XML Contracts in the West Midlands

XML
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 106 83
Rank change year-on-year +12 -23 -9
Contract jobs citing XML 15 22 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.79% 0.97% 2.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.77% 6.30% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 58
10th Percentile £494 - £382
25th Percentile £539 £350 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £361 £431
Median % change year-on-year +66.44% -16.36% +19.39%
75th Percentile £656 £500 £495
90th Percentile £673 £600 £577
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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 260 349 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.75% 15.34% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 238 439
10th Percentile £313 £360 £363
25th Percentile £375 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +3.54% +23.75%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £645
England median daily rate £550 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £14.21 - -
25th Percentile £33.50 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £39.96 - £58.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.00%
75th Percentile £55.31 - £59.50
90th Percentile £56.25 - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +10.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for XML in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XML in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Birmingham +17 12 £600 +71.43% 3
Warwickshire -1 3 - - 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 8 (53.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Boomi
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (13.33%) iPaaS
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (6.67%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) MySQL
2 3 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Billing
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Billing Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Integration Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) JSON
2 7 (46.67%) HTML
2 7 (46.67%) Web Services
3 6 (40.00%) XSLT
4 5 (33.33%) REST
4 5 (33.33%) SOAP
5 4 (26.67%) CSS
6 3 (20.00%) .NET
6 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (20.00%) Entity Framework
6 3 (20.00%) Visualforce
6 3 (20.00%) WSDL
6 3 (20.00%) XSD
7 2 (13.33%) OAuth
7 2 (13.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (26.67%) Business Transformation
3 4 (26.67%) CRM
3 4 (26.67%) ERP
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 3 (20.00%) UML
5 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (13.33%) Defect Tracking
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Release Management
5 2 (13.33%) Revenue Recognition
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
6 1 (6.67%) Integration Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Apex Code
2 3 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) SOQL
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Salesforce
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) SAP
5 1 (6.67%) Conga
5 1 (6.67%) Dell
5 1 (6.67%) DocuSign
5 1 (6.67%) Jitterbit
5 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
5 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.67%) SnapLogic
5 1 (6.67%) Software AG
5 1 (6.67%) Talend
5 1 (6.67%) TIBCO