XML Contracts in the Thames Valley

XML
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for XML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XML over the 6 months to 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 114 117
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing XML 20 32 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.75% 1.11% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.39% 6.68% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 33
10th Percentile £249 £343 £351
25th Percentile £375 £449 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £506 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -22.12% +19.27%
75th Percentile £587 £575 -
90th Percentile £613 £600 -
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +19.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

XML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 371 479 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.84% 16.64% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 346 445
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £417 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -1.77% -0.62% +15.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 6
10th Percentile £56.61 £46.30 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.65 £55.00 £41.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.50 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% +21.84% +104.54%
75th Percentile - £79.99 £68.03
90th Percentile £61.72 £80.33 £74.32
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £67.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +50.00% -10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for XML in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Berkshire -16 16 £515 -1.90% 7
Buckinghamshire +27 4 £431 +23.21%
XML
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 5 (25.00%) Serverless
5 3 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (15.00%) GCP
5 3 (15.00%) PowerApps
6 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (20.00%) Power BI
2 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.00%) MySQL
3 3 (15.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (5.00%) Appium
3 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) JMeter
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Postman
3 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.00%) TestNG
3 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.00%) Xcode
General
1 7 (35.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Applications Support
5 2 (10.00%) Automation Tester
5 2 (10.00%) Tester
6 1 (5.00%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (5.00%) Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Designer
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) HTML
2 8 (40.00%) JSON
3 6 (30.00%) CSS
4 5 (25.00%) .NET
5 4 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 4 (20.00%) REST
6 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (15.00%) WCF
7 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (10.00%) Django
7 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
7 2 (10.00%) jQuery
7 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
7 2 (10.00%) Node.js
7 2 (10.00%) React
7 2 (10.00%) SOAP
7 2 (10.00%) Web Services
8 1 (5.00%) Ajax
8 1 (5.00%) Express.js
8 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 4 (20.00%) Smart Meter
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Unix
3 4 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (5.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Agile
1 7 (35.00%) Scrum
2 5 (25.00%) Analytics
2 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (25.00%) Data Science
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) ETL
2 5 (25.00%) User Stories
3 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 4 (20.00%) ETL Development
3 4 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 4 (20.00%) Performance Improvement
3 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (20.00%) Web Development
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (30.00%) C#
4 5 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (25.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Ab Initio
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 3 (15.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) Remedy
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce