XML Contracts in Scotland

XML
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 107 147 109
Rank change year-on-year +40 -38 -10
Contract jobs citing XML 18 13 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.84% 0.48% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.10% 2.04% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 36
10th Percentile £433 £403 £370
25th Percentile £444 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +5.26% +12.09%
75th Percentile £539 £594 £538
90th Percentile £576 £625 £595
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - - £42.18
Median hourly rate - - £46.32
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
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
Scotland

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 Scotland 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 439 637 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.41% 23.57% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 477 505
10th Percentile £325 £400 £366
25th Percentile £401 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £545
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £31.95
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.04
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.57% +14.63%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £48.75
90th Percentile - £66.71 £62.75
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in Scotland

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for XML in Scotland

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for XML in Scotland

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +18 9 £425 +2.41% 1
Edinburgh +32 8 £513 -6.82% 2
West Lothian - 1 - -
XML
UK

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Foundry
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
1 2 (11.11%) JBoss
1 2 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 2 (11.11%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.56%) 5G
2 1 (5.56%) BGP
2 1 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) MPLS
2 1 (5.56%) VPLS
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Git
2 6 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (22.22%) JUnit
3 4 (22.22%) Subversion
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA
4 2 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Publishing
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Service Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) SEO Manager
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) JSON
2 6 (33.33%) LDAP
2 6 (33.33%) OpenID
2 6 (33.33%) RESTful
2 6 (33.33%) Web Services
3 4 (22.22%) CSS
3 4 (22.22%) HTML
3 4 (22.22%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 2 (11.11%) Java EE
4 2 (11.11%) JPA
4 2 (11.11%) JSP
4 2 (11.11%) JSTL
4 2 (11.11%) Kafka
4 2 (11.11%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) Servlets
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.11%) STL
4 2 (11.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.56%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) AIX
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Data Modelling
2 6 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (33.33%) OO
2 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Data Management
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) ITSM
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
5 2 (11.11%) Case Management
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) Data Mapping
5 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (11.11%) Microservices
5 2 (11.11%) SDLC
5 2 (11.11%) Unit Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) C
1 6 (33.33%) Go
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Cadence
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) F5
4 1 (5.56%) Nokia
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) VMware