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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 72 71
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 +19
Contract jobs citing XML 6 18 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.01% 1.63% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.41% 8.00% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 7
10th Percentile £433 £233 £167
25th Percentile £463 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +27.50% -23.81%
75th Percentile £654 £525 £547
90th Percentile £725 £793 £640
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £488
% change year-on-year -2.20% +4.87% -2.50%

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 136 225 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.90% 20.40% 15.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 163 131
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £402 £491 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £609 £644 £675
90th Percentile £651 £675 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £23.08
25th Percentile - - £32.43
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year - +27.63% -
75th Percentile - - £63.85
90th Percentile - £69.56 £73.06
Berkshire median hourly rate £31.91 £61.60 £56.06
% change year-on-year -48.21% +9.88% -8.85%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for XML in Reading

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for XML in Reading

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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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (16.67%) Appian
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) BGP
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) Mockito
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Robot Framework
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Automation Developer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) JSON
2 4 (66.67%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
4 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (33.33%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) NETCONF
4 2 (33.33%) SOAP
4 2 (33.33%) Spring
4 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) WireMock
4 2 (33.33%) YANG
5 1 (16.67%) Jinja
5 1 (16.67%) OAuth
5 1 (16.67%) PySpark
5 1 (16.67%) RESTCONF
5 1 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Process Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Kibana
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Pega
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Veracode