SAX Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Simple API for XML (SAX)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SAX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SAX 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.024% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £305 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 - -
75th Percentile £315 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £310 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

SAX 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 4,254 2,734 3,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.76% 18.40% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,793 1,857 2,124
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £608
90th Percentile £676 £632 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £543
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 113 223
10th Percentile £33.75 £31.25 £25.68
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.25 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +7.20% -0.87%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 £80.81 £74.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

SAX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SAX job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SAX
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SAX
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SAX
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 SAX within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Scotland - 1 £310 -
SAX
UK

SAX
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Jakarta EE
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA