XML Contracts in Central London

XML
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for XML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XML over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 107 119
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 -11
Contract jobs citing XML 52 69 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.17% 1.87% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.37% 7.02% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 40 71
10th Percentile £448 £409 £463
25th Percentile £463 £446 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -11.02% +7.27%
75th Percentile £758 £650 £631
90th Percentile £775 £803 £695
London median daily rate £538 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -8.20% -2.42% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

XML 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 advertised in Central London with 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 555 983 1,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.19% 26.64% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 632 1,093
10th Percentile £408 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.94
Median hourly rate - - £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +232.00%
75th Percentile - - £69.94
90th Percentile - - £74.18
London median hourly rate £42.50 £67.00 £44.88
% change year-on-year -36.57% +49.30% -10.25%

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 31 May 2024.

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 31 May 2024. 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 +12 41 £553 +5.24% 7
West End of London +9 6 - - 1
City of Westminster +5 6 - -
XML
London

XML
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 (5.77%) MQSeries
2 2 (3.85%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) SAP CO
1 2 (3.85%) SAP FI
1 2 (3.85%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.92%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.92%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.92%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.92%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.00%) Azure
2 19 (36.54%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (30.77%) Entra ID
4 13 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 6 (11.54%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (11.54%) Power Automate
5 6 (11.54%) PowerApps
6 5 (9.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (5.77%) Azure API Management
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) FTP
1 1 (1.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 13 (25.00%) Power BI
3 6 (11.54%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 6 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (11.54%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (11.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (5.77%) Redis
5 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.92%) DB2
6 1 (1.92%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.92%) MySQL
6 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.92%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.92%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) JIRA
2 4 (7.69%) SpecFlow
3 3 (5.77%) Git
4 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.85%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.92%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.92%) JUnit
5 1 (1.92%) Moq
5 1 (1.92%) MSTest
5 1 (1.92%) Selenium
5 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (34.62%) Finance
2 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Banking
2 6 (11.54%) Financial Institution
3 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.77%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Arabic Language
6 1 (1.92%) French Language
6 1 (1.92%) German Language
6 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Japanese Language
6 1 (1.92%) Korean Language
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (51.92%) Developer
2 16 (30.77%) Senior
3 13 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 7 (13.46%) Analyst
4 7 (13.46%) Backend Developer
4 7 (13.46%) Senior Software Developer
4 7 (13.46%) Software Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Architect
5 6 (11.54%) Platform Architect
5 6 (11.54%) Power Platform Architect
6 5 (9.62%) Azure Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Senior Backend Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Business Analyst
7 4 (7.69%) Lead
7 4 (7.69%) Systems Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) AS400 Developer
8 3 (5.77%) RPG Developer
9 2 (3.85%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.77%) JSON
2 15 (28.85%) .NET
3 10 (19.23%) CSS
3 10 (19.23%) HTML
4 8 (15.38%) .NET Core
4 8 (15.38%) REST
5 7 (13.46%) AngularJS
6 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (9.62%) .NET Framework
8 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET
8 4 (7.69%) React
8 4 (7.69%) SOAP
8 4 (7.69%) XML Schema
9 3 (5.77%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (5.77%) jQuery
9 3 (5.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (5.77%) Web Services
9 3 (5.77%) XSD
10 2 (3.85%) ARM Templates
10 2 (3.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.77%) AS400
3 3 (5.77%) iSeries
4 2 (3.85%) Contactless
4 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.85%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.92%) CMDB
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.92%) PDA
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Unix
2 2 (3.85%) Windows
3 1 (1.92%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.00%) Agile
2 22 (42.31%) CI/CD
3 21 (40.38%) Scrum
4 19 (36.54%) DevOps
5 13 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (19.23%) B2C
7 8 (15.38%) Kanban
8 7 (13.46%) Data Modelling
8 7 (13.46%) Project Management
9 6 (11.54%) Dimensional Modelling
9 6 (11.54%) Kimball Methodology
9 6 (11.54%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (11.54%) XML Parsing
10 5 (9.62%) Front End Development
10 5 (9.62%) Requirements Gathering
10 5 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
11 4 (7.69%) Computer Science
11 4 (7.69%) Mentoring
11 4 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (40.38%) PowerShell
2 18 (34.62%) C#
3 14 (26.92%) SQL
4 10 (19.23%) Bicep
4 10 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 7 (13.46%) XPath
6 6 (11.54%) PL/SQL
6 6 (11.54%) XQuery
7 5 (9.62%) Java
7 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.77%) RPG
9 2 (3.85%) ABAP
9 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.92%) C++
10 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.92%) Perl
10 1 (1.92%) Python
10 1 (1.92%) VBA
10 1 (1.92%) VC++
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) Degree
3 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) CCNA
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.85%) GAAP
4 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Control-M
2 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.92%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 25 (48.08%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.23%) SAP
3 8 (15.38%) Oracle
4 4 (7.69%) IBM
5 2 (3.85%) Apple
5 2 (3.85%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco
6 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.92%) Solace
6 1 (1.92%) Workday