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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 119 134
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 +44
Contract jobs citing XML 43 58 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.31% 1.26% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.54% 6.51% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 43 60
10th Percentile £409 £436 £396
25th Percentile £438 £493 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £534 £583
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -8.37% +16.55%
75th Percentile £475 £617 £675
90th Percentile £538 £645 £721
England median daily rate £475 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -11.05% -2.91% +2.33%
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% +49.48%

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 657 891 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.07% 19.31% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 601 850
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £599
90th Percentile £638 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 32 9
10th Percentile £71.25 £14.56 £37.79
25th Percentile £73.13 £21.25 £48.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.65% -26.11% +2.04%
75th Percentile £93.65 £69.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £96.59 £72.50 £72.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +30.00%

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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 23 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 23 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 +7 37 £450 -13.88% 79
Yorkshire 0 5 £513 -18.00% 83
North East -3 1 £200 -53.60% 22
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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 (9.30%) NetWeaver
2 3 (6.98%) WebSphere
3 2 (4.65%) CICS
4 1 (2.33%) Apache
4 1 (2.33%) CMS
4 1 (2.33%) IIS
4 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (32.56%) Siemens NX
2 1 (2.33%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 15 (34.88%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) Serverless
2 4 (9.30%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (6.98%) SaaS
4 2 (4.65%) Figma
5 1 (2.33%) Azure
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) HTTP
2 1 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) MongoDB
1 10 (23.26%) NoSQL
1 10 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (23.26%) RDBMS
1 10 (23.26%) Relational Database
2 8 (18.60%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (6.98%) DB2
3 3 (6.98%) MySQL
4 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) Selenium
2 2 (4.65%) SOAtest
2 2 (4.65%) UI Automator
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) JUnit
3 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (13.95%) Banking
1 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Finance
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.65%) General Ledger
3 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Applications Engineer
1 14 (32.56%) Configuration Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) DBA
2 10 (23.26%) Developer
3 7 (16.28%) SAP Developer
4 6 (13.95%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 5 (11.63%) Administrator
6 4 (9.30%) Integration Developer
6 4 (9.30%) MongoDB DBA
7 3 (6.98%) SAPUI5 Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Data Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Data Migration Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Migration Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Salesforce Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Test Architect
8 2 (4.65%) UI Developer
8 2 (4.65%) UI/UX Developer
8 2 (4.65%) UX Developer
9 1 (2.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (39.53%) JSON
2 8 (18.60%) Kafka
3 6 (13.95%) HTML
3 6 (13.95%) REST
3 6 (13.95%) SOAP
4 5 (11.63%) CSS
5 4 (9.30%) EDI
5 4 (9.30%) IDoc
5 4 (9.30%) JDBC
5 4 (9.30%) JMS
5 4 (9.30%) Middleware
5 4 (9.30%) Node.js
5 4 (9.30%) SAP PI
5 4 (9.30%) Web Services
5 4 (9.30%) XSLT
6 3 (6.98%) HTML5
6 3 (6.98%) React
6 3 (6.98%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (6.98%) SAPUI5
7 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Virtual Team
2 4 (9.30%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (4.65%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.65%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (4.65%) VSAM
4 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Unix
2 2 (4.65%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) User Experience
2 16 (37.21%) Agile
3 14 (32.56%) CAD
3 14 (32.56%) Data Governance
3 14 (32.56%) PLM
4 12 (27.91%) DevOps
5 10 (23.26%) Database Security
5 10 (23.26%) Mentoring
6 9 (20.93%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (9.30%) Migration
7 4 (9.30%) Performance Testing
7 4 (9.30%) Scrum
7 4 (9.30%) SDLC
7 4 (9.30%) System Integration Testing
7 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
7 4 (9.30%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (6.98%) API Testing
8 3 (6.98%) Mobile First
8 3 (6.98%) Translating Business Requirements
8 3 (6.98%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) Java
1 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
2 4 (9.30%) ABAP
3 3 (6.98%) SQL
4 2 (4.65%) COBOL
4 2 (4.65%) JCL
4 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.65%) REXX
5 1 (2.33%) ActionScript
5 1 (2.33%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (2.33%) C
5 1 (2.33%) Python
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) SC Cleared
1 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (32.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.98%) QA
3 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.65%) WCAG
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Oracle
2 7 (16.28%) SAP
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) Ab Initio
4 2 (4.65%) Informatica
4 2 (4.65%) Parasoft
4 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.33%) IBM