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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 170 182
Rank change year-on-year -57 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing XML 360 613 799
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 1.41% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.98% 6.60% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 323 520
10th Percentile £375 £376 £400
25th Percentile £430 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £575 £616 £650
90th Percentile £628 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 69 22
10th Percentile £26.39 - £50.50
25th Percentile £27.03 - £67.19
Median hourly rate £34.75 £43.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% -38.57% +47.37%
75th Percentile £58.75 £51.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £89.25 £85.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £43.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.58% -38.57% +47.37%

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 7,227 9,292 12,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.72% 21.44% 22.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,889 6,370 9,338
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £651 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 283 160
10th Percentile £28.44 £22.55 £29.75
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.41 £74.35 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

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 5 July 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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 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 -74 284 £485 -6.73% 992
UK excluding London -24 163 £455 -9.00% 626
London -65 149 £545 +3.78% 444
Work from Home -63 120 £475 -5.00% 519
North of England +12 49 £450 -18.18% 116
South East +34 46 £475 +11.76% 154
North West +22 42 £450 -11.76% 55
Midlands -4 17 £430 -22.70% 111
West Midlands -4 14 £500 -13.98% 65
Scotland 0 13 £559 +11.70% 32
Wales +17 12 £394 +87.50% 28
South West +4 11 £375 -31.82% 97
East of England -30 10 £550 +10.00% 76
Northern Ireland -9 7 £475 - 23
Yorkshire -8 6 £525 -16.00% 46
East Midlands +3 3 £314 -13.38% 45
North East - 1 £200 - 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 18 (5.00%) Apache
2 17 (4.72%) Anypoint
3 15 (4.17%) MQSeries
3 15 (4.17%) WebLogic
4 14 (3.89%) Confluence
4 14 (3.89%) Mule
5 11 (3.06%) WebSphere
6 10 (2.78%) IIS
7 8 (2.22%) Camunda
8 7 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (1.67%) Alfresco
9 6 (1.67%) NetWeaver
10 5 (1.39%) Moodle
11 4 (1.11%) Mule ESB
12 3 (0.83%) JBoss
12 3 (0.83%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.56%) CICS
13 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (4.72%) Siemens NX
2 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.39%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 18 (5.00%) Teamcenter
2 12 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.94%) Maximo
3 7 (1.94%) Oracle Assets
3 7 (1.94%) Oracle Cash Management
3 7 (1.94%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (1.94%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (1.94%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (1.11%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle 11i
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle BPM
8 2 (0.56%) Misys Midas
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 97 (26.94%) Azure
2 56 (15.56%) AWS
3 28 (7.78%) Serverless
4 27 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (5.00%) GitHub
5 18 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 17 (4.72%) GCP
6 17 (4.72%) SaaS
7 16 (4.44%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
8 14 (3.89%) PowerApps
9 12 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (2.78%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (2.22%) Entra ID
12 7 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.94%) Nutanix
13 6 (1.67%) Azure API Management
13 6 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (1.39%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.33%) HTTP
2 9 (2.50%) SSL
3 7 (1.94%) Firewall
4 6 (1.67%) LAN
5 5 (1.39%) NFC
5 5 (1.39%) PPP
5 5 (1.39%) VPN
6 4 (1.11%) BGP
6 4 (1.11%) DNS
6 4 (1.11%) Network Security
6 4 (1.11%) SNMP
6 4 (1.11%) WAN
6 4 (1.11%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.83%) AMQP
7 3 (0.83%) DSL
7 3 (0.83%) Internet
7 3 (0.83%) MPLS
7 3 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.83%) SSH
7 3 (0.83%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (15.28%) SQL Server
2 42 (11.67%) Relational Database
3 32 (8.89%) MongoDB
4 27 (7.50%) MySQL
4 27 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (6.11%) Oracle Reports
6 21 (5.83%) NoSQL
7 17 (4.72%) RDBMS
8 16 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (3.61%) Oracle Database
10 12 (3.33%) DB2
10 12 (3.33%) Redis
11 8 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.67%) GIS
13 6 (1.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (1.39%) DynamoDB
14 5 (1.39%) Power BI
15 4 (1.11%) Big Data
15 4 (1.11%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 51 (14.17%) Git
2 40 (11.11%) JIRA
3 28 (7.78%) Jenkins
4 20 (5.56%) SoapUI
5 19 (5.28%) Postman
6 16 (4.44%) JUnit
7 14 (3.89%) GitLab
8 8 (2.22%) Eclipse
9 7 (1.94%) Ant
9 7 (1.94%) Maven
9 7 (1.94%) Toad
9 7 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.67%) PVCS
10 6 (1.67%) Selenium
10 6 (1.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (1.39%) PHPUnit
11 5 (1.39%) Valgrind
12 4 (1.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.11%) Browser DevTools
12 4 (1.11%) Gradle
General
1 91 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 83 (23.06%) Finance
3 50 (13.89%) Banking
4 48 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.78%) Front Office
6 10 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.50%) General Ledger
7 9 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.67%) Back Office
8 6 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.11%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.56%) Marketing
10 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.56%) Retail
10 2 (0.56%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.56%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 147 (40.83%) Developer
2 57 (15.83%) Senior
3 43 (11.94%) Analyst
4 37 (10.28%) Architect
5 27 (7.50%) Senior Developer
6 19 (5.28%) Applications Engineer
7 18 (5.00%) Consultant
7 18 (5.00%) Java Developer
8 17 (4.72%) Configuration Engineer
9 16 (4.44%) Business Analyst
10 14 (3.89%) Integration Developer
10 14 (3.89%) Test Analyst
11 13 (3.61%) Software Engineer
12 12 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (3.33%) MuleSoft Developer
13 11 (3.06%) DBA
14 10 (2.78%) Lead
14 10 (2.78%) Tester
15 9 (2.50%) Oracle Developer
15 9 (2.50%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (48.06%) JSON
2 109 (30.28%) SOAP
3 87 (24.17%) REST
4 69 (19.17%) HTML
5 58 (16.11%) Web Services
6 44 (12.22%) RESTful
7 42 (11.67%) CSS
8 37 (10.28%) .NET
9 33 (9.17%) Kafka
10 28 (7.78%) AngularJS
11 26 (7.22%) Spring
12 25 (6.94%) React
12 25 (6.94%) XSLT
13 24 (6.67%) Middleware
14 17 (4.72%) .NET Framework
14 17 (4.72%) Spring Boot
14 17 (4.72%) Swagger
15 16 (4.44%) JMS
15 16 (4.44%) RAML
16 15 (4.17%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.17%) Virtual Team
2 13 (3.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 10 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (2.78%) PKI
3 10 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.50%) CMDB
4 9 (2.50%) Fixed Income
4 9 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.22%) Derivative
5 8 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (2.22%) Replication
6 7 (1.94%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.67%) DTCC
7 6 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.56%) Windows
2 31 (8.61%) Linux
3 26 (7.22%) Unix
4 8 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.39%) AIX
5 5 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.11%) Android
6 4 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.56%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (36.11%) Agile
2 73 (20.28%) DevOps
3 65 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (15.83%) Test Automation
5 55 (15.28%) CI/CD
6 43 (11.94%) Scrum
7 36 (10.00%) User Experience
8 35 (9.72%) Mentoring
9 34 (9.44%) Microservices
9 34 (9.44%) SDLC
10 31 (8.61%) API Management
11 28 (7.78%) Workflow
12 27 (7.50%) Analytics
12 27 (7.50%) User Acceptance Testing
13 25 (6.94%) ETL
14 24 (6.67%) ITSM
14 24 (6.67%) Migration
14 24 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
15 23 (6.39%) Software Testing
16 22 (6.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 139 (38.61%) SQL
2 95 (26.39%) Java
3 87 (24.17%) JavaScript
4 65 (18.06%) Python
5 46 (12.78%) C#
6 29 (8.06%) PL/SQL
7 20 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.89%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.61%) C++
9 13 (3.61%) DataWeave
10 12 (3.33%) ABAP
10 12 (3.33%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.50%) C
12 8 (2.22%) Perl
12 8 (2.22%) RPG
12 8 (2.22%) Ruby
13 7 (1.94%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.39%) PHP
15 4 (1.11%) ActionScript
15 4 (1.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 85 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 69 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.78%) Degree
4 12 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.78%) ISEB
5 10 (2.78%) ISTQB
6 6 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.56%) OCP
8 2 (0.56%) Sun Certification
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.28%) CCDP
9 1 (0.28%) CCNP
9 1 (0.28%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.50%) QA
2 25 (6.94%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.06%) SEPA
4 6 (1.67%) EMIR
4 6 (1.67%) MiFID
5 5 (1.39%) HL7
5 5 (1.39%) SLA
6 3 (0.83%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.83%) WCAG
7 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.56%) DICOM
7 2 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.56%) GAAP
7 2 (0.56%) GDPR
7 2 (0.56%) GxP
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (9.44%) Docker
2 10 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.83%) FreeRADIUS
4 3 (0.83%) iptables
5 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.61%) Ansible
3 8 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.94%) Control-M
5 6 (1.67%) CloudHub
5 6 (1.67%) Terraform
6 4 (1.11%) Grafana
6 4 (1.11%) Istio
7 3 (0.83%) Cacti
7 3 (0.83%) Nagios
7 3 (0.83%) Netcool
7 3 (0.83%) Proxmox
7 3 (0.83%) Puppet
7 3 (0.83%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.56%) Kibana
8 2 (0.56%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.28%) Graylog
9 1 (0.28%) logstash
9 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 76 (21.11%) Oracle
2 59 (16.39%) Microsoft
3 36 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 35 (9.72%) SAP
5 31 (8.61%) IBM
6 25 (6.94%) MuleSoft
7 21 (5.83%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.50%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.94%) Informatica
9 7 (1.94%) Splunk
9 7 (1.94%) TIBCO
9 7 (1.94%) VMware
10 6 (1.67%) Cisco
10 6 (1.67%) Sybase
10 6 (1.67%) webMethods
11 5 (1.39%) Blue Prism
11 5 (1.39%) Citrix
11 5 (1.39%) Cognos
11 5 (1.39%) Databricks
11 5 (1.39%) Dell