XML Job Trends in England

XML
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring XML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 285 282
Rank change year-on-year -174 -3 +16
Permanent jobs citing XML 225 400 820
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 1.07% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 5.14% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 144 335 589
10th Percentile £40,150 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,050 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,175
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.16% -9.08%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,751 7,789 16,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.95% 20.85% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,865 5,913 14,024
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

XML job vacancy trend in England

XML
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing XML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing XML

XML
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML in England over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in England

XML
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the England region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -75 59 £71,500 +10.00% 25
South East -105 55 £65,000 -1.89% 24
East of England -11 42 £55,000 +15.79% 3
North of England -86 37 £73,500 +47.00% 17
Midlands -41 25 £48,500 -9.08% 6
North West -51 22 £71,750 +43.34% 11
Yorkshire -62 15 £76,840 +104.91% 6
East Midlands -59 13 £54,000 -1.82% 5
West Midlands -32 12 £43,000 -9.47% 1
South West -73 4 £31,500 -33.68% 9
XML
UK

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 15 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.67%) JBoss
4 3 (1.33%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.33%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.89%) Confluence
5 2 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) CICS
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.44%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.33%) Shopify
3 2 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.89%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.44%) Magento
4 1 (0.44%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 61 (27.11%) Azure
2 39 (17.33%) Power Platform
3 35 (15.56%) AWS
4 20 (8.89%) SaaS
5 19 (8.44%) Boomi
6 14 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.22%) Serverless
7 12 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (4.44%) GitHub
10 9 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.00%) Apigee
11 8 (3.56%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.56%) iPaaS
11 8 (3.56%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.67%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.67%) GCP
13 6 (2.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.44%) Firewall
2 7 (3.11%) FTP
3 6 (2.67%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.78%) DNS
4 4 (1.78%) SSL
5 3 (1.33%) AMQP
6 2 (0.89%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.44%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.44%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.44%) Power BI
1 37 (16.44%) SQL Server
2 31 (13.78%) Relational Database
3 22 (9.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (7.56%) Metadata
5 15 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (6.22%) MySQL
6 14 (6.22%) OLTP
7 11 (4.89%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.33%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.33%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.89%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.89%) DataStage
9 2 (0.89%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.44%) DB2
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (11.11%) JIRA
2 11 (4.89%) Git
2 11 (4.89%) GitLab
3 10 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.00%) Selenium
5 7 (3.11%) ERwin
5 7 (3.11%) JUnit
6 6 (2.67%) Maven
6 6 (2.67%) SpecFlow
7 5 (2.22%) WebDriver
8 4 (1.78%) JMeter
8 4 (1.78%) Mockito
8 4 (1.78%) Postman
9 3 (1.33%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.33%) Ranorex
9 3 (1.33%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
General
1 93 (41.33%) Social Skills
2 62 (27.56%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (19.56%) Finance
4 15 (6.67%) German Language
5 14 (6.22%) Retail
6 13 (5.78%) Law
7 12 (5.33%) Marketing
8 11 (4.89%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.00%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.11%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.67%) Banking
11 6 (2.67%) Front Office
12 5 (2.22%) Legal
12 5 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.33%) Local Government
15 2 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.89%) Back Office
16 1 (0.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 79 (35.11%) Developer
2 34 (15.11%) Senior
3 30 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 25 (11.11%) Analyst
5 19 (8.44%) Architect
6 16 (7.11%) Consultant
7 15 (6.67%) SQL Developer
8 14 (6.22%) Java Developer
8 14 (6.22%) Oracle Developer
8 14 (6.22%) PL/SQL Developer
8 14 (6.22%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 14 (6.22%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
8 14 (6.22%) Senior SQL Developer
9 11 (4.89%) C# Developer
10 10 (4.44%) Applications Architect
10 10 (4.44%) Lead
11 8 (3.56%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 8 (3.56%) SQL Analyst
11 8 (3.56%) SQL Data Analyst
11 8 (3.56%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (67.11%) JSON
2 74 (32.89%) REST
3 68 (30.22%) HTML
4 64 (28.44%) SOAP
5 33 (14.67%) Regular Expression
6 29 (12.89%) Web Services
7 23 (10.22%) Middleware
8 17 (7.56%) Spring
9 16 (7.11%) .NET
10 15 (6.67%) EDI
10 15 (6.67%) Spring Boot
11 14 (6.22%) CSS
12 11 (4.89%) WinForms
13 10 (4.44%) FIX Protocol
13 10 (4.44%) Hibernate
13 10 (4.44%) RESTful
14 9 (4.00%) FpML
14 9 (4.00%) Node.js
14 9 (4.00%) OAuth
15 8 (3.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 48 (21.33%) Onboarding
2 29 (12.89%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (8.44%) Data Structures
4 17 (7.56%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (5.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.56%) e-Learning
8 8 (3.56%) Product Ownership
9 7 (3.11%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (2.67%) Low-Code
11 5 (2.22%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.78%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.33%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.33%) Reference Data
13 3 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 38 (16.89%) Unix
2 16 (7.11%) Linux
3 9 (4.00%) Windows
4 4 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.44%) Debian
5 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (22.67%) Agile
3 42 (18.67%) AI
4 34 (15.11%) Data Modelling
5 32 (14.22%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (14.22%) Data Analysis
6 30 (13.33%) DevOps
7 29 (12.89%) CI/CD
7 29 (12.89%) ERP
7 29 (12.89%) LLM
8 24 (10.67%) CRM
8 24 (10.67%) Software Testing
8 24 (10.67%) Validation
9 23 (10.22%) API Integration
9 23 (10.22%) Collaborative Working
9 23 (10.22%) Migration
10 22 (9.78%) SDLC
11 21 (9.33%) Roadmaps
12 19 (8.44%) Microservices
13 18 (8.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (51.11%) SQL
2 79 (35.11%) Python
3 44 (19.56%) Java
4 39 (17.33%) JavaScript
5 36 (16.00%) C#
6 15 (6.67%) PL/SQL
7 11 (4.89%) Delphi
7 11 (4.89%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.89%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.44%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.22%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.78%) ActionScript
10 4 (1.78%) ActionScript 2.0
10 4 (1.78%) Bash
10 4 (1.78%) C++
10 4 (1.78%) VBA
11 3 (1.33%) Groovy
11 3 (1.33%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.33%) PHP
11 3 (1.33%) VC++
Qualifications
1 65 (28.89%) Degree
2 22 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.11%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.44%) ISEB
9 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.56%) QA
2 15 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.44%) TickIT
4 8 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.33%) EMIR
5 3 (1.33%) GDPR
5 3 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.33%) SLA
6 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (8.89%) Docker
2 12 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.78%) Kibana
3 3 (1.33%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.33%) Terraform
4 2 (0.89%) Ansible
5 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 41 (18.22%) Oracle
2 33 (14.67%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.22%) SAP
4 9 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 7 (3.11%) Sparx
5 7 (3.11%) Splunk
6 6 (2.67%) Cisco
6 6 (2.67%) F5
6 6 (2.67%) IBM
6 6 (2.67%) Juniper
6 6 (2.67%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.67%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.22%) Ariba
7 5 (2.22%) Dell
8 4 (1.78%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.78%) IFS
8 4 (1.78%) Talend
8 4 (1.78%) VMware
8 4 (1.78%) Workday