XML Contracts in the UK excluding London

XML
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 171 224 180
Rank change year-on-year +53 -44 -48
Contract jobs citing XML 255 252 436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.26% 1.10% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.83% 6.00% 7.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 164 293
10th Percentile £362 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £545
90th Percentile £647 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 12 17
10th Percentile - £63.25 £38.19
25th Percentile - £70.00 £42.33
Median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.69% +52.63% -15.93%
75th Percentile £51.25 £75.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.00 - £70.12
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding 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 3,256 4,203 6,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.27% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,129 3,144 4,310
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £691 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 146
10th Percentile £21.96 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.94 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.85 £79.19 £76.64
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
East of England +60 69 £500 +3.90% 15
North of England +6 58 £534 -8.87% 15
South West +39 49 £550 +15.79% 17
North West +10 38 £523 -10.84% 8
South East -14 37 £450 -13.46% 31
Yorkshire +11 20 £625 +19.05% 6
Midlands +7 20 £600 +20.00% 21
Scotland +40 18 £481 -3.75% 4
West Midlands +20 15 £600 +66.44% 15
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 2
East Midlands -1 5 £331 -33.75% 6
North East +6 4 £431 -40.55% 1
Wales -3 2 £210 -12.50% 8
XML
UK

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 18 (7.06%) Confluence
2 10 (3.92%) Apache
3 6 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.18%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.78%) JBoss
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.78%) WildFly
7 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.71%) Acrobat
3 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.14%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.57%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.57%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.57%) SAP FI/CO
2 4 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.18%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.78%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.39%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 42 (16.47%) Azure
2 24 (9.41%) Serverless
3 22 (8.63%) AWS
4 17 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 15 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.10%) GCP
6 13 (5.10%) GitHub
7 10 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (3.53%) Kong
8 9 (3.53%) PowerApps
9 8 (3.14%) Azure Functions
9 8 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (3.14%) Boomi
10 7 (2.75%) Power Automate
11 6 (2.35%) Apigee
11 6 (2.35%) Azure Stack
11 6 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.35%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.84%) HTTP
2 19 (7.45%) TCP/IP
3 14 (5.49%) DNS
4 12 (4.71%) Firewall
5 10 (3.92%) VPN
6 6 (2.35%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.96%) FTP
8 4 (1.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (1.18%) BIG-IP
9 3 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.18%) Skype
9 3 (1.18%) SSL
10 2 (0.78%) 5G
10 2 (0.78%) AMQP
10 2 (0.78%) LAN
10 2 (0.78%) MQTT
10 2 (0.78%) WAN
11 1 (0.39%) 4G
11 1 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 1 (0.39%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.27%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 15 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.49%) NoSQL
4 14 (5.49%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (5.49%) RDBMS
5 11 (4.31%) MySQL
6 10 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (3.92%) SQLite
7 9 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (3.14%) Power BI
9 7 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.35%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.96%) Big Data
11 5 (1.96%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (13.73%) Git
2 27 (10.59%) JIRA
3 20 (7.84%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.31%) Bitbucket
5 10 (3.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (3.92%) GitLab
6 9 (3.53%) CircleCI
6 9 (3.53%) Travis CI
6 9 (3.53%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.75%) JUnit
8 5 (1.96%) Checkstyle
8 5 (1.96%) JMeter
8 5 (1.96%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.96%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.57%) Subversion
10 3 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (1.18%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (1.18%) Selenium
10 3 (1.18%) Zephyr
General
1 67 (26.27%) Publishing
2 44 (17.25%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 14 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.10%) Finance
7 12 (4.71%) Aerospace
8 10 (3.92%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.14%) Banking
10 6 (2.35%) Marketing
10 6 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.18%) Billing
12 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.18%) Electronics
12 3 (1.18%) Retail
13 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.39%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 89 (34.90%) Author
1 89 (34.90%) Technical Author
2 50 (19.61%) Developer
3 30 (11.76%) Architect
4 13 (5.10%) Analyst
4 13 (5.10%) Senior
4 13 (5.10%) Software Engineer
5 11 (4.31%) DBA
5 11 (4.31%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 10 (3.92%) Data Engineer
7 9 (3.53%) Data Architect
8 6 (2.35%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (2.35%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 6 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.35%) Integration Developer
8 6 (2.35%) Senior Developer
8 6 (2.35%) Tester
9 5 (1.96%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (1.96%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (1.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (31.37%) JSON
2 76 (29.80%) SGML
3 31 (12.16%) HTML
4 26 (10.20%) REST
5 24 (9.41%) SOAP
5 24 (9.41%) Web Services
6 22 (8.63%) .NET
7 19 (7.45%) CSS
7 19 (7.45%) RESTful
8 14 (5.49%) .NET Framework
9 13 (5.10%) Kafka
10 12 (4.71%) XSLT
11 9 (3.53%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (3.53%) OpenID
11 9 (3.53%) YAML
12 8 (3.14%) jQuery
13 7 (2.75%) .NET Core
13 7 (2.75%) LDAP
14 5 (1.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.06%) Data Structures
2 17 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.71%) Animation
4 7 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.35%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.35%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.96%) Smart Meter
6 5 (1.96%) Verilog
6 5 (1.96%) VHDL
7 3 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.78%) CMDB
8 2 (0.78%) IoT
8 2 (0.78%) NHS
8 2 (0.78%) PKI
8 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.39%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.39%) FMCG
9 1 (0.39%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.27%) Linux
2 15 (5.88%) Unix
2 15 (5.88%) Windows
3 10 (3.92%) Android
4 5 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.57%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.78%) zOS
7 1 (0.39%) AIX
7 1 (0.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (33.73%) Agile
2 64 (25.10%) Desktop Publishing
3 50 (19.61%) DevOps
4 34 (13.33%) Scrum
5 29 (11.37%) Data Management
6 28 (10.98%) CI/CD
6 28 (10.98%) Test Automation
7 25 (9.80%) CAD
8 24 (9.41%) Software Engineering
9 21 (8.24%) Data Modelling
9 21 (8.24%) OO
10 20 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (7.06%) Data Protection
12 17 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (5.88%) Analytics
13 15 (5.88%) Containerisation
13 15 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (5.49%) Data Mapping
14 14 (5.49%) ETL
14 14 (5.49%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.82%) SQL
2 45 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 36 (14.12%) Python
4 34 (13.33%) C#
5 31 (12.16%) Java
6 14 (5.49%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.10%) C
8 12 (4.71%) C++
9 9 (3.53%) Bash
10 6 (2.35%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.35%) Go
10 6 (2.35%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.96%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.96%) SOQL
11 5 (1.96%) X++
12 3 (1.18%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 66 (25.88%) HND
2 64 (25.10%) HNC
3 31 (12.16%) Security Cleared
4 17 (6.67%) Degree
5 14 (5.49%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.78%) MCSD
8 2 (0.78%) MCSE
9 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.67%) QA
2 12 (4.71%) Def Stans
3 7 (2.75%) GDPR
4 6 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.57%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.39%) HL7
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (6.67%) Docker
2 9 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.57%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.39%) ACF2
4 1 (0.39%) IAG
4 1 (0.39%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (3.92%) Grafana
1 10 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.53%) Ansible
2 9 (3.53%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (3.53%) Kibana
2 9 (3.53%) logstash
2 9 (3.53%) Progress Chef
2 9 (3.53%) Prometheus
2 9 (3.53%) Puppet
2 9 (3.53%) Terraform
3 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.39%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 39 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.76%) Oracle
3 18 (7.06%) Adobe
4 15 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 13 (5.10%) SAP
6 9 (3.53%) Informatica
6 9 (3.53%) Splunk
7 6 (2.35%) Cadence
7 6 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.35%) Talend
8 5 (1.96%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.57%) F5
9 4 (1.57%) FIS
10 3 (1.18%) Google
11 2 (0.78%) IBM
11 2 (0.78%) Nokia
12 1 (0.39%) ESRI
12 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.39%) Remedy
12 1 (0.39%) TIBCO