XML Contracts in the South East

XML
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 161 150 147
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -38
Contract jobs citing XML 39 65 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.68% 1.15% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.17% 6.67% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 35 75
10th Percentile £325 £335 £352
25th Percentile £400 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +19.86%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £650
90th Percentile £589 £600 £665
England median daily rate £534 £554 £540
% change year-on-year -3.61% +2.59% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 4
10th Percentile - £66.63 £45.38
25th Percentile - £70.00 £45.94
Median hourly rate - £71.25 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - +46.15% -25.57%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £53.89
90th Percentile - - £60.88
England median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -38.57% +40.00% -20.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 755 975 1,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.12% 17.22% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 686 999
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £406 £414 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £522 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -0.62% +15.77%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 40 42
10th Percentile £35.00 £50.00 £27.80
25th Percentile £56.61 £55.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.75 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +48.65% -7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.30 £67.94
England median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for XML in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for XML in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the South East 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
Thames Valley +1 23 £490 +0.51% 15
Berkshire -17 19 £506 -5.81% 12
Surrey +21 11 £450 -18.18% 4
Buckinghamshire +29 4 £431 +23.21% 1
Hampshire -31 4 £425 +3.03% 4
XML
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (17.95%) Confluence
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (5.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.56%) Apache
4 1 (2.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (5.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) Azure
2 12 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 11 (28.21%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (17.95%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (17.95%) PowerApps
5 6 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Functions
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (10.26%) OCI
6 4 (10.26%) Power Automate
6 4 (10.26%) Serverless
7 3 (7.69%) GCP
8 2 (5.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (2.56%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.56%) GitHub
9 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.82%) Data Lake
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (12.82%) Power BI
3 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (10.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle Discoverer
3 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
3 4 (10.26%) SQLPlus
4 3 (7.69%) MySQL
4 3 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 3 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) JIRA
2 7 (17.95%) Git
3 5 (12.82%) Bitbucket
3 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.26%) Artifactory
4 4 (10.26%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (5.13%) Selenium
6 1 (2.56%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.56%) Appium
6 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.56%) JMeter
6 1 (2.56%) JUnit
6 1 (2.56%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (2.56%) TestNG
6 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.56%) Xcode
General
1 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Telecoms
3 6 (15.38%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Marketing
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Developer
2 6 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Data Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Oracle Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Azure Data Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Development Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Integration Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Software Development Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Test Development Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Tester
6 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (41.03%) JSON
2 11 (28.21%) HTML
3 8 (20.51%) .NET
3 8 (20.51%) .NET Framework
4 7 (17.95%) REST
4 7 (17.95%) RESTful
5 6 (15.38%) CSS
6 5 (12.82%) SOAP
6 5 (12.82%) WCF
7 4 (10.26%) ADO
7 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
9 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET
9 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (5.13%) Django
9 2 (5.13%) Entity Framework
9 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 2 (5.13%) Node.js
9 2 (5.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Smart Meter
2 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
2 8 (20.51%) Windows
3 5 (12.82%) Unix
4 4 (10.26%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (2.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Agile
2 14 (35.90%) DevOps
2 14 (35.90%) Scrum
3 10 (25.64%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 8 (20.51%) Project Delivery
5 8 (20.51%) User Stories
6 7 (17.95%) Analytics
6 7 (17.95%) Manual Testing
7 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.38%) ETL
7 6 (15.38%) SDLC
8 5 (12.82%) API Development
8 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
8 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (12.82%) Data Modelling
8 5 (12.82%) Data Science
8 5 (12.82%) Software Testing
9 4 (10.26%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (61.54%) SQL
2 14 (35.90%) C#
3 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 10 (25.64%) Python
5 5 (12.82%) Java
5 5 (12.82%) PL/SQL
5 5 (12.82%) T-SQL
6 4 (10.26%) C++
6 4 (10.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) GDPR
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.56%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (10.26%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Oracle
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) Ab Initio
4 4 (10.26%) Informatica
4 4 (10.26%) SAP
5 3 (7.69%) Google
6 2 (5.13%) Adobe
6 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.56%) Databricks
7 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.56%) Remedy
7 1 (2.56%) Salesforce