XML Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 193 189
Rank change year-on-year +28 -4 -38
Contract jobs citing XML 629 767 1,322
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.46% 1.37% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.94% 5.96% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 505 927
10th Percentile £403 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +1.85% +10.77%
75th Percentile £622 £657 £650
90th Percentile £743 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £505 £475
% change year-on-year +1.24% +6.32% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 17 20
10th Percentile - £48.00 £33.26
25th Percentile - £70.00 £41.31
Median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.69% +52.63% -24.00%
75th Percentile £51.25 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £85.00 - £66.69
UK excluding London 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

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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
England +32 559 £534 -2.91% 170
London +42 323 £538 -8.28% 69
Work from Home +81 260 £534 +1.71% 89
UK excluding London +16 239 £511 +1.24% 109
East of England +50 69 £500 +2.56% 14
North of England -7 54 £537 -8.36% 20
South West +31 47 £550 +15.79% 16
North West +4 34 £522 -10.42% 16
South East -22 33 £431 -17.86% 28
Midlands +1 21 £600 +20.00% 24
Yorkshire +9 20 £625 +8.70% 3
West Midlands +7 17 £600 +52.77% 17
Scotland +38 15 £481 -3.75% 7
North East +9 4 £431 -40.55% 1
East Midlands -3 4 £363 -27.50% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Wales 0 1 £210 -8.70% 4

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 38 (6.04%) Confluence
2 16 (2.54%) Apache
3 8 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.11%) MQSeries
5 6 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.32%) IIS
7 2 (0.32%) JBoss
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.32%) SAS
7 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.32%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.32%) WildFly
8 1 (0.16%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Moodle
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 21 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.86%) MS Visio
3 17 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.91%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.32%) Mingle
7 1 (0.16%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.16%) Blender
7 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.16%) InDesign
7 1 (0.16%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (1.27%) NetSuite
1 8 (1.27%) SAP CO
1 8 (1.27%) SAP FI
1 8 (1.27%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (0.95%) Endur
2 6 (0.95%) ION MarketView
3 5 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.48%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.48%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.48%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 3 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.32%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.32%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 228 (36.25%) Azure
2 143 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 74 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 52 (8.27%) AWS
5 49 (7.79%) GitHub
6 47 (7.47%) Power Platform
7 32 (5.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 32 (5.09%) GCP
7 32 (5.09%) Serverless
8 28 (4.45%) PowerApps
9 26 (4.13%) Power Automate
10 25 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
12 23 (3.66%) Azure API Management
13 22 (3.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 19 (3.02%) Azure Key Vault
15 17 (2.70%) Azure Functions
16 16 (2.54%) Azure Stack
16 16 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.50%) BGP
1 22 (3.50%) HTTP
1 22 (3.50%) MPLS
2 21 (3.34%) Firewall
3 18 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.38%) DNS
4 15 (2.38%) VPN
5 14 (2.23%) RSVP
6 13 (2.07%) HSRP
6 13 (2.07%) SNMP
7 12 (1.91%) VPLS
8 11 (1.75%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (1.75%) FIX Connectivity
9 10 (1.59%) IPv4
9 10 (1.59%) SSH
9 10 (1.59%) VRRP
10 9 (1.43%) Cisco IOS
10 9 (1.43%) IOS XR
11 8 (1.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 7 (1.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (26.39%) SQL Server
2 48 (7.63%) MySQL
3 38 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (6.04%) Oracle Reports
4 31 (4.93%) Power BI
5 27 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (4.29%) Relational Database
6 19 (3.02%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 17 (2.70%) RDBMS
9 16 (2.54%) Big Data
9 16 (2.54%) Redis
9 16 (2.54%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (2.07%) Data Lake
11 13 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.59%) SQLite
13 9 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (1.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
14 7 (1.11%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 78 (12.40%) Git
2 64 (10.17%) JIRA
3 34 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.25%) SpecFlow
5 31 (4.93%) Visual Studio
6 21 (3.34%) Selenium
7 20 (3.18%) JUnit
8 18 (2.86%) GitLab
9 14 (2.23%) Bitbucket
10 13 (2.07%) Cucumber
10 13 (2.07%) TeamCity
11 12 (1.91%) WebDriver
12 11 (1.75%) JMeter
13 10 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 10 (1.59%) Maven
14 9 (1.43%) CircleCI
14 9 (1.43%) SoapUI
14 9 (1.43%) Travis CI
15 7 (1.11%) Gradle
15 7 (1.11%) SonarQube
General
1 117 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 112 (17.81%) Finance
3 69 (10.97%) Publishing
4 66 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (10.33%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.72%) Banking
7 28 (4.45%) Financial Institution
8 21 (3.34%) Telecoms
9 19 (3.02%) Front Office
10 12 (1.91%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.91%) Back Office
