XML
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 212 189
Rank change year-on-year +44 -23 -41
Contract jobs citing XML 632 763 1,364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.46% 1.28% 1.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.12% 5.48% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 496 959
10th Percentile £408 £375 £400
25th Percentile £470 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £743 £781 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 17 29
10th Percentile - £48.00 £36.52
25th Percentile £43.00 £70.00 £40.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +52.63% -18.10%
75th Percentile £51.25 £75.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.00 - £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £72.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -39.31% +52.63% -13.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the UK

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML.

Daily rate trend for XML in the UK

XML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the UK

XML
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing XML over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +61 551 £550 - 182
London +53 325 £550 -3.34% 90
Work from Home +93 274 £534 +1.71% 87
UK excluding London +34 240 £525 +5.00% 102
East of England +54 58 £475 -2.56% 8
North of England +2 53 £534 -7.13% 11
South West +49 49 £550 +14.58% 11
South East -3 37 £450 -10.00% 32
North West 0 36 £534 -7.49% 7
Scotland +45 23 £600 +23.08% 7
Yorkshire +17 16 £645 +22.86% 4
Midlands -11 16 £600 +20.00% 24
West Midlands +10 12 £600 +23.97% 18
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 4
North East +10 5 £423 -41.25%
East Midlands +4 4 £300 -40.00% 6
Wales -11 2 £210 -53.33% 6

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 35 (5.54%) Confluence
2 15 (2.37%) Apache
3 14 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.79%) IIS
5 5 (0.79%) MQSeries
5 5 (0.79%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.63%) CMS
7 3 (0.47%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.47%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.47%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.32%) JBoss
8 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.32%) WildFly
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.16%) MS Visio
3 19 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.90%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.32%) MadCap Flare
7 2 (0.32%) Mingle
8 1 (0.16%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.16%) Blender
8 1 (0.16%) InDesign
8 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (1.90%) Salesforce CRM
2 8 (1.27%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.95%) ION MarketView
4 5 (0.79%) Adobe Campaign
4 5 (0.79%) Endur
5 4 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.63%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.63%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.63%) SAP Hybris
6 3 (0.47%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.47%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.32%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.32%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
8 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 212 (33.54%) Azure
2 127 (20.09%) Azure DevOps
3 64 (10.13%) Entra ID
4 57 (9.02%) GitHub
5 44 (6.96%) Power Platform
6 42 (6.65%) AWS
6 42 (6.65%) Serverless
7 34 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 27 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (4.11%) Azure API Management
9 26 (4.11%) PowerApps
10 24 (3.80%) GCP
11 23 (3.64%) Power Automate
12 22 (3.48%) Azure Functions
13 21 (3.32%) Azure Key Vault
14 20 (3.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 20 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (2.53%) Azure Stack
16 15 (2.37%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.70%) BGP
1 36 (5.70%) MPLS
2 25 (3.96%) Firewall
3 22 (3.48%) HTTP
3 22 (3.48%) RSVP
4 20 (3.16%) HSRP
4 20 (3.16%) SNMP
4 20 (3.16%) VPLS
5 18 (2.85%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (2.69%) IPv4
6 17 (2.69%) TCP/IP
6 17 (2.69%) VRRP
7 16 (2.53%) Cisco IOS
7 16 (2.53%) DNS
7 16 (2.53%) IOS XR
8 13 (2.06%) VPN
9 12 (1.90%) FIX Connectivity
10 10 (1.58%) 5G
10 10 (1.58%) Network Security
11 9 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (25.47%) SQL Server
2 48 (7.59%) Oracle Reports
3 43 (6.80%) MySQL
4 38 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (4.59%) Relational Database
6 28 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (4.27%) Power BI
8 26 (4.11%) NoSQL
9 21 (3.32%) MongoDB
9 21 (3.32%) RDBMS
10 17 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (2.53%) Big Data
11 16 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (2.06%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.58%) SQLite
15 8 (1.27%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.27%) Redis
16 7 (1.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 81 (12.82%) Git
2 61 (9.65%) JIRA
3 30 (4.75%) Jenkins
3 30 (4.75%) SpecFlow
3 30 (4.75%) Visual Studio
4 21 (3.32%) Selenium
5 19 (3.01%) GitLab
6 14 (2.22%) JUnit
7 13 (2.06%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.90%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.90%) WebDriver
9 11 (1.74%) JMeter
9 11 (1.74%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.42%) SoapUI
11 8 (1.27%) Visual Studio Team System
12 7 (1.11%) Maven
12 7 (1.11%) Postman
13 6 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.95%) CircleCI
General
1 112 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 111 (17.56%) Finance
3 69 (10.92%) Public Sector
4 62 (9.81%) Publishing
5 56 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (4.91%) Financial Institution
7 27 (4.27%) Banking
8 19 (3.01%) Telecoms
9 18 (2.85%) Front Office
10 13 (2.06%) Marketing
11 12 (1.90%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.90%) Back Office
11 12 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.27%) Local Government
14 7 (1.11%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.11%) Retail
15 5 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 197 (31.17%) Developer
2 111 (17.56%) Senior
3 81 (12.82%) Author
3 81 (12.82%) Technical Author
4 75 (11.87%) Architect
4 75 (11.87%) Senior Developer
5 46 (7.28%) Analyst
6 44 (6.96%) Software Developer
7 35 (5.54%) Senior Software Developer
8 30 (4.75%) Software Engineer
9 29 (4.59%) Lead
10 27 (4.27%) Backend Developer
11 26 (4.11%) Consultant
12 25 (3.96%) Azure Developer
13 24 (3.80%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.48%) Data Architect
15 20 (3.16%) Java Developer
16 17 (2.69%) C# Developer
16 17 (2.69%) Network Engineer
16 17 (2.69%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (38.13%) JSON
2 124 (19.62%) .NET
3 110 (17.41%) SOAP
4 108 (17.09%) HTML
5 97 (15.35%) REST
6 85 (13.45%) Web Services
7 68 (10.76%) SGML
8 58 (9.18%) .NET Framework
9 55 (8.70%) LDAP
10 51 (8.07%) Servlets
11 50 (7.91%) JSP
12 47 (7.44%) CSS
13 46 (7.28%) AngularJS
13 46 (7.28%) SPML
14 45 (7.12%) SailPoint
15 38 (6.01%) RESTful
16 36 (5.70%) NETCONF
16 36 (5.70%) YANG
17 35 (5.54%) .NET Core
18 28 (4.43%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.34%) Product Ownership
2 36 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 30 (4.75%) Data Structures
4 24 (3.80%) Distributed Architecture
5 17 (2.69%) Reference Data
6 16 (2.53%) Derivative
7 13 (2.06%) Animation
7 13 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.06%) Fixed Income
7 13 (2.06%) Mainframe
8 12 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.58%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.27%) Contactless
10 8 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.95%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.95%) CMDB
11 6 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (0.95%) PKI
12 5 (0.79%) Verilog
12 5 (0.79%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.65%) Unix
2 38 (6.01%) Windows
3 37 (5.85%) Linux
4 11 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.58%) Android
6 5 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.32%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) AIX
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Solaris
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (37.34%) Agile
2 207 (32.75%) DevOps
3 142 (22.47%) Scrum
4 139 (21.99%) CI/CD
5 71 (11.23%) Data Modelling
6 68 (10.76%) Test Automation
7 65 (10.28%) B2C
8 60 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (8.86%) Desktop Publishing
10 50 (7.91%) Microservices
11 48 (7.59%) Software Engineering
12 45 (7.12%) RBAC
13 42 (6.65%) Mentoring
14 41 (6.49%) Business Intelligence
15 39 (6.17%) Migration
16 38 (6.01%) Data Management
17 37 (5.85%) Continuous Integration
18 36 (5.70%) SDLC
19 35 (5.54%) Analytics
19 35 (5.54%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 189 (29.91%) SQL
2 153 (24.21%) C#
3 139 (21.99%) JavaScript
4 122 (19.30%) PowerShell
5 115 (18.20%) Java
6 72 (11.39%) Python
7 37 (5.85%) Bicep
8 20 (3.16%) PL/SQL
9 17 (2.69%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.69%) XPath
10 16 (2.53%) Perl
11 13 (2.06%) C
12 12 (1.90%) Apex Code
12 12 (1.90%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.74%) C++
13 11 (1.74%) SOQL
14 10 (1.58%) Bash
15 9 (1.42%) ABAP
15 9 (1.42%) Go
16 7 (1.11%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 59 (9.34%) Security Cleared
2 58 (9.18%) Degree
2 58 (9.18%) HND
3 56 (8.86%) HNC
4 30 (4.75%) SC Cleared
5 22 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.42%) CCIE
7 9 (1.42%) CCIE Service Provider
8 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.11%) CCNP
10 6 (0.95%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.63%) CISSP
11 4 (0.63%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.63%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.47%) ISEB
12 3 (0.47%) SANS
12 3 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.60%) QA
2 22 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.90%) Def Stans
4 9 (1.42%) Dodd-Frank
4 9 (1.42%) EMIR
4 9 (1.42%) GDPR
4 9 (1.42%) MiFID
5 7 (1.11%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.95%) NCSC
7 5 (0.79%) GRC
8 4 (0.63%) GAAP
8 4 (0.63%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.47%) HL7
10 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.32%) NIST
10 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.32%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 116 (18.35%) Active Directory
2 45 (7.12%) IAG
3 41 (6.49%) ACF2
3 41 (6.49%) RACF
4 21 (3.32%) Docker
5 18 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.63%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.47%) vCloud
7 3 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.47%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Cronacle
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (3.80%) Ansible
2 21 (3.32%) Terraform
3 11 (1.74%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.42%) Kibana
4 9 (1.42%) logstash
4 9 (1.42%) Progress Chef
4 9 (1.42%) Puppet
5 8 (1.27%) Grafana
5 8 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.11%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (0.95%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.79%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.63%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.47%) Autotask
10 3 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.32%) Control-M
11 2 (0.32%) TIBCO Hawk
12 1 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 160 (25.32%) Microsoft
2 88 (13.92%) Oracle
3 55 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 34 (5.38%) Nokia
5 33 (5.22%) Sybase
6 28 (4.43%) SAP
7 27 (4.27%) Salesforce
8 26 (4.11%) Cisco
9 24 (3.80%) Adobe
10 16 (2.53%) CyberArk
11 15 (2.37%) Fortinet
12 13 (2.06%) BeyondTrust
12 13 (2.06%) Bloomberg
12 13 (2.06%) ION Trading
13 12 (1.90%) MarketAxess
13 12 (1.90%) Tradeweb
14 11 (1.74%) IBM
15 10 (1.58%) Informatica
16 9 (1.42%) F5
16 9 (1.42%) Talend