XML
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 216 186
Rank change year-on-year +48 -30 -36
Contract jobs citing XML 643 758 1,375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.49% 1.28% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.24% 5.52% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 492 963
10th Percentile £408 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £545 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +2.83% +10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £743 £786 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +4.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 17 26
10th Percentile - £48.00 £35.92
25th Percentile - £70.00 £41.89
Median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.69% +49.48% -16.89%
75th Percentile £51.25 £75.00 £65.48
90th Percentile £83.80 - £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -40.69% +49.48% -16.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,883 13,734 24,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.58% 23.25% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,016 17,623
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 152 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.18 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.25
% change year-on-year -24.90% +28.43% +9.44%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in the UK

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XML in the UK

XML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in the UK

XML
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing XML over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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
England +56 562 £540 -1.82% 209
London +53 327 £550 -1.35% 107
Work from Home +101 276 £534 +4.20% 95
UK excluding London +37 248 £523 +4.50% 111
East of England +62 66 £475 -1.30% 16
North of England -2 52 £534 -7.13% 15
South West +51 49 £550 +14.58% 9
South East -6 37 £450 -11.76% 35
North West +12 36 £534 -7.85% 9
Scotland +53 22 £556 +5.95% 5
Midlands +4 18 £600 +20.00% 22
Yorkshire +13 15 £645 +24.64% 6
West Midlands +12 14 £600 +30.43% 17
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 4
North East +7 5 £423 -41.25%
East Midlands +5 4 £300 -40.00% 5
Wales -10 2 £210 -53.33% 6

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 34 (5.29%) Confluence
2 15 (2.33%) Apache
3 12 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.24%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.78%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.62%) IIS
6 4 (0.62%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.47%) CMS
7 3 (0.47%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.47%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.31%) JBoss
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.31%) SAS
8 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.31%) WildFly
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 22 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.11%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.87%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.31%) MadCap Flare
6 2 (0.31%) Mingle
7 1 (0.16%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.16%) Blender
7 1 (0.16%) InDesign
7 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (1.87%) Salesforce CRM
2 8 (1.24%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.93%) ION MarketView
4 5 (0.78%) Adobe Campaign
4 5 (0.78%) Endur
5 4 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.62%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.62%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.47%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
6 3 (0.47%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.31%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.31%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 221 (34.37%) Azure
2 138 (21.46%) Azure DevOps
3 71 (11.04%) Entra ID
4 50 (7.78%) GitHub
5 45 (7.00%) Power Platform
6 42 (6.53%) AWS
7 40 (6.22%) Serverless
8 34 (5.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 27 (4.20%) PowerApps
10 26 (4.04%) Azure API Management
10 26 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (3.73%) Power Automate
12 23 (3.58%) GCP
13 22 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (3.27%) Azure Functions
14 21 (3.27%) Azure Key Vault
15 20 (3.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 19 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
17 16 (2.49%) Azure Stack
18 15 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.75%) BGP
1 37 (5.75%) MPLS
2 26 (4.04%) Firewall
3 23 (3.58%) RSVP
4 22 (3.42%) HTTP
5 20 (3.11%) HSRP
5 20 (3.11%) SNMP
5 20 (3.11%) VPLS
6 18 (2.80%) Ethernet VPN
7 17 (2.64%) IPv4
7 17 (2.64%) TCP/IP
7 17 (2.64%) VRRP
8 16 (2.49%) Cisco IOS
8 16 (2.49%) IOS XR
9 15 (2.33%) DNS
10 13 (2.02%) VPN
11 12 (1.87%) FIX Connectivity
12 11 (1.71%) 5G
12 11 (1.71%) Network Security
13 10 (1.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (25.51%) SQL Server
2 42 (6.53%) Oracle Reports
3 39 (6.07%) MySQL
4 38 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (4.51%) Relational Database
6 28 (4.35%) Power BI
7 26 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (3.73%) NoSQL
9 20 (3.11%) RDBMS
10 19 (2.95%) MongoDB
11 17 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (2.49%) Big Data
12 16 (2.49%) Snowflake Schema
13 15 (2.33%) Redis
14 13 (2.02%) Data Lake
15 12 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 10 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (1.56%) SQLite
17 8 (1.24%) Oracle Database
18 7 (1.09%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 81 (12.60%) Git
2 60 (9.33%) JIRA
3 33 (5.13%) SpecFlow
4 31 (4.82%) Visual Studio
5 30 (4.67%) Jenkins
6 21 (3.27%) Selenium
7 19 (2.95%) GitLab
8 14 (2.18%) Bitbucket
8 14 (2.18%) JUnit
9 13 (2.02%) TeamCity
10 12 (1.87%) WebDriver
11 11 (1.71%) JMeter
12 10 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
13 9 (1.40%) Cucumber
13 9 (1.40%) SoapUI
14 8 (1.24%) Maven
15 7 (1.09%) Postman
15 7 (1.09%) Visual Studio Team System
16 6 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (0.93%) CircleCI
General
1 115 (17.88%) Social Skills
2 110 (17.11%) Finance
3 69 (10.73%) Public Sector
3 69 (10.73%) Publishing
4 58 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.35%) Financial Institution
6 26 (4.04%) Banking
7 21 (3.27%) Telecoms
8 19 (2.95%) Front Office
9 13 (2.02%) Marketing
10 12 (1.87%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.87%) Back Office
10 12 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.40%) Local Government
12 8 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.09%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.09%) Retail
14 5 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 207 (32.19%) Developer
2 121 (18.82%) Senior
3 89 (13.84%) Author
3 89 (13.84%) Technical Author
4 84 (13.06%) Senior Developer
5 74 (11.51%) Architect
6 47 (7.31%) Software Developer
7 46 (7.15%) Analyst
8 38 (5.91%) Senior Software Developer
9 33 (5.13%) Backend Developer
10 31 (4.82%) Software Engineer
11 30 (4.67%) Azure Developer
12 26 (4.04%) Lead
13 25 (3.89%) Consultant
14 24 (3.73%) Business Analyst
15 22 (3.42%) Data Architect
15 22 (3.42%) Senior Backend Developer
16 20 (3.11%) Java Developer
17 19 (2.95%) C# Developer
18 18 (2.80%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (37.79%) JSON
2 133 (20.68%) .NET
3 115 (17.88%) HTML
4 104 (16.17%) SOAP
5 95 (14.77%) REST
6 81 (12.60%) Web Services
7 76 (11.82%) SGML
8 62 (9.64%) .NET Framework
9 58 (9.02%) CSS
10 50 (7.78%) LDAP
11 49 (7.62%) AngularJS
12 46 (7.15%) Servlets
13 45 (7.00%) JSP
14 42 (6.53%) .NET Core
15 41 (6.38%) SPML
16 40 (6.22%) SailPoint
17 39 (6.07%) RESTful
18 37 (5.75%) NETCONF
18 37 (5.75%) YANG
19 25 (3.89%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 64 (9.95%) Product Ownership
2 32 (4.98%) Data Structures
3 31 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 25 (3.89%) Distributed Architecture
5 17 (2.64%) Derivative
5 17 (2.64%) Reference Data
6 14 (2.18%) Fixed Income
7 13 (2.02%) Animation
7 13 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.02%) Mainframe
8 12 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.56%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.40%) CMDB
11 8 (1.24%) Contactless
12 6 (0.93%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.93%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (0.93%) PKI
13 5 (0.78%) Verilog
13 5 (0.78%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.53%) Unix
2 37 (5.75%) Linux
2 37 (5.75%) Windows
3 10 (1.56%) Android
3 10 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.31%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) AIX
6 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.16%) Solaris
6 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (38.57%) Agile
2 215 (33.44%) DevOps
3 151 (23.48%) Scrum
4 148 (23.02%) CI/CD
5 72 (11.20%) Data Modelling
6 71 (11.04%) B2C
7 69 (10.73%) Test Automation
8 64 (9.95%) Desktop Publishing
9 61 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
10 50 (7.78%) Software Engineering
11 49 (7.62%) Microservices
12 42 (6.53%) Business Intelligence
12 42 (6.53%) RBAC
13 41 (6.38%) Mentoring
14 39 (6.07%) Migration
15 38 (5.91%) Continuous Integration
15 38 (5.91%) Data Management
16 35 (5.44%) Analytics
16 35 (5.44%) Data Protection
16 35 (5.44%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 181 (28.15%) SQL
2 162 (25.19%) C#
3 145 (22.55%) JavaScript
4 131 (20.37%) PowerShell
5 110 (17.11%) Java
6 73 (11.35%) Python
7 44 (6.84%) Bicep
8 20 (3.11%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.95%) PL/SQL
10 17 (2.64%) T-SQL
11 16 (2.49%) Perl
12 13 (2.02%) Apex Code
12 13 (2.02%) C
12 13 (2.02%) XPath
13 12 (1.87%) SOQL
14 11 (1.71%) C++
15 10 (1.56%) Bash
16 9 (1.40%) ABAP
16 9 (1.40%) Go
17 7 (1.09%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 66 (10.26%) HND
2 64 (9.95%) HNC
3 60 (9.33%) Degree
4 58 (9.02%) Security Cleared
5 29 (4.51%) SC Cleared
6 22 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.40%) CCIE
8 9 (1.40%) CCIE Service Provider
9 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.09%) CCNP
11 6 (0.93%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.62%) CISSP
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.62%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.47%) CCNA
13 3 (0.47%) SANS
13 3 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (10.26%) QA
2 22 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.87%) Def Stans
4 9 (1.40%) Dodd-Frank
4 9 (1.40%) EMIR
4 9 (1.40%) GDPR
4 9 (1.40%) MiFID
5 7 (1.09%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.93%) NCSC
7 5 (0.78%) GRC
8 4 (0.62%) GAAP
8 4 (0.62%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.47%) HL7
10 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.31%) NIST
10 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.31%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 119 (18.51%) Active Directory
2 40 (6.22%) IAG
3 38 (5.91%) ACF2
3 38 (5.91%) RACF
4 20 (3.11%) Docker
5 18 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.62%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.47%) vCloud
7 3 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.47%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Cronacle
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (3.73%) Ansible
2 21 (3.27%) Terraform
3 10 (1.56%) Kibana
3 10 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.56%) logstash
3 10 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (1.40%) Progress Chef
4 9 (1.40%) Puppet
5 8 (1.24%) FortiGate
5 8 (1.24%) Grafana
6 6 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.78%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.62%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.47%) Autotask
9 3 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.31%) Control-M
10 2 (0.31%) TIBCO Hawk
11 1 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 169 (26.28%) Microsoft
2 82 (12.75%) Oracle
3 53 (8.24%) ServiceNow
4 35 (5.44%) Nokia
5 28 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 28 (4.35%) Sybase
6 27 (4.20%) SAP
7 26 (4.04%) Cisco
8 24 (3.73%) Adobe
9 16 (2.49%) CyberArk
9 16 (2.49%) Fortinet
10 14 (2.18%) ION Trading
11 13 (2.02%) BeyondTrust
11 13 (2.02%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.87%) MarketAxess
12 12 (1.87%) Tradeweb
13 10 (1.56%) F5
13 10 (1.56%) IBM
13 10 (1.56%) Informatica
13 10 (1.56%) Palo Alto