11 11 (1.75%) Marketing
12 10 (1.59%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.59%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.27%) Local Government
14 8 (1.27%) Retail
15 7 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.79%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (35.14%) Developer
2 125 (19.87%) Senior
3 91 (14.47%) Author
3 91 (14.47%) Technical Author
4 86 (13.67%) Senior Developer
5 70 (11.13%) Architect
6 45 (7.15%) Analyst
7 44 (7.00%) Software Developer
8 37 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
9 34 (5.41%) Backend Developer
10 31 (4.93%) Azure Developer
11 30 (4.77%) Software Engineer
12 27 (4.29%) Lead
13 26 (4.13%) Consultant
14 25 (3.97%) Java Developer
15 23 (3.66%) Business Analyst
15 23 (3.66%) Senior Backend Developer
16 21 (3.34%) Data Architect
17 19 (3.02%) C# Developer
18 15 (2.38%) SailPoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (34.34%) JSON
2 134 (21.30%) HTML
3 133 (21.14%) .NET
4 109 (17.33%) SOAP
5 100 (15.90%) REST
6 89 (14.15%) Web Services
7 76 (12.08%) SGML
8 73 (11.61%) CSS
9 65 (10.33%) .NET Framework
10 55 (8.74%) AngularJS
11 50 (7.95%) LDAP
12 48 (7.63%) JSP
13 45 (7.15%) Servlets
14 44 (7.00%) .NET Core
15 41 (6.52%) SPML
16 40 (6.36%) RESTful
16 40 (6.36%) SailPoint
17 31 (4.93%) React
18 26 (4.13%) ASP.NET
19 25 (3.97%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.02%) Product Ownership
2 44 (7.00%) Data Structures
3 30 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (2.70%) Reference Data
5 16 (2.54%) Distributed Architecture
6 15 (2.38%) Derivative
7 13 (2.07%) Animation
7 13 (2.07%) Fixed Income
7 13 (2.07%) Mainframe
7 13 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.59%) CMDB
10 9 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.27%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.27%) Contactless
12 6 (0.95%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.79%) Verilog
13 5 (0.79%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.15%) Unix
2 40 (6.36%) Linux
3 36 (5.72%) Windows
4 12 (1.91%) Android
5 8 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.32%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) AIX
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Solaris
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (40.22%) Agile
2 211 (33.55%) DevOps
3 158 (25.12%) Scrum
4 153 (24.32%) CI/CD
5 72 (11.45%) B2C
6 69 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (10.81%) Data Modelling
8 64 (10.17%) Desktop Publishing
8 64 (10.17%) Test Automation
9 51 (8.11%) Software Engineering
10 48 (7.63%) Microservices
11 44 (7.00%) Continuous Integration
12 43 (6.84%) SDLC
13 42 (6.68%) Business Intelligence
14 41 (6.52%) RBAC
15 38 (6.04%) Data Management
15 38 (6.04%) Migration
15 38 (6.04%) TDD
16 36 (5.72%) Mentoring
17 35 (5.56%) OO
Programming Languages
1 186 (29.57%) SQL
2 162 (25.76%) C#
3 153 (24.32%) JavaScript
4 128 (20.35%) PowerShell
5 119 (18.92%) Java
6 65 (10.33%) Python
7 47 (7.47%) Bicep
8 23 (3.66%) TypeScript
9 19 (3.02%) C++
10 17 (2.70%) C
10 17 (2.70%) Perl
11 16 (2.54%) PL/SQL
11 16 (2.54%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.75%) ABAP
12 11 (1.75%) Bash
12 11 (1.75%) XPath
13 9 (1.43%) Go
14 8 (1.27%) Apex Code
15 7 (1.11%) SOQL
15 7 (1.11%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 67 (10.65%) HND
2 64 (10.17%) HNC
3 59 (9.38%) Degree
4 56 (8.90%) Security Cleared
5 28 (4.45%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.79%) CCIE
10 5 (0.79%) CCIE Service Provider
11 4 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.64%) CCNP
11 4 (0.64%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.48%) CCNA
12 3 (0.48%) CISSP
12 3 (0.48%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.48%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.32%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.81%) QA
2 23 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.91%) Def Stans
4 8 (1.27%) Dodd-Frank
4 8 (1.27%) EMIR
4 8 (1.27%) GDPR
5 7 (1.11%) MiFID
6 6 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.95%) NCSC
7 5 (0.79%) ISO 15022
8 4 (0.64%) GAAP
8 4 (0.64%) GRC
9 3 (0.48%) WCAG
10 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.32%) HL7
10 2 (0.32%) NIST
10 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.32%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 120 (19.08%) Active Directory
2 40 (6.36%) IAG
3 38 (6.04%) ACF2
3 38 (6.04%) RACF
4 23 (3.66%) Docker
5 18 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.64%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.48%) vCloud
7 3 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.48%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Cronacle
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (3.82%) Terraform
2 23 (3.66%) Ansible
3 17 (2.70%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.07%) Kibana
4 13 (2.07%) logstash
4 13 (2.07%) Progress Chef
5 12 (1.91%) Puppet
6 10 (1.59%) Grafana
6 10 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (1.43%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.79%) Control-M
8 5 (0.79%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.64%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.64%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.48%) Autotask
10 3 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.32%) TIBCO Hawk
12 1 (0.16%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 1 (0.16%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 172 (27.34%) Microsoft
2 83 (13.20%) Oracle
3 56 (8.90%) ServiceNow
4 35 (5.56%) SAP
5 28 (4.45%) Sybase
6 22 (3.50%) Adobe
6 22 (3.50%) Salesforce
7 20 (3.18%) Nokia
8 16 (2.54%) Cisco
9 15 (2.38%) CyberArk
10 13 (2.07%) BeyondTrust
10 13 (2.07%) ION Trading
11 12 (1.91%) Bloomberg
12 11 (1.75%) IBM
12 11 (1.75%) MarketAxess
12 11 (1.75%) Tradeweb
13 10 (1.59%) Informatica
13 10 (1.59%) MuleSoft
14 9 (1.43%) Splunk
14 9 (1.43%) Talend