XML Schema Definition (XSD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for XSD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XSD 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 559 647 791
Rank change year-on-year +88 +144 -121
Contract jobs citing XSD 12 40 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.070% 0.061%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.30% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 42
10th Percentile £410 £420 £408
25th Percentile £500 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +17.07% +7.89%
75th Percentile £645 £644 £666
90th Percentile £725 £650 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XSD 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 8,924 13,173 23,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.96% 23.13% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,621 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £665
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 144 237
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.47 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

XSD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XSD in the UK

XSD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XSD in the UK

XSD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XSD over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XSD in the UK

XSD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XSD in the UK

XSD
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSD 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 +91 10 £600 - 4
London +94 6 £640 -1.54% 4
UK excluding London +35 4 £600 +14.29% 1
Work from Home +93 3 - - 2
Midlands - 3 £600 -
West Midlands - 3 £600 -
Scotland - 1 - -

XSD
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 2 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) NetSuite
2 2 (16.67%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Boomi
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) iPaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) MySQL
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) DB2
2 2 (16.67%) MariaDB
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Arabic Language
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) French Language
3 2 (16.67%) German Language
3 2 (16.67%) Japanese Language
3 2 (16.67%) Korean Language
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Spanish Language
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Data Modeller
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
1 4 (33.33%) Senior Data Modeller
2 3 (25.00%) Finance Modeller
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Integration Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) TIBCO Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) TIBCO Support
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Market Data Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Pensions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) XML
2 6 (50.00%) XSLT
3 5 (41.67%) JSON
3 5 (41.67%) SOAP
4 4 (33.33%) FpML
5 3 (25.00%) Middleware
5 3 (25.00%) REST
5 3 (25.00%) WSDL
6 2 (16.67%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (16.67%) XML Schema
7 1 (8.33%) JAXB
7 1 (8.33%) React
7 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (16.67%) Reference Data
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Unix
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Data Modelling
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
4 3 (25.00%) API Management
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) CRM
5 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Data Mapping
5 2 (16.67%) EAI
5 2 (16.67%) ERP
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 2 (16.67%) Kanban
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Open Source
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (16.67%) Release Management
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) XPath
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Groovy
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (8.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (16.67%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) TIBCO
3 1 (8.33%) Bloomberg
3 1 (8.33%) Refinitiv
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Sybase