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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 84 111
Rank change year-on-year -55 +27 -8
Contract jobs citing XML 38 42 21
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.03% 1.95% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.87% 9.03% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 17
10th Percentile £350 £419 £383
25th Percentile £363 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -11.76% -11.99%
75th Percentile £429 £465 £575
90th Percentile £450 £538 £613
England median daily rate £525 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +7.69% -4.88% -10.87%
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 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +5.33% -12.79% -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 647 465 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.47% 21.63% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 357 323
10th Percentile £365 £325 £329
25th Percentile £413 £380 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.97% -10.50% -3.66%
75th Percentile £610 £538 £600
90th Percentile £688 £625 £783
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 4 19
10th Percentile £49.65 £42.00 £37.30
25th Percentile £65.38 £60.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +51.58% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.69 £72.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £83.13 £75.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -40 17 £390 -12.36% 5
Cheshire 0 9 £368 -17.79% 2
Merseyside -13 8 - -
Lancashire -20 3 - -
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%) AtomSphere
5 1 (2.63%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.26%) Network Security
2 2 (5.26%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.26%) WAN
2 2 (5.26%) Wireless
3 1 (2.63%) DNS
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 7 (18.42%) 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 13 (34.21%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) 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 9 (23.68%) Analyst
2 9 (23.68%) Developer
3 8 (21.05%) Implementation Consultant
4 6 (15.79%) DBA
4 6 (15.79%) EDI Analyst
4 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 4 (10.53%) Payroll Consultant
6 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Lead
6 3 (7.89%) Payments Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Payments Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Senior
6 3 (7.89%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Applications Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
7 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
4 5 (13.16%) .NET
4 5 (13.16%) Web Services
5 4 (10.53%) SOAP
6 3 (7.89%) Swagger
6 3 (7.89%) WinForms
6 3 (7.89%) WPF
7 2 (5.26%) Django
7 2 (5.26%) HTML
7 2 (5.26%) J2EE
7 2 (5.26%) OAuth
7 2 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (5.26%) SailPoint
8 1 (2.63%) COM
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%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Agile
2 12 (31.58%) DevOps
3 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 8 (21.05%) Workflow
5 6 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (13.16%) TDD
7 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.53%) Database Security
7 4 (10.53%) Event-Driven
7 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (10.53%) SDLC
7 4 (10.53%) Unit Testing
7 4 (10.53%) Waterfall
8 3 (7.89%) Computer Science
8 3 (7.89%) Test Automation
8 3 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) SQL
2 8 (21.05%) T-SQL
3 5 (13.16%) C#
3 5 (13.16%) Python
4 4 (10.53%) Java
4 4 (10.53%) PL/SQL
5 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
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 9 (23.68%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 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 5 (13.16%) 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 5 (13.16%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.26%) Cisco
4 2 (5.26%) Okta
5 1 (2.63%) Dell
5 1 (2.63%) NEC
5 1 (2.63%) OpenText
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.63%) VMware