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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 106 85
Rank change year-on-year -15 -21 +11
Contract jobs citing XML 20 19 48
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.82% 0.95% 1.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.13% 3.61% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 30
10th Percentile £398 £382 £430
25th Percentile £488 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -4.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £681 £650 £697
90th Percentile £717 £713 £775
London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -1.57%

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 484 526 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.79% 26.27% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 348 387
10th Percentile £374 £409 £413
25th Percentile £469 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £666 £685 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £780
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £19.92 - -
25th Percentile £24.00 - -
Median hourly rate £29.53 - -
75th Percentile £53.07 - -
90th Percentile £67.36 - -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.24%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -10 19 £564 -4.41% 6
West End of London - 1 £450 - 1
City of Westminster - 1 £450 -
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 1 (5.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.00%) IIS
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 2 (10.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (5.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (5.00%) Summit
2 1 (5.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) OCI
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) Firebase
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) Google Play
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) FTP
2 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (20.00%) Metadata
1 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (15.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
4 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Postman
2 2 (10.00%) ER Studio
2 2 (10.00%) ERwin
2 2 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) Mockito
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.00%) TestRail
3 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Legal
6 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (10.00%) Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Data Modeller
2 2 (10.00%) Integration Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (5.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) IAM Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Platform Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Senior
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) JSON
2 5 (25.00%) OAuth
2 5 (25.00%) SOAP
3 4 (20.00%) REST
3 4 (20.00%) RESTful
4 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 3 (15.00%) HTML
4 3 (15.00%) JWT
4 3 (15.00%) Middleware
4 3 (15.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (15.00%) Web Services
4 3 (15.00%) XSLT
5 2 (10.00%) Playwright
5 2 (10.00%) SAML
6 1 (5.00%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (5.00%) RAML
6 1 (5.00%) React
6 1 (5.00%) RxJava
6 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) CMDB
1 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (10.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.00%) Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.00%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) ERP
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps
2 6 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (25.00%) ETL
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) SDLC
3 5 (25.00%) Validation
4 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) Data Design
4 3 (15.00%) Data Validation
4 3 (15.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Metadata Management
5 2 (10.00%) API Management
5 2 (10.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (10.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (10.00%) Logical Data Model
5 2 (10.00%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) C++
4 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) ActionScript
5 1 (5.00%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (5.00%) Bicep
5 1 (5.00%) Groovy
5 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.00%) R
5 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GAAP
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 4 (20.00%) SAP
2 4 (20.00%) Workday
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.00%) Sparx
5 1 (5.00%) Axway
5 1 (5.00%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.00%) Planon
5 1 (5.00%) Planview
5 1 (5.00%) Software AG
5 1 (5.00%) webMethods