XML Contracts in the South East

XML
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 120 168 158
Rank change year-on-year +48 -10 +2
Contract jobs citing XML 39 37 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.30% 0.67% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.80% 5.07% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 40
10th Percentile £350 £335 £406
25th Percentile £361 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £507 £519 £575
90th Percentile £601 £575 £650
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £21.48 - £68.50
25th Percentile £22.41 - £70.00
Median hourly rate £24.83 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.53% -6.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile £27.05 - -
90th Percentile £27.87 - -
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 500 730 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.61% 13.13% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 462 737
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £411 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £591 £619 £638
90th Percentile £661 £661 £719
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 37
10th Percentile £28.99 £35.00 £40.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £76.25 £79.61
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 South East

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in the South East.

Daily rate trend for XML in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for XML in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the South East 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
Thames Valley +40 13 £500 +4.17% 14
Hampshire +34 13 £400 -11.11% 6
Berkshire +29 10 £500 - 10
West Sussex - 7 £361 -
Surrey +7 5 £656 +45.83% 11
Oxfordshire - 2 - - 3
Buckinghamshire +13 1 £550 +27.54% 2
East Sussex - 1 £375 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (12.82%) Anypoint
1 5 (12.82%) Mule
1 5 (12.82%) WebLogic
2 4 (10.26%) Mule ESB
3 2 (5.13%) Apache Solr
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.56%) Apache
4 1 (2.56%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.56%) IIS
4 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) SaaS
2 9 (23.08%) AWS
2 9 (23.08%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) OCI
4 3 (7.69%) iPaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Stack
5 2 (5.13%) PaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Serverless
6 1 (2.56%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) HTTP
2 3 (7.69%) LTE
2 3 (7.69%) NAS
3 2 (5.13%) MQTT
3 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.56%) BGP
4 1 (2.56%) DWDM
4 1 (2.56%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.56%) FTP
4 1 (2.56%) MPLS
4 1 (2.56%) VLAN
4 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.26%) MySQL
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (10.26%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) MS Access
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (30.77%) JIRA
2 7 (17.95%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.82%) SoapUI
4 3 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.69%) Git
4 3 (7.69%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) Toad
5 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.13%) JMeter
5 2 (5.13%) JUnit
5 2 (5.13%) Maven
5 2 (5.13%) Mockito
5 2 (5.13%) Moq
5 2 (5.13%) Selenium
5 2 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio
5 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.56%) Eclipse
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.13%) Automotive
5 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.56%) Aviation
5 1 (2.56%) Military
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 12 (30.77%) Senior
3 6 (15.38%) Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) MuleSoft Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Test Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (7.69%) SAP Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) SAP Test Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Telecoms Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Tester
7 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead
7 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (43.59%) SOAP
2 14 (35.90%) JSON
2 14 (35.90%) REST
3 12 (30.77%) Web Services
4 9 (23.08%) HTML
5 7 (17.95%) CSS
5 7 (17.95%) RESTful
6 6 (15.38%) Ajax
7 4 (10.26%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (10.26%) RAML
7 4 (10.26%) XSLT
8 3 (7.69%) .NET
8 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.69%) Hibernate
8 3 (7.69%) React
8 3 (7.69%) Spring
8 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
8 3 (7.69%) XML Schema
8 3 (7.69%) YAML
9 2 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) CMDB
1 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Infotainment
2 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) CentOS
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Agile
2 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
2 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 8 (20.51%) Scrum
4 8 (20.51%) Test Scripting
5 6 (15.38%) Defect Management
6 5 (12.82%) API Management
6 5 (12.82%) Data Modelling
6 5 (12.82%) Software Testing
6 5 (12.82%) V-Model
6 5 (12.82%) Waterfall
7 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (10.26%) Configuration Management
7 4 (10.26%) ERP
7 4 (10.26%) Incident Management
7 4 (10.26%) ITIL
7 4 (10.26%) Problem Management
7 4 (10.26%) Validation
7 4 (10.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) SQL
2 14 (35.90%) Java
3 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.95%) Python
5 5 (12.82%) C#
6 4 (10.26%) DataWeave
6 4 (10.26%) PL/SQL
7 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
8 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 2 (5.13%) XPath
9 1 (2.56%) ActionScript
9 1 (2.56%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (2.56%) Jython
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) ISEB
4 3 (7.69%) ISTQB
4 3 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.56%) OCP
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) CloudHub
2 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Kibana
4 1 (2.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Oracle
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) MuleSoft
3 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
4 4 (10.26%) SAP
5 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
5 3 (7.69%) webMethods
6 2 (5.13%) IBM
6 2 (5.13%) Splunk
7 1 (2.56%) Ciena
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco
7 1 (2.56%) Google
7 1 (2.56%) Nokia
7 1 (2.56%) Snow
7 1 (2.56%) Twitter