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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 87 112
Rank change year-on-year -19 +25 +1
Contract jobs citing XML 22 48 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.15% 2.05% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.90% 8.51% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 37
10th Percentile £327 £463 £444
25th Percentile £401 £498 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +9.04%
75th Percentile £616 £566 £800
90th Percentile £711 £671 £863
London median daily rate £525 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% -4.17%
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 £96.25 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.46%

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 449 564 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.50% 24.03% 24.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 350 501
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £435 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £723 £713
90th Percentile £773 £838 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £52.83 £27.67 £46.93
25th Percentile £55.99 £31.07 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -15.90%
75th Percentile £76.25 £41.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 £41.45 £52.58
London median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +22.28% -29.17% -7.69%

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

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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 14 October 2025.

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

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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 14 October 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 -13 20 £475 -11.63% 12
City of Westminster +1 1 £773 +62.63% 2
West End of London 0 1 £773 +44.39% 1
Southwark - 1 - -
XML
London

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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%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Anypoint
2 1 (4.55%) Appian
2 1 (4.55%) Mule
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Aladdin
1 1 (4.55%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
2 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Apigee
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.55%) dbt
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) HTTPS
1 2 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (13.64%) DataStage
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) Metadata
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.55%) Selenium
3 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (36.36%) Banking
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Back Office
4 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Front Office
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Business Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) ACBS Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Business Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Head of Engineering
6 1 (4.55%) Integration Test Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Payments Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Quantitative Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) XML Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) JSON
2 3 (13.64%) OAuth
2 3 (13.64%) REST
3 2 (9.09%) jQuery
3 2 (9.09%) SOAP
3 2 (9.09%) XSL
4 1 (4.55%) ADO
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) FpML
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.55%) RAML
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) Web Services
4 1 (4.55%) WSDL
4 1 (4.55%) XML Schema
4 1 (4.55%) XSD
4 1 (4.55%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Derivative
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) PACS
2 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Agile
2 10 (45.45%) Migration
3 8 (36.36%) Data Migration
4 6 (27.27%) ETL
4 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Business Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Scrum
5 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 3 (13.64%) API Management
6 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
6 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
6 3 (13.64%) Matrix Management
6 3 (13.64%) Matrix Organization
7 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 2 (9.09%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 2 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
7 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.09%) SDLC
7 2 (9.09%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) Python
4 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.64%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) C++
6 1 (4.55%) DataWeave
6 1 (4.55%) VBA
6 1 (4.55%) VC++
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) EMIR
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.55%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Axway
3 2 (9.09%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 2 (9.09%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco
4 1 (4.55%) UiPath
4 1 (4.55%) Veracode