XSD Contract Job Trends in the South West

XML Schema Definition (XSD)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring XSD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 122 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing XSD 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.30% 0.048% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.06% 0.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £314 - -
25th Percentile £324 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.67% - -
75th Percentile £365 £544 -
90th Percentile £443 - -
England median daily rate £375 £538 £670
% change year-on-year -30.23% -19.78% +30.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

XSD 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 339 390 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.33% 18.71% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 229 373
10th Percentile £335 £399 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £720
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 44
10th Percentile £61.55 £61.25 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £72.80 £75.60
England median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%

XSD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XSD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

XSD job vacancy trend in the South West

XSD
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing XSD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing XSD

XSD
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XSD in the South West over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XSD in the South West

XSD
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing XSD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing XSD

XSD
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 XSD within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Bristol - 7 £335 - 1
XSD
England

XSD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) Power Automate
2 1 (14.29%) OCI
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) SOAP
1 7 (100.00%) XML
2 6 (85.71%) AngularJS
2 6 (85.71%) JMS
2 6 (85.71%) React
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) OO
1 6 (85.71%) OOP
1 6 (85.71%) Scrum
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) SOA
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Blue Prism
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle