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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 104 88
Rank change year-on-year -17 -16 +26
Contract jobs citing XML 31 20 45
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.26% 1.03% 1.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.01% 3.85% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 24
10th Percentile £374 £322 £463
25th Percentile £433 £418 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £644 £622 £581
90th Percentile £745 £740 £710
London median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - -9.09%
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 £33.38 £96.25 -
% change year-on-year -65.32% - -

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 619 520 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.14% 26.89% 25.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 360 390
10th Percentile £419 £387 £415
25th Percentile £486 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £711
90th Percentile £763 £775 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £25.35 £52.83 £27.67
25th Percentile £33.64 £55.99 £31.07
Median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +62.34% -25.24%
75th Percentile £69.38 £76.25 £41.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £83.75 £41.45
London median hourly rate £44.75 £51.97 £42.50
% change year-on-year -13.89% +22.28% -32.00%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -2 31 £575 +21.05% 16
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 (9.68%) IIS
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) MQSeries
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (6.45%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.23%) Maximo
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (12.90%) SaaS
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (9.68%) Boomi
3 3 (9.68%) GCP
3 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.45%) AtomSphere
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.45%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) FTP
2 2 (6.45%) HTTPS
2 2 (6.45%) Internet
2 2 (6.45%) Intranet
3 1 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database
2 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.45%) Metadata
3 2 (6.45%) Parquet
3 2 (6.45%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.23%) DataStage
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) eggPlant
2 2 (6.45%) Artifactory
2 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) JMeter
2 2 (6.45%) LoadRunner
2 2 (6.45%) Postman
2 2 (6.45%) SoapUI
2 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
2 2 (6.45%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) HP UFT
3 1 (3.23%) JDeveloper
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.23%) Rational Functional Tester
3 1 (3.23%) Selenium
3 1 (3.23%) SilkTest
3 1 (3.23%) SOAtest
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (29.03%) Finance
4 8 (25.81%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) Front Office
5 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Private Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Developer
2 4 (12.90%) Architect
2 4 (12.90%) C# Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Junior
3 3 (9.68%) Lead
3 3 (9.68%) Senior
3 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Integration Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Integration Specialist
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior C# Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Tester
4 2 (6.45%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (61.29%) JSON
2 16 (51.61%) SOAP
3 15 (48.39%) REST
4 9 (29.03%) .NET
4 9 (29.03%) Web Services
5 6 (19.35%) XSLT
6 5 (16.13%) HTML
6 5 (16.13%) Middleware
7 4 (12.90%) .NET Framework
8 3 (9.68%) Ajax
8 3 (9.68%) CSS
8 3 (9.68%) EDI
8 3 (9.68%) Kafka
9 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 2 (6.45%) GraphQL
9 2 (6.45%) OAuth
9 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
9 2 (6.45%) WCF
9 2 (6.45%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Data Structures
1 3 (9.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (6.45%) CMDB
2 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.45%) Equities
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.23%) AS400
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.23%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.23%) iSeries
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.23%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Unix
2 6 (19.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) DevOps
2 8 (25.81%) Integration Patterns
3 7 (22.58%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.13%) Agile
5 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.13%) Data Mapping
5 5 (16.13%) Migration
5 5 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (16.13%) SOA
5 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (16.13%) Test Strategy
6 4 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (12.90%) CRM
6 4 (12.90%) Data Migration
6 4 (12.90%) Data Modelling
6 4 (12.90%) Integration Testing
6 4 (12.90%) Microservices
6 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (12.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) JavaScript
2 8 (25.81%) Python
3 7 (22.58%) C#
4 5 (16.13%) Java
5 3 (9.68%) C++
5 3 (9.68%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.45%) ActionScript
6 2 (6.45%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (6.45%) Korn
6 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.45%) VB.NET
7 1 (3.23%) Bash
7 1 (3.23%) Bicep
7 1 (3.23%) C
7 1 (3.23%) Groovy
7 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.23%) RPG
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) ISEB
3 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.23%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) HP Fortify
2 1 (3.23%) Control-M
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Netcool
2 1 (3.23%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 1 (3.23%) Tivoli
2 1 (3.23%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Oracle
2 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (22.58%) IBM
4 6 (19.35%) SAP
5 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
5 3 (9.68%) Workday
6 2 (6.45%) Axway
6 2 (6.45%) Google
6 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
6 2 (6.45%) Sitecore
6 2 (6.45%) Software AG
6 2 (6.45%) webMethods
7 1 (3.23%) Databricks
7 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.23%) Kronos
7 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
7 1 (3.23%) Murex
7 1 (3.23%) Palantir