XML Contract Job Trends in the North West

XML
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring XML skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 109 95
Rank change year-on-year +9 -14 +37
Contract jobs citing XML 35 11 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.60% 0.46% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.28% 3.01% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 8 27
10th Percentile £438 £324 £413
25th Percentile £440 £411 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £463 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -13.55% -4.89%
75th Percentile £575 £514 £600
90th Percentile £702 £575 £635
England median daily rate £500 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40.05
25th Percentile £30.00 - £43.80
Median hourly rate £32.00 - £45.88
75th Percentile £34.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £43.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -38.57% +48.97%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 481 366 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.94% 15.44% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 241 444
10th Percentile £316 £350 £363
25th Percentile £370 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £525 £577 £625
90th Percentile £645 £800 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -7.27% -0.45% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 28
10th Percentile £27.60 £40.07 £45.88
25th Percentile £30.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £88.75 £71.50 £53.44
90th Percentile £93.85 £73.30 £67.63
England median hourly rate £54.85 £62.93 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.84% +2.74% -2.26%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing XML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing XML

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the North West over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing XML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing XML

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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 XML within the North West region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Lancashire +14 16 £500 +13.64% 5
Cumbria - 11 £450 - 1
Cheshire -21 8 £608 +31.46% 1
Manchester -1 4 £438 -10.26% 5
Merseyside +1 2 £475 - 1
XML
England

XML
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.71%) Apache
2 2 (5.71%) CICS
2 2 (5.71%) IIS
2 2 (5.71%) Mule
2 2 (5.71%) Mule ESB
3 1 (2.86%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.86%) JBoss
3 1 (2.86%) NetWeaver
3 1 (2.86%) nginx
3 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.86%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Siemens NX
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Teamcenter
2 2 (5.71%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) Serverless
2 2 (5.71%) Figma
2 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
2 2 (5.71%) SaaS
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (2.86%) AWS
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) HTTP
1 3 (8.57%) HTTPS
2 2 (5.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) DB2
1 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.71%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.71%) JUnit
1 2 (5.71%) Selenium
1 2 (5.71%) SOAtest
1 2 (5.71%) UI Automator
2 1 (2.86%) Ant
2 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.86%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.86%) IntelliJ
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) NUnit
General
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Banking
3 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Finance
5 2 (5.71%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.71%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Applications Engineer
1 13 (37.14%) Configuration Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Developer
3 3 (8.57%) Architect
3 3 (8.57%) DBA
3 3 (8.57%) Lead
3 3 (8.57%) MongoDB DBA
4 2 (5.71%) Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Maximo Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Test Architect
4 2 (5.71%) UI Developer
4 2 (5.71%) UI/UX Developer
4 2 (5.71%) UX Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Business Process Manager
5 1 (2.86%) CAD Designer
5 1 (2.86%) Lead Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Mainframe Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Process Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (37.14%) JSON
2 7 (20.00%) SOAP
2 7 (20.00%) Web Services
3 5 (14.29%) J2EE
4 4 (11.43%) HTML
4 4 (11.43%) REST
5 3 (8.57%) Ajax
5 3 (8.57%) JMS
5 3 (8.57%) Kafka
5 3 (8.57%) OAuth
5 3 (8.57%) Spring
6 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.71%) CSS
6 2 (5.71%) JDBC
6 2 (5.71%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (5.71%) Middleware
6 2 (5.71%) React
6 2 (5.71%) Semantic HTML
6 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.71%) Mainframe
1 2 (5.71%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (5.71%) VSAM
2 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Unix
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) User Experience
2 14 (40.00%) CAD
2 14 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 14 (40.00%) PLM
3 10 (28.57%) Agile
4 9 (25.71%) DevOps
5 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (11.43%) Migration
6 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (8.57%) Database Security
7 3 (8.57%) Microservices
7 3 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (8.57%) User Stories
7 3 (8.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Java
1 7 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (8.57%) Python
4 2 (5.71%) COBOL
4 2 (5.71%) JCL
4 2 (5.71%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.71%) REXX
5 1 (2.86%) ABAP
5 1 (2.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (45.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.43%) QA
3 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (8.57%) IBM
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Ab Initio
3 2 (5.71%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.71%) Axway
3 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.71%) Informatica
3 2 (5.71%) Parasoft
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.71%) SAP
3 2 (5.71%) Splunk
4 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.86%) Pega
4 1 (2.86%) Software AG
4 1 (2.86%) webMethods