X++ Contracts in the UK excluding London

X++
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring X++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited X++ over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 397 428
Rank change year-on-year +46 +31 -
Contract jobs citing X++ 6 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.038% 0.066%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.16% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 14
10th Percentile £450 £423 -
25th Percentile £451 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.33% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £458 £675 £575
90th Percentile £460 £743 -
UK median daily rate £554 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -1.56% +2.27% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

X++ falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,858 5,026 6,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.47% 23.67% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,563 3,288 4,393
10th Percentile £313 £321 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £583 £594
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 463 326
10th Percentile £27.45 £36.30 £26.93
25th Percentile £44.51 £51.88 £51.25
Median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.27 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.62%

X++
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for X++ in the UK excluding London

X++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for X++ in the UK excluding London

X++
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 X++ within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 +45 3 £454 -9.25% 4
Midlands +9 2 - - 5
East Midlands +5 2 - - 5
North of England +27 1 - - 1
North West +8 1 - - 1
X++
UK

X++
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Report Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Fabric
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) ERP
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Log Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Business Process Mapping
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Presales
4 1 (16.67%) Release Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft