XML Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

XML
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring XML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 76 106
Rank change year-on-year -23 +30 -15
Contract jobs citing XML 10 20 16
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.67% 1.38% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.44% 6.85% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 11
10th Percentile - £465 £175
25th Percentile £204 £500 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £510 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% +27.50% -13.75%
75th Percentile £596 £689 £500
90th Percentile £771 £800 £575
South East median daily rate £400 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -30.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.75
Median hourly rate - - £88.50
75th Percentile - - £90.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 - £79.25
% change year-on-year - - +9.31%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 291 292 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.52% 20.19% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 198 127
10th Percentile £363 £384 £308
25th Percentile £413 £426 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £585 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £642 £600
90th Percentile £647 £670 £675
South East median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile - £32.14 £55.16
25th Percentile - £38.72 £56.06
Median hourly rate £81.00 £50.87 £88.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.22% -42.52% +16.83%
75th Percentile £81.25 £63.46 £90.25
90th Percentile £81.70 £70.31 -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -24.00% -7.41% +3.85%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

XML job vacancy trend in Berkshire

XML
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing XML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing XML

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Berkshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Berkshire

XML
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing XML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing XML

XML
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Reading -2 4 £636 +24.75% 5
Bracknell -5 3 £208 -65.13%
Wokingham - 1 £450 -
XML
South East

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Appian
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AtomSphere
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (20.00%) Boomi
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
1 2 (20.00%) Tricentis Tosca
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (30.00%) Firebug
2 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Robot Framework
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Support
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Head of Development
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Developer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) JSON
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 3 (30.00%) REST
3 3 (30.00%) SOAP
4 2 (20.00%) Jinja
4 2 (20.00%) NETCONF
5 1 (10.00%) OAuth
5 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
5 1 (10.00%) PySpark
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) OO
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow
3 2 (20.00%) AI
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (60.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) Groovy
4 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (20.00%) Veracode
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Pega