XML Contracts in the Midlands

XML
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 101 116 115
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 -15
Contract jobs citing XML 10 17 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.52% 0.62% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 4.43% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 36
10th Percentile £393 £286 £351
25th Percentile £500 £458 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £625 £647 £593
90th Percentile £650 £668 £625
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 384 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.67% 13.93% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 272 464
10th Percentile £319 £276 £313
25th Percentile £400 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £588
90th Percentile £660 £725 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 0
10th Percentile £23.96 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.71 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% - -
75th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
West Midlands +9 8 £563 -6.25% 9
East Midlands +8 2 £358 +19.33% 13
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 3 (30.00%) Moodle
2 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (10.00%) BASE24
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) PHPUnit
1 3 (30.00%) Postman
2 2 (20.00%) ERwin
3 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (10.00%) Toad
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Moodle Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modeller
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) BASE24 Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Product Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) JSON
2 3 (30.00%) Behat
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (20.00%) FpML
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (30.00%) VLE
2 2 (20.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (10.00%) APACS
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (30.00%) Data Management
1 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (30.00%) Migration
1 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Conceptual Models
2 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 2 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
2 2 (20.00%) Ontologies
2 2 (20.00%) RDF
2 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) PHP
4 2 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) C++
5 1 (10.00%) COBOL
5 1 (10.00%) Java
5 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) ISEB
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Sparx
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) webMethods