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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 81 110
Rank change year-on-year -31 +29 +18
Contract jobs citing XML 16 53 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.81% 2.24% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.31% 9.40% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 39
10th Percentile £373 £448 £425
25th Percentile £423 £494 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -10.42% +8.11%
75th Percentile £615 £750 £688
90th Percentile £674 £775 £837
London median daily rate £535 £525 £594
% change year-on-year +1.89% -11.58% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £90.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +77.22%

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 483 564 971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.51% 23.86% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 394 621
10th Percentile £404 £413 £425
25th Percentile £431 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -9.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £705 £738
90th Percentile £762 £812 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £54.27 - -
25th Percentile £59.60 - -
Median hourly rate £69.47 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £79.60 - -
90th Percentile £85.09 - -
London median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £67.25
% change year-on-year +13.46% -36.80% +41.58%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -23 13 £585 +6.36% 46
Southwark - 1 - -
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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
2 3 (18.75%) WebLogic
3 1 (6.25%) Anypoint
3 1 (6.25%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Cash Management
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Data Mart
3 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (6.25%) Crucible
General
1 9 (56.25%) Banking
2 8 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) General Ledger
5 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Back Office
6 1 (6.25%) Front Office
6 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Payments Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Report Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Architect
4 1 (6.25%) DBA
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Test Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) JSON
2 4 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) XSLT
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (12.50%) FpML
4 2 (12.50%) SOAP
4 2 (12.50%) Web Services
5 1 (6.25%) .NET
5 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.25%) CSS
5 1 (6.25%) HTML
5 1 (6.25%) jQuery
5 1 (6.25%) Kafka
5 1 (6.25%) Middleware
5 1 (6.25%) Murex MxML
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js
5 1 (6.25%) RAML
5 1 (6.25%) React
5 1 (6.25%) WSDL
5 1 (6.25%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Equities
3 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) PACS
3 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Accounts Payable
3 3 (18.75%) Accounts Receivable
3 3 (18.75%) Analytics
3 3 (18.75%) Business Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) Cash Management
3 3 (18.75%) Data Extraction
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 2 (12.50%) API Development
4 2 (12.50%) API Integration
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 2 (12.50%) SDLC
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) Work Breakdown Structure
4 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Groovy
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) SEPA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 20022
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
2 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) CloudHub
1 1 (6.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) Murex
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) TIBCO