XML Contracts with Work from Home Options

XML
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 194 190
Rank change year-on-year +74 -4 -44
Contract jobs citing XML 266 300 656
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.81% 1.26% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.20% 5.02% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 195 462
10th Percentile £375 £406 £380
25th Percentile £450 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.78% +13.68%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £756
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% +1.85% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 16 8
10th Percentile - £64.38 £43.50
25th Percentile - £70.00 £45.94
Median hourly rate £43.00 £72.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.69% +34.88% -17.94%
75th Percentile £51.25 £75.00 £65.54
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,693 5,980 13,113
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.17% 25.05% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,597 4,483 9,739
10th Percentile £345 £390 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 110
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.45
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £66.64
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%

XML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

XML trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing XML.

XML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

XML
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing XML over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

XML daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

XML
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing XML.

XML hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

XML
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing XML over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

XML hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (7.14%) Confluence
2 7 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.88%) Apache
4 4 (1.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.75%) IIS
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.75%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) Jetty
6 1 (0.38%) Moodle
6 1 (0.38%) StreamWeaver
6 1 (0.38%) WildFly
Applications
1 18 (6.77%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.76%) MS Visio
3 8 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.38%) Blender
4 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.38%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.38%) InDesign
4 1 (0.38%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (1.13%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (0.75%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.75%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (0.75%) Eloqua
2 2 (0.75%) Endur
2 2 (0.75%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 2 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.75%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.75%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 102 (38.35%) Azure
2 69 (25.94%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (10.53%) GitHub
4 25 (9.40%) Azure Logic Apps
4 25 (9.40%) Dynamics 365
5 22 (8.27%) Entra ID
6 20 (7.52%) Azure API Management
7 17 (6.39%) Power Platform
8 15 (5.64%) AWS
9 14 (5.26%) PowerApps
10 13 (4.89%) Serverless
11 12 (4.51%) Power Automate
12 11 (4.14%) Azure Stack
13 10 (3.76%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (3.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
15 6 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
16 5 (1.88%) Azure Functions
16 5 (1.88%) Azure Key Vault
16 5 (1.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.38%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.01%) HTTP
3 5 (1.88%) DNS
3 5 (1.88%) Firewall
4 4 (1.50%) FIX Connectivity
4 4 (1.50%) VPN
5 1 (0.38%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.38%) FTP
5 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.38%) LAN
5 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.38%) SMS
5 1 (0.38%) SSH
5 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (27.07%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.77%) Oracle Reports
3 21 (7.89%) MySQL
4 20 (7.52%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.51%) Relational Database
6 11 (4.14%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.14%) Snowflake Schema
7 10 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.38%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.38%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.63%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.26%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.26%) Power BI
11 5 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.88%) Big Data
11 5 (1.88%) Redis
11 5 (1.88%) SQLite
12 4 (1.50%) DB2
12 4 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.50%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 26 (9.77%) JIRA
2 24 (9.02%) Git
3 14 (5.26%) SpecFlow
4 12 (4.51%) Visual Studio
5 10 (3.76%) Jenkins
6 9 (3.38%) Selenium
7 7 (2.63%) GitLab
8 5 (1.88%) JMeter
8 5 (1.88%) MSI
8 5 (1.88%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.88%) WiX
9 4 (1.50%) JUnit
9 4 (1.50%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.50%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.13%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.13%) Subversion
10 3 (1.13%) Travis CI
10 3 (1.13%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 54 (20.30%) Finance
