XML Contracts in the Midlands

XML
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for XML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XML over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 115 99
Rank change year-on-year +1 -16 -18
Contract jobs citing XML 16 51 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.59% 1.47% 2.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.15% 8.36% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 36 78
10th Percentile £286 £351 £381
25th Percentile £458 £452 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £432
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +15.74% +20.00%
75th Percentile £647 £593 £514
90th Percentile £668 £625 £550
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

XML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 610 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.15% 17.57% 18.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 476 726
10th Percentile £286 £313 £356
25th Percentile £362 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £622 £588 £549
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £568 £563
% change year-on-year -3.08% +0.89% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 11
10th Percentile £10.90 - -
25th Percentile £14.13 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.85%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £36.25
90th Percentile £56.25 - £46.67
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for XML in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in the Midlands

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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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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 +16 12 £600 +21.21% 14
East Midlands +5 4 £300 -40.00% 7
XML
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (50.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Boomi
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) iPaaS
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (6.25%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) JMeter
1 1 (6.25%) NUnit
1 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
1 1 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Billing
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Integration Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Integration Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Functional Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) JSON
2 8 (50.00%) SOAP
3 7 (43.75%) HTML
4 6 (37.50%) REST
5 5 (31.25%) Web Services
6 4 (25.00%) CSS
7 3 (18.75%) .NET
7 3 (18.75%) WSDL
7 3 (18.75%) XSD
7 3 (18.75%) XSLT
8 2 (12.50%) OAuth
8 2 (12.50%) SAML
8 2 (12.50%) Visualforce
9 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
9 1 (6.25%) Ajax
9 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (6.25%) jQuery
9 1 (6.25%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (31.25%) Scrum
4 4 (25.00%) Business Transformation
4 4 (25.00%) CRM
4 4 (25.00%) ERP
5 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Release Management
6 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 2 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
6 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Revenue Recognition
6 2 (12.50%) TDD
6 2 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
6 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
7 1 (6.25%) Data Transformation
7 1 (6.25%) Functional Testing
7 1 (6.25%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) C#
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Apex Code
3 2 (12.50%) SOQL
4 1 (6.25%) Groovy
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) VB.NET
4 1 (6.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Salesforce
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) Jitterbit
4 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) SnapLogic
4 1 (6.25%) Software AG
4 1 (6.25%) Talend
4 1 (6.25%) TIBCO
4 1 (6.25%) UiPath