XML Contracts in the North of England

XML
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 133 171
Rank change year-on-year +5 +38 -54
Contract jobs citing XML 58 80 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.25% 1.43% 0.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.37% 7.35% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 60 57
10th Percentile £436 £396 £315
25th Percentile £493 £459 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £583 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.37% +16.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £617 £675 £550
90th Percentile £645 £721 £634
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.72
25th Percentile - - £29.92
Median hourly rate £81.00 - £33.84
75th Percentile - - £38.92
90th Percentile - - £41.82
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
North of 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 the North of 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 910 1,088 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.58% 19.45% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 845 1,222
10th Percentile £363 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £440 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 38
10th Percentile £14.56 £37.79 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +10.62% +76.56%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £78.55
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for XML in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West +6 38 £523 -10.84% 8
Yorkshire +10 20 £625 +19.05% 5
North East +11 4 £431 -40.55% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 9 (15.52%) Confluence
2 7 (12.07%) Apache
3 5 (8.62%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (8.62%) Apache Spark
4 3 (5.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) Azure
2 16 (27.59%) AWS
2 16 (27.59%) Serverless
3 11 (18.97%) GitHub
4 10 (17.24%) GCP
5 9 (15.52%) Kong
6 6 (10.34%) Apigee
6 6 (10.34%) Azure Stack
6 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (10.34%) Snowflake
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.72%) OCI
8 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.97%) Firewall
2 9 (15.52%) DNS
2 9 (15.52%) HTTP
2 9 (15.52%) TCP/IP
2 9 (15.52%) VPN
3 5 (8.62%) FTP
4 3 (5.17%) BIG-IP
4 3 (5.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (5.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (5.17%) SSL
5 2 (3.45%) AMQP
5 2 (3.45%) LAN
5 2 (3.45%) MQTT
5 2 (3.45%) WAN
6 1 (1.72%) DMZ
6 1 (1.72%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.41%) MongoDB
1 13 (22.41%) Oracle Reports
1 13 (22.41%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (18.97%) NoSQL
2 11 (18.97%) RDBMS
2 11 (18.97%) Relational Database
3 9 (15.52%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.34%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (8.62%) Big Data
5 5 (8.62%) SQLite
6 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database
6 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (3.45%) MySQL
7 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.72%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Git
1 14 (24.14%) JIRA
2 9 (15.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 9 (15.52%) CircleCI
2 9 (15.52%) GitLab
2 9 (15.52%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.52%) Travis CI
3 3 (5.17%) Mockito
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (3.45%) JUnit
5 1 (1.72%) JMeter
5 1 (1.72%) Postman
5 1 (1.72%) Selenium
5 1 (1.72%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.62%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (24.14%) Developer
2 12 (20.69%) Architect
3 11 (18.97%) DBA
3 11 (18.97%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 6 (10.34%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Data Architect
4 6 (10.34%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Senior
7 3 (5.17%) Android Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (5.17%) React Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Android Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (60.34%) JSON
2 11 (18.97%) Kafka
3 10 (17.24%) HTML
4 9 (15.52%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (15.52%) YAML
5 6 (10.34%) REST
5 6 (10.34%) Web Services
6 5 (8.62%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (6.90%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (6.90%) XSLT
8 3 (5.17%) .NET
8 3 (5.17%) AngularJS
8 3 (5.17%) CSS
8 3 (5.17%) DHTML
8 3 (5.17%) JSP
8 3 (5.17%) React Native
8 3 (5.17%) SOAP
9 2 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (3.45%) React
9 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Data Structures
2 6 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.34%) Reference Data
3 5 (8.62%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.45%) IoT
5 2 (3.45%) PKI
6 1 (1.72%) CMDB
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.52%) Android
2 7 (12.07%) Unix
3 6 (10.34%) Windows
4 4 (6.90%) Linux
4 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.45%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (63.79%) Agile
2 21 (36.21%) DevOps
3 17 (29.31%) CI/CD
4 15 (25.86%) Scrum
5 14 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 12 (20.69%) Mentoring
6 12 (20.69%) Task Automation
7 11 (18.97%) Data Management
7 11 (18.97%) Database Security
7 11 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (18.97%) Secure Coding
7 11 (18.97%) Use Case
8 10 (17.24%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (15.52%) API Integration
9 9 (15.52%) Continuous Deployment
9 9 (15.52%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
9 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (15.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.21%) Java
2 18 (31.03%) Python
3 16 (27.59%) SQL
4 10 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 10 (17.24%) PowerShell
5 9 (15.52%) Bash
6 8 (13.79%) C#
7 5 (8.62%) Kotlin
8 3 (5.17%) ActionScript
8 3 (5.17%) PL/SQL
8 3 (5.17%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.45%) C
9 2 (3.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.24%) QA
2 6 (10.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (18.97%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) ACF2
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) IAG
2 1 (1.72%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Grafana
2 9 (15.52%) Ansible
2 9 (15.52%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (15.52%) Kibana
2 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.52%) logstash
2 9 (15.52%) Progress Chef
2 9 (15.52%) Prometheus
2 9 (15.52%) Puppet
2 9 (15.52%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (25.86%) Oracle
2 9 (15.52%) Splunk
3 5 (8.62%) Informatica
3 5 (8.62%) Talend
4 3 (5.17%) Adobe
4 3 (5.17%) F5
5 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.72%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.72%) HP
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft