XML Contract Job Trends in Reading

XML
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring XML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 72 75
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +12
Contract jobs citing XML 5 19 11
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.71% 1.76% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.62% 7.45% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 7
10th Percentile £443 £488 £167
25th Percentile £488 £500 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £636 £510 £400
Median % change year-on-year +24.75% +27.50% -13.75%
75th Percentile £771 £644 £500
90th Percentile - £800 £540
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £519 £400
% change year-on-year -13.25% +29.69% -11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 138 255 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 19.66% 23.57% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 180 88
10th Percentile £400 £382 £350
25th Percentile £475 £429 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £628
90th Percentile £648 £670 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.62 £16.84
Median hourly rate £81.00 £73.25 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% +322.40% -77.11%
75th Percentile - £74.87 £17.84
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.00 £58.30 £72.28
% change year-on-year +38.94% -19.34% -4.58%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

XML job vacancy trend in Reading

XML
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing XML

XML
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XML in Reading over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XML in Reading

XML
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing XML

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (40.00%) Appian
2 1 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
1 2 (40.00%) Tricentis Tosca
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (20.00%) MPLS
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Robot Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Head of Development
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Developer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
2 3 (60.00%) NETCONF
3 2 (40.00%) Jinja
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) SOAP
3 2 (40.00%) YANG
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) OAuth
4 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (20.00%) PySpark
4 1 (20.00%) RESTCONF
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) CentOS
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Sequence Diagram
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Veracode
3 1 (20.00%) Pega