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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 104 94
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 +37
Contract jobs citing XML 38 18 45
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.54% 0.77% 1.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.47% 4.86% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 13 29
10th Percentile £358 £324 £474
25th Percentile £385 £375 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £445 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% -16.82% -8.55%
75th Percentile £665 £458 £583
90th Percentile £693 £556 £600
England median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £35.15 - £40.05
25th Percentile £42.88 - £43.80
Median hourly rate £56.75 - £45.88
75th Percentile £69.63 - -
90th Percentile £76.75 - -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £92.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -53.51% +89.86% -2.56%

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 509 370 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.68% 15.87% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 235 456
10th Percentile £315 £326 £365
25th Percentile £363 £390 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £625
90th Percentile £670 £625 £675
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 31
10th Percentile £29.20 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £59.75 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £55.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +32.99% +20.92% +3.36%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £84.65 £76.63 £73.75
England median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -11.85% +20.93% -17.31%

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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 28 November 2025.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing XML in the North West over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 28 November 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
Cheshire - 14 £395 - 2
Manchester -8 13 £425 -4.49% 6
Lancashire -2 10 £670 +52.27% 1
Cumbria - 3 £450 -
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 2 (5.26%) Mule
1 2 (5.26%) Mule ESB
2 1 (2.63%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) IIS
2 1 (2.63%) JBoss
2 1 (2.63%) nginx
2 1 (2.63%) SAS
2 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.63%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Siemens NX
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Teamcenter
2 2 (5.26%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Apigee
3 6 (15.79%) Serverless
4 4 (10.53%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) Kong
6 2 (5.26%) AtomSphere
6 2 (5.26%) Boomi
6 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.26%) SaaS
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.63%) Azure
7 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.68%) HTTPS
2 4 (10.53%) HTTP
3 2 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Relational Database
2 8 (21.05%) MongoDB
2 8 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 8 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (21.05%) RDBMS
3 5 (13.16%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.63%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.63%) DB2
5 1 (2.63%) Pentaho
5 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Git
2 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.53%) Postman
4 3 (7.89%) JIRA
5 2 (5.26%) JUnit
6 1 (2.63%) Ant
6 1 (2.63%) ClearCase
6 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.63%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.63%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.63%) NUnit
6 1 (2.63%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Finance
4 4 (10.53%) Banking
4 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) DBA
3 6 (15.79%) Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Administrator
4 5 (13.16%) Java Developer
4 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 4 (10.53%) Apigee Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Configuration Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Lead
6 3 (7.89%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Technical Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) webMethods Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Integration Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior
8 1 (2.63%) Automation Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Digital Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Digital Business Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) MongoDB DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (68.42%) JSON
2 13 (34.21%) SOAP
3 10 (26.32%) OAuth
4 9 (23.68%) REST
5 7 (18.42%) JWT
5 7 (18.42%) Spring
6 6 (15.79%) Kafka
6 6 (15.79%) Spring Boot
7 5 (13.16%) Hibernate
7 5 (13.16%) OAuth2
7 5 (13.16%) RESTful
8 4 (10.53%) JAX-RS
8 4 (10.53%) JMS
8 4 (10.53%) Web Services
9 3 (7.89%) HTML
9 3 (7.89%) J2EE
9 3 (7.89%) OpenAPI
9 3 (7.89%) Swagger
10 2 (5.26%) Middleware
11 1 (2.63%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) CMDB
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) DevOps
2 16 (42.11%) Agile
3 14 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 10 (26.32%) Microservices
4 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (23.68%) Computer Science
6 8 (21.05%) Database Security
7 7 (18.42%) API Testing
7 7 (18.42%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
8 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (15.79%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (15.79%) User Experience
8 6 (15.79%) Validation
9 5 (13.16%) API Management
9 5 (13.16%) CAD
9 5 (13.16%) Integration Patterns
9 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
10 4 (10.53%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) Java
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
3 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.53%) C#
5 3 (7.89%) Python
6 2 (5.26%) Groovy
6 2 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.26%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (31.58%) Degree
3 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
4 9 (23.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Oracle
2 6 (15.79%) Splunk
3 5 (13.16%) IBM
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.53%) MuleSoft
5 3 (7.89%) SAP
5 3 (7.89%) Software AG
5 3 (7.89%) webMethods
6 2 (5.26%) AppDynamics
6 2 (5.26%) Axway
6 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.63%) Pega
7 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow