XQuery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for XQuery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XQuery over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 673 835
Rank change year-on-year +109 +162 -127
Contract jobs citing XQuery 7 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.025% 0.010%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.055% 0.071% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 13 8
10th Percentile - £413 £526
25th Percentile - £675 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +41.18%
75th Percentile - £725 £700
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £21.50 -

All Programming Languages
UK

XQuery is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,717 19,709 31,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 34.61% 36.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,044 14,221 23,079
10th Percentile £350 £389 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 440 503
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.05 £19.60
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +23.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £72.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%

XQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XQuery in the UK

XQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XQuery in the UK

XQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XQuery in the UK

XQuery
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XQuery within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +103 7 - - 2
London +96 7 - -

XQuery
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 7 (100.00%) Power BI
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Business Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 7 (100.00%) Kanban
1 7 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 7 (100.00%) Project Management
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
2 5 (71.43%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) XPath
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) SAP