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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 86 112
Rank change year-on-year -72 +26 -20
Contract jobs citing XML 27 41 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.68% 1.85% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.94% 8.30% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 31 8
10th Percentile £282 £412 £321
25th Percentile £342 £438 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.70% -13.95%
75th Percentile £429 £538 £514
90th Percentile £493 £688 £575
England median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% -13.04%
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 £34.75 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -19.19% - -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 686 494 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.39% 22.33% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 376 298
10th Percentile £395 £316 £350
25th Percentile £425 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -10.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £537 £620
90th Percentile £720 £625 £825
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 4 7
10th Percentile £42.03 £27.20 £42.11
25th Percentile £62.50 £29.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £72.33 £51.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.82% +7.37% +2.86%
75th Percentile £77.00 £74.69 £70.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £83.13 £72.70
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -2.34%

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 29 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 29 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 -27 13 £375 -13.79% 12
Cheshire -4 6 £391 -35.69%
Merseyside -13 5 - - 1
Lancashire -22 3 - - 2
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 (7.41%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.70%) JBoss
2 1 (3.70%) Mule
2 1 (3.70%) Mule ESB
2 1 (3.70%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.70%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.41%) Network Security
2 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
2 2 (7.41%) WAN
2 2 (7.41%) Wireless
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Oracle Database
2 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
3 4 (14.81%) RDBMS
4 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.41%) MySQL
5 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) GitLab
3 3 (11.11%) ClearCase
4 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
4 2 (7.41%) JDeveloper
4 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.41%) JUnit
5 1 (3.70%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.70%) Maven
5 1 (3.70%) Rational Robot
5 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.70%) Selenium
5 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (3.70%) TestNG
5 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Coded UI
5 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) General Ledger
4 2 (7.41%) Military
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Advertising
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Consultant
2 7 (25.93%) Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) EDI Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) Implementation Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Lead
5 3 (11.11%) Payroll Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Business Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) DBA
6 2 (7.41%) E-Business Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Integration Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (7.41%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) JSON
2 6 (22.22%) EDI
2 6 (22.22%) EDIFACT
2 6 (22.22%) REST
3 3 (11.11%) .NET
3 3 (11.11%) Web Services
3 3 (11.11%) WinForms
3 3 (11.11%) WPF
4 2 (7.41%) Django
4 2 (7.41%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) Kafka
4 2 (7.41%) OAuth
4 2 (7.41%) SailPoint
4 2 (7.41%) Terraform
5 1 (3.70%) COM
5 1 (3.70%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (3.70%) Middleware
5 1 (3.70%) Spring
5 1 (3.70%) XSD
5 1 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Agile
1 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (29.63%) DevOps
2 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.93%) Workflow
4 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
5 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven
5 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (14.81%) SOLID
5 4 (14.81%) TDD
6 3 (11.11%) Accounts Payable
6 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
6 3 (11.11%) Issue Tracking
6 3 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (11.11%) Scrum
7 2 (7.41%) Clean Code
7 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (7.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) T-SQL
3 3 (11.11%) C#
3 3 (11.11%) Java
3 3 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.11%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) VB
3 3 (11.11%) VB6
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.70%) QA
1 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) WMI
3 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) vRealize
3 1 (3.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Okta
4 1 (3.70%) OpenText
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) VMware