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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 172 210
Rank change year-on-year -31 +38 -31
Contract jobs citing XML 140 248 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.08% 1.20% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.83% 7.46% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 95 170
10th Percentile £335 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -1.44% +9.47%
75th Percentile £514 £617 £625
90th Percentile £575 £648 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -11.05% -2.91% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 70 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 £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £43.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -37.21% -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 2,400 3,323 4,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.57% 16.05% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,667 2,175 3,064
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £568 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £692 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.71% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 218 89
10th Percentile £32.79 £22.68 £22.22
25th Percentile £50.80 £43.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.47 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% -22.36% +19.82%
75th Percentile £68.75 £67.56 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.46 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%

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 30 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 30 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 -6 42 £450 -15.73% 190
South East +66 41 £475 +10.14% 270
North West +7 36 £450 -14.81% 89
Scotland +7 18 £494 +2.65% 34
Northern Ireland -2 12 £363 - 13
Midlands +6 10 £500 -16.67% 173
Wales +10 8 £319 +52.02% 33
West Midlands +6 7 £550 -8.33% 89
South West +3 6 £375 -31.82% 120
East of England -26 6 £550 +10.00% 148
Yorkshire +3 5 £513 -18.00% 82
East Midlands +9 3 £314 -13.38% 71
North East -3 1 £200 -53.60% 21
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 (6.43%) Anypoint
1 9 (6.43%) Mule
2 5 (3.57%) Apache
2 5 (3.57%) IIS
2 5 (3.57%) NetWeaver
2 5 (3.57%) WebLogic
2 5 (3.57%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.86%) Mule ESB
4 3 (2.14%) Moodle
5 2 (1.43%) CICS
6 1 (0.71%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.71%) Camunda
6 1 (0.71%) CMS
6 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (10.00%) Siemens NX
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (10.71%) Teamcenter
2 4 (2.86%) Maximo
3 3 (2.14%) iTrent
4 1 (0.71%) BASE24
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.71%) Azure
2 18 (12.86%) AWS
3 15 (10.71%) SaaS
4 13 (9.29%) Serverless
5 9 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.29%) OCI
7 5 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.86%) GCP
8 4 (2.86%) GitHub
8 4 (2.86%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.86%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.14%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.14%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.43%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.43%) Figma
10 2 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.14%) HTTP
2 2 (1.43%) DNS
2 2 (1.43%) DWDM
2 2 (1.43%) MQTT
2 2 (1.43%) NFC
2 2 (1.43%) PPP
2 2 (1.43%) SSL
2 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.71%) BGP
3 1 (0.71%) DMVPN
3 1 (0.71%) GLBP
3 1 (0.71%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.71%) IGRP
3 1 (0.71%) Internet
3 1 (0.71%) MPLS
3 1 (0.71%) Multicast
3 1 (0.71%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.71%) OSPF
3 1 (0.71%) RTP
3 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.57%) Relational Database
2 18 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 16 (11.43%) SQL Server
4 14 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 13 (9.29%) MongoDB
6 9 (6.43%) MySQL
7 6 (4.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (3.57%) DB2
9 4 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.14%) Power BI
11 2 (1.43%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.71%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.71%) MS Access
12 1 (0.71%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.71%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 21 (15.00%) Git
2 15 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 15 (10.71%) JIRA
3 10 (7.14%) SoapUI
4 8 (5.71%) Postman
5 5 (3.57%) JUnit
6 4 (2.86%) Eclipse
6 4 (2.86%) Selenium
6 4 (2.86%) Toad
6 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (2.14%) PHPUnit
7 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (2.14%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.43%) JMeter
8 2 (1.43%) Mockito
8 2 (1.43%) Moq
8 2 (1.43%) SOAtest
8 2 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.43%) Valgrind
General
1 34 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.29%) Finance
2 20 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.86%) Banking
4 10 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.29%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.57%) Front Office
7 2 (1.43%) Automotive
7 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.43%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.43%) Retail
7 2 (1.43%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.43%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.71%) Electronics
8 1 (0.71%) Law
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (47.86%) Developer
2 26 (18.57%) Senior
3 14 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 14 (10.00%) Configuration Engineer
4 13 (9.29%) Java Developer
5 12 (8.57%) Analyst
5 12 (8.57%) Senior Developer
5 12 (8.57%) ServiceNow Developer
6 11 (7.86%) Test Analyst
7 10 (7.14%) DBA
8 9 (6.43%) MuleSoft Developer
9 8 (5.71%) Architect
9 8 (5.71%) Integration Developer
9 8 (5.71%) SAP Developer
10 7 (5.00%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Administrator
11 6 (4.29%) Java Software Developer
11 6 (4.29%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 6 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (50.71%) JSON
2 45 (32.14%) SOAP
3 34 (24.29%) Web Services
4 32 (22.86%) REST
5 29 (20.71%) HTML
6 22 (15.71%) RESTful
7 21 (15.00%) CSS
8 12 (8.57%) AngularJS
9 11 (7.86%) Kafka
10 10 (7.14%) React
11 9 (6.43%) .NET
11 9 (6.43%) RAML
12 8 (5.71%) Spring Boot
12 8 (5.71%) XSLT
13 7 (5.00%) Apache Avro
13 7 (5.00%) Spring
14 6 (4.29%) Ajax
14 6 (4.29%) EDI
14 6 (4.29%) JDBC
14 6 (4.29%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.86%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.71%) CMDB
3 6 (4.29%) Derivative
3 6 (4.29%) Equities
3 6 (4.29%) Equity Derivative
3 6 (4.29%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.14%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.14%) VLE
7 2 (1.43%) Clustering
7 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.43%) Infotainment
7 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.43%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (1.43%) PKI
7 2 (1.43%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.14%) Windows
2 7 (5.00%) Unix
3 6 (4.29%) Linux
4 4 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (42.86%) Agile
2 32 (22.86%) DevOps
3 29 (20.71%) User Experience
4 23 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (16.43%) Test Automation
5 21 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 20 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 18 (12.86%) ITSM
8 17 (12.14%) Scrum
9 15 (10.71%) Test Scripting
10 14 (10.00%) CAD
10 14 (10.00%) Data Governance
10 14 (10.00%) PLM
11 13 (9.29%) Software Testing
11 13 (9.29%) Test Strategy
12 12 (8.57%) API Management
13 11 (7.86%) Coaching
13 11 (7.86%) Code Quality
13 11 (7.86%) Defect Management
13 11 (7.86%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (27.14%) JavaScript
1 38 (27.14%) SQL
2 35 (25.00%) Java
3 9 (6.43%) C#
3 9 (6.43%) PL/SQL
3 9 (6.43%) Python
4 8 (5.71%) DataWeave
5 5 (3.57%) ABAP
6 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.14%) C++
7 3 (2.14%) COBOL
7 3 (2.14%) PHP
7 3 (2.14%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.14%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.43%) ActionScript
8 2 (1.43%) JCL
8 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.43%) REXX
8 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 35 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.71%) ISTQB
4 7 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.00%) ISEB
5 5 (3.57%) Degree
5 5 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.71%) CCDP
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.71%) OCP
8 1 (0.71%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.86%) QA
3 4 (2.86%) GRC
4 3 (2.14%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.14%) SEPA
5 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.43%) HL7
5 2 (1.43%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.43%) WCAG
6 1 (0.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (5.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.86%) CloudHub
3 2 (1.43%) Kibana
4 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.71%) SCOM
Vendors
1 28 (20.00%) Oracle
2 19 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.57%) ServiceNow
3 14 (10.00%) SAP
4 9 (6.43%) MuleSoft
5 5 (3.57%) IBM
5 5 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.86%) webMethods
7 3 (2.14%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.43%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.43%) Informatica
8 2 (1.43%) Parasoft
8 2 (1.43%) RedGate
8 2 (1.43%) Splunk
9 1 (0.71%) Cisco
9 1 (0.71%) Citrix
9 1 (0.71%) HP
9 1 (0.71%) Juniper
9 1 (0.71%) Nokia
9 1 (0.71%) Solace