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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 90 92
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +18
Contract jobs citing XML 11 23 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.94% 1.36% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.17% 7.10% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 8
10th Percentile £350 £281 £169
25th Percentile £478 £439 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £444
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +15.21% -18.39%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £581
90th Percentile £616 £781 £630
South East median daily rate £475 £318 £488
% change year-on-year +49.61% -34.87% -7.14%

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 264 324 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.51% 19.09% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 219 170
10th Percentile £330 £363 £313
25th Percentile £410 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £647
90th Percentile £638 £663 £701
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £50.87 £24.68
25th Percentile - - £36.45
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +9.88% -18.31%
75th Percentile - - £67.63
90th Percentile - £64.25 £74.56
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.00%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +12 6 £525 +2.94% 5
Windsor -6 3 £500 -
Bracknell - 1 £208 -
XML
South East

XML
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Appian
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) GitHub
1 4 (36.36%) Serverless
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) BGP
1 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
1 1 (9.09%) MPLS
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) JMeter
2 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Mockito
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Firebug
3 1 (9.09%) Robot Framework
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Salesforce Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Head of Development
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Support
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) JSON
2 8 (72.73%) HTML
3 6 (54.55%) REST
4 5 (45.45%) jQuery
4 5 (45.45%) SOAP
5 3 (27.27%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (27.27%) Web Services
6 2 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (18.18%) Apache Camel
6 2 (18.18%) CSS
6 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
6 2 (18.18%) NETCONF
6 2 (18.18%) RESTful
6 2 (18.18%) Spring
6 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
6 2 (18.18%) WireMock
6 2 (18.18%) YANG
7 1 (9.09%) Jinja
7 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
7 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) CMDB
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) CentOS
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) Workflow
4 3 (27.27%) Case Management
4 3 (27.27%) OO
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) BDD
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Process Management
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
6 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 1 (9.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
6 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) Apex Code
4 3 (27.27%) SOQL
5 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
6 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Kibana
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Salesforce
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Pega
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Veracode