XML Contracts in the Thames Valley

XML
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring XML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XML over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 115 122
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing XML 23 32 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.86% 1.11% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.05% 6.67% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 33
10th Percentile £281 £264 £351
25th Percentile £400 £393 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £488 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% -25.00% +19.27%
75th Percentile £586 £575 -
90th Percentile £606 £600 -
South East median daily rate £450 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +19.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 380 480 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.17% 16.68% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 347 446
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -1.77% -0.62% +15.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 6
10th Percentile £56.61 £46.30 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.65 £55.00 £41.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.50 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% +21.84% +104.54%
75th Percentile - £79.99 £68.03
90th Percentile £61.72 £80.33 £74.32
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £68.75 £46.25
% change year-on-year -10.40% +48.65% -7.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for XML in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire -17 19 £506 -5.81% 12
Buckinghamshire +29 4 £431 +23.21% 1
XML
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (17.39%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (13.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
3 5 (21.74%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Functions
4 4 (17.39%) OCI
4 4 (17.39%) Serverless
5 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (13.04%) GCP
5 3 (13.04%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle Discoverer
2 4 (17.39%) Power BI
2 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) SQLPlus
3 3 (13.04%) MySQL
3 3 (13.04%) RDBMS
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (13.04%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) Android Studio
4 1 (4.35%) Appium
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) JMeter
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) SoapUI
4 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.35%) TestNG
4 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.35%) Xcode
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Telecoms
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Data Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Applications Support
5 2 (8.70%) Automation Tester
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) ITSM Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) HTML
2 7 (30.43%) JSON
2 7 (30.43%) REST
3 6 (26.09%) CSS
4 4 (17.39%) .NET
4 4 (17.39%) .NET Framework
5 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (13.04%) WCF
6 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.70%) Django
6 2 (8.70%) Entity Framework
6 2 (8.70%) jQuery
6 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 2 (8.70%) Node.js
6 2 (8.70%) React
6 2 (8.70%) Web Services
7 1 (4.35%) MERN Stack
7 1 (4.35%) PySpark
7 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
7 1 (4.35%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
1 4 (17.39%) Smart Meter
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Unix
3 4 (17.39%) Windows
4 1 (4.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Scrum
4 5 (21.74%) Analytics
4 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
4 5 (21.74%) Data Science
4 5 (21.74%) ETL
4 5 (21.74%) User Stories
5 4 (17.39%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 4 (17.39%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (17.39%) ETL Development
5 4 (17.39%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
5 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Web Development
5 4 (17.39%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
2 9 (39.13%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) C#
3 5 (21.74%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) PL/SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) Ab Initio
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Google
4 2 (8.70%) SAP
4 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.35%) Databricks
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.35%) Remedy
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce