XML Contract Job Trends in Surrey

XML
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring XML skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 28 69
Rank change year-on-year -5 +41 -5
Contract jobs citing XML 12 27 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.53% 4.83% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.38% 27.00% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 4
10th Percentile - - £536
25th Percentile £163 £203 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £205 £630
Median % change year-on-year +58.54% -67.46% +121.05%
75th Percentile £488 £208 £741
90th Percentile - £466 £769
South East median daily rate £475 £318 £494
% change year-on-year +49.61% -35.70% -5.95%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 78 100 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 22.94% 17.89% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 73 92
10th Percentile £200 - £224
25th Percentile £204 £203 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.62% -6.36%
75th Percentile £548 £619 £605
90th Percentile £578 £636 £699
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £62.00 £53.10
25th Percentile £37.80 £68.75 £54.00
Median hourly rate £40.59 £80.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.26% +33.33% +86.05%
75th Percentile £43.39 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £74.50
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -3.23%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in Surrey

XML
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing XML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing XML

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Surrey over the 6 months to 30 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Surrey

XML
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing XML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing XML

XML
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 30 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
Redhill +17 6 £475 +5.56%
Staines +1 6 £175 -14.63% 2
XML
South East

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) NFC
1 6 (50.00%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 6 (50.00%) MySQL
1 6 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Browser DevTools
1 6 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (50.00%) Firebug
1 6 (50.00%) Valgrind
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
1 6 (50.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Senior Development Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Senior Software Development Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 6 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) CSS
1 6 (50.00%) HTML
1 6 (50.00%) JSON
1 6 (50.00%) REST
1 6 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 6 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 6 (50.00%) Memory Management
1 6 (50.00%) Multithreaded Programming
1 6 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 6 (50.00%) OO
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (50.00%) C#
2 6 (50.00%) C++
2 6 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle