XSD Contracts

XML Schema Definition (XSD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring XSD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XSD over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 574 647
Rank change year-on-year +44 +73 +144
Contract jobs citing XSD 4 11 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.025% 0.066%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.058% 0.12% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 18
10th Percentile £360 £410 £418
25th Percentile £361 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -37.92% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £386 £645 £638
90th Percentile £387 £725 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £373 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -37.92% +14.29% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XSD 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 6,951 9,250 12,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.68% 21.43% 22.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,713 6,334 9,213
10th Percentile £355 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 282 155
10th Percentile £27.50 £22.53 £28.50
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 £81.01 £74.40 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

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
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 6 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 30 June 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
UK excluding London +38 3 £373 -37.92% 21
England +48 2 £370 -38.33% 32
Wales - 2 £375 - 6
London +47 1 - - 18
Yorkshire - 1 £370 - 1
North of England - 1 £370 - 2

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 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Payments Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Payments Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) SOA Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
3 2 (50.00%) OAuth
3 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (50.00%) Swagger
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (25.00%) RAML
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (25.00%) Derivative
2 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (25.00%) PACS
2 1 (25.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) API Design
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) BPEL
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (25.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle