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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 80 105
Rank change year-on-year -52 +25 -2
Contract jobs citing XML 38 41 31
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.08% 2.04% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.07% 9.19% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 33 25
10th Percentile £350 £417 £438
25th Percentile £363 £438 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £534
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -15.73% -7.85%
75th Percentile £429 £463 £575
90th Percentile £550 £535 £598
England median daily rate £525 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +5.53% -5.24% -8.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.25 £30.00 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £32.00 £81.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% -60.49% -
75th Percentile £44.28 £34.00 -
90th Percentile £45.79 - -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year +13.67% -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 626 446 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.87% 22.22% 17.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 342 343
10th Percentile £363 £340 £329
25th Percentile £413 £384 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £595 £538 £598
90th Percentile £687 £625 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 4 19
10th Percentile £50.22 £42.00 £37.30
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +51.58% +6.44%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.69 £72.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £83.13 £75.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -10.77%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -28 17 £390 -12.36% 3
Cheshire 0 9 £368 -17.79% 2
Merseyside -7 8 - -
Lancashire -18 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 3 (7.89%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Mule
2 2 (5.26%) Mule ESB
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.63%) JBoss
3 1 (2.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (2.63%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Serverless
3 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) Apigee
5 1 (2.63%) AtomSphere
5 1 (2.63%) AWS
5 1 (2.63%) Boomi
5 1 (2.63%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) DNS
1 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) RDBMS
1 8 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 7 (18.42%) Oracle Database
3 6 (15.79%) MongoDB
3 6 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 6 (15.79%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.26%) MySQL
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
2 4 (10.53%) Postman
3 3 (7.89%) ClearCase
3 3 (7.89%) JIRA
4 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.26%) GitLab
4 2 (5.26%) JDeveloper
4 2 (5.26%) JUnit
5 1 (2.63%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.63%) Rational Robot
5 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 14 (36.84%) Finance
2 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Banking
4 4 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.26%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.26%) Military
5 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.63%) Advertising
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Consultant
2 10 (26.32%) Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Implementation Consultant
4 7 (18.42%) Developer
5 6 (15.79%) DBA
5 6 (15.79%) EDI Analyst
5 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Payroll Consultant
7 3 (7.89%) Lead
7 3 (7.89%) Payments Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Payments Business Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Senior
7 3 (7.89%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.26%) .NET Applications Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Integration Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) Systems Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (42.11%) JSON
2 8 (21.05%) REST
3 6 (15.79%) EDI
3 6 (15.79%) EDIFACT
3 6 (15.79%) Kafka
3 6 (15.79%) SOAP
4 5 (13.16%) .NET
4 5 (13.16%) Web Services
5 4 (10.53%) Swagger
6 3 (7.89%) OAuth
6 3 (7.89%) WinForms
6 3 (7.89%) WPF
7 2 (5.26%) HTML
7 2 (5.26%) J2EE
7 2 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (5.26%) SailPoint
8 1 (2.63%) COM
8 1 (2.63%) JWT
8 1 (2.63%) XSD
8 1 (2.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Digital Wallet
1 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.26%) IoT
2 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Agile
2 13 (34.21%) DevOps
3 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (15.79%) Workflow
6 5 (13.16%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (13.16%) TDD
7 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
7 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.53%) Database Security
7 4 (10.53%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (10.53%) SDLC
7 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.53%) Unit Testing
7 4 (10.53%) Validation
7 4 (10.53%) Waterfall
7 4 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 25 (65.79%) SQL
2 8 (21.05%) T-SQL
3 5 (13.16%) C#
4 4 (10.53%) Java
4 4 (10.53%) PL/SQL
5 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.89%) Python
5 3 (7.89%) VB
5 3 (7.89%) VB6
6 2 (5.26%) C++
6 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.63%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) CCNP
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
1 3 (7.89%) PSD2
2 2 (5.26%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) WMI
3 1 (2.63%) vRealize
3 1 (2.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 16 (42.11%) Oracle
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.26%) Okta
5 1 (2.63%) Dell
5 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.63%) NEC
5 1 (2.63%) OpenText
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.63%) VMware