XML Contracts in the North West

XML
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring XML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XML over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 102 106
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing XML 34 35 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.73% 1.27% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.78% 6.96% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 26 37
10th Percentile £409 £448 £385
25th Percentile £438 £505 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £534 £580
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% -7.85% +16.48%
75th Percentile £463 £539 £650
90th Percentile £490 £594 £685
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £81.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.13 £43.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +39.84% -40.69% +52.63%

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 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in the North West.

Daily rate trend for XML in the North West

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the North West

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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 1 May 2025. 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 +8 12 £445 -16.67% 7
Lancashire - 10 £449 - 6
Cumbria +6 8 £449 -4.57%
Cheshire -8 2 £447 -12.35% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) NetWeaver
2 2 (5.88%) CICS
2 2 (5.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Serverless
2 4 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) MongoDB
1 12 (35.29%) NoSQL
1 12 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (35.29%) RDBMS
1 12 (35.29%) Relational Database
2 10 (29.41%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (17.65%) MySQL
4 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.88%) DB2
4 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) Selenium
2 2 (5.88%) SOAtest
General
1 6 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) General Ledger
3 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
3 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) DBA
2 11 (32.35%) Applications Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Configuration Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) Developer
3 8 (23.53%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 7 (20.59%) SAP Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Administrator
5 5 (14.71%) Integration Developer
6 3 (8.82%) MongoDB DBA
6 3 (8.82%) SAPUI5 Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Test Architect
8 1 (2.94%) CAD Designer
8 1 (2.94%) Designer
8 1 (2.94%) Mainframe Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) JSON
2 10 (29.41%) Kafka
3 5 (14.71%) EDI
3 5 (14.71%) XSLT
4 4 (11.76%) IDoc
4 4 (11.76%) JDBC
4 4 (11.76%) JMS
4 4 (11.76%) Middleware
4 4 (11.76%) REST
4 4 (11.76%) SAP PI
4 4 (11.76%) SOAP
5 3 (8.82%) CSS
5 3 (8.82%) HTML
5 3 (8.82%) HTML5
5 3 (8.82%) Node.js
5 3 (8.82%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (8.82%) SAPUI5
6 2 (5.88%) J2EE
6 2 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.88%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.88%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (5.88%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Agile
2 14 (41.18%) User Experience
3 13 (38.24%) DevOps
4 12 (35.29%) Database Security
4 12 (35.29%) Mentoring
5 11 (32.35%) CAD
5 11 (32.35%) Data Governance
5 11 (32.35%) PLM
6 10 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (11.76%) Performance Testing
7 4 (11.76%) Scrum
7 4 (11.76%) SDLC
7 4 (11.76%) System Integration Testing
7 4 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (8.82%) Mobile First
8 3 (8.82%) Process Improvement
8 3 (8.82%) Translating Business Requirements
8 3 (8.82%) Use Case
9 2 (5.88%) Performance Management
9 2 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) Java
2 4 (11.76%) ABAP
3 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.88%) COBOL
4 2 (5.88%) JCL
4 2 (5.88%) REXX
5 1 (2.94%) ActionScript
5 1 (2.94%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (32.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) Oracle
2 7 (20.59%) SAP
3 2 (5.88%) Ab Initio
3 2 (5.88%) Informatica
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Parasoft
4 1 (2.94%) SEEBURGER