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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 106 99
Rank change year-on-year +22 -7 +24
Contract jobs citing XML 42 24 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.00% 0.87% 1.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.23% 5.00% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 20 35
10th Percentile £419 £415 £378
25th Percentile £438 £467 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £580
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -11.99% +10.38%
75th Percentile £465 £549 £650
90th Percentile £538 £613 £690
England median daily rate £485 £520 £575
% change year-on-year -6.73% -9.57% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.00 - -
Median hourly rate £32.00 £81.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.49% - -
75th Percentile £34.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.79% -38.57% +43.59%

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 455 480 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.64% 17.37% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 335 441
10th Percentile £332 £330 £338
25th Percentile £380 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -0.10% -4.67%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £763 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 6
10th Percentile £42.00 £37.30 £37.77
25th Percentile £60.00 £45.88 £39.89
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £74.69 £72.19 £49.05
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.80 £56.88
England median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%

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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 5 July 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 5 July 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
Lancashire - 16 £450 - 15
Cumbria +21 13 £450 -4.26% 1
Manchester +10 10 £445 -18.35% 32
Cheshire -13 4 £447 -12.35% 12
Merseyside +2 2 £475 - 3
XML
England

XML
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 (9.52%) WebSphere
2 3 (7.14%) NetWeaver
3 2 (4.76%) Apache
3 2 (4.76%) CICS
3 2 (4.76%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (40.48%) Siemens NX
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (42.86%) Teamcenter
2 2 (4.76%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) Serverless
2 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.76%) Figma
3 2 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) MongoDB
1 10 (23.81%) NoSQL
1 10 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (23.81%) RDBMS
1 10 (23.81%) Relational Database
2 8 (19.05%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (9.52%) DB2
4 3 (7.14%) MySQL
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (4.76%) Git
1 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.76%) Selenium
1 2 (4.76%) SOAtest
1 2 (4.76%) UI Automator
2 1 (2.38%) Ant
2 1 (2.38%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.38%) IntelliJ
2 1 (2.38%) JUnit
2 1 (2.38%) NUnit
General
1 6 (14.29%) Banking
1 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Finance
4 2 (4.76%) General Ledger
4 2 (4.76%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Applications Engineer
1 17 (40.48%) Configuration Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) DBA
3 8 (19.05%) Developer
4 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 5 (11.90%) Administrator
5 5 (11.90%) SAP Developer
6 4 (9.52%) MongoDB DBA
7 3 (7.14%) Integration Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Consultant
8 2 (4.76%) Maximo Consultant
8 2 (4.76%) Salesforce Developer
8 2 (4.76%) SAPUI5 Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Test Architect
8 2 (4.76%) UI Developer
8 2 (4.76%) UI/UX Developer
8 2 (4.76%) UX Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Analyst
9 1 (2.38%) Process Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) JSON
2 8 (19.05%) Kafka
3 5 (11.90%) HTML
3 5 (11.90%) SOAP
3 5 (11.90%) Web Services
4 4 (9.52%) CSS
4 4 (9.52%) JDBC
4 4 (9.52%) JMS
5 3 (7.14%) Ajax
5 3 (7.14%) EDI
5 3 (7.14%) IDoc
5 3 (7.14%) J2EE
5 3 (7.14%) Middleware
5 3 (7.14%) REST
5 3 (7.14%) SAP PI
5 3 (7.14%) XSLT
6 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.76%) HTML5
6 2 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (4.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Virtual Team
2 2 (4.76%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.76%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (4.76%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Unix
2 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) User Experience
2 17 (40.48%) CAD
2 17 (40.48%) Data Governance
2 17 (40.48%) PLM
3 14 (33.33%) Agile
4 12 (28.57%) DevOps
5 10 (23.81%) Database Security
5 10 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.90%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (9.52%) Process Improvement
8 3 (7.14%) Performance Testing
8 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (7.14%) Scrum
8 3 (7.14%) SDLC
8 3 (7.14%) System Integration Testing
8 3 (7.14%) Workflow
9 2 (4.76%) Migration
9 2 (4.76%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 6 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (7.14%) ABAP
3 3 (7.14%) SQL
4 2 (4.76%) COBOL
4 2 (4.76%) JCL
4 2 (4.76%) Python
4 2 (4.76%) REXX
5 1 (2.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) SC Cleared
1 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (45.24%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.52%) QA
3 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.76%) WCAG
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Oracle
2 5 (11.90%) SAP
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.76%) Ab Initio
4 2 (4.76%) IBM
4 2 (4.76%) Informatica
4 2 (4.76%) Parasoft
4 2 (4.76%) Salesforce