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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 93 104
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 0
Contract jobs citing XML 26 42 45
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.34% 1.79% 1.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.70% 7.45% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 38
10th Percentile £313 £463 £432
25th Percentile £360 £506 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% -10.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £616 £575 £775
90th Percentile £652 £618 £860
London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £96.25 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.46%

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 456 564 707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.54% 24.03% 24.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 342 491
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £508 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £675 £709 £711
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
London median daily rate £538 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £44.97 £27.67 £46.93
25th Percentile £48.67 £31.07 £47.94
Median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £41.45 £52.58
London median hourly rate £54.50 £45.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +21.11% -22.41% -

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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

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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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 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 -8 24 £475 -11.21% 27
West End of London +8 1 £773 +44.39% 1
City of Westminster 0 1 £773 +62.63%
Southwark - 1 - -
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 1 (3.85%) Anypoint
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) Appian
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) Mule
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.85%) Exchequer
1 1 (3.85%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
3 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
3 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.85%) Apigee
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.85%) dbt
4 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.85%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) HTTPS
1 2 (7.69%) SSL
2 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (15.38%) DataStage
1 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (11.54%) Metadata
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (7.69%) Power BI
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Postman
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) jMock
3 1 (3.85%) JUnit
3 1 (3.85%) Maven
3 1 (3.85%) Mockito
3 1 (3.85%) MSTest
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.85%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.85%) Selenium
3 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Banking
3 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Finance
4 5 (19.23%) Back Office
5 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
6 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Front Office
7 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Analyst
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Business Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Data Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) ACBS Business Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (3.85%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Integration Test Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Qualitative Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Quantitative Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) XML Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) JSON
2 4 (15.38%) REST
3 3 (11.54%) jQuery
3 3 (11.54%) OAuth
3 3 (11.54%) SOAP
4 2 (7.69%) CSS
4 2 (7.69%) HTML
4 2 (7.69%) Swagger
4 2 (7.69%) XSL
4 2 (7.69%) XSLT
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
5 1 (3.85%) ADO
5 1 (3.85%) Jinja
5 1 (3.85%) Kafka
5 1 (3.85%) MyBatis
5 1 (3.85%) NETCONF
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.85%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.85%) SailPoint
5 1 (3.85%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Derivative
2 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) PACS
2 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile
1 11 (42.31%) Migration
2 9 (34.62%) Data Migration
3 7 (26.92%) ETL
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (19.23%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
6 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 4 (15.38%) Scrum
7 3 (11.54%) API Management
7 3 (11.54%) Business Analysis
7 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
7 3 (11.54%) Data Mapping
7 3 (11.54%) Data Security
7 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
7 3 (11.54%) DevSecOps
7 3 (11.54%) Matrix Management
7 3 (11.54%) Matrix Organization
7 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) Java
3 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
3 5 (19.23%) Python
4 4 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (7.69%) C++
6 1 (3.85%) BeanShell
6 1 (3.85%) DataWeave
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) R
6 1 (3.85%) VBA
6 1 (3.85%) VC++
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) Degree
4 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) EMIR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.85%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Axway
3 2 (7.69%) Databricks
3 2 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.69%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Palantir
4 1 (3.85%) UiPath
4 1 (3.85%) Veracode