XSL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring XSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XSL over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 - 452
Rank change year-on-year - - +169
Contract jobs citing XSL 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.029% - 0.013%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% - 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £401
25th Percentile £313 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.29%
75th Percentile £338 - £428
90th Percentile - - £434
UK median daily rate £325 £602 £508
% change year-on-year -45.97% +18.42% -19.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

XSL 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 2,754 3,521 5,832
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.00% 24.86% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,951 2,511 4,326
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +3.92% -3.77%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -5.84% -2.00% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 88 72
10th Percentile £31.00 £32.38 £25.75
25th Percentile £52.13 - £49.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -33.33% +17.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.25 £72.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year - -12.35% +16.47%

XSL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

XSL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

XSL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing XSL.

XSL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

XSL
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (33.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Development Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) API Design
1 1 (33.33%) API Development
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) XPath
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
5 XSL jobs Nationwide