XML Contracts in Scotland

XML
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 98 150 122
Rank change year-on-year +52 -28 -23
Contract jobs citing XML 17 14 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.79% 0.52% 1.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.96% 2.18% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 30
10th Percentile £435 £403 £357
25th Percentile £450 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £519 £594 £538
90th Percentile £568 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -3.09% +1.85% +11.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - - £42.18
Median hourly rate - - £46.32
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% +47.37% -24.60%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 429 643 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.02% 24.06% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 473 574
10th Percentile £325 £400 £394
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £491
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -0.61% +15.41%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £654 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £36.85
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.33
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +12.38% +18.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £60.00
90th Percentile - £66.71 £69.55
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in Scotland

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for XML in Scotland

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for XML in Scotland

XML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +25 10 £463 +11.45% 3
Edinburgh +26 6 £513 -6.82% 1
XML
UK

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (23.53%) Confluence
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (11.76%) JBoss
2 2 (11.76%) StreamWeaver
2 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.76%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) EngageOne
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Kerberos
2 2 (11.76%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git
2 6 (35.29%) Bitbucket
2 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (23.53%) JIRA
3 4 (23.53%) JUnit
3 4 (23.53%) Subversion
4 2 (11.76%) Maven
General
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Publishing
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Service Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) SEO Manager
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) JSON
2 6 (35.29%) HTML
2 6 (35.29%) LDAP
2 6 (35.29%) OpenID
2 6 (35.29%) RESTful
2 6 (35.29%) Web Services
3 4 (23.53%) CSS
3 4 (23.53%) Spring
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
4 2 (11.76%) Java EE
4 2 (11.76%) JPA
4 2 (11.76%) JSP
4 2 (11.76%) JSTL
4 2 (11.76%) Kafka
4 2 (11.76%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) Servlets
4 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.76%) STL
4 2 (11.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) AIX
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Agile
1 6 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
1 6 (35.29%) OO
1 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Data Management
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) ITSM
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Service Management
4 2 (11.76%) Batch Processing
4 2 (11.76%) Case Management
4 2 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (11.76%) Microservices
4 2 (11.76%) SDLC
4 2 (11.76%) TDD
4 2 (11.76%) UML
4 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
5 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) C
1 6 (35.29%) Go
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Cadence
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Atlassian
3 2 (11.76%) IBM
3 2 (11.76%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) VMware