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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 91 116
Rank change year-on-year -23 +25 +6
Contract jobs citing XML 16 42 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.82% 1.82% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.43% 7.62% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 36
10th Percentile £315 £463 £450
25th Percentile £375 £497 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £519 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% -13.54% +9.09%
75th Percentile £619 £589 £800
90th Percentile £638 £643 £866
London median daily rate £525 £525 £580
% change year-on-year - -9.48% -3.33%
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

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 467 551 868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.94% 23.89% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 365 579
10th Percentile £380 £425 £413
25th Percentile £428 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £728
90th Percentile £763 £838 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £52.83 £26.53 -
25th Percentile £55.99 £28.23 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.15 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.43% -39.35% +11.58%
75th Percentile £76.25 £36.73 -
90th Percentile £83.75 £38.84 -
London median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +22.28% -33.59% +10.82%

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

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 14 September 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

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 14 September 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 -19 16 £444 -17.49% 11
Southwark - 1 - -
XML
London

XML
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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Aladdin
1 1 (6.25%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Apigee
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) dbt
3 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (12.50%) DataStage
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 7 (43.75%) Banking
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Back Office
4 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Front Office
6 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Business Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) ACBS Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Test Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Quantitative Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) JSON
2 2 (12.50%) OAuth
2 2 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) ADO
3 1 (6.25%) FpML
3 1 (6.25%) jQuery
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) Swagger
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) WSDL
3 1 (6.25%) XML Schema
3 1 (6.25%) XSD
3 1 (6.25%) XSL
3 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.25%) Derivative
1 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
1 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.25%) PACS
1 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
1 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Migration
3 6 (37.50%) Data Migration
4 5 (31.25%) ETL
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Business Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Matrix Management
5 3 (18.75%) Matrix Organization
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Data Mapping
6 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) Data Security
6 2 (12.50%) Data Transformation
6 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) VBA
4 1 (6.25%) VC++
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) EMIR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 20022
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
2 1 (6.25%) SEPA
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Axway
4 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft