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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 85 111
Rank change year-on-year -61 +26 -13
Contract jobs citing XML 33 44 12
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.87% 2.01% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.73% 9.89% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 10
10th Percentile £314 £412 £321
25th Percentile £363 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -2.70% -20.43%
75th Percentile £428 £471 £489
90th Percentile £472 £575 £575
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.25 £30.00 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £32.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% - -
75th Percentile £44.28 £34.00 -
90th Percentile £45.79 - -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £42.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -7.06% -1.16% -38.57%

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 576 445 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.10% 20.29% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 342 268
10th Percentile £375 £313 £344
25th Percentile £425 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £447 £495
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -9.65% -3.46%
75th Percentile £638 £537 £607
90th Percentile £709 £615 £825
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 4 8
10th Percentile £42.98 £27.20 £43.13
25th Percentile £62.50 £29.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £74.26 £51.00 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +45.61% -24.16% +45.63%
75th Percentile £77.00 £74.69 £72.03
90th Percentile £90.00 £83.13 £73.10
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

XML job vacancy trend in the North West

XML
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 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the North West

XML
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 15 August 2026. 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
Manchester -34 16 £390 -12.36% 13
Merseyside -12 8 - -
Cheshire -6 6 £391 -35.69%
Lancashire -19 3 - - 1
XML
England

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.03%) JBoss
2 1 (3.03%) Mule
2 1 (3.03%) Mule ESB
2 1 (3.03%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) Serverless
3 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.06%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) AWS
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.06%) Network Security
2 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
2 2 (6.06%) WAN
2 2 (6.06%) Wireless
3 1 (3.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 8 (24.24%) RDBMS
3 7 (21.21%) Oracle Database
3 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 6 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 6 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (6.06%) MySQL
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) ClearCase
2 3 (9.09%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) JDeveloper
4 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.03%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.03%) JUnit
4 1 (3.03%) Maven
4 1 (3.03%) Rational Robot
4 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) General Ledger
4 2 (6.06%) Military
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Advertising
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Consultant
2 8 (24.24%) Implementation Consultant
3 7 (21.21%) Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) DBA
4 6 (18.18%) EDI Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 4 (12.12%) Payroll Consultant
6 3 (9.09%) Lead
6 3 (9.09%) Senior
6 3 (9.09%) Software Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Business Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) E-Business Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) Integration Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Oracle Technical Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) Python Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (36.36%) JSON
2 6 (18.18%) EDI
2 6 (18.18%) EDIFACT
2 6 (18.18%) Kafka
3 5 (15.15%) REST
4 3 (9.09%) .NET
4 3 (9.09%) Web Services
4 3 (9.09%) WinForms
4 3 (9.09%) WPF
5 2 (6.06%) Django
5 2 (6.06%) OAuth
5 2 (6.06%) SailPoint
6 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
6 1 (3.03%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (3.03%) JPA
6 1 (3.03%) RESTful
6 1 (3.03%) Spring
6 1 (3.03%) Spring MVC
6 1 (3.03%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Agile
2 11 (33.33%) DevOps
3 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
3 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (24.24%) Workflow
4 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (12.12%) Database Security
6 4 (12.12%) Event-Driven
6 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
6 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (12.12%) SOLID
6 4 (12.12%) TDD
6 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
7 3 (9.09%) Accounts Payable
7 3 (9.09%) Issue Tracking
7 3 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (6.06%) Personalization
8 2 (6.06%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) SQL
2 8 (24.24%) T-SQL
3 3 (9.09%) C#
3 3 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.09%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) VB
3 3 (9.09%) VB6
4 2 (6.06%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Degree
1 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.03%) PMP
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Ansible
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) WMI
3 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) vRealize
3 1 (3.03%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) Oracle
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.06%) Cisco
3 2 (6.06%) Okta
4 1 (3.03%) OpenText
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) VMware