XMLA Contracts

XML for Analysis (XMLA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring XMLA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XMLA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing XMLA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.010% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 - -

All Programming Languages
UK

XMLA falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,965 12,846 20,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.04% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,755 9,122 15,089
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £768 £762 £777
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 487 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.70 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%

XMLA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XMLA in the UK

XMLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XMLA in the UK

XMLA
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XMLA within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East - 1 £350 -
England - 1 £350 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £350 -

XMLA
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Query
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft