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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 110 80
Rank change year-on-year -11 -30 +42
Contract jobs citing XML 27 19 51
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.04% 0.93% 2.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.92% 3.77% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 25
10th Percentile £366 £318 £443
25th Percentile £456 £394 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.74% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £647 £628 £625
90th Percentile £708 £660 £765
London median daily rate £550 £525 £518
% change year-on-year +4.76% +1.45% -13.75%
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 £42.00 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -52.00% - -

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 549 504 538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.05% 24.55% 23.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 334 366
10th Percentile £413 £386 £413
25th Percentile £484 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £717
90th Percentile £775 £762 £831
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £22.38 £52.83 -
25th Percentile £28.01 £55.99 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% - -
75th Percentile £62.74 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £76.38 £83.75 -
London median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -6.11% +12.50% -39.39%

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

XML
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 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Central London

XML
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

XML
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 24 July 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 27 £564 +27.17% 7
XML
London

XML
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 (11.11%) IIS
2 1 (3.70%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.70%) Maximo
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.70%) Summit
2 1 (3.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Boomi
2 3 (11.11%) GCP
2 3 (11.11%) SaaS
3 2 (7.41%) AtomSphere
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.70%) IaaS
4 1 (3.70%) OCI
4 1 (3.70%) PaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) FTP
2 2 (7.41%) HTTPS
2 2 (7.41%) Internet
2 2 (7.41%) Intranet
3 1 (3.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 3 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.41%) Metadata
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.70%) DataStage
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Power BI
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Artifactory
1 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
1 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) JDeveloper
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.70%) Postman
2 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Finance
4 7 (25.93%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.70%) Front Office
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) C# Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Integration Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Integration Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Junior
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Integration Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior C# Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Tester
4 2 (7.41%) webMethods Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Junior Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Junior Software Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Summit Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (66.67%) JSON
2 14 (51.85%) SOAP
3 13 (48.15%) REST
4 8 (29.63%) Web Services
4 8 (29.63%) XSLT
5 6 (22.22%) OAuth
6 4 (14.81%) .NET
6 4 (14.81%) JWT
6 4 (14.81%) Middleware
6 4 (14.81%) OAuth2
7 3 (11.11%) Ajax
7 3 (11.11%) EDI
7 3 (11.11%) SAML
8 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
8 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
8 2 (7.41%) ADO.NET
8 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
8 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
8 2 (7.41%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (11.11%) CMDB
2 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Credit Risk
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.41%) Equities
3 2 (7.41%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.70%) Derivative
4 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Unix
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) DevOps
1 8 (29.63%) Integration Patterns
2 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (22.22%) Data Mapping
3 6 (22.22%) ERP
3 6 (22.22%) Validation
4 5 (18.52%) API Management
4 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
4 5 (18.52%) Integration Testing
4 5 (18.52%) SDLC
5 4 (14.81%) Agile
5 4 (14.81%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) Data Transformation
5 4 (14.81%) ETL
5 4 (14.81%) Microservices
5 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.81%) Workflow
6 3 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 6 (22.22%) C#
4 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.11%) C++
5 3 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 2 (7.41%) ActionScript
6 2 (7.41%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (7.41%) Groovy
6 2 (7.41%) Java
6 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.70%) Bicep
7 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Oracle
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.81%) SAP
3 4 (14.81%) Workday
4 3 (11.11%) IBM
4 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.41%) Axway
5 2 (7.41%) Google
5 2 (7.41%) MuleSoft
5 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (7.41%) Sitecore
5 2 (7.41%) Software AG
5 2 (7.41%) webMethods
6 1 (3.70%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (3.70%) Kronos
6 1 (3.70%) Murex
6 1 (3.70%) Palantir
6 1 (3.70%) Planon
6 1 (3.70%) Planview