XML Contracts

XML
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 167 210
Rank change year-on-year -95 +43 -22
Contract jobs citing XML 291 641 762
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 1.47% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.39% 7.15% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 350 495
10th Percentile £359 £408 £375
25th Percentile £421 £471 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £650 £743 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 73 17
10th Percentile £23.93 - £48.00
25th Percentile £27.00 - £70.00
Median hourly rate £27.38 £43.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -40.69% +52.63%
75th Percentile £77.42 £51.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £84.20 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.83 £43.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -42.26% -40.69% +52.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 16 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 30 April 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
England -118 216 £475 -13.64% 242
UK excluding London -33 126 £450 -14.29% 148
London -95 124 £525 -4.59% 117
Work from Home -75 103 £474 -11.28% 168
North of England +15 40 £449 -15.92% 28
South East +44 38 £400 -11.11% 38
North West +9 34 £448 -16.20% 13
Scotland +4 18 £494 -17.67% 11
Northern Ireland -1 13 £363 - 5
Midlands +18 10 £550 -8.33% 24
West Midlands +13 9 £550 -8.33% 9
Yorkshire +5 6 £550 -14.73% 13
East of England -24 4 £488 +2.63% 16
Wales +6 3 £453 +115.71% 10
South West -1 3 £375 -31.82% 19
East Midlands +7 1 £358 +19.33% 15

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 13 (4.47%) Anypoint
1 13 (4.47%) Confluence
1 13 (4.47%) WebLogic
2 12 (4.12%) Mule
3 10 (3.44%) Apache
4 9 (3.09%) MQSeries
5 8 (2.75%) WebSphere
6 7 (2.41%) NetWeaver
7 5 (1.72%) Camunda
7 5 (1.72%) Moodle
7 5 (1.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (1.37%) Mule ESB
9 3 (1.03%) Alfresco
9 3 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.69%) CICS
10 2 (0.69%) IIS
10 2 (0.69%) JBoss
10 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (3.78%) Siemens NX
2 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.06%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.69%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 13 (4.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (4.12%) Teamcenter
3 7 (2.41%) Oracle Assets
3 7 (2.41%) Oracle Cash Management
3 7 (2.41%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (2.41%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (2.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (1.37%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 3 (1.03%) iTrent
7 2 (0.69%) BASE24
7 2 (0.69%) Misys Midas
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle 11i
7 2 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.34%) Actimize
8 1 (0.34%) Maximo
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle iRecruitment
8 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 61 (20.96%) Azure
2 42 (14.43%) AWS
3 26 (8.93%) Serverless
4 16 (5.50%) Power Platform
4 16 (5.50%) SaaS
5 13 (4.47%) PowerApps
6 12 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
6 12 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (3.44%) Power Automate
9 9 (3.09%) GCP
10 8 (2.75%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.75%) GitHub
11 7 (2.41%) OCI
12 6 (2.06%) Azure API Management
13 5 (1.72%) Boomi
13 5 (1.72%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.72%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.93%) HTTP
2 9 (3.09%) SSL
3 5 (1.72%) VPN
4 4 (1.37%) BGP
4 4 (1.37%) Network Security
4 4 (1.37%) SNMP
4 4 (1.37%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.03%) DNS
5 3 (1.03%) Firewall
5 3 (1.03%) LAN
5 3 (1.03%) LTE
5 3 (1.03%) MPLS
5 3 (1.03%) NAS
5 3 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.03%) SSH
5 3 (1.03%) Telnet
5 3 (1.03%) WAN
6 2 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.69%) MQTT
6 2 (0.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.37%) SQL Server
2 34 (11.68%) Relational Database
3 30 (10.31%) MongoDB
4 29 (9.97%) NoSQL
5 28 (9.62%) Oracle Reports
6 26 (8.93%) MySQL
7 25 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (7.56%) RDBMS
9 14 (4.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (3.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 9 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.75%) Oracle Database
13 5 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (1.37%) DB2
14 4 (1.37%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.37%) GIS
14 4 (1.37%) Redis
15 3 (1.03%) Data Mining
15 3 (1.03%) Power BI
15 3 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (12.03%) Git
2 27 (9.28%) JIRA
3 15 (5.15%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.81%) Postman
5 11 (3.78%) SoapUI
6 10 (3.44%) JUnit
7 8 (2.75%) GitLab
8 7 (2.41%) Selenium
9 6 (2.06%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.06%) Maven
9 6 (2.06%) Toad
10 5 (1.72%) PHPUnit
10 5 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (1.03%) Ant
11 3 (1.03%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.03%) MSTest
11 3 (1.03%) NUnit
11 3 (1.03%) Ranorex
11 3 (1.03%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (25.77%) Finance
2 67 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 49 (16.84%) Banking
4 31 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (9.97%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.15%) Front Office
7 11 (3.78%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.41%) General Ledger
9 5 (1.72%) Back Office
9 5 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.37%) Marketing
10 4 (1.37%) Private Banking
11 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.03%) Publishing
11 3 (1.03%) Retail
12 2 (0.69%) Automotive
12 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.69%) Law
12 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (44.67%) Developer
2 36 (12.37%) Senior
3 32 (11.00%) Architect
4 29 (9.97%) Analyst
5 21 (7.22%) Java Developer
5 21 (7.22%) Senior Developer
6 15 (5.15%) ServiceNow Developer
7 13 (4.47%) DBA
7 13 (4.47%) MuleSoft Developer
8 12 (4.12%) Integration Developer
8 12 (4.12%) Oracle Developer
9 11 (3.78%) Applications Engineer
9 11 (3.78%) Business Analyst
9 11 (3.78%) Configuration Engineer
9 11 (3.78%) Lead
10 10 (3.44%) SAP Developer
10 10 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.44%) Test Analyst
11 9 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (3.09%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (49.14%) JSON
2 80 (27.49%) SOAP
3 64 (21.99%) REST
4 58 (19.93%) HTML
5 53 (18.21%) Web Services
6 44 (15.12%) RESTful
7 40 (13.75%) CSS
8 31 (10.65%) .NET
9 28 (9.62%) XSLT
10 25 (8.59%) Kafka
11 24 (8.25%) AngularJS
12 19 (6.53%) Middleware
13 17 (5.84%) .NET Framework
13 17 (5.84%) RAML
13 17 (5.84%) React
14 16 (5.50%) Spring Boot
15 14 (4.81%) ASP.NET Web API
15 14 (4.81%) Spring
15 14 (4.81%) WCF
16 13 (4.47%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.81%) Derivative
1 14 (4.81%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.78%) CMDB
2 11 (3.78%) Virtual Team
3 9 (3.09%) Fixed Income
4 8 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.75%) Equities
4 8 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.75%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.75%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.75%) PKI
4 8 (2.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 7 (2.41%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.41%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (2.41%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.72%) e-Learning
6 5 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.72%) iSeries
6 5 (1.72%) Replication
6 5 (1.72%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.22%) Unix
2 17 (5.84%) Linux
2 17 (5.84%) Windows
3 3 (1.03%) AIX
4 2 (0.69%) CentOS
4 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (34.36%) Agile
2 49 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (14.43%) DevOps
4 31 (10.65%) Test Automation
4 31 (10.65%) User Experience
5 30 (10.31%) CI/CD
6 28 (9.62%) Scrum
7 27 (9.28%) Analytics
7 27 (9.28%) Microservices
8 26 (8.93%) Migration
8 26 (8.93%) SDLC
9 25 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (8.59%) ITSM
9 25 (8.59%) Mentoring
10 24 (8.25%) API Management
11 23 (7.90%) Data Modelling
12 22 (7.56%) Code Quality
13 20 (6.87%) Performance Optimisation
13 20 (6.87%) Workflow
14 18 (6.19%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 118 (40.55%) SQL
2 76 (26.12%) Java
3 69 (23.71%) JavaScript
4 42 (14.43%) Python
5 36 (12.37%) C#
6 29 (9.97%) PL/SQL
7 14 (4.81%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.12%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.78%) DataWeave
10 10 (3.44%) ABAP
11 9 (3.09%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.75%) Ruby
13 7 (2.41%) Perl
14 5 (1.72%) ActionScript
14 5 (1.72%) ActionScript 2.0
14 5 (1.72%) PHP
14 5 (1.72%) RPG
15 4 (1.37%) C
15 4 (1.37%) C++
15 4 (1.37%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 52 (17.87%) Security Cleared
2 46 (15.81%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.87%) Degree
4 5 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.37%) ISEB
5 4 (1.37%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.69%) OCP
7 2 (0.69%) Sun Certification
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.34%) CCDP
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.50%) QA
2 15 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.37%) GRC
3 4 (1.37%) HL7
3 4 (1.37%) SEPA
3 4 (1.37%) SLA
4 3 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.69%) DICOM
5 2 (0.69%) EMIR
5 2 (0.69%) GDPR
5 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.69%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.69%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) GxP
6 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (7.90%) Docker
2 10 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.03%) FreeRADIUS
3 3 (1.03%) iptables
4 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) vSphere
4 1 (0.34%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 23 (7.90%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.41%) CloudHub
2 7 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.37%) Ansible
3 4 (1.37%) Grafana
3 4 (1.37%) Istio
4 3 (1.03%) Cacti
4 3 (1.03%) Control-M
4 3 (1.03%) Nagios
4 3 (1.03%) Netcool
4 3 (1.03%) Proxmox
4 3 (1.03%) Puppet
4 3 (1.03%) ZABBIX
5 2 (0.69%) Kibana
5 2 (0.69%) Terraform
6 1 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.34%) Graylog
6 1 (0.34%) logstash
6 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 76 (26.12%) Oracle
2 38 (13.06%) Microsoft
3 36 (12.37%) ServiceNow
4 29 (9.97%) SAP
5 21 (7.22%) MuleSoft
6 17 (5.84%) IBM
7 12 (4.12%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.41%) TIBCO
9 6 (2.06%) Pega
9 6 (2.06%) Splunk
10 5 (1.72%) Cisco
10 5 (1.72%) Cognos
10 5 (1.72%) Informatica
10 5 (1.72%) Sybase
10 5 (1.72%) webMethods
11 4 (1.37%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.37%) CODA
11 4 (1.37%) Dell
11 4 (1.37%) Murex
11 4 (1.37%) Nokia
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