XML Contract Job Trends in Central London

XML
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring XML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 124 87
Rank change year-on-year +7 -37 +34
Contract jobs citing XML 30 14 46
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.18% 0.68% 2.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.46% 2.80% 8.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 22
10th Percentile £368 £314 £439
25th Percentile £450 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £425 £506
Median % change year-on-year +30.12% -16.05% -15.63%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £556
90th Percentile £700 £665 £643
London median daily rate £548 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.29% +5.00% -14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.00 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £33.38 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -61.86% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

XML 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 549 500 560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.50% 24.25% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 329 379
10th Percentile £414 £379 £425
25th Percentile £485 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £750 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £23.95 £52.83 -
25th Percentile £30.02 £55.99 £25.40
Median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% +142.34% -51.34%
75th Percentile £66.56 £76.25 £26.19
90th Percentile £79.13 £83.75 -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

XML job vacancy trend in Central London

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Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing XML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing XML

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Central London over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Central London

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing XML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing XML

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
City of London +6 30 £553 +30.12% 8
XML
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) IIS
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.33%) MQSeries
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.33%) Maximo
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.33%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) SaaS
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) Boomi
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) AtomSphere
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.33%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) FTP
2 2 (6.67%) HTTPS
2 2 (6.67%) Internet
2 2 (6.67%) Intranet
3 1 (3.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle Database
1 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.33%) DataStage
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) eggPlant
2 2 (6.67%) Artifactory
2 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) JMeter
2 2 (6.67%) LoadRunner
2 2 (6.67%) Postman
2 2 (6.67%) SoapUI
2 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.33%) HP UFT
3 1 (3.33%) JDeveloper
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.33%) Rational Functional Tester
3 1 (3.33%) Selenium
3 1 (3.33%) SilkTest
3 1 (3.33%) SOAtest
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (30.00%) Banking
3 9 (30.00%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.33%) Front Office
5 1 (3.33%) Private Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Developer
2 4 (13.33%) Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Architect
2 4 (13.33%) C# Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Integration Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Junior
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Integration Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Integration Specialist
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Tester
4 2 (6.67%) webMethods Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (56.67%) JSON
2 15 (50.00%) SOAP
3 13 (43.33%) REST
4 9 (30.00%) Web Services
5 8 (26.67%) .NET
6 6 (20.00%) XSLT
7 5 (16.67%) Middleware
8 4 (13.33%) HTML
8 4 (13.33%) OAuth
8 4 (13.33%) OAuth2
9 3 (10.00%) .NET Framework
9 3 (10.00%) Ajax
9 3 (10.00%) EDI
9 3 (10.00%) JWT
9 3 (10.00%) Kafka
10 2 (6.67%) ADO.NET
10 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
10 2 (6.67%) SAML
10 2 (6.67%) XBRL
10 2 (6.67%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (10.00%) CMDB
2 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Credit Risk
3 2 (6.67%) Equities
3 2 (6.67%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.33%) AS400
4 1 (3.33%) Derivative
4 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.33%) iSeries
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Unix
2 5 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
2 8 (26.67%) DevOps
3 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.67%) API Management
4 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (16.67%) Data Mapping
4 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 5 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 5 (16.67%) SDLC
4 5 (16.67%) SOA
4 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 5 (16.67%) Validation
5 4 (13.33%) Agile
5 4 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (13.33%) ERP
5 4 (13.33%) Microservices
5 4 (13.33%) Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (26.67%) Python
3 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.00%) C#
5 5 (16.67%) Java
6 3 (10.00%) C++
6 3 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (6.67%) ActionScript
7 2 (6.67%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (6.67%) VB.NET
8 1 (3.33%) Bicep
8 1 (3.33%) Groovy
8 1 (3.33%) Korn
8 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.33%) RPG
8 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) ISEB
3 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) HP Fortify
2 1 (3.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Oracle
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) SAP
3 6 (20.00%) IBM
4 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (10.00%) Workday
5 2 (6.67%) Axway
5 2 (6.67%) Google
5 2 (6.67%) MuleSoft
5 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.67%) Sitecore
5 2 (6.67%) Software AG
5 2 (6.67%) webMethods
6 1 (3.33%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (3.33%) Kronos
6 1 (3.33%) Murex
6 1 (3.33%) Palantir
6 1 (3.33%) Planon
6 1 (3.33%) Planview