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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 87 101
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 -10
Contract jobs citing XML 29 36 39
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.39% 1.75% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.24% 7.00% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 26
10th Percentile £345 £463 £388
25th Percentile £433 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £535 £608
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -11.93% +15.71%
75th Percentile £681 £618 £771
90th Percentile £738 £658 £775
London median daily rate £525 £535 £575
% change year-on-year -1.87% -6.96% -2.13%

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 465 514 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.27% 24.96% 21.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 325 391
10th Percentile £363 £408 £405
25th Percentile £455 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £688
90th Percentile £753 £775 £800
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £26.90 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.75 £37.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% -20.17%
75th Percentile £53.61 £41.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £57.28 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -13.89% +10.77% -25.00%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -3 26 £550 -5.98% 10
West End of London +9 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 (3.45%) Anypoint
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.45%) Appian
1 1 (3.45%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 2 (6.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (3.45%) Exchequer
2 1 (3.45%) Maximo
2 1 (3.45%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) GCP
3 2 (6.90%) GitHub
3 2 (6.90%) OCI
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) Apigee
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Firebase
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.45%) Google Play
4 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.45%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) HTTPS
1 2 (6.90%) SSL
2 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (13.79%) Metadata
1 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.90%) DataStage
3 2 (6.90%) Power BI
3 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Postman
2 3 (10.34%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.90%) ER Studio
3 2 (6.90%) ERwin
3 2 (6.90%) GitLab
3 2 (6.90%) JUnit
3 2 (6.90%) Maven
3 2 (6.90%) Mockito
3 2 (6.90%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.45%) JIRA
4 1 (3.45%) jMock
4 1 (3.45%) MSTest
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (3.45%) Robot Framework
4 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.45%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.45%) TestRail
4 1 (3.45%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Legal
5 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.90%) Back Office
7 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Front Office
7 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Analyst
2 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Data Modeller
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Specialist
4 1 (3.45%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (3.45%) Integration Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Quantitative Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Test Specialist
4 1 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (55.17%) JSON
2 5 (17.24%) CSS
2 5 (17.24%) HTML
2 5 (17.24%) OAuth
2 5 (17.24%) SOAP
3 4 (13.79%) REST
3 4 (13.79%) RESTful
4 3 (10.34%) jQuery
4 3 (10.34%) XSLT
5 2 (6.90%) Middleware
5 2 (6.90%) OAuth2
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (6.90%) Playwright
5 2 (6.90%) SAML
5 2 (6.90%) Spring
5 2 (6.90%) Swagger
5 2 (6.90%) XSL
6 1 (3.45%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (3.45%) JWT
6 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (6.90%) Reference Data
1 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.45%) CMDB
2 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Agile
2 7 (24.14%) DevOps
2 7 (24.14%) Migration
2 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.69%) Data Migration
3 6 (20.69%) ETL
4 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
5 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
5 4 (13.79%) ERP
5 4 (13.79%) Scrum
5 4 (13.79%) SDLC
5 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) Validation
6 3 (10.34%) API Development
6 3 (10.34%) Business Analysis
6 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.34%) Data Security
6 3 (10.34%) Metadata Management
6 3 (10.34%) UML
6 3 (10.34%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) Java
3 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.69%) C#
5 5 (17.24%) Python
6 2 (6.90%) C++
6 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.45%) BeanShell
7 1 (3.45%) Bicep
7 1 (3.45%) DataWeave
7 1 (3.45%) Groovy
7 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.45%) R
7 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.45%) VBA
7 1 (3.45%) VC++
7 1 (3.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) GAAP
3 1 (3.45%) EMIR
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.79%) Workday
4 3 (10.34%) SAP
5 2 (6.90%) Axway
5 2 (6.90%) MuleSoft
5 2 (6.90%) Sparx
6 1 (3.45%) Cisco
6 1 (3.45%) Databricks
6 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (3.45%) IBM
6 1 (3.45%) Palantir
6 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.45%) UiPath
6 1 (3.45%) Veracode