XSLT Contracts

Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
UK

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 552 589
Rank change year-on-year +32 +37 +89
Contract jobs citing XSLT 28 33 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.076% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.35% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 71
10th Percentile £451 £368 £400
25th Percentile £459 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +3.55% -11.05%
75th Percentile £584 £738 £638
90th Percentile £655 - £807
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -23.25% +20.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.85 - -
Median hourly rate £21.90 - £50.00
75th Percentile £22.95 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.90 - £50.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XSLT 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 7,230 9,297 12,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 21.47% 22.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,889 6,373 9,354
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 283 161
10th Percentile £28.60 £22.55 £30.00
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 £80.30 £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%

XSLT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XSLT in the UK

XSLT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XSLT in the UK

XSLT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XSLT over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XSLT in the UK

XSLT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XSLT in the UK

XSLT
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSLT within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +51 23 £475 +18.75% 31
London +39 16 £500 +25.00% 15
Work from Home +34 16 £475 -15.56% 11
UK excluding London +44 8 £461 -23.25% 17
North of England +4 3 £455 -27.20% 2
North West - 3 £455 -
South East +42 2 £550 - 2
Wales - 2 £460 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 4

XSLT
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 7 (25.00%) WebLogic
2 6 (21.43%) NetWeaver
3 2 (7.14%) Confluence
3 2 (7.14%) IIS
3 2 (7.14%) JBoss
3 2 (7.14%) WebSphere
3 2 (7.14%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (3.57%) Apache
4 1 (3.57%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (3.57%) CICS
4 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle Assets
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle Payables
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Serverless
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) HTTP
2 1 (3.57%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.71%) DB2
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (7.14%) IMS/DB
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Ant
3 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.57%) Crucible
3 1 (3.57%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Maven
3 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (21.43%) Banking
5 4 (14.29%) General Ledger
6 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.57%) Front Office
7 1 (3.57%) Military
7 1 (3.57%) Police
7 1 (3.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (75.00%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Integration Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
3 6 (21.43%) SAP Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Report Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Support Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.57%) BizTalk Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) SAP Architect
6 1 (3.57%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Systems Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (89.29%) XML
2 14 (50.00%) SOAP
3 9 (32.14%) Middleware
3 9 (32.14%) REST
4 8 (28.57%) JDBC
4 8 (28.57%) JSON
5 7 (25.00%) EDI
5 7 (25.00%) IDoc
5 7 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (21.43%) .NET
6 6 (21.43%) JMS
6 6 (21.43%) RESTful
6 6 (21.43%) SAP PI
7 5 (17.86%) Web Services
8 4 (14.29%) OAuth
9 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
9 3 (10.71%) HTML
9 3 (10.71%) Node.js
9 3 (10.71%) OpenID
9 3 (10.71%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Legacy Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Virtual Team
2 3 (10.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.14%) N-Tier
3 2 (7.14%) PKI
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) DataPower
4 1 (3.57%) Equities
4 1 (3.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
2 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Agile
2 10 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
3 9 (32.14%) Analytics
4 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (25.00%) Data Extraction
6 6 (21.43%) Performance Testing
6 6 (21.43%) Scrum
6 6 (21.43%) SDLC
6 6 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven
8 4 (14.29%) Accounts Payable
8 4 (14.29%) Accounts Receivable
8 4 (14.29%) Cash Management
8 4 (14.29%) DevOps
8 4 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
8 4 (14.29%) Microservices
8 4 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (10.71%) Dashboard Development
9 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (10.71%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) SQL
2 14 (50.00%) Java
3 9 (32.14%) PL/SQL
4 6 (21.43%) ABAP
5 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
6 4 (14.29%) C#
6 4 (14.29%) Python
7 3 (10.71%) XPath
8 2 (7.14%) Groovy
8 2 (7.14%) Perl
8 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 2 (7.14%) REXX
8 2 (7.14%) Ruby
8 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
9 1 (3.57%) ActionScript
9 1 (3.57%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.57%) CA Endevor
2 1 (3.57%) Control-M
2 1 (3.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Oracle
2 9 (32.14%) SAP
3 5 (17.86%) IBM
4 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.14%) MuleSoft
5 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.57%) Bloomberg
6 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.57%) Workday