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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 91 97
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +32
Contract jobs citing XML 22 46 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.09% 1.87% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.17% 8.60% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 37
10th Percentile £360 £430 £331
25th Percentile £436 £481 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £568 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +8.10% -12.13%
75th Percentile £634 £729 £638
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.34% -1.98%

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 528 535 1,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.06% 21.78% 28.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 385 709
10th Percentile £409 £409 £413
25th Percentile £463 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £686 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £783 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.25
Median hourly rate - - £59.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.26%
75th Percentile - - £60.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £34.23 £67.00
% change year-on-year +53.37% -48.91% +35.93%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -15 19 £590 +2.61% 6
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 (13.64%) Confluence
1 3 (13.64%) WebLogic
2 2 (9.09%) Anypoint
3 1 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (4.55%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.55%) Mule
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Cash Management
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (4.55%) BASE24
2 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) Apple Pay
3 1 (4.55%) Azure API Management
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) ATM
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Data Mart
3 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Maven
3 1 (4.55%) Appium
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.55%) Bundler
3 1 (4.55%) Crucible
3 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
General
1 10 (45.45%) Banking
2 9 (40.91%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) General Ledger
5 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Retail
6 1 (4.55%) Back Office
6 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Front Office
6 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Banking Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Report Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Migration Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Middle Office Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) MuleSoft Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Payments Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) DBA
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) JSON
2 5 (22.73%) REST
2 5 (22.73%) SOAP
2 5 (22.73%) XSLT
3 4 (18.18%) Web Services
4 3 (13.64%) FpML
4 3 (13.64%) HTML
4 3 (13.64%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (9.09%) .NET
5 2 (9.09%) Ajax
5 2 (9.09%) RAML
6 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.55%) CSS
6 1 (4.55%) EDI
6 1 (4.55%) jQuery
6 1 (4.55%) Kafka
6 1 (4.55%) Middleware
6 1 (4.55%) OAuth
6 1 (4.55%) React
6 1 (4.55%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) CMDB
1 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Equities
2 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
1 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Agile
2 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
3 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 4 (18.18%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (13.64%) Accounts Payable
4 3 (13.64%) Accounts Receivable
4 3 (13.64%) Analytics
4 3 (13.64%) API Management
4 3 (13.64%) Cash Management
4 3 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (13.64%) Data Extraction
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) ITSM
4 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
4 3 (13.64%) Security Operations
5 2 (9.09%) API Design
5 2 (9.09%) API Development
5 2 (9.09%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
5 2 (9.09%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) Bicep
6 1 (4.55%) C
6 1 (4.55%) C++
6 1 (4.55%) COBOL
6 1 (4.55%) DataWeave
6 1 (4.55%) Groovy
6 1 (4.55%) Perl
6 1 (4.55%) Ruby
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO 9001
1 2 (9.09%) SEPA
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 8583
2 1 (4.55%) PSD2
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) CloudHub
2 1 (4.55%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) MuleSoft
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) HP
4 1 (4.55%) IBM
4 1 (4.55%) Murex
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) SAP
4 1 (4.55%) TIBCO