SPML Contracts in the UK excluding London

Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SPML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SPML over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 397 -
Rank change year-on-year +59 - -
Contract jobs citing SPML 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.010% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.042% 0.061% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - -
UK median daily rate £630 £606 £650
% change year-on-year +3.92% -6.73% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

SPML 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 2,391 3,290 4,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.69% 15.85% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,652 2,153 3,284
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 199 91
10th Percentile £31.71 £21.63 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.80 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

SPML
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SPML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SPML in the UK excluding London

SPML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SPML in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SPML in the UK excluding London

SPML
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 SPML within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East - 1 £630 -
SPML
UK

SPML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) XACML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft