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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 89 99
Rank change year-on-year -18 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing XML 54 33 36
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.69% 1.69% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.54% 7.66% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 28 27
10th Percentile £350 £409 £452
25th Percentile £363 £438 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £449 £534
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% -15.96% -7.85%
75th Percentile £433 £463 £537
90th Percentile £523 £496 £590
England median daily rate £500 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.04% -1.82%
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 £47.50 £60.13 £43.00
% change year-on-year -21.00% +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 632 431 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 19.77% 22.08% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 324 358
10th Percentile £351 £358 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £570 £550 £599
90th Percentile £650 £638 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 4 19
10th Percentile £52.50 - £37.63
25th Percentile £53.13 £65.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +39.89% +13.17%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.69 £72.19
90th Percentile £93.00 £83.13 £75.80
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 8 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 8 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 24 £390 -12.36% 7
Cheshire +4 17 £394 -11.91% 1
Merseyside -15 8 - -
Lancashire -10 3 - - 2
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 (7.41%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) Mule
2 2 (3.70%) Mule ESB
3 1 (1.85%) JBoss
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.85%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (3.70%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.67%) Serverless
2 7 (12.96%) Apigee
2 7 (12.96%) AWS
3 6 (11.11%) Azure
4 5 (9.26%) Kong
5 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.70%) GCP
7 1 (1.85%) AtomSphere
7 1 (1.85%) Boomi
7 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) HTTP
1 2 (3.70%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.78%) Relational Database
2 14 (25.93%) RDBMS
3 13 (24.07%) MongoDB
3 13 (24.07%) NoSQL
3 13 (24.07%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (20.37%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (7.41%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.85%) DTS
7 1 (1.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Postman
2 5 (9.26%) Git
3 4 (7.41%) JIRA
4 3 (5.56%) ClearCase
5 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.70%) JUnit
6 1 (1.85%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.85%) JDeveloper
6 1 (1.85%) Rational Robot
6 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.85%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 16 (29.63%) Finance
2 12 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.41%) Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Advertising
7 1 (1.85%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.85%) Legal
7 1 (1.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Analyst
2 12 (22.22%) DBA
3 11 (20.37%) Developer
4 10 (18.52%) Business Analyst
4 10 (18.52%) Consultant
5 9 (16.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 8 (14.81%) Implementation Consultant
7 6 (11.11%) EDI Analyst
7 6 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (9.26%) Administrator
8 5 (9.26%) Payments Analyst
8 5 (9.26%) Payments Business Analyst
8 5 (9.26%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (7.41%) Payroll Consultant
10 3 (5.56%) .NET Applications Developer
10 3 (5.56%) .NET Developer
10 3 (5.56%) Applications Developer
10 3 (5.56%) Java Developer
10 3 (5.56%) Software Developer
10 3 (5.56%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (57.41%) JSON
2 14 (25.93%) REST
2 14 (25.93%) SOAP
3 10 (18.52%) Swagger
4 9 (16.67%) Kafka
5 7 (12.96%) JWT
5 7 (12.96%) OAuth
6 6 (11.11%) .NET
6 6 (11.11%) EDI
6 6 (11.11%) EDIFACT
7 5 (9.26%) OpenAPI
7 5 (9.26%) Web Services
8 3 (5.56%) HTML
8 3 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (5.56%) WinForms
8 3 (5.56%) WPF
9 2 (3.70%) Hibernate
9 2 (3.70%) J2EE
9 2 (3.70%) JAX-RS
9 2 (3.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.26%) Digital Wallet
3 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.56%) IoT
4 3 (5.56%) IVR
4 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) Agile
2 21 (38.89%) DevOps
3 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (24.07%) Database Security
5 11 (20.37%) Computer Science
5 11 (20.37%) Requirements Gathering
6 10 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (18.52%) Integration Patterns
6 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (18.52%) Validation
6 10 (18.52%) Workshop Facilitation
7 9 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 9 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 8 (14.81%) Microservices
9 7 (12.96%) API Design
9 7 (12.96%) API Testing
10 6 (11.11%) API Management
11 5 (9.26%) API Integration
11 5 (9.26%) Business Process Analysis
11 5 (9.26%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 30 (55.56%) SQL
2 8 (14.81%) Java
2 8 (14.81%) T-SQL
3 6 (11.11%) C#
4 4 (7.41%) Python
5 3 (5.56%) C++
5 3 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.56%) VB
5 3 (5.56%) VB6
6 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.85%) Groovy
7 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (33.33%) Degree
2 11 (20.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) CCNP
4 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) PCI DSS
1 5 (9.26%) PSD2
2 3 (5.56%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Ansible
2 1 (1.85%) vRealize
2 1 (1.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 23 (42.59%) Oracle
2 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.70%) NEC
4 2 (3.70%) Splunk
5 1 (1.85%) Dell
5 1 (1.85%) OpenText
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.85%) VMware
5 1 (1.85%) Workday