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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 88 98
Rank change year-on-year -29 +10 +15
Contract jobs citing XML 50 36 38
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.52% 1.86% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.04% 8.33% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 30 29
10th Percentile £353 £412 £450
25th Percentile £363 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £523
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -13.88% -10.84%
75th Percentile £446 £463 £534
90th Percentile £553 £484 £583
England median daily rate £500 £475 £534
% change year-on-year +5.26% -11.05% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.25 - -
Median hourly rate £39.50 - £81.00
75th Percentile £44.28 - -
90th Percentile £45.79 - -
England median hourly rate £47.15 £60.13 £43.00
% change year-on-year -21.59% +39.84% -40.69%

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 622 432 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.89% 22.28% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 320 348
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £402 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £545 £598
90th Percentile £650 £638 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 4 20
10th Percentile £52.50 - £37.63
25th Percentile £53.44 £65.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +39.89% +19.45%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.69 £72.03
90th Percentile £92.50 £83.13 £75.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the North West over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

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 22 May 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 -16 23 £391 -12.08% 4
Cheshire +1 14 £401 -10.23% 2
Merseyside -12 8 - -
Lancashire -16 3 - - 1
XML
England

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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 4 (8.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) Mule
2 2 (4.00%) Mule ESB
3 1 (2.00%) JBoss
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (4.00%) NEC Housing
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.00%) Serverless
2 6 (12.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.00%) Apigee
3 4 (8.00%) AWS
4 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (6.00%) Kong
5 2 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) AtomSphere
6 1 (2.00%) Boomi
6 1 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) DNS
1 1 (2.00%) HTTP
1 1 (2.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) Relational Database
2 13 (26.00%) RDBMS
3 12 (24.00%) MongoDB
3 12 (24.00%) NoSQL
3 12 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (12.00%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.00%) MySQL
6 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.00%) DTS
7 1 (2.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Postman
2 6 (12.00%) Git
3 4 (8.00%) JIRA
4 3 (6.00%) ClearCase
5 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.00%) GitLab
5 2 (4.00%) JUnit
6 1 (2.00%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.00%) JDeveloper
6 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.00%) Rational Robot
6 1 (2.00%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.00%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 14 (28.00%) Finance
2 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Advertising
7 1 (2.00%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Military
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) Analyst
2 11 (22.00%) DBA
3 10 (20.00%) Consultant
3 10 (20.00%) Developer
3 10 (20.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 8 (16.00%) Business Analyst
4 8 (16.00%) Implementation Consultant
5 6 (12.00%) EDI Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) Payments Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) Payments Business Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Payroll Consultant
7 4 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) .NET Applications Developer
8 3 (6.00%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Administrator
8 3 (6.00%) Applications Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Systems Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (54.00%) JSON
2 12 (24.00%) REST
2 12 (24.00%) SOAP
3 10 (20.00%) Kafka
4 8 (16.00%) Swagger
5 6 (12.00%) .NET
5 6 (12.00%) EDI
5 6 (12.00%) EDIFACT
6 5 (10.00%) Web Services
7 4 (8.00%) JWT
7 4 (8.00%) OAuth
8 3 (6.00%) HTML
8 3 (6.00%) OpenAPI
8 3 (6.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (6.00%) WinForms
8 3 (6.00%) WPF
9 2 (4.00%) J2EE
10 1 (2.00%) COM
10 1 (2.00%) Middleware
10 1 (2.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (10.00%) Digital Wallet
3 4 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.00%) IoT
4 3 (6.00%) IVR
4 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Linux
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) Agile
2 20 (40.00%) DevOps
3 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (22.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (20.00%) Database Security
6 9 (18.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
7 8 (16.00%) Computer Science
7 8 (16.00%) Integration Patterns
7 8 (16.00%) Mentoring
7 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (16.00%) Validation
7 8 (16.00%) Workshop Facilitation
8 6 (12.00%) API Design
9 5 (10.00%) API Integration
9 5 (10.00%) Microservices
9 5 (10.00%) SDLC
9 5 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
9 5 (10.00%) Unit Testing
9 5 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (56.00%) SQL
2 8 (16.00%) T-SQL
3 7 (14.00%) Java
4 6 (12.00%) C#
5 4 (8.00%) Python
6 3 (6.00%) C++
6 3 (6.00%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.00%) VB
6 3 (6.00%) VB6
7 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.00%) Groovy
8 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Degree
2 8 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.00%) CCNP
5 3 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) PCI DSS
1 5 (10.00%) PSD2
2 3 (6.00%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
1 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.00%) Ansible
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) vRealize
2 1 (2.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 22 (44.00%) Oracle
2 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.00%) NEC
5 1 (2.00%) Dell
5 1 (2.00%) OpenText
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) Workday