XMPP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (Jabber)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for XMPP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XMPP over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 428 490
Rank change year-on-year +44 +62 -68
Contract jobs citing XMPP 6 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.064% 0.056%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.35% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 16
10th Percentile - - £139
25th Percentile £203 £185 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £194 £170
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% +13.97% -20.00%
75th Percentile £208 £201 £195
90th Percentile - £400 £218
UK median daily rate £205 £198 £225
% change year-on-year +3.80% -12.22% -43.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £13.87 £13.16 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.40% - -
UK median hourly rate £14.48 £13.16 £36.00
% change year-on-year +10.03% -63.44% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

XMPP 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 3,243 4,275 6,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.83% 18.30% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,121 3,186 4,326
10th Percentile £325 £357 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 93 150
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.28 £20.70
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +24.27% +14.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.48
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.95 £75.39
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

XMPP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for XMPP in the UK excluding London

XMPP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for XMPP in the UK excluding London

XMPP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for XMPP in the UK excluding London

XMPP
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 XMPP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +15 4 £205 +7.89%
North of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
XMPP
UK

XMPP
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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Stack
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 3 (50.00%) DHCP
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) VLAN
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) WebEx
2 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (50.00%) Deskside Support
1 3 (50.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) BYOD
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 2 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) AppManager
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Nessus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Ivanti
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow