XML Contracts in the Thames Valley

XML
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 89 129 120
Rank change year-on-year +40 -9 +16
Contract jobs citing XML 13 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.86% 0.60% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.73% 4.36% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 18
10th Percentile £473 £200 £410
25th Percentile - £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £575
90th Percentile £599 £623 £600
South East median daily rate £400 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £21.48 - -
25th Percentile £22.41 - -
Median hourly rate £24.83 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -64.53% - -
75th Percentile £27.05 - -
90th Percentile £27.87 - -
South East median hourly rate £24.83 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -64.53% -6.67% +42.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 275 367 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.20% 13.66% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 234 352
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £600 £617 £625
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 8
10th Percentile £23.35 £56.58 £52.90
25th Percentile £27.11 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £80.25
90th Percentile £86.38 £62.00 £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 the Thames Valley

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for XML in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for XML in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for XML in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +29 10 £500 - 26
Oxfordshire - 2 - - 11
Buckinghamshire +13 1 £550 +27.54% 18
XML
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) SaaS
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) HTTP
2 2 (15.38%) MQTT
2 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) BGP
3 1 (7.69%) DWDM
3 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
3 1 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (7.69%) FTP
3 1 (7.69%) MPLS
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (30.77%) RDBMS
1 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) MS Access
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) JMeter
1 2 (15.38%) JUnit
1 2 (15.38%) Mockito
2 1 (7.69%) Eclipse
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
1 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Automotive
4 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Aviation
4 1 (7.69%) Military
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Telecoms Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) BizTalk Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planner
5 1 (7.69%) Network Capacity Planner
5 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Network Planner
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) REST
2 7 (53.85%) HTML
3 6 (46.15%) SOAP
3 6 (46.15%) Web Services
4 5 (38.46%) CSS
5 4 (30.77%) Ajax
5 4 (30.77%) JSON
6 2 (15.38%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (15.38%) Apache Camel
6 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
6 2 (15.38%) jQuery
6 2 (15.38%) PostGIS
6 2 (15.38%) Spring
6 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
6 2 (15.38%) WireMock
6 2 (15.38%) XSLT
7 1 (7.69%) JSP
7 1 (7.69%) NETCONF
7 1 (7.69%) RESTCONF
7 1 (7.69%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) CMDB
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Infotainment
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) CentOS
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) Change Management
3 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
3 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
3 4 (30.77%) IT Asset Management
3 4 (30.77%) ITIL
3 4 (30.77%) ITSM
3 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
3 4 (30.77%) Service Management
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Workflow
5 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Process Management
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) ActionScript
3 1 (7.69%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Kibana
3 1 (7.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
2 3 (23.08%) Dynatrace
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) Ciena
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Nokia
4 1 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (7.69%) Snow
4 1 (7.69%) Twitter