XML Contracts in Berkshire

XML
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 112 86
Rank change year-on-year +29 -26 +38
Contract jobs citing XML 10 12 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.85% 0.60% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.08% 4.01% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 17
10th Percentile £466 £189 £405
25th Percentile - £413 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +19.62%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £575
90th Percentile £601 £623 £600
South East median daily rate £400 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -

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 245 299 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 20.89% 15.07% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 179 238
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £636
90th Percentile £651 £675 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 8
10th Percentile £39.64 £56.56 £52.90
25th Percentile £53.72 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £84.85 - £80.25
90th Percentile £89.44 £61.84 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for XML in Berkshire

XML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for XML in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for XML in Berkshire

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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 1 May 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 +25 4 £463 -3.65% 11
Bracknell - 2 £595 -
XML
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) SaaS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) HTTP
2 2 (20.00%) MQTT
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) BGP
3 1 (10.00%) DWDM
3 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (10.00%) MPLS
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JMeter
1 2 (20.00%) JUnit
1 2 (20.00%) Mockito
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Automotive
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planner
4 1 (10.00%) Network Capacity Planner
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Planner
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) REST
2 6 (60.00%) HTML
2 6 (60.00%) Web Services
3 5 (50.00%) SOAP
4 4 (40.00%) Ajax
4 4 (40.00%) CSS
5 3 (30.00%) JSON
6 2 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (20.00%) Apache Camel
6 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
6 2 (20.00%) jQuery
6 2 (20.00%) PostGIS
6 2 (20.00%) Spring
6 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (20.00%) WireMock
7 1 (10.00%) NETCONF
7 1 (10.00%) RESTCONF
7 1 (10.00%) YAML
7 1 (10.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) CMDB
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Infotainment
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) CentOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (40.00%) IT Asset Management
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) ITSM
3 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 4 (40.00%) Service Management
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Workflow
5 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
5 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Process Management
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) TDD
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Ciena
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Nokia
3 1 (10.00%) Snow