XML Contracts in the UK excluding London

XML
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring XML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XML over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 175 213
Rank change year-on-year -34 +38 -37
Contract jobs citing XML 127 247 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.99% 1.19% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.34% 7.49% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 94 188
10th Percentile £350 £353 £350
25th Percentile £400 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +4.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £533 £622 £600
90th Percentile £588 £654 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -13.64% +0.92% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 72 12
10th Percentile £21.48 - £63.25
25th Percentile £22.41 - £70.00
Median hourly rate £24.83 £43.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.26% -40.69% +52.63%
75th Percentile £27.05 £51.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £27.87 £84.60 -
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £43.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -40.69% +52.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

XML 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 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
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 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
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 XML within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +8 40 £449 -15.92% 30
South East +48 39 £400 -11.11% 58
North West +16 34 £448 -16.20% 14
Scotland +8 18 £494 -17.67% 12
Northern Ireland -1 13 £363 - 7
Midlands +15 10 £550 -8.33% 22
West Midlands +9 8 £563 -6.25% 9
Yorkshire -1 6 £550 -14.73% 14
East of England -31 4 £488 +2.63% 20
Wales +2 3 £453 +115.71% 10
South West 0 3 £375 -31.82% 20
East Midlands +8 2 £358 +19.33% 13
XML
UK

