XML Job Trends in Birmingham

XML
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring XML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 100 113
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 +8
Permanent jobs citing XML 3 24 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.16% 1.36% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% 7.04% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 11
10th Percentile £41,500 - £49,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £55,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -29.75% +0.83%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £65,625
90th Percentile - £68,750 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -20.56% -2.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

XML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 213 341 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.30% 19.33% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 194 174 345
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,749 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,624 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.69% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,875 £70,563 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £87,094
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £58,597 £53,500
% change year-on-year -10.40% +9.53% -4.46%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

XML job vacancy trend in Birmingham

XML
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing XML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing XML

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Support
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Development Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) EDI Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) EDI
1 1 (33.33%) EDIFACT
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) ActionScript
3 1 (33.33%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
XML jobs