XML Contracts in Wales

XML
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring XML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XML 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 40 42 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +24
Contract jobs citing XML 3 2 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.02% 0.51% 4.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.25% 2.27% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile £224 - £202
25th Percentile £310 - £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £210 £450
Median % change year-on-year +115.71% -53.33% -28.00%
75th Percentile £460 - £494
90th Percentile £463 - £669
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -13.64% +0.92% +3.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

XML 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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 48 88 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 16.38% 22.28% 27.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 72 135
10th Percentile £234 £290 £313
25th Percentile £327 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £547 £531 £586
90th Percentile £596 £594 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £20.68 £15.38 -
25th Percentile £21.53 £15.66 -
Median hourly rate £25.63 £18.14 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.26% - -
75th Percentile £36.31 £21.29 -
90th Percentile £49.03 £22.77 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for XML in Wales

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for XML in Wales

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Wales

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in Wales

XML
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Wales region 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
Dyfed - 2 £460 -
South Wales +5 1 £167 -20.44% 7
XML
UK

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (66.67%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (33.33%) tSQLt
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Developer
2 2 (66.67%) SAP Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) EDI
1 2 (66.67%) IDoc
1 2 (66.67%) JDBC
1 2 (66.67%) JMS
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SAP PI
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (33.33%) FHIR
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) SOLID
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) ABAP
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HL7
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) RedGate