XML Contracts in Northern Ireland

XML
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 19 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing XML 13 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.18% 4.03% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 35.14% 23.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £228 - -
25th Percentile £267 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -13.64% +0.92% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.12 -
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £43.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -40.69% +52.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 37 26 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 23.27% 17.45% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 19
10th Percentile £266 £495 £398
25th Percentile £325 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +50.00% -17.53%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £456
90th Percentile £544 - £536
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 £16.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +354.25% - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for XML in Northern Ireland

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for XML in Northern Ireland

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Northern Ireland

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for XML in Northern Ireland

XML
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -3 13 £363 - 7
XML
UK

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (30.77%) Anypoint
1 4 (30.77%) Mule
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) GCP
1 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.69%) OCI
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Front Office
3 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Wholesale Banking
6 1 (7.69%) Retail
6 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Java Developer
3 6 (46.15%) Java Software Developer
4 4 (30.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 4 (30.77%) Java Engineer
4 4 (30.77%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (30.77%) MuleSoft Developer
4 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Junior
5 2 (15.38%) Junior Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Junior Java Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Junior Java Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Junior Java Software Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Junior Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) JSON
1 11 (84.62%) RESTful
2 8 (61.54%) Web Services
3 7 (53.85%) Apache Avro
4 6 (46.15%) AngularJS
4 6 (46.15%) React
5 4 (30.77%) OpenAPI
5 4 (30.77%) RAML
5 4 (30.77%) SOAP
5 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
5 4 (30.77%) Swagger
6 2 (15.38%) Spring
7 1 (7.69%) .NET
7 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
7 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 1 (7.69%) JMS
7 1 (7.69%) JWT
7 1 (7.69%) OAuth
7 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Derivative
1 6 (46.15%) Equities
1 6 (46.15%) Equity Derivative
2 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Clean Code
2 6 (46.15%) Code Quality
2 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (46.15%) User Experience
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) API Development
4 4 (30.77%) API Management
4 4 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (30.77%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (30.77%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
6 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) DataWeave
4 2 (15.38%) Kotlin
4 2 (15.38%) Scala
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow