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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 38 38
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 +14
Contract jobs citing XML 10 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 5.78% 1.11% 2.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.54% 3.51% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £449 - £333
25th Percentile £452 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £430 £470
Median % change year-on-year +33.72% -8.51% +28.33%
75th Percentile £594 - £488
90th Percentile £612 - -
London median daily rate £525 £515 £600
% change year-on-year +1.94% -14.17% -

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 57 57 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 32.95% 31.67% 20.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 35 55
10th Percentile £466 £425 £374
25th Percentile £500 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +5.13% -18.75%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £631
90th Percentile £738 £756 £695
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.97%
London median hourly rate £51.97 £37.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +38.59% -44.03% +30.73%

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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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in South London over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 6 August 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 - 9 £575 -
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 4 (40.00%) MQSeries
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (60.00%) Redis
2 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (30.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (20.00%) GIS
4 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (20.00%) MySQL
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JMeter
1 2 (20.00%) JUnit
1 2 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Java Swing Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) JSON
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
2 4 (40.00%) EDIFACT
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
2 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Camel
3 2 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (20.00%) jQuery
3 2 (20.00%) Keycloak
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (20.00%) WireMock
4 1 (10.00%) Middleware
4 1 (10.00%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) BDD
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) GitOps
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Process Management
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
5 1 (10.00%) ETL
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Istio
2 2 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Confluent
2 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk