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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 218 174
Rank change year-on-year +40 -44 -41
Contract jobs citing XML 249 272 456
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.14% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.61% 6.23% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 184 307
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £430 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £622 £606 £550
90th Percentile £653 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £543 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -1.36% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 12 22
10th Percentile - £63.25 £37.25
25th Percentile - £70.00 £41.38
Median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.69% +52.63% -15.93%
75th Percentile £51.25 £75.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £84.60 - £65.49
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.69% +52.63% -18.10%

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 3,274 4,364 6,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.25% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,150 3,271 4,418
10th Percentile £324 £360 £362
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.68%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 91 145
10th Percentile £21.81 £22.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £69.50
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +62 66 £475 -1.30% 15
North of England -4 52 £534 -7.13% 14
South West +47 49 £550 +14.58% 8
South East -10 37 £450 -10.00% 34
North West +2 36 £534 -7.85% 9
Scotland +50 23 £600 +14.29% 5
Midlands +1 18 £600 +20.00% 20
Yorkshire +14 15 £645 +24.64% 5
West Midlands +11 14 £600 +23.97% 14
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 4
North East +8 5 £423 -41.25%
East Midlands +7 4 £300 -40.00% 6
Wales -6 2 £210 -53.33% 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 17 (6.83%) Confluence
2 9 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.21%) Apache
4 5 (2.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.01%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.20%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.80%) IIS
6 2 (0.80%) JBoss
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.80%) WildFly
7 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.82%) Acrobat
3 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.21%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.01%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.20%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.80%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.06%) Azure
2 25 (10.04%) Serverless
3 16 (6.43%) AWS
4 15 (6.02%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (4.02%) GitHub
7 9 (3.61%) Azure Functions
8 8 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.21%) Boomi
9 7 (2.81%) GCP
9 7 (2.81%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.81%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.41%) Apigee
10 6 (2.41%) Azure Stack
10 6 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.41%) Kong
10 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.23%) HTTP
2 16 (6.43%) TCP/IP
3 13 (5.22%) DNS
4 10 (4.02%) Firewall
5 7 (2.81%) VPN
6 6 (2.41%) Kerberos
7 5 (2.01%) FTP
8 3 (1.20%) AMQP
8 3 (1.20%) MQTT
8 3 (1.20%) Skype
9 2 (0.80%) 5G
9 2 (0.80%) BGP
9 2 (0.80%) DMZ
9 2 (0.80%) LAN
9 2 (0.80%) Modbus
9 2 (0.80%) MPLS
9 2 (0.80%) WAN
10 1 (0.40%) SS7
10 1 (0.40%) VoIP
10 1 (0.40%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.02%) NoSQL
3 14 (5.62%) Oracle Reports
3 14 (5.62%) Relational Database
3 14 (5.62%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.82%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.82%) RDBMS
5 10 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.02%) SQLite
6 7 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.41%) Oracle Database
7 6 (2.41%) Power BI
7 6 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (2.01%) Big Data
8 5 (2.01%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.01%) MySQL
9 4 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (14.46%) Git
2 26 (10.44%) JIRA
3 18 (7.23%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.42%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.21%) GitLab
5 8 (3.21%) Visual Studio
6 7 (2.81%) JUnit
7 6 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (2.41%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.41%) Travis CI
8 5 (2.01%) Checkstyle
8 5 (2.01%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.61%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.61%) JMeter
9 4 (1.61%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (1.61%) SoapUI
9 4 (1.61%) Subversion
9 4 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (1.20%) Mockito
10 3 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 67 (26.91%) Publishing
2 39 (15.66%) Social Skills
3 16 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.62%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.22%) Finance
7 12 (4.82%) Aerospace
8 11 (4.42%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.41%) Marketing
10 5 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.61%) Banking
12 3 (1.20%) Billing
12 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Electronics
12 3 (1.20%) Retail
13 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 89 (35.74%) Author
1 89 (35.74%) Technical Author
2 47 (18.88%) Developer
3 30 (12.05%) Architect
4 14 (5.62%) Software Engineer
5 12 (4.82%) Analyst
6 11 (4.42%) Data Engineer
6 11 (4.42%) DBA
6 11 (4.42%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 11 (4.42%) Senior
7 9 (3.61%) Data Architect
8 6 (2.41%) Integration Developer
8 6 (2.41%) Java Developer
8 6 (2.41%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (2.41%) Senior Developer
8 6 (2.41%) Tester
9 5 (2.01%) Business Analyst
9 5 (2.01%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (2.01%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (2.01%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (34.94%) JSON
2 76 (30.52%) SGML
3 30 (12.05%) REST
4 25 (10.04%) HTML
4 25 (10.04%) SOAP
5 23 (9.24%) .NET
6 22 (8.84%) Web Services
7 20 (8.03%) RESTful
8 16 (6.43%) CSS
9 13 (5.22%) Kafka
10 12 (4.82%) .NET Framework
11 11 (4.42%) XSLT
12 9 (3.61%) OpenID
13 8 (3.21%) .NET Core
14 7 (2.81%) LDAP
14 7 (2.81%) YAML
15 6 (2.41%) AngularJS
15 6 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
15 6 (2.41%) jQuery
15 6 (2.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.83%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.22%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.82%) Animation
4 7 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.41%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.01%) Smart Meter
6 5 (2.01%) Verilog
6 5 (2.01%) VHDL
7 4 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.20%) IoT
8 3 (1.20%) PKI
8 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.80%) CMDB
9 2 (0.80%) NHS
10 1 (0.40%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.40%) FMCG
10 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.83%) Windows
2 16 (6.43%) Linux
3 13 (5.22%) Unix
4 8 (3.21%) Android
4 8 (3.21%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.01%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.80%) zOS
7 1 (0.40%) AIX
7 1 (0.40%) Solaris
7 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (33.33%) Agile
2 64 (25.70%) Desktop Publishing
3 46 (18.47%) DevOps
4 31 (12.45%) Scrum
5 29 (11.65%) Data Management
6 28 (11.24%) Test Automation
7 25 (10.04%) CAD
7 25 (10.04%) CI/CD
8 23 (9.24%) Software Engineering
9 22 (8.84%) Data Modelling
9 22 (8.84%) OO
10 19 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (7.23%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (7.23%) Data Protection
12 15 (6.02%) Analytics
12 15 (6.02%) ETL
13 14 (5.62%) Data Mapping
13 14 (5.62%) Mentoring
14 13 (5.22%) Containerisation
15 12 (4.82%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (19.28%) SQL
2 40 (16.06%) JavaScript
3 35 (14.06%) Python
4 34 (13.65%) C#
5 27 (10.84%) Java
6 14 (5.62%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.42%) C
7 11 (4.42%) C++
8 7 (2.81%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.41%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.41%) Bash
9 6 (2.41%) Go
9 6 (2.41%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.01%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.01%) SOQL
10 5 (2.01%) X++
11 4 (1.61%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.40%) Groovy
12 1 (0.40%) Jython
12 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 66 (26.51%) HND
2 64 (25.70%) HNC
3 33 (13.25%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.03%) Degree
5 15 (6.02%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.41%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.80%) MCSD
8 2 (0.80%) MCSE
9 1 (0.40%) CCNP
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.62%) QA
2 12 (4.82%) Def Stans
3 7 (2.81%) GDPR
4 6 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.61%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.40%) HL7
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (6.43%) Docker
2 11 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.61%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.40%) ACF2
4 1 (0.40%) IAG
4 1 (0.40%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (3.21%) Grafana
2 7 (2.81%) Ansible
2 7 (2.81%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.41%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (2.41%) Kibana
3 6 (2.41%) logstash
3 6 (2.41%) Progress Chef
3 6 (2.41%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.41%) Puppet
3 6 (2.41%) Terraform
4 2 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.40%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 38 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.44%) Oracle
3 18 (7.23%) Adobe
4 16 (6.43%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.61%) Informatica
6 7 (2.81%) SAP
7 6 (2.41%) Cadence
7 6 (2.41%) Splunk
7 6 (2.41%) Talend
8 5 (2.01%) Ab Initio
8 5 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.20%) Nokia
10 2 (0.80%) Cisco
10 2 (0.80%) IBM
11 1 (0.40%) Dell
11 1 (0.40%) HP
11 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.40%) Remedy
11 1 (0.40%) Software AG
11 1 (0.40%) TIBCO