JAXB Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JAXB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 341 -
Rank change year-on-year -97 - -
Contract jobs citing JAXB 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.016% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.026% 0.084% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £624 -
25th Percentile £550 £633 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £656 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -
75th Percentile £650 £670 -
90th Percentile - £673 -
UK median daily rate £600 £656 £588
% change year-on-year -8.57% +11.70% +20.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

JAXB 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,844 2,369 3,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.12% 18.58% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,586 1,637 2,141
10th Percentile £350 £350 £324
25th Percentile £411 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £663 £661 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 82 190
10th Percentile £40.68 £30.62 £21.25
25th Percentile £53.75 £56.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £82.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

JAXB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JAXB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

JAXB job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JAXB
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JAXB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JAXB

JAXB
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JAXB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JAXB

JAXB
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JAXB within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2026. 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
South East -63 1 £600 -8.57% 1
JAXB
UK

JAXB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker