XML Contracts in the North of England

XML
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 126 134 134
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +29
Contract jobs citing XML 40 51 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.21% 1.07% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.84% 5.67% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 67
10th Percentile £409 £420 £378
25th Percentile £438 £505 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £534 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% -7.13% +16.16%
75th Percentile £465 £613 £675
90th Percentile £538 £647 £725
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £81.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.13 £43.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +39.84% -40.69% +52.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 900 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.79% 18.88% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 615 875
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £597
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North West +16 34 £448 -16.20% 14
Yorkshire -1 6 £550 -14.73% 14
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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 4 (10.00%) NetWeaver
2 2 (5.00%) CICS
2 2 (5.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Teamcenter
2 2 (5.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Serverless
2 4 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.50%) FTP
2 1 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) MongoDB
1 12 (30.00%) NoSQL
1 12 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (30.00%) RDBMS
1 12 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 10 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (15.00%) MySQL
4 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.00%) DB2
4 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) ERwin
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) Selenium
2 2 (5.00%) SOAtest
3 1 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (2.50%) JUnit
3 1 (2.50%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (20.00%) Banking
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) General Ledger
4 2 (5.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) DBA
2 11 (27.50%) Applications Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Configuration Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Developer
3 8 (20.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 7 (17.50%) SAP Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Administrator
5 5 (12.50%) Integration Developer
6 3 (7.50%) MongoDB DBA
6 3 (7.50%) SAPUI5 Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Data Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Data Migration Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Data Modeller
7 2 (5.00%) Migration Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Test Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Designer
8 1 (2.50%) Mainframe Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Test Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (42.50%) JSON
2 10 (25.00%) Kafka
3 5 (12.50%) EDI
3 5 (12.50%) REST
3 5 (12.50%) SOAP
3 5 (12.50%) XSLT
4 4 (10.00%) IDoc
4 4 (10.00%) JDBC
4 4 (10.00%) JMS
4 4 (10.00%) Middleware
4 4 (10.00%) SAP PI
5 3 (7.50%) CSS
5 3 (7.50%) HTML
5 3 (7.50%) HTML5
5 3 (7.50%) Node.js
5 3 (7.50%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (7.50%) SAPUI5
5 3 (7.50%) Web Services
6 2 (5.00%) FpML
6 2 (5.00%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 4 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.00%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (5.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (5.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Agile
2 14 (35.00%) User Experience
3 13 (32.50%) DevOps
4 12 (30.00%) Database Security
4 12 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 11 (27.50%) CAD
5 11 (27.50%) Data Governance
5 11 (27.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (27.50%) PLM
6 6 (15.00%) Migration
7 4 (10.00%) Data Migration
7 4 (10.00%) Performance Testing
7 4 (10.00%) Scrum
7 4 (10.00%) SDLC
7 4 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
7 4 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (7.50%) API Testing
8 3 (7.50%) Mobile First
8 3 (7.50%) Test Automation
8 3 (7.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) Java
2 4 (10.00%) ABAP
2 4 (10.00%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) ActionScript
4 2 (5.00%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (5.00%) COBOL
4 2 (5.00%) JCL
4 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.00%) Python
4 2 (5.00%) REXX
5 1 (2.50%) C
5 1 (2.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Oracle
2 7 (17.50%) SAP
3 2 (5.00%) Ab Initio
3 2 (5.00%) Informatica
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Parasoft
3 2 (5.00%) Sparx
4 1 (2.50%) SEEBURGER