2 48 (18.05%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.29%) Publishing
4 29 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.14%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.38%) Banking
8 7 (2.63%) Front Office
8 7 (2.63%) Retail
8 7 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.26%) Marketing
10 4 (1.50%) Back Office
10 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.75%) French Language
12 2 (0.75%) German Language
12 2 (0.75%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.75%) Korean Language
12 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (33.08%) Developer
2 56 (21.05%) Senior
3 46 (17.29%) Author
3 46 (17.29%) Technical Author
4 45 (16.92%) Senior Developer
5 24 (9.02%) Architect
6 21 (7.89%) Analyst
6 21 (7.89%) Software Developer
7 20 (7.52%) Lead
8 17 (6.39%) Senior Software Developer
9 16 (6.02%) Azure Developer
9 16 (6.02%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.51%) Consultant
10 12 (4.51%) Data Architect
11 11 (4.14%) Backend Developer
11 11 (4.14%) C# Developer
12 9 (3.38%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.38%) SailPoint Developer
12 9 (3.38%) Senior Backend Developer
13 8 (3.01%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (29.70%) JSON
2 59 (22.18%) HTML
3 56 (21.05%) .NET
4 47 (17.67%) SOAP
5 39 (14.66%) REST
6 35 (13.16%) SGML
7 32 (12.03%) Web Services
8 31 (11.65%) CSS
9 24 (9.02%) .NET Framework
10 22 (8.27%) JSP
11 21 (7.89%) Servlets
12 19 (7.14%) LDAP
13 17 (6.39%) RESTful
13 17 (6.39%) SailPoint
13 17 (6.39%) SPML
14 15 (5.64%) JDBC
15 13 (4.89%) .NET Core
16 12 (4.51%) AngularJS
17 11 (4.14%) ASP.NET
17 11 (4.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.77%) Data Structures
3 16 (6.02%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.76%) Reference Data
5 7 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.26%) Contactless
7 5 (1.88%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.88%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.88%) Web 2.0
8 4 (1.50%) CMDB
8 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.50%) Derivative
9 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.13%) Verilog
9 3 (1.13%) VHDL
9 3 (1.13%) Wiki
10 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.02%) Windows
2 15 (5.64%) Unix
3 7 (2.63%) Linux
4 6 (2.26%) Android
5 3 (1.13%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (39.47%) Agile
2 93 (34.96%) DevOps
3 57 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 49 (18.42%) Scrum
5 35 (13.16%) Desktop Publishing
6 30 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (10.90%) Mentoring
8 25 (9.40%) B2C
9 24 (9.02%) Microservices
10 23 (8.65%) Data Modelling
10 23 (8.65%) Software Engineering
11 22 (8.27%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (7.52%) Data Transformation
13 19 (7.14%) Data Protection
13 19 (7.14%) RBAC
14 18 (6.77%) Test Strategy
15 17 (6.39%) Test Automation
16 16 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (6.02%) Integration Patterns
17 15 (5.64%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 79 (29.70%) SQL
2 75 (28.20%) C#
3 64 (24.06%) JavaScript
4 49 (18.42%) PowerShell
5 43 (16.17%) Java
6 19 (7.14%) Python
7 18 (6.77%) Bicep
8 11 (4.14%) C++
9 10 (3.76%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.63%) C
11 6 (2.26%) ABAP
12 5 (1.88%) Bash
12 5 (1.88%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.88%) Perl
12 5 (1.88%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.50%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.50%) X++
13 4 (1.50%) XPath
14 3 (1.13%) Go
14 3 (1.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (13.53%) HND
2 35 (13.16%) HNC
3 31 (11.65%) Degree
4 22 (8.27%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.38%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.13%) CISSP
9 3 (1.13%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.75%) CCNA
10 2 (0.75%) ISEB
10 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.75%) SANS
10 2 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.38%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.15%) QA
2 11 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.75%) GAAP
3 2 (0.75%) GRC
3 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.75%) PMO
3 2 (0.75%) WCAG
4 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.39%) IAG
3 16 (6.02%) ACF2
3 16 (6.02%) RACF
4 9 (3.38%) Docker
5 8 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.13%) vCloud
6 3 (1.13%) VirtualBox
6 3 (1.13%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (4.14%) Terraform
2 6 (2.26%) Ansible
2 6 (2.26%) Progress Chef
2 6 (2.26%) Puppet
3 5 (1.88%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.50%) HP ALM
4 4 (1.50%) Kibana
4 4 (1.50%) logstash
4 4 (1.50%) PingFederate
5 3 (1.13%) Autotask
5 3 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.13%) Grafana
5 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.75%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.38%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 75 (28.20%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.92%) Oracle
3 24 (9.02%) ServiceNow
4 16 (6.02%) Sybase
5 11 (4.14%) SAP
6 7 (2.63%) Adobe
7 6 (2.26%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.88%) HP
8 5 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.50%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.50%) BMC
9 4 (1.50%) IBM
9 4 (1.50%) Informatica
9 4 (1.50%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.50%) MarketAxess
9 4 (1.50%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.50%) Remedy
9 4 (1.50%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.50%) Tradeweb
10 3 (1.13%) Arista