XML
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.09%) Anypoint
1 9 (7.09%) Mule
2 6 (4.72%) NetWeaver
2 6 (4.72%) WebLogic
3 4 (3.15%) Mule ESB
4 3 (2.36%) Moodle
5 2 (1.57%) Apache
5 2 (1.57%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.57%) CICS
5 2 (1.57%) IIS
5 2 (1.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.57%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.79%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Siemens NX
2 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (9.45%) Teamcenter
2 3 (2.36%) iTrent
3 2 (1.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.79%) BASE24
4 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.79%) Maximo
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.11%) Azure
2 16 (12.60%) AWS
3 13 (10.24%) Serverless
4 12 (9.45%) SaaS
5 6 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (4.72%) OCI
6 4 (3.15%) GCP
6 4 (3.15%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.36%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.36%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.57%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.57%) PaaS
8 2 (1.57%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.79%) Akamai
9 1 (0.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.39%) HTTP
2 3 (2.36%) LTE
2 3 (2.36%) NAS
3 2 (1.57%) BGP
3 2 (1.57%) DNS
3 2 (1.57%) DWDM
3 2 (1.57%) FTP
3 2 (1.57%) MPLS
3 2 (1.57%) MQTT
3 2 (1.57%) SSL
3 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.57%) VPN
4 1 (0.79%) ATM
4 1 (0.79%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.79%) IGRP
4 1 (0.79%) Internet
4 1 (0.79%) LAN
4 1 (0.79%) OSPF
4 1 (0.79%) SNMP
4 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.96%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (14.17%) NoSQL
2 18 (14.17%) Relational Database
3 16 (12.60%) Oracle Reports
3 16 (12.60%) RDBMS
4 14 (11.02%) MongoDB
5 11 (8.66%) MySQL
6 9 (7.09%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.57%) DB2
9 2 (1.57%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.57%) Power BI
10 1 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.79%) MS Access
10 1 (0.79%) NonStop SQL
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 17 (13.39%) Git
2 16 (12.60%) JIRA
3 12 (9.45%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.51%) SoapUI
5 6 (4.72%) Selenium
6 4 (3.15%) JUnit
6 4 (3.15%) Postman
6 4 (3.15%) Toad
7 3 (2.36%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.36%) GitLab
7 3 (2.36%) PHPUnit
7 3 (2.36%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.57%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.57%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.57%) ERwin
8 2 (1.57%) JMeter
8 2 (1.57%) Maven
8 2 (1.57%) Mockito
8 2 (1.57%) Moq
8 2 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.75%) Public Sector
3 19 (14.96%) Finance
4 13 (10.24%) Banking
5 9 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.72%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.94%) Front Office
8 2 (1.57%) Automotive
8 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.57%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.57%) Retail
8 2 (1.57%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.57%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Electronics
9 1 (0.79%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (48.03%) Developer
2 22 (17.32%) Senior
3 12 (9.45%) DBA
3 12 (9.45%) Java Developer
3 12 (9.45%) ServiceNow Developer
4 11 (8.66%) Applications Engineer
4 11 (8.66%) Configuration Engineer
4 11 (8.66%) Senior Developer
5 9 (7.09%) Analyst
5 9 (7.09%) MuleSoft Developer
5 9 (7.09%) SAP Developer
6 8 (6.30%) Architect
6 8 (6.30%) Integration Developer
6 8 (6.30%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 8 (6.30%) Test Analyst
7 6 (4.72%) Administrator
7 6 (4.72%) Java Software Developer
7 6 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (3.94%) Oracle Developer
8 5 (3.94%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (50.39%) JSON
2 38 (29.92%) SOAP
3 29 (22.83%) Web Services
4 28 (22.05%) REST
5 23 (18.11%) HTML
6 21 (16.54%) RESTful
7 19 (14.96%) CSS
8 12 (9.45%) XSLT
9 11 (8.66%) Kafka
10 9 (7.09%) AngularJS
10 9 (7.09%) RAML
10 9 (7.09%) React
11 8 (6.30%) .NET
11 8 (6.30%) EDI
12 7 (5.51%) Apache Avro
12 7 (5.51%) JMS
12 7 (5.51%) Spring Boot
13 6 (4.72%) IDoc
13 6 (4.72%) JDBC
13 6 (4.72%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.66%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.30%) CMDB
3 7 (5.51%) Virtual Team
4 6 (4.72%) Derivative
4 6 (4.72%) Equities
4 6 (4.72%) Equity Derivative
4 6 (4.72%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.36%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.36%) VLE
7 2 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.57%) Infotainment
7 2 (1.57%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.57%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.57%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (1.57%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.57%) VSAM
8 1 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.51%) Unix
1 7 (5.51%) Windows
2 4 (3.15%) Linux
3 1 (0.79%) CentOS
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (47.24%) Agile
2 25 (19.69%) DevOps
3 22 (17.32%) User Experience
4 21 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (14.17%) Mentoring
6 17 (13.39%) CI/CD
6 17 (13.39%) Scrum
6 17 (13.39%) Test Automation
7 15 (11.81%) ITSM
8 12 (9.45%) Database Security
8 12 (9.45%) Migration
8 12 (9.45%) Test Scripting
9 11 (8.66%) CAD
9 11 (8.66%) Coaching
9 11 (8.66%) Data Governance
9 11 (8.66%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (8.66%) PLM
10 10 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (7.87%) Defect Management
10 10 (7.87%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (28.35%) SQL
2 33 (25.98%) Java
3 31 (24.41%) JavaScript
4 10 (7.87%) Python
5 9 (7.09%) C#
5 9 (7.09%) PL/SQL
6 8 (6.30%) DataWeave
7 6 (4.72%) ABAP
7 6 (4.72%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.36%) ActionScript
8 3 (2.36%) ActionScript 2.0
8 3 (2.36%) COBOL
8 3 (2.36%) PHP
8 3 (2.36%) XPath
9 2 (1.57%) JCL
9 2 (1.57%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.57%) REXX
9 2 (1.57%) Scala
9 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (22.05%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.94%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.15%) ISEB
4 4 (3.15%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.57%) Degree
6 2 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.79%) CCDP
7 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.79%) OCP
7 1 (0.79%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.66%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.72%) QA
3 4 (3.15%) GRC
4 3 (2.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.57%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.79%) GDPR
6 1 (0.79%) HL7
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (5.51%) Docker
2 4 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.15%) CloudHub
3 2 (1.57%) Kibana
4 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.79%) SCOM
Vendors
1 31 (24.41%) Oracle
2 19 (14.96%) ServiceNow
3 15 (11.81%) SAP
4 14 (11.02%) Microsoft
5 9 (7.09%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.15%) webMethods
7 3 (2.36%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.57%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.57%) Cisco
8 2 (1.57%) IBM
8 2 (1.57%) Informatica
8 2 (1.57%) Parasoft
8 2 (1.57%) Sparx
8 2 (1.57%) Splunk
9 1 (0.79%) Blue Coat
9 1 (0.79%) Citrix
9 1 (0.79%) Google
9 1 (0.79%) Nokia
9 1 (0.79%) SEEBURGER
9 1 (0.79%) VMware