Xero Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Xero
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Xero products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Xero over the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Xero Limited.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 - 410
Rank change year-on-year - - +96
Contract jobs citing Xero 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.031% - 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.064% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £224 - -
25th Percentile £283 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.27%
75th Percentile £518 - £569
90th Percentile £582 - -
UK median daily rate £650 - £563
% change year-on-year - - +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £15.00 - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Xero falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,817 7,600 9,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.26% 44.68% 46.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,872 4,372 6,362
10th Percentile £220 £220 £208
25th Percentile £363 £383 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £655 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 461 526
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.12 £15.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £21.30 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% -29.41% +102.38%
75th Percentile £34.99 £63.75 £60.94
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.38
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -26.15% -25.86% +82.65%

Xero
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Xero job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Xero
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Xero
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Xero in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Xero in the UK excluding London

Xero
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Xero
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 Xero within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
Scotland - 2 £190 - 2
North of England - 2 - - 4
Midlands - 1 £600 -
West Midlands - 1 £600 -
Xero
UK

Xero
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) IMAP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Cash Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AAT
1 1 (20.00%) ACCA
1 1 (20.00%) CIMA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Sage
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Pegasus
3 1 (20.00%) VMware