XML Contracts with Work from Home Options

XML
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for XML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XML over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 215 193
Rank change year-on-year +101 -22 -56
Contract jobs citing XML 275 281 632
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.82% 1.12% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.56% 4.43% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 183 440
10th Percentile £375 £384 £381
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £790 £738
UK median daily rate £539 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -2.05% +2.80% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 12 13
10th Percentile - £63.25 £42.00
25th Percentile - £70.94 £46.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £73.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.69% +47.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £51.25 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -40.69% +49.48% -16.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

XML 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 WFH option and 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 3,636 6,344 12,982
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.12% 25.29% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,551 4,723 9,580
10th Percentile £331 £399 £400
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 116
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

XML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

XML trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing XML.

XML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

XML
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing XML over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

XML daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

XML
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing XML.

XML hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

XML
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing XML over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

XML hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (5.45%) Confluence
2 6 (2.18%) Apache
2 6 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.09%) IIS
4 3 (1.09%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.09%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.73%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) Moodle
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) WildFly
Applications
1 18 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.27%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.73%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.36%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.36%) Blender
5 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
5 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.09%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (0.73%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.73%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.73%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.73%) Endur
3 2 (0.73%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.73%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.73%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.73%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 100 (36.36%) Azure
2 71 (25.82%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (11.27%) GitHub
4 27 (9.82%) Azure Logic Apps
5 24 (8.73%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (8.00%) Azure API Management
6 22 (8.00%) Entra ID
7 19 (6.91%) Serverless
8 16 (5.82%) Power Platform
9 13 (4.73%) PowerApps
10 12 (4.36%) Power Automate
11 11 (4.00%) AWS
11 11 (4.00%) Azure Stack
12 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (3.27%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (2.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (2.91%) Azure Functions
15 7 (2.55%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
17 4 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.91%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.18%) HTTP
3 5 (1.82%) Firewall
4 4 (1.45%) DNS
4 4 (1.45%) FIX Connectivity
4 4 (1.45%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) 5G
5 1 (0.36%) BGP
5 1 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.36%) LAN
5 1 (0.36%) MPLS
5 1 (0.36%) NFC
5 1 (0.36%) PPP
5 1 (0.36%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (26.55%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.91%) Oracle Reports
3 21 (7.64%) MySQL
4 20 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (5.09%) MongoDB
5 14 (5.09%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.09%) Relational Database
6 13 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (4.36%) RDBMS
8 11 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.55%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.18%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.18%) Power BI
11 5 (1.82%) Big Data
11 5 (1.82%) DB2
11 5 (1.82%) Redis
11 5 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.82%) SQLite
12 4 (1.45%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 26 (9.45%) Git
2 24 (8.73%) JIRA
3 15 (5.45%) Visual Studio
4 14 (5.09%) SpecFlow
5 10 (3.64%) Jenkins
6 9 (3.27%) GitLab
6 9 (3.27%) Selenium
7 7 (2.55%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.82%) JMeter
8 5 (1.82%) MSI
8 5 (1.82%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.82%) WiX
9 4 (1.45%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.45%) JUnit
9 4 (1.45%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.45%) Visual Studio Team System
9 4 (1.45%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (1.09%) Subversion
General
1 56 (20.36%) Finance
2 46 (16.73%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.82%) Publishing
4 29 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.27%) Banking
8 7 (2.55%) Front Office
8 7 (2.55%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.18%) Marketing
10 5 (1.82%) Retail
11 4 (1.45%) Back Office
12 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.73%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.73%) French Language
13 2 (0.73%) German Language
13 2 (0.73%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.73%) Korean Language
13 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 89 (32.36%) Developer
2 57 (20.73%) Senior
3 47 (17.09%) Author
3 47 (17.09%) Technical Author
4 45 (16.36%) Senior Developer
5 24 (8.73%) Architect
6 22 (8.00%) Software Developer
7 21 (7.64%) Analyst
7 21 (7.64%) Lead
8 18 (6.55%) Senior Software Developer
9 17 (6.18%) Software Engineer
10 16 (5.82%) Azure Developer
11 13 (4.73%) Consultant
12 12 (4.36%) Data Architect
13 11 (4.00%) Backend Developer
13 11 (4.00%) C# Developer
14 10 (3.64%) DBA
14 10 (3.64%) PostgreSQL DBA
15 9 (3.27%) SailPoint Developer
15 9 (3.27%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (31.27%) JSON
2 55 (20.00%) .NET
3 48 (17.45%) HTML
3 48 (17.45%) SOAP
4 38 (13.82%) REST
5 35 (12.73%) SGML
6 34 (12.36%) Web Services
7 22 (8.00%) .NET Framework
7 22 (8.00%) CSS
7 22 (8.00%) Servlets
8 21 (7.64%) JSP
9 20 (7.27%) LDAP
10 17 (6.18%) SailPoint
10 17 (6.18%) SPML
11 16 (5.82%) RESTful
12 15 (5.45%) JDBC
13 14 (5.09%) jQuery
14 13 (4.73%) .NET Core
15 12 (4.36%) ARM Templates
15 12 (4.36%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.36%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.82%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.09%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.64%) Reference Data
5 7 (2.55%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.18%) Contactless
7 5 (1.82%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.82%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.82%) Web 2.0
8 4 (1.45%) CMDB
8 4 (1.45%) Derivative
9 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.09%) Verilog
9 3 (1.09%) VHDL
9 3 (1.09%) Wiki
10 2 (0.73%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.82%) Windows
2 14 (5.09%) Unix
3 9 (3.27%) Linux
4 6 (2.18%) Android
5 4 (1.45%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (38.18%) Agile
2 95 (34.55%) DevOps
3 59 (21.45%) CI/CD
4 49 (17.82%) Scrum
5 35 (12.73%) Desktop Publishing
6 33 (12.00%) Mentoring
7 27 (9.82%) B2C
8 26 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (9.09%) Microservices
10 24 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
11 22 (8.00%) Data Modelling
11 22 (8.00%) Software Engineering
11 22 (8.00%) Test Automation
12 21 (7.64%) Data Transformation
13 20 (7.27%) RBAC
14 19 (6.91%) Data Protection
15 18 (6.55%) Test Strategy
16 17 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (5.82%) Integration Patterns
17 16 (5.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 79 (28.73%) SQL
2 78 (28.36%) C#
3 59 (21.45%) JavaScript
4 52 (18.91%) PowerShell
5 42 (15.27%) Java
6 21 (7.64%) Python
7 18 (6.55%) Bicep
8 11 (4.00%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.55%) Apex Code
9 7 (2.55%) C++
9 7 (2.55%) SOQL
10 6 (2.18%) ABAP
11 5 (1.82%) C
11 5 (1.82%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.82%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.82%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.45%) Bash
12 4 (1.45%) Perl
12 4 (1.45%) X++
12 4 (1.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 35 (12.73%) HNC
1 35 (12.73%) HND
2 29 (10.55%) Degree
3 22 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.27%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.45%) CISSP
6 4 (1.45%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.09%) ISEB
7 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.09%) SANS
8 2 (0.73%) CCNA
9 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.18%) QA
2 10 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.09%) GRC
4 2 (0.73%) GAAP
4 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.73%) PMO
5 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.36%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) HL7
5 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 38 (13.82%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.18%) IAG
3 16 (5.82%) ACF2
3 16 (5.82%) RACF
4 8 (2.91%) Docker
4 8 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.09%) vCloud
5 3 (1.09%) VirtualBox
5 3 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (3.64%) Terraform
2 5 (1.82%) Ansible
2 5 (1.82%) PingFederate
2 5 (1.82%) Progress Chef
2 5 (1.82%) Puppet
3 4 (1.45%) HP ALM
3 4 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.09%) Autotask
4 3 (1.09%) Kibana
4 3 (1.09%) logstash
5 2 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.73%) Grafana
5 2 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.73%) TIBCO Hawk
6 1 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 78 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 49 (17.82%) Oracle
3 23 (8.36%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.82%) Sybase
5 11 (4.00%) SAP
6 9 (3.27%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.55%) Adobe
8 5 (1.82%) HP
8 5 (1.82%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.45%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.45%) BMC
9 4 (1.45%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.45%) IBM
9 4 (1.45%) Informatica
9 4 (1.45%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.45%) MarketAxess
9 4 (1.45%) Remedy
9 4 (1.45%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.45%) Tradeweb
10 3 (1.09%) VMware