XML Job Trends in the City of London

XML
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring XML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 127 155
Rank change year-on-year +6 +28 +45
Permanent jobs citing XML 5 45 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.30% 1.61% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.31% 5.89% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4 36 20
10th Percentile £59,000 - £52,125
25th Percentile £61,250 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £55,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -10.20% -23.44%
75th Percentile £80,500 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,700 £115,000 £89,125
Central London median annual salary £68,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% - -20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 382 764 947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.72% 27.31% 31.00%
Number of salaries quoted 328 532 871
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -6.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile £115,000 £96,438 £102,500
90th Percentile £138,250 £120,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

XML job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing XML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing XML

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for XML in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) NUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Qualitative Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) API Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (40.00%) Scala
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) VBA
4 1 (20.00%) VC++
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) ISEB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) EMIR
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Siebel