Hybrid/Remote XMPP Contract Job Trends

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (Jabber)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring XMPP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing XMPP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £373 £400 £211
% change year-on-year -6.88% +89.35% -27.16%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

XMPP 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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,632 3,276 5,035
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.12% 25.87% 24.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,793 2,202 3,745
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £800 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 62 56
10th Percentile £31.25 £36.30 £38.25
25th Percentile £41.13 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -33.33% +1.98%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.95 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £54.70 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.20% +2.67% -4.13%

XMPP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing XMPP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

XMPP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

XMPP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing XMPP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing XMPP

XMPP
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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WebEx
General
1 1 (100.00%) Italian Language
1 1 (100.00%) Polish Language
1 1 (100.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 1st Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler