XML Schema Definition (XSD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for XSD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XSD 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 584 669 780
Rank change year-on-year +85 +111 -152
Contract jobs citing XSD 14 50 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.084% 0.078%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.36% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 53
10th Percentile £410 £430 £427
25th Percentile £500 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £644 £675
90th Percentile £725 £650 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.25
25th Percentile - - £37.25
Median hourly rate - - £39.73
75th Percentile - - £42.48
90th Percentile - - £42.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £39.73

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XSD 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%

XSD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XSD in the UK

XSD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XSD in the UK

XSD
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for XSD in the UK

XSD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XSD in the UK

XSD
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSD 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 +111 12 £600 +4.35% 6
London +97 8 £640 +0.39% 4
Work from Home +114 4 - - 2
UK excluding London +34 4 £600 +14.29% 2
Midlands - 3 £600 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £600 - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

XSD
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 2 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) NetSuite
2 2 (14.29%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Boomi
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) iPaaS
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) OCI
3 1 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MySQL
1 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) DB2
2 2 (14.29%) MariaDB
2 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Arabic Language
3 2 (14.29%) French Language
3 2 (14.29%) German Language
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Japanese Language
3 2 (14.29%) Korean Language
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Spanish Language
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Data Modeller
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
1 4 (28.57%) Senior
1 4 (28.57%) Senior Data Modeller
2 3 (21.43%) Finance Modeller
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Integration Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) TIBCO Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) TIBCO Support
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Support
4 1 (7.14%) Database Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Pensions Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) XML
2 7 (50.00%) XSLT
3 6 (42.86%) JSON
4 5 (35.71%) SOAP
5 4 (28.57%) FpML
5 4 (28.57%) Middleware
6 3 (21.43%) REST
6 3 (21.43%) WSDL
7 2 (14.29%) TIBCO EMS
7 2 (14.29%) XML Schema
8 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
8 1 (7.14%) JAXB
8 1 (7.14%) React
8 1 (7.14%) Spring
8 1 (7.14%) Swing
8 1 (7.14%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (14.29%) Reference Data
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Derivative
2 1 (7.14%) Equities
2 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Unix
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Logical Data Model
4 3 (21.43%) API Management
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) ERP
4 3 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) CRM
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Domain Models
5 2 (14.29%) EAI
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Open Source
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) SOA
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) XPath
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) COREP
1 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
1 1 (7.14%) IFRS
1 1 (7.14%) IFRS 17
1 1 (7.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (7.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) IBM
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Salesforce
3 2 (14.29%) TIBCO
4 1 (7.14%) Bloomberg
4 1 (7.14%) Refinitiv
4 1 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) Sybase