XML Contracts in the North of England

XML
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 129 181
Rank change year-on-year -2 +52 -65
Contract jobs citing XML 53 86 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.13% 1.51% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.01% 7.83% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 66 52
10th Percentile £423 £375 £338
25th Percentile £480 £475 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £577 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +18.41% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £541
90th Percentile £646 £725 £637
England median daily rate £540 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.72
25th Percentile - - £29.92
Median hourly rate £81.00 - £33.84
75th Percentile - - £38.92
90th Percentile - - £41.82
England median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -40.69% +47.96% -16.03%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 North of England 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 882 1,098 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.79% 19.24% 22.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 855 1,223
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +16.01%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 26
10th Percentile £14.56 £43.56 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +47.06% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +9.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for XML in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North West +11 37 £528 -9.35% 7
Yorkshire +20 15 £645 +24.64% 5
North East +6 5 £423 -41.25% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (11.32%) Apache
1 6 (11.32%) Confluence
2 5 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (9.43%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (30.19%) Serverless
2 14 (26.42%) Azure
3 12 (22.64%) AWS
4 8 (15.09%) GitHub
5 7 (13.21%) GCP
5 7 (13.21%) Snowflake
6 6 (11.32%) Apigee
6 6 (11.32%) Azure Stack
6 6 (11.32%) Kong
6 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon S3
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.89%) OCI
8 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.98%) Firewall
2 6 (11.32%) DNS
2 6 (11.32%) HTTP
2 6 (11.32%) TCP/IP
2 6 (11.32%) VPN
3 5 (9.43%) FTP
4 3 (5.66%) AMQP
4 3 (5.66%) MQTT
5 2 (3.77%) DMZ
5 2 (3.77%) LAN
5 2 (3.77%) Modbus
5 2 (3.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.53%) Oracle Reports
2 12 (22.64%) MongoDB
2 12 (22.64%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (20.75%) NoSQL
3 11 (20.75%) RDBMS
3 11 (20.75%) Relational Database
4 6 (11.32%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (11.32%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (11.32%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (9.43%) Big Data
5 5 (9.43%) SQLite
6 3 (5.66%) Oracle Database
6 3 (5.66%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.77%) Tableau
8 1 (1.89%) MySQL
8 1 (1.89%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 11 (20.75%) Git
1 11 (20.75%) JIRA
2 6 (11.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 6 (11.32%) CircleCI
2 6 (11.32%) GitLab
2 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.32%) Travis CI
3 3 (5.66%) Mockito
3 3 (5.66%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (3.77%) JUnit
5 1 (1.89%) JMeter
5 1 (1.89%) Postman
5 1 (1.89%) Selenium
5 1 (1.89%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (13.21%) Manufacturing
1 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (3.77%) Banking
3 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Architect
1 12 (22.64%) Developer
2 11 (20.75%) DBA
2 11 (20.75%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 6 (11.32%) Data Architect
4 5 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Data Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Senior
6 3 (5.66%) Android Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (5.66%) React Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Android Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Linux Server Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (62.26%) JSON
2 11 (20.75%) Kafka
3 7 (13.21%) HTML
3 7 (13.21%) Web Services
4 6 (11.32%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (11.32%) REST
4 6 (11.32%) YAML
5 5 (9.43%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (9.43%) XSLT
6 4 (7.55%) Android Jetpack
7 3 (5.66%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (5.66%) DHTML
7 3 (5.66%) React Native
7 3 (5.66%) SOAP
8 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.77%) CSS
8 2 (3.77%) RxJava
9 1 (1.89%) Node.js
9 1 (1.89%) React
9 1 (1.89%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Data Structures
2 6 (11.32%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.32%) Reference Data
3 4 (7.55%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.66%) IoT
4 3 (5.66%) PKI
4 3 (5.66%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.89%) CMDB
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.89%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Android
2 5 (9.43%) Linux
2 5 (9.43%) Unix
2 5 (9.43%) Windows
2 5 (9.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.77%) zOS
4 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (60.38%) Agile
2 18 (33.96%) DevOps
3 14 (26.42%) CI/CD
4 12 (22.64%) Mentoring
4 12 (22.64%) Scrum
5 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
5 11 (20.75%) Data Management
5 11 (20.75%) Database Security
5 11 (20.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (16.98%) Use Case
7 8 (15.09%) Task Automation
8 7 (13.21%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (13.21%) Data Engineering
8 7 (13.21%) Secure Coding
8 7 (13.21%) Software Engineering
9 6 (11.32%) Data Architecture
9 6 (11.32%) Data Mapping
9 6 (11.32%) Data Protection
9 6 (11.32%) GAP Analysis
9 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.96%) Java
2 15 (28.30%) Python
3 14 (26.42%) SQL
4 8 (15.09%) JavaScript
4 8 (15.09%) PowerShell
5 7 (13.21%) C#
6 6 (11.32%) Bash
7 5 (9.43%) Kotlin
8 3 (5.66%) PL/SQL
8 3 (5.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) Degree
2 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) QA
2 6 (11.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) ACF2
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) IAG
2 1 (1.89%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Grafana
2 6 (11.32%) Ansible
2 6 (11.32%) Docker Swarm
2 6 (11.32%) Kibana
2 6 (11.32%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.32%) logstash
2 6 (11.32%) Progress Chef
2 6 (11.32%) Prometheus
2 6 (11.32%) Puppet
2 6 (11.32%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Oracle
2 6 (11.32%) Splunk
3 5 (9.43%) Informatica
3 5 (9.43%) Talend
4 3 (5.66%) Adobe
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.89%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.89%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.89%) HP