema skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing XML Schema 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.057% - 0.037%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.30% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £400 £340 -
% change year-on-year +17.65% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.50 - -
Median hourly rate £58.00 - -
75th Percentile £59.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

XML Schema 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 669 369 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.92% 17.74% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 241 258
10th Percentile £360 £350 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £660 £689 £688
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 12
10th Percentile £15.35 - -
25th Percentile £25.04 £26.25 £10.90
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +58.27% -
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £34.92
90th Percentile £73.70 - £54.39
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

XML Schema
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XML Schema relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

XML Schema job vacancy trend in the Midlands

XML Schema
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing XML Schema.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing XML Schema

XML Schema
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing XML Schema.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing XML Schema

XML Schema
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML Schema within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
West Midlands - 2 £400 -
XML Schema
England

XML Schema
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) 3GPP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) RTCP
2 1 (50.00%) RTP
2 1 (50.00%) XCAP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) SignalR
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Media Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#