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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 94 107
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing XML 30 36 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.48% 1.59% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.61% 6.47% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 29
10th Percentile £313 £493 £361
25th Percentile £366 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.28% -0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £700
90th Percentile £738 £665 £810
London median daily rate £520 £535 £575
% change year-on-year -2.80% -6.96% -4.17%

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 454 556 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.46% 24.54% 22.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 338 435
10th Percentile £361 £411 £408
25th Percentile £435 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +1.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £698
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
London median daily rate £530 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -7.83% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £44.38 £27.67 -
25th Percentile £47.19 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%

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

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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

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Central London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

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 2 January 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 -6 27 £480 -16.16% 5
West End of London +12 2 £611 +14.25%
City of Westminster - 2 £611 -
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 (3.33%) Anypoint
1 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.33%) Appian
1 1 (3.33%) Mule
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (3.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (3.33%) Exchequer
2 1 (3.33%) Maximo
2 1 (3.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.00%) GCP
4 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) Apigee
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.33%) dbt
6 1 (3.33%) Firebase
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) Google Play
6 1 (3.33%) OCI
6 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) HTTPS
1 2 (6.67%) SSL
2 1 (3.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (16.67%) Metadata
3 4 (13.33%) DataStage
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (6.67%) Power BI
5 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.33%) Big Data
6 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Postman
2 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.67%) ER Studio
2 2 (6.67%) ERwin
2 2 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) JUnit
2 2 (6.67%) Mockito
2 2 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) jMock
3 1 (3.33%) Maven
3 1 (3.33%) MSTest
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.33%) TestRail
3 1 (3.33%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Banking
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Back Office
4 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) ACBS Business Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Data Modeller
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (3.33%) IAM Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.33%) SailPoint Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) JSON
2 4 (13.33%) OAuth
3 3 (10.00%) CSS
3 3 (10.00%) HTML
3 3 (10.00%) jQuery
3 3 (10.00%) REST
3 3 (10.00%) RESTful
3 3 (10.00%) SOAP
4 2 (6.67%) OAuth2
4 2 (6.67%) Swagger
4 2 (6.67%) XSL
4 2 (6.67%) XSLT
5 1 (3.33%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (3.33%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (3.33%) JWT
5 1 (3.33%) MyBatis
5 1 (3.33%) NETCONF
5 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.33%) Playwright
5 1 (3.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) Migration
3 10 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 8 (26.67%) DevOps
5 7 (23.33%) ETL
6 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 4 (13.33%) Data Validation
7 4 (13.33%) Metadata Management
7 4 (13.33%) Scrum
7 4 (13.33%) Validation
8 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
8 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 3 (10.00%) Data Mapping
8 3 (10.00%) Data Security
8 3 (10.00%) Integration Testing
8 3 (10.00%) Matrix Management
8 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (30.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) Python
4 5 (16.67%) C#
4 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.67%) C++
6 1 (3.33%) BeanShell
6 1 (3.33%) DataWeave
6 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) R
6 1 (3.33%) VBA
6 1 (3.33%) VC++
6 1 (3.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) Degree
4 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
6 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) EMIR
2 1 (3.33%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Axway
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
3 2 (6.67%) MuleSoft
3 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 2 (6.67%) Sparx
3 2 (6.67%) Workday
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Palantir
4 1 (3.33%) UiPath
4 1 (3.33%) Veracode