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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 112 84
Rank change year-on-year -2 -28 +17
Contract jobs citing XML 22 16 51
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.87% 0.85% 2.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.36% 3.31% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 28
10th Percentile £408 £375 £446
25th Percentile £491 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £475 £531
Median % change year-on-year +18.74% -10.59% -3.41%
75th Percentile £650 £640 £762
90th Percentile £688 £725 £775
London median daily rate £550 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +4.76% -1.87% -8.82%

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 505 483 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.97% 25.54% 23.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 318 394
10th Percentile £402 £404 £408
25th Percentile £478 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £770 £754 £800
London median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £20.53 - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - -
Median hourly rate £32.07 - -
75th Percentile £49.24 - -
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -35.61%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -8 21 £575 -2.54% 14
West End of London - 1 £450 -
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 2 (9.09%) IIS
2 1 (4.55%) Anypoint
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (4.55%) Maximo
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Summit
2 1 (4.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) OCI
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.55%) Boomi
3 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) IaaS
3 1 (4.55%) PaaS
3 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
3 1 (4.55%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) FTP
2 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.55%) Internet
2 1 (4.55%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
2 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.64%) Metadata
3 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.55%) DataStage
5 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Power BI
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.55%) ER Studio
2 1 (4.55%) ERwin
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Maven
2 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
2 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Banking
3 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Legal
5 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.55%) Front Office
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 2 (9.09%) Architect
2 2 (9.09%) C# Developer
2 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Integration Architect
2 2 (9.09%) Integration Developer
2 2 (9.09%) Integration Specialist
2 2 (9.09%) Junior
2 2 (9.09%) Lead
2 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) IAM Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Workday Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Workforce Management Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) JSON
2 7 (31.82%) SOAP
3 6 (27.27%) REST
4 5 (22.73%) OAuth
4 5 (22.73%) Web Services
4 5 (22.73%) XSLT
5 4 (18.18%) Middleware
6 3 (13.64%) CSS
6 3 (13.64%) HTML
6 3 (13.64%) JWT
6 3 (13.64%) OAuth2
6 3 (13.64%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (13.64%) RESTful
7 2 (9.09%) .NET
7 2 (9.09%) EDI
7 2 (9.09%) SAML
8 1 (4.55%) ADO.NET
8 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
8 1 (4.55%) XML Schema
8 1 (4.55%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (9.09%) CMDB
2 2 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 2 (9.09%) Market Risk
3 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Derivative
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Equities
3 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Integration Patterns
2 6 (27.27%) ERP
2 6 (27.27%) ETL
2 6 (27.27%) SDLC
3 5 (22.73%) DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Validation
5 3 (13.64%) Data Mapping
5 3 (13.64%) Data Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
6 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (9.09%) Risk Management
6 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
6 2 (9.09%) SOA
6 2 (9.09%) UML
6 2 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) C#
4 3 (13.64%) Java
5 2 (9.09%) C++
5 2 (9.09%) Groovy
5 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) ActionScript
6 1 (4.55%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (4.55%) Bicep
6 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GAAP
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) SAP
2 4 (18.18%) Workday
3 2 (9.09%) IBM
3 2 (9.09%) MuleSoft
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Axway
4 1 (4.55%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (4.55%) Kronos
4 1 (4.55%) Murex
4 1 (4.55%) Palantir
4 1 (4.55%) Planon
4 1 (4.55%) Planview
4 1 (4.55%) Sitecore
4 1 (4.55%) Software AG
4 1 (4.55%) Sparx
4 1 (4.55%) webMethods