XML Contracts in South London

XML
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 27 40 44
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing XML 8 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 4.32% 0.83% 2.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.69% 3.45% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £447 - £443
25th Percentile £447 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £430 £473
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -8.99% +41.04%
75th Percentile £500 - £544
90th Percentile £500 - £699
London median daily rate £525 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.34% -3.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 51 58 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 27.57% 23.97% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 38 66
10th Percentile £380 £425 £438
25th Percentile £449 £453 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% -13.87%
75th Percentile £638 £590 £649
90th Percentile £738 £671 £706
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £38.16 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - -27.97% +9.04%
London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
% change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in South London

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for XML in South London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London 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
Croydon - 4 £474 -
Bromley - 3 - -
XML
London

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Camunda
1 2 (25.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) RDBMS
1 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) GIS
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Redis
3 1 (12.50%) DB2
3 1 (12.50%) IMS/DB
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JMeter
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
1 2 (25.00%) Mockito
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Front Office
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 6 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (50.00%) Senior
3 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (37.50%) Java Swing Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) Middleware
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) Swing
2 3 (37.50%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Camel
3 2 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (25.00%) jQuery
3 2 (25.00%) JSON
3 2 (25.00%) Kafka
3 2 (25.00%) Keycloak
3 2 (25.00%) Rendezvous
3 2 (25.00%) REST
3 2 (25.00%) WireMock
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Fixed Income
1 3 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (25.00%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) High Availability
1 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) GitOps
3 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Process Management
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (12.50%) REXX
5 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Istio
2 2 (25.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Sybase
2 2 (25.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle