XSL Contracts with Work from Home Options

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
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 XSL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XSL over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 464 603
Rank change year-on-year +124 +139 -126
Contract jobs citing XSL 1 3 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.012% 0.036%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.028% 0.047% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £563
25th Percentile £513 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £638
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -37.25% +34.92%
75th Percentile £538 - £656
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £663 £600 £613
% change year-on-year +10.42% -2.04% +20.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

XSL 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 3,606 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.00% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,531 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £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 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

XSL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

XSL trend for jobs with a WFH option

XSL
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 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Focus Group
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft