XSD Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

XML Schema Definition (XSD)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring XSD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing XSD 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.039% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £638 £670
% change year-on-year -29.41% -4.85% +27.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 512 274 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.12% 18.73% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 161 175
10th Percentile £374 £381 £293
25th Percentile £450 £434 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +13.51% -11.90%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £685 £713 £688
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 4
10th Percentile £19.64 - £15.03
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £16.38
Median hourly rate £38.61 £27.50 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year +40.38% +58.27% -
75th Percentile £57.13 £28.75 £23.11
90th Percentile £77.28 - £33.19
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

XSD
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XSD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

XSD job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

XSD
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing XSD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing XSD

XSD
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSD within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. 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
Warwickshire - 1 £400 -
XSD
England

XSD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) RTCP
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) XCAP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#