XML Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

XML
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring XML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing XML 2 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.90% 3.21% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.25% 26.92% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £349 -
25th Percentile £638 £402 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% - -
75th Percentile £663 £488 -
90th Percentile - £523 -
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.04%

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 32 26 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.35% 11.93% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 15
10th Percentile £353 £325 £450
25th Percentile £638 £400 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £410 £550
Median % change year-on-year +58.54% -25.45% +37.50%
75th Percentile £694 £488 £638
90th Percentile - £514 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.45% +4.52% -12.50%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

XML job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

XML
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing XML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing XML

XML
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing XML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing XML

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 27 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
County Antrim +3 2 £650 +36.84% 1
XML
UK

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (50.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (50.00%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce