JAXB Contract Job Trends

Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JAXB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 524 575
Rank change year-on-year -98 +51 +122
Contract jobs citing JAXB 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.007% 0.009%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.021% 0.030% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £624 -
25th Percentile £550 £633 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £656 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +11.70% +20.82%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £613
90th Percentile - £673 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £656 -
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JAXB 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,433 6,656 8,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.15% 22.66% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,271 4,567 6,211
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £780 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 111 222
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.11 £20.82
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.96 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.90%

JAXB
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JAXB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

JAXB job vacancy trend in the UK

JAXB
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JAXB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JAXB

JAXB
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JAXB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JAXB

JAXB
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JAXB within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2026. 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
England -108 2 £600 -8.57% 2
South East -63 1 £600 -8.57% 1
UK excluding London -87 1 £600 -8.57% 1
London - 1 £600 - 2

JAXB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker