XML Contracts in London

XML
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 132 186 182
Rank change year-on-year +54 -4 -28
Contract jobs citing XML 325 372 608
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.86% 1.44% 1.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.28% 5.31% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 267 480
10th Percentile £413 £400 £427
25th Percentile £463 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £572 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% -4.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £628 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £806 £763
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £43.23 -
25th Percentile - £53.27 £38.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year - +77.22% -41.91%
75th Percentile - - £40.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -40.69% +49.48% -16.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London 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 4,463 7,009 11,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.57% 27.09% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,336 5,249 9,292
10th Percentile £377 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £704
90th Percentile £825 £810 £794
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 39 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.60 £32.13
25th Percentile £23.80 £41.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £67.50 £49.28
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +36.97% -1.09%
75th Percentile £63.13 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £72.60 £82.40 £78.98
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in London

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for XML in London

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for XML in London

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in London

XML
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +17 54 £538 +4.78% 11
East London +4 11 £540 +9.09% 3
West London +20 3 £375 - 5
South London -3 2 £430 -9.47% 2
XML
England

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (5.85%) Confluence
2 7 (2.15%) MQSeries
3 5 (1.54%) Apache
4 4 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.62%) SAS
5 2 (0.62%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (4.62%) MS Visio
2 13 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.62%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Endur
1 6 (1.85%) ION MarketView
2 4 (1.23%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.23%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.23%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.92%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.62%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.62%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.31%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 160 (49.23%) Azure
2 125 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
3 71 (21.85%) Entra ID
4 29 (8.92%) Power Platform
5 26 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 24 (7.38%) GitHub
7 23 (7.08%) Azure Service Bus
8 22 (6.77%) Azure API Management
9 20 (6.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 20 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (5.54%) Power Automate
10 18 (5.54%) PowerApps
11 17 (5.23%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (4.31%) AWS
13 13 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (4.00%) Serverless
14 12 (3.69%) Azure Functions
15 9 (2.77%) GCP
16 6 (1.85%) Azure Batch
16 6 (1.85%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.00%) BGP
1 26 (8.00%) MPLS
2 18 (5.54%) RSVP
3 16 (4.92%) HSRP
3 16 (4.92%) SNMP
3 16 (4.92%) VPLS
4 15 (4.62%) Ethernet VPN
5 14 (4.31%) IPv4
5 14 (4.31%) VRRP
6 12 (3.69%) FIX Connectivity
7 11 (3.38%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (3.38%) IOS XR
8 8 (2.46%) Firewall
9 7 (2.15%) Network Security
9 7 (2.15%) SSH
10 6 (1.85%) 5G
10 6 (1.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 6 (1.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (1.23%) VPN
12 3 (0.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (42.77%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.77%) Power BI
3 21 (6.46%) MySQL
4 17 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (4.92%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (4.62%) Redis
7 12 (3.69%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.46%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.15%) Big Data
10 7 (2.15%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 7 (2.15%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.15%) Geospatial Data
10 7 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.85%) OLTP
12 5 (1.54%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.54%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (1.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (11.38%) Git
2 34 (10.46%) JIRA
3 31 (9.54%) SpecFlow
4 22 (6.77%) Visual Studio
5 15 (4.62%) Selenium
6 14 (4.31%) TeamCity
7 11 (3.38%) WebDriver
8 10 (3.08%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.77%) Jenkins
9 9 (2.77%) JUnit
10 7 (2.15%) Visual Studio Team System
11 6 (1.85%) Maven
12 5 (1.54%) MSI
12 5 (1.54%) Postman
12 5 (1.54%) WiX
13 4 (1.23%) Gradle
13 4 (1.23%) JMeter
13 4 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.92%) IntelliJ
General
1 88 (27.08%) Finance
2 58 (17.85%) Social Skills
3 40 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 39 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.00%) Banking
6 19 (5.85%) Front Office
7 17 (5.23%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.69%) Back Office
9 8 (2.46%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.46%) Local Government
10 6 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.54%) Private Banking
12 4 (1.23%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.92%) Marketing
13 3 (0.92%) Retail
14 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.31%) Arabic Language
15 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (44.00%) Developer
2 99 (30.46%) Senior
3 71 (21.85%) Senior Developer
4 41 (12.62%) Software Developer
5 36 (11.08%) Senior Software Developer
6 34 (10.46%) Backend Developer
7 33 (10.15%) Analyst
8 29 (8.92%) Azure Developer
9 27 (8.31%) Architect
10 24 (7.38%) Lead
11 23 (7.08%) Senior Backend Developer
12 18 (5.54%) Business Analyst
12 18 (5.54%) C# Developer
13 17 (5.23%) Software Engineer
14 16 (4.92%) Consultant
14 16 (4.92%) Java Developer
15 14 (4.31%) IP Expert
16 12 (3.69%) .NET Developer
16 12 (3.69%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
16 12 (3.69%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (35.08%) JSON
2 108 (33.23%) .NET
3 69 (21.23%) HTML
4 51 (15.69%) SOAP
5 49 (15.08%) .NET Framework
5 49 (15.08%) REST
6 47 (14.46%) Web Services
7 42 (12.92%) AngularJS
8 41 (12.62%) CSS
9 35 (10.77%) .NET Core
10 26 (8.00%) NETCONF
10 26 (8.00%) YANG
11 25 (7.69%) LDAP
12 24 (7.38%) ASP.NET
12 24 (7.38%) JSP
12 24 (7.38%) React
12 24 (7.38%) Servlets
13 23 (7.08%) SailPoint
13 23 (7.08%) SPML
14 20 (6.15%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.23%) Product Ownership
2 20 (6.15%) Distributed Architecture
3 19 (5.85%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.92%) Derivative
5 14 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (4.31%) Fixed Income
6 12 (3.69%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.46%) Contactless
8 7 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.15%) Mainframe
8 7 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.15%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.85%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.54%) AS400
10 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.54%) iSeries
10 5 (1.54%) Web 2.0
11 4 (1.23%) CMDB
11 4 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.92%) Unix
2 19 (5.85%) Linux
3 17 (5.23%) Windows
4 1 (0.31%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (48.00%) DevOps
2 150 (46.15%) Agile
3 121 (37.23%) Scrum
4 116 (35.69%) CI/CD
5 69 (21.23%) B2C
6 36 (11.08%) Data Modelling
6 36 (11.08%) Test Automation
7 35 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (8.62%) Migration
8 28 (8.62%) TDD
9 27 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (8.31%) SDLC
9 27 (8.31%) Software Engineering
10 26 (8.00%) Microservices
11 23 (7.08%) Mentoring
11 23 (7.08%) RBAC
11 23 (7.08%) Test Strategy
12 22 (6.77%) BDD
13 21 (6.46%) Kanban
14 20 (6.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 128 (39.38%) C#
2 113 (34.77%) PowerShell
3 109 (33.54%) SQL
4 74 (22.77%) JavaScript
5 64 (19.69%) Java
6 45 (13.85%) Bicep
7 26 (8.00%) Python
8 22 (6.77%) TypeScript
9 13 (4.00%) Perl
10 11 (3.38%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.08%) ABAP
11 10 (3.08%) XPath
12 8 (2.46%) PL/SQL
13 7 (2.15%) XQuery
14 5 (1.54%) RPG
15 4 (1.23%) AWK
16 3 (0.92%) C
17 2 (0.62%) C++
17 2 (0.62%) JSX
17 2 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (10.46%) Degree
2 18 (5.54%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.15%) CCIE
5 7 (2.15%) CCIE Service Provider
5 7 (2.15%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.23%) CCNP
6 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.92%) CCNA
7 3 (0.92%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.31%) CISSP
8 1 (0.31%) ISEB
8 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.31%) SANS
8 1 (0.31%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (15.69%) QA
2 9 (2.77%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.77%) Dodd-Frank
2 9 (2.77%) EMIR
2 9 (2.77%) MiFID
3 5 (1.54%) ISO 15022
4 4 (1.23%) GAAP
4 4 (1.23%) NCSC
5 3 (0.92%) GRC
5 3 (0.92%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.62%) HL7
6 2 (0.62%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (28.92%) Active Directory
2 23 (7.08%) IAG
3 22 (6.77%) ACF2
3 22 (6.77%) RACF
4 13 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.62%) Docker
6 1 (0.31%) Cronacle
6 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (3.38%) Ansible
2 9 (2.77%) Terraform
3 8 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.54%) Control-M
4 5 (1.54%) FortiGate
5 4 (1.23%) Kibana
5 4 (1.23%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.23%) logstash
6 3 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.31%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 132 (40.62%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.38%) Oracle
3 29 (8.92%) ServiceNow
4 24 (7.38%) Nokia
5 21 (6.46%) SAP
6 18 (5.54%) Cisco
7 17 (5.23%) Sybase
8 14 (4.31%) ION Trading
9 13 (4.00%) Bloomberg
10 12 (3.69%) Fortinet
10 12 (3.69%) MarketAxess
10 12 (3.69%) Tradeweb
11 9 (2.77%) IBM
12 8 (2.46%) CyberArk
13 7 (2.15%) BeyondTrust
13 7 (2.15%) MuleSoft
14 6 (1.85%) F5
14 6 (1.85%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.85%) Salesforce
15 4 (1.23%) TIBCO