XML Contracts in the UK excluding London

XML
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for XML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XML over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 218 171
Rank change year-on-year +48 -47 -40
Contract jobs citing XML 246 265 450
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 1.13% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.65% 6.17% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 179 303
10th Percentile £367 £350 £361
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £550
90th Percentile £649 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.33% +10.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 12 19
10th Percentile - £63.25 £39.72
25th Percentile - £70.00 £43.66
Median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.69% +49.48% -16.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 £75.00 £63.34
90th Percentile £85.00 - £67.83
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -40.69% +49.48% -16.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

XML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,215 4,294 6,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.78% 18.27% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,098 3,209 4,365
10th Percentile £323 £356 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 91 138
10th Percentile £21.49 £22.50 £20.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

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 7 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing XML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 7 May 2024. 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
East of England +47 65 - - 15
North of England -7 52 £534 -7.49% 16
South West +43 49 £550 +14.58% 8
South East -8 37 £450 -11.76% 37
North West +9 36 £534 -8.37% 9
Scotland +56 20 £513 +2.50% 5
Midlands +9 19 £600 +20.00% 25
Yorkshire +19 15 £645 +24.64% 6
West Midlands +14 14 £600 +30.43% 19
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 4
East Midlands +7 5 £331 -33.75% 6
North East +5 5 £423 -41.25% 1
Wales -4 2 £210 -42.27% 6
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 15 (6.10%) Confluence
2 8 (3.25%) Apache
3 6 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.03%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.22%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.81%) JBoss
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.81%) WildFly
7 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.88%) Acrobat
3 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.25%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.03%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.22%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.81%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.41%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.85%) Azure
2 25 (10.16%) Serverless
3 17 (6.91%) AWS
4 16 (6.50%) Power Platform
5 14 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (4.07%) GitHub
7 9 (3.66%) Azure Functions
8 8 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.25%) Boomi
8 8 (3.25%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.85%) GCP
9 7 (2.85%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.44%) Apigee
10 6 (2.44%) Azure Stack
10 6 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.44%) Kong
10 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.44%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.32%) HTTP
2 16 (6.50%) TCP/IP
3 11 (4.47%) DNS
4 10 (4.07%) Firewall
5 7 (2.85%) VPN
6 6 (2.44%) Kerberos
7 5 (2.03%) FTP
8 3 (1.22%) AMQP
8 3 (1.22%) MQTT
8 3 (1.22%) Skype
9 2 (0.81%) 5G
9 2 (0.81%) DMZ
9 2 (0.81%) LAN
9 2 (0.81%) Modbus
9 2 (0.81%) WAN
10 1 (0.41%) BGP
10 1 (0.41%) MPLS
10 1 (0.41%) PPP
10 1 (0.41%) SS7
10 1 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.10%) NoSQL
3 14 (5.69%) Oracle Reports
3 14 (5.69%) Relational Database
3 14 (5.69%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.88%) RDBMS
5 10 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.07%) SQLite
6 7 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.85%) Power BI
7 6 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.44%) MySQL
7 6 (2.44%) Oracle Database
7 6 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (2.03%) Big Data
8 5 (2.03%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (13.41%) Git
2 25 (10.16%) JIRA
3 18 (7.32%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.47%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.66%) Visual Studio
6 8 (3.25%) GitLab
7 7 (2.85%) JUnit
8 6 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (2.44%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.44%) Travis CI
9 5 (2.03%) Checkstyle
9 5 (2.03%) JMeter
9 5 (2.03%) SoapUI
9 5 (2.03%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.63%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.63%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (1.63%) Subversion
11 3 (1.22%) Mockito
11 3 (1.22%) Selenium
11 3 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 67 (27.24%) Publishing
2 39 (15.85%) Social Skills
3 16 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.10%) Telecoms
5 14 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.88%) Aerospace
6 12 (4.88%) Finance
7 11 (4.47%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.44%) Marketing
9 5 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.22%) Banking
10 3 (1.22%) Billing
10 3 (1.22%) Electronics
10 3 (1.22%) Retail
11 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 89 (36.18%) Author
1 89 (36.18%) Technical Author
2 45 (18.29%) Developer
3 30 (12.20%) Architect
4 14 (5.69%) Software Engineer
5 12 (4.88%) Analyst
6 11 (4.47%) DBA
6 11 (4.47%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 11 (4.47%) Senior
7 10 (4.07%) Data Engineer
8 9 (3.66%) Data Architect
9 6 (2.44%) Integration Developer
9 6 (2.44%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (2.44%) Senior Developer
9 6 (2.44%) Tester
10 5 (2.03%) Business Analyst
10 5 (2.03%) Java Developer
10 5 (2.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (2.03%) Software Architect
10 5 (2.03%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (33.74%) JSON
2 76 (30.89%) SGML
3 29 (11.79%) REST
4 26 (10.57%) HTML
4 26 (10.57%) SOAP
5 25 (10.16%) Web Services
6 21 (8.54%) .NET
7 20 (8.13%) RESTful
8 17 (6.91%) CSS
9 13 (5.28%) .NET Framework
9 13 (5.28%) Kafka
10 12 (4.88%) XSLT
11 9 (3.66%) OpenID
12 8 (3.25%) .NET Core
13 7 (2.85%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.85%) LDAP
13 7 (2.85%) YAML
14 6 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (2.44%) jQuery
14 6 (2.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.69%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.88%) Animation
4 6 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (2.44%) Reference Data
5 5 (2.03%) Smart Meter
5 5 (2.03%) Verilog
5 5 (2.03%) VHDL
6 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.22%) IoT
7 3 (1.22%) PKI
7 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.81%) CMDB
8 2 (0.81%) NHS
9 1 (0.41%) Clustering
9 1 (0.41%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.41%) Replication
9 1 (0.41%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.10%) Linux
1 15 (6.10%) Windows
2 13 (5.28%) Unix
3 8 (3.25%) Android
4 6 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.03%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.81%) zOS
7 1 (0.41%) AIX
7 1 (0.41%) Solaris
7 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (32.93%) Agile
2 64 (26.02%) Desktop Publishing
3 44 (17.89%) DevOps
4 30 (12.20%) Scrum
5 29 (11.79%) Data Management
5 29 (11.79%) Test Automation
6 25 (10.16%) CAD
6 25 (10.16%) CI/CD
7 23 (9.35%) Software Engineering
8 22 (8.94%) OO
9 21 (8.54%) Data Modelling
10 19 (7.72%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (6.91%) Data Protection
13 14 (5.69%) Analytics
13 14 (5.69%) Data Mapping
13 14 (5.69%) ETL
13 14 (5.69%) Mentoring
14 13 (5.28%) Containerisation
15 12 (4.88%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 46 (18.70%) SQL
2 41 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 34 (13.82%) C#
4 32 (13.01%) Python
5 26 (10.57%) Java
6 12 (4.88%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.47%) C
7 11 (4.47%) C++
8 6 (2.44%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.44%) Bash
8 6 (2.44%) Go
8 6 (2.44%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.03%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.03%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.03%) SOQL
9 5 (2.03%) X++
10 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 66 (26.83%) HND
2 64 (26.02%) HNC
3 32 (13.01%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.13%) Degree
5 14 (5.69%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.81%) MCSD
8 2 (0.81%) MCSE
9 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.10%) QA
2 12 (4.88%) Def Stans
3 7 (2.85%) GDPR
4 6 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.63%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.41%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) NCSC
7 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (6.50%) Docker
2 9 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.63%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.41%) ACF2
4 1 (0.41%) IAG
4 1 (0.41%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (3.25%) Grafana
2 7 (2.85%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.44%) Ansible
3 6 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (2.44%) Kibana
3 6 (2.44%) logstash
3 6 (2.44%) Progress Chef
3 6 (2.44%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.44%) Puppet
3 6 (2.44%) Terraform
4 2 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 39 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.57%) Oracle
3 18 (7.32%) Adobe
4 16 (6.50%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.66%) Informatica
6 7 (2.85%) SAP
7 6 (2.44%) Cadence
7 6 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.44%) Splunk
7 6 (2.44%) Talend
8 5 (2.03%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.81%) IBM
9 2 (0.81%) Nokia
10 1 (0.41%) Cisco
10 1 (0.41%) Dell
10 1 (0.41%) HP
10 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.41%) Remedy
10 1 (0.41%) Software AG
10 1 (0.41%) TIBCO