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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 100 127
Rank change year-on-year -22 +27 -31
Contract jobs citing XML 18 36 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.74% 1.25% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.95% 8.11% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 18
10th Percentile £357 £361 £350
25th Percentile £402 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £594
90th Percentile £584 £656 £600
England median daily rate £498 £510 £575
% change year-on-year -2.45% -11.30% +4.55%

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 456 444 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.87% 15.43% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 307 413
10th Percentile £280 £309 £313
25th Percentile £368 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £523 £612 £575
90th Percentile £613 £700 £700
England median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 1
10th Percentile £31.46 £12.51 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £19.86 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.71 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.32% -20.68% +97.67%
75th Percentile - £55.31 £43.75
90th Percentile - £58.13 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +16.36%

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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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -7 15 £500 -13.98% 19
East Midlands -2 3 £314 -10.60% 15
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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 (16.67%) Moodle
2 2 (11.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) BASE24
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (11.11%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.56%) OCI
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) DataStage
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) PVCS
2 4 (22.22%) Git
3 3 (16.67%) PHPUnit
3 3 (16.67%) Postman
4 1 (5.56%) ClearCase
4 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
4 1 (5.56%) GitLab
4 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) Selenium
4 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.56%) Toad
4 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Performance Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Moodle Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) BASE24 Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Citrix Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Citrix Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Product Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) SAP Test Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Software Tester
6 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) JSON
2 3 (16.67%) Behat
2 3 (16.67%) REST
2 3 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.56%) J2EE
3 1 (5.56%) JDBC
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) SOAP
3 1 (5.56%) Spring
3 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) e-Learning
1 3 (16.67%) VLE
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) APACS
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Agile
1 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
1 5 (27.78%) Statistics
2 4 (22.22%) Analytics
2 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
3 3 (16.67%) Data Management
3 3 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (16.67%) SDLC
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Defect Management
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Release Management
4 2 (11.11%) Scrum
4 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
5 1 (5.56%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) PHP
4 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) COBOL
5 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 2 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) ISEB
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) OneLogin
3 2 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) HP
4 1 (5.56%) Remedy
4 1 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Solace
4 1 (5.56%) webMethods