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 17 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 139 142
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing XML 19 14 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.71% 0.44% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.36% 2.65% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 18
10th Percentile £378 £452 £369
25th Percentile £405 £498 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +15.79% +2.70%
75th Percentile £642 £614 £498
90th Percentile £681 £695 £538
England median daily rate £513 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.87% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile £86.50 - -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 £46.99
% change year-on-year -38.57% +48.97% -28.26%

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 436 528 664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.40% 16.43% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 400 525
10th Percentile £350 £362 £372
25th Percentile £438 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - +13.51%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £631
90th Percentile £690 £725 £710
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 34 30
10th Percentile £65.00 £48.32 £52.51
25th Percentile - £63.13 £55.23
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +11.59%
75th Percentile £74.00 £77.38 £65.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £63.25
% change year-on-year +2.04% -3.16% +29.08%

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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 17 September 2024.

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 17 September 2024. 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
Bristol +6 13 £650 +1.96% 8
Gloucestershire - 4 £538 -
Wiltshire +11 1 £388 -22.89% 2
Somerset -2 1 £400 -22.71% 3
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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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
1 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) HTTP
2 4 (21.05%) SSL
3 1 (5.26%) 4G
3 1 (5.26%) 5G
3 1 (5.26%) AMQP
3 1 (5.26%) SIGTRAN
3 1 (5.26%) SS7
3 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (26.32%) SQLite
3 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
3 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) Checkstyle
2 5 (26.32%) SonarQube
3 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
3 3 (15.79%) Robot Framework
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (5.26%) JIRA
4 1 (5.26%) Maven
4 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (31.58%) Telecoms
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Software Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Software Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Python Software Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Tester
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) JSON
2 6 (31.58%) RESTful
3 5 (26.32%) .NET
3 5 (26.32%) .NET Core
3 5 (26.32%) .NET Framework
3 5 (26.32%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) jQuery
4 1 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (5.26%) SPML
4 1 (5.26%) Spring
4 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.26%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Product Ownership
2 5 (26.32%) Verilog
2 5 (26.32%) VHDL
3 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) CentOS
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Solaris
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile
2 11 (57.89%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
4 7 (36.84%) OO
5 6 (31.58%) Software Architecture
5 6 (31.58%) Software Delivery
5 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
5 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (26.32%) Code Quality
6 5 (26.32%) Design Patterns
7 3 (15.79%) BDD
7 3 (15.79%) Business Transformation
8 2 (10.53%) Change Management
8 2 (10.53%) CRM
8 2 (10.53%) OOD
8 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) UML
9 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
9 1 (5.26%) Use Case
9 1 (5.26%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) C#
3 6 (31.58%) C++
4 5 (26.32%) C
4 5 (26.32%) SQL
5 4 (21.05%) Java
6 3 (15.79%) Bash
6 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 9 (47.37%) DV Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.79%) Degree
4 3 (15.79%) HND
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.26%) Nokia
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Pardot