XML Contracts in Central London

XML
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring XML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XML over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 89 91
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +27
Contract jobs citing XML 34 44 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.64% 1.71% 2.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.54% 8.12% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 28 45
10th Percentile £401 £398 £346
25th Percentile £463 £437 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £554 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +5.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £618 £714 £638
90th Percentile £659 £775 £783
London median daily rate £535 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.96% - +0.66%

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 520 542 1,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.06% 21.06% 29.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 375 755
10th Percentile £402 £400 £414
25th Percentile £463 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £568 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -9.20% +5.93%
75th Percentile £682 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £838
London median daily rate £575 £575 £613
% change year-on-year - -6.12% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £37.20 - -
25th Percentile £37.88 £46.25 £58.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -20.17% +357.69%
75th Percentile £41.38 £48.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £41.60 - -
London median hourly rate £44.75 £42.50 £65.40
% change year-on-year +5.29% -35.01% +27.60%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for XML in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in Central London.

Daily rate trend for XML in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Central London over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for XML in Central London

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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 6 March 2025. 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 -2 27 £550 -0.68% 5
West End of London -9 2 £535 -
XML
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (8.82%) Anypoint
1 3 (8.82%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.88%) Mule
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.94%) Apache
3 1 (2.94%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (5.88%) SAP HCM
3 2 (5.88%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (2.94%) BASE24
4 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) Azure
1 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.88%) Azure API Management
2 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (2.94%) Apple Pay
3 1 (2.94%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.94%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) HTTP
2 2 (5.88%) Internet
3 1 (2.94%) ATM
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (8.82%) Power BI
1 3 (8.82%) SAP HANA
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (2.94%) Data Mart
3 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.94%) Android Studio
3 1 (2.94%) Appium
3 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.94%) Bundler
3 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.94%) Maven
General
1 12 (35.29%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Banking
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.71%) General Ledger
4 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Retail
6 2 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Oracle Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Consultant
5 3 (8.82%) MuleSoft Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Report Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Test Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Data Migration Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) JSON
2 11 (32.35%) REST
2 11 (32.35%) SOAP
3 9 (26.47%) Web Services
4 8 (23.53%) HTML
5 4 (11.76%) .NET
5 4 (11.76%) Ajax
5 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 4 (11.76%) FpML
5 4 (11.76%) React
5 4 (11.76%) XSLT
6 3 (8.82%) Blazor
6 3 (8.82%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (8.82%) RAML
7 2 (5.88%) CSS
7 2 (5.88%) J2EE
8 1 (2.94%) BAPI
8 1 (2.94%) EDI
8 1 (2.94%) SAML
8 1 (2.94%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) CMDB
1 3 (8.82%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (8.82%) Reinsurance
1 3 (8.82%) Tandem
2 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.94%) Derivative
3 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Agile
2 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 6 (17.65%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (14.71%) Accounts Payable
4 5 (14.71%) Accounts Receivable
4 5 (14.71%) Data Extraction
4 5 (14.71%) Migration
4 5 (14.71%) Software Testing
4 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
5 4 (11.76%) API Management
5 4 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (11.76%) DevOps
5 4 (11.76%) ETL
5 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (11.76%) ITSM
5 4 (11.76%) Security Operations
5 4 (11.76%) SOA
6 3 (8.82%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) SQL
2 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 5 (14.71%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) PL/SQL
4 4 (11.76%) Python
5 3 (8.82%) VBA
6 2 (5.88%) DataWeave
7 1 (2.94%) ABAP
7 1 (2.94%) Bicep
7 1 (2.94%) C
7 1 (2.94%) C#
7 1 (2.94%) C++
7 1 (2.94%) COBOL
7 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.94%) Ruby
7 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
1 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.82%) ISO 9001
2 2 (5.88%) SEPA
3 1 (2.94%) ISO 8583
3 1 (2.94%) PSD2
3 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.94%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) CloudHub
2 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Oracle
2 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow
3 4 (11.76%) SAP
4 3 (8.82%) MuleSoft
4 3 (8.82%) Splunk
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.94%) Calypso
6 1 (2.94%) HP
6 1 (2.94%) Murex
6 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.94%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.94%) Workday