XML Contracts in the South West

XML
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 109 146
Rank change year-on-year -2 +37 +2
Contract jobs citing XML 7 45 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.40% 1.37% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.55% 9.02% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 11
10th Percentile - £379 £350
25th Percentile £363 £428 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £485
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +13.40% +7.78%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £638
90th Percentile £565 £680 £700
England median daily rate £488 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -7.14% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 31 1
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.79% -38.57% +43.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 275 499 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.53% 15.21% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 302 398
10th Percentile £355 £325 £378
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £715
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 75 24
10th Percentile £61.25 £43.75 £50.75
25th Percentile £64.38 £45.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +2.20%
75th Percentile £68.19 - £78.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.18% -10.54% +23.81%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for XML in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for XML in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Wiltshire +36 4 £550 +11.39% 6
Dorset - 3 £375 - 10
XML
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (28.57%) Alfresco
1 2 (28.57%) Camunda
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Functions
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Service Bus
1 3 (42.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Integration Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) JSON
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) ARM Templates
2 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) Spring
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
3 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 2 (28.57%) JPA
3 2 (28.57%) Kafka
3 2 (28.57%) Keycloak
3 2 (28.57%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) LDAP
4 1 (14.29%) RESTful
4 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) API Design
2 3 (42.86%) API Development
2 3 (42.86%) API Management
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) SOLID
2 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Review
3 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) VMware