XML Contracts in England

XML
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for XML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XML over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 210 194
Rank change year-on-year +56 -16 -45
Contract jobs citing XML 571 607 1,077
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.57% 1.26% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.63% 5.48% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 425 785
10th Percentile £401 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £744 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 15 15
10th Percentile - £55.00 £31.59
25th Percentile - £70.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.69% +49.48% -16.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 £75.00 £63.34
90th Percentile £85.00 - £72.42
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.69% +52.63% -18.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

XML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,485 11,072 18,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.57% 22.98% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,308 8,225 14,183
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 132 215
10th Percentile £22.50 £26.18 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for XML in England

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in England.

Daily rate trend for XML in England

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in England

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in England.

Hourly rate trend for XML in England

XML
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing XML in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for XML in England

XML
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +54 325 £540 -5.59% 82
East of England +60 69 £500 +3.90% 16
North of England +6 58 £534 -8.87% 14
South West +39 49 £550 +15.79% 14
North West +10 38 £523 -10.84% 7
South East -14 37 £450 -13.46% 30
Yorkshire +11 20 £625 +19.05% 5
Midlands +7 20 £600 +20.00% 24
West Midlands +20 15 £600 +66.44% 18
East Midlands -1 5 £331 -33.75% 6
North East +6 4 £431 -40.55% 2
XML
UK

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 36 (6.30%) Confluence
2 13 (2.28%) Apache
3 7 (1.23%) MQSeries
4 6 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (1.05%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.35%) SAS
6 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.18%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.98%) MS Visio
4 13 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (2.10%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.35%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (1.40%) NetSuite
1 8 (1.40%) SAP CO
1 8 (1.40%) SAP FI
1 8 (1.40%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (1.05%) Endur
2 6 (1.05%) ION MarketView
3 5 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.53%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.53%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 3 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.53%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.35%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.18%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 205 (35.90%) Azure
2 140 (24.52%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (12.61%) Entra ID
4 44 (7.71%) Power Platform
5 40 (7.01%) GitHub
6 37 (6.48%) Serverless
7 36 (6.30%) AWS
8 34 (5.95%) Azure Logic Apps
9 27 (4.73%) PowerApps
10 26 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (4.38%) Azure API Management
11 25 (4.38%) Power Automate
12 23 (4.03%) Azure Service Bus
13 22 (3.85%) GCP
14 21 (3.68%) Azure Key Vault
15 20 (3.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 20 (3.50%) Azure Functions
16 15 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
18 12 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.55%) BGP
1 26 (4.55%) MPLS
2 20 (3.50%) Firewall
3 18 (3.15%) HTTP
3 18 (3.15%) RSVP
4 16 (2.80%) HSRP
4 16 (2.80%) SNMP
4 16 (2.80%) VPLS
5 15 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
6 14 (2.45%) IPv4
6 14 (2.45%) TCP/IP
6 14 (2.45%) VPN
6 14 (2.45%) VRRP
7 12 (2.10%) FIX Connectivity
8 11 (1.93%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (1.93%) DNS
8 11 (1.93%) IOS XR
9 9 (1.58%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 8 (1.40%) SSH
11 7 (1.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (27.32%) SQL Server
2 36 (6.30%) MySQL
3 32 (5.60%) Oracle Reports
4 30 (5.25%) Power BI
5 29 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (4.90%) Relational Database
7 23 (4.03%) NoSQL
8 21 (3.68%) MongoDB
9 19 (3.33%) RDBMS
10 17 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (2.63%) Redis
12 13 (2.28%) Data Lake
12 13 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (2.10%) Big Data
14 11 (1.93%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (1.75%) SQLite
16 7 (1.23%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
16 7 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 65 (11.38%) Git
2 60 (10.51%) JIRA
3 32 (5.60%) SpecFlow
4 31 (5.43%) Visual Studio
5 23 (4.03%) Jenkins
6 18 (3.15%) Selenium
7 14 (2.45%) TeamCity
8 12 (2.10%) JUnit
8 12 (2.10%) WebDriver
9 11 (1.93%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.93%) GitLab
10 10 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.58%) CircleCI
11 9 (1.58%) JMeter
11 9 (1.58%) Travis CI
12 8 (1.40%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.23%) Postman
13 7 (1.23%) SoapUI
13 7 (1.23%) Visual Studio Team System
14 6 (1.05%) Maven
General
1 104 (18.21%) Social Skills
2 100 (17.51%) Finance
3 65 (11.38%) Publishing
4 55 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (7.71%) Public Sector
6 34 (5.95%) Banking
7 20 (3.50%) Financial Institution
8 19 (3.33%) Front Office
9 17 (2.98%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.10%) Aerospace
10 12 (2.10%) Back Office
11 9 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.40%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.40%) Local Government
12 8 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.23%) Retail
14 6 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.05%) Marketing
14 6 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 186 (32.57%) Developer
2 111 (19.44%) Senior
3 90 (15.76%) Author
3 90 (15.76%) Technical Author
4 75 (13.13%) Senior Developer
5 59 (10.33%) Architect
6 44 (7.71%) Analyst
7 43 (7.53%) Software Developer
8 36 (6.30%) Senior Software Developer
9 34 (5.95%) Backend Developer
10 30 (5.25%) Azure Developer
10 30 (5.25%) Software Engineer
11 26 (4.55%) Lead
12 23 (4.03%) Business Analyst
12 23 (4.03%) Senior Backend Developer
13 22 (3.85%) Consultant
14 19 (3.33%) C# Developer
15 17 (2.98%) Data Architect
15 17 (2.98%) Java Developer
16 14 (2.45%) IP Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (34.50%) JSON
2 131 (22.94%) .NET
3 99 (17.34%) HTML
4 85 (14.89%) SOAP
5 82 (14.36%) REST
6 76 (13.31%) SGML
7 67 (11.73%) Web Services
8 63 (11.03%) .NET Framework
9 51 (8.93%) CSS
10 49 (8.58%) AngularJS
11 42 (7.36%) .NET Core
12 29 (5.08%) JSP
13 28 (4.90%) LDAP
13 28 (4.90%) React
13 28 (4.90%) Servlets
14 27 (4.73%) RESTful
14 27 (4.73%) SPML
14 27 (4.73%) YANG
15 26 (4.55%) NETCONF
15 26 (4.55%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.68%) Product Ownership
2 32 (5.60%) Data Structures
3 21 (3.68%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 16 (2.80%) Derivative
6 15 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.63%) Reference Data
7 14 (2.45%) Fixed Income
8 13 (2.28%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.10%) Animation
10 8 (1.40%) Contactless
10 8 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.40%) Mainframe
11 7 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.05%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.05%) Client/Server
13 5 (0.88%) AS400
13 5 (0.88%) Verilog
13 5 (0.88%) VHDL
13 5 (0.88%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.53%) Unix
2 36 (6.30%) Linux
3 33 (5.78%) Windows
4 12 (2.10%) Android
5 5 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.35%) zOS
8 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.18%) Solaris
8 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (41.68%) Agile
2 208 (36.43%) DevOps
3 155 (27.15%) Scrum
4 146 (25.57%) CI/CD
5 72 (12.61%) B2C
6 64 (11.21%) Desktop Publishing
7 58 (10.16%) Test Automation
8 52 (9.11%) Data Modelling
9 51 (8.93%) Software Engineering
10 50 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (6.83%) Business Intelligence
12 37 (6.48%) Mentoring
13 36 (6.30%) Microservices
13 36 (6.30%) Migration
13 36 (6.30%) SDLC
14 33 (5.78%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (5.78%) Data Management
15 31 (5.43%) Analytics
15 31 (5.43%) TDD
16 28 (4.90%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 163 (28.55%) C#
2 161 (28.20%) SQL
3 127 (22.24%) PowerShell
4 114 (19.96%) JavaScript
5 94 (16.46%) Java
6 61 (10.68%) Python
7 46 (8.06%) Bicep
8 22 (3.85%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.80%) T-SQL
10 14 (2.45%) C++
11 13 (2.28%) Perl
11 13 (2.28%) PL/SQL
12 12 (2.10%) Bash
13 11 (1.93%) ABAP
13 11 (1.93%) XPath
14 10 (1.75%) C
15 8 (1.40%) Apex Code
16 7 (1.23%) Kotlin
16 7 (1.23%) SOQL
16 7 (1.23%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 66 (11.56%) HND
2 64 (11.21%) HNC
3 49 (8.58%) Security Cleared
4 47 (8.23%) Degree
5 21 (3.68%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.23%) CCIE
8 7 (1.23%) CCIE Service Provider
9 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.70%) CCNP
12 3 (0.53%) CCNA
12 3 (0.53%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.35%) CISSP
13 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.91%) QA
2 17 (2.98%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.10%) Def Stans
4 9 (1.58%) Dodd-Frank
4 9 (1.58%) EMIR
4 9 (1.58%) MiFID
5 8 (1.40%) GDPR
6 7 (1.23%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.88%) ISO 15022
8 4 (0.70%) GAAP
8 4 (0.70%) NCSC
9 3 (0.53%) GRC
10 2 (0.35%) HL7
10 2 (0.35%) NIST
10 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.35%) PMO
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (17.34%) Active Directory
2 26 (4.55%) IAG
3 25 (4.38%) ACF2
3 25 (4.38%) RACF
4 20 (3.50%) Docker
5 18 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.70%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.18%) Cronacle
7 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (3.50%) Ansible
2 19 (3.33%) Terraform
3 15 (2.63%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.28%) Kibana
4 13 (2.28%) logstash
5 10 (1.75%) Grafana
5 10 (1.75%) Progress Chef
5 10 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.58%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.58%) Puppet
7 5 (0.88%) Control-M
7 5 (0.88%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.88%) PingFederate
8 3 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.35%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.18%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 167 (29.25%) Microsoft
2 67 (11.73%) Oracle
3 36 (6.30%) ServiceNow
4 33 (5.78%) SAP
5 25 (4.38%) Nokia
6 22 (3.85%) Salesforce
7 21 (3.68%) Adobe
8 19 (3.33%) Sybase
9 18 (3.15%) Cisco
10 14 (2.45%) ION Trading
11 13 (2.28%) Bloomberg
12 12 (2.10%) Fortinet
12 12 (2.10%) MarketAxess
12 12 (2.10%) Tradeweb
13 10 (1.75%) IBM
13 10 (1.75%) Informatica
14 9 (1.58%) CyberArk
14 9 (1.58%) F5
14 9 (1.58%) Splunk
15 8 (1.40%) MuleSoft