XCAP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring XCAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 - 411
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Contract jobs citing XCAP 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - 0.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.043% - 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £400 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

XCAP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,325 2,209 3,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.73% 16.43% 17.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,543 1,270 2,081
10th Percentile £191 £185 £205
25th Percentile £302 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £471 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -0.79% +1.06%
75th Percentile £563 £580 £588
90th Percentile £653 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 107 334
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.44 £14.30
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.00 £21.28
Median hourly rate £40.54 £29.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +39.79% -44.11% +161.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.56 £70.50 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £29.44 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -9.42% -31.58% +137.50%

XCAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

XCAP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

XCAP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

XCAP
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 XCAP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Midlands - 1 £400 -
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
XCAP
UK

XCAP
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) RTCP
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#