XML Contracts in the North East

XML
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 35 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing XML 1 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.31% 1.46% 3.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.56% 8.93% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - £410 £373
25th Percentile £175 £413 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £423 £720
Median % change year-on-year -52.72% -41.25% +33.95%
75th Percentile £225 £429 £734
90th Percentile - £430 £759
England median daily rate £475 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -12.04% -1.82% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 64 56 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 19.63% 16.37% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 17 93
10th Percentile £344 £334 £380
25th Percentile £380 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £431 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -25.04% +11.65%
75th Percentile £530 £501 £700
90th Percentile £627 £590 £760
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.61% -1.01%
75th Percentile - £27.12 £49.50
90th Percentile - £38.56 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +32.65%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in the North East

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for XML in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the North East region over the 6 months to 4 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
Tyne and Wear -7 1 £200 -52.72% 2
XML
England

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (100.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GatsbyJS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript