XHR Contracts in the North West

XMLHttpRequest (XHR)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring XHR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XHR over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing XHR 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.100% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £462 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 - -
75th Percentile £467 - -
90th Percentile £468 - -
England median daily rate £460 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

XHR 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 457 504 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.82% 17.85% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 352 437
10th Percentile £349 £350 £338
25th Percentile £385 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £575
90th Percentile £625 £750 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 21 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £37.76
25th Percentile - £45.88 £37.77
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -42.01%
75th Percentile £79.38 £71.87 £44.78
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.50 £45.62
England median hourly rate £60.00 £55.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.87% -14.42% +23.81%

XHR
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing XHR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for XHR in the North West

XHR
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHR within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Cheshire - 2 £464 -
XHR
England

XHR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Grunt
1 2 (100.00%) gulp
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) Enzyme
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) LESS
1 2 (100.00%) Nightwatchjs
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Redux
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Sass
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Perforce
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft