XQuery Contracts

XQuery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring XQuery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XQuery 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 518 575 704
Rank change year-on-year +57 +129 +141
Contract jobs citing XQuery 2 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.016% 0.023%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.020% 0.054% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £473
25th Percentile - - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile - - £725
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £21.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £21.50

All Programming Languages
UK

XQuery 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%

XQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XQuery in the UK

XQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XQuery in the UK

XQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XQuery in the UK

XQuery
Top 1 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XQuery 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
Work from Home - 2 - - 3

XQuery
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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Publishing
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality