XML Job Trends in London

XML
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring XML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 261 235
Rank change year-on-year -20 -26 +19
Permanent jobs citing XML 92 193 243
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.70% 1.14% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.38% 4.20% 4.54%
Number of salaries quoted 46 127 210
10th Percentile £46,000 £40,300 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -15.79% -1.72%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £103,125 £106,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.96% +0.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,722 4,592 5,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.59% 27.17% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,941 2,953 4,691
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £137,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

XML job vacancy trend in London

XML
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing XML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing XML

XML
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML in London over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Salary histogram for XML in London

XML
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the London region over the 6 months to 10 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South London +49 20 £82,500 +56.68% 3
Central London +1 5 £68,000 +13.33% 8
West London - 4 £47,000 - 4
XML
England

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.35%) Anypoint
1 4 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.26%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Shopify
2 4 (4.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (2.17%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.09%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.61%) AWS
2 28 (30.43%) Azure
3 23 (25.00%) Serverless
4 21 (22.83%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (13.04%) Power Automate
7 11 (11.96%) Boomi
7 11 (11.96%) GitHub
8 9 (9.78%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (8.70%) Power Platform
9 8 (8.70%) SaaS
10 6 (6.52%) iPaaS
11 5 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (5.43%) Google Gemini
12 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (4.35%) PowerApps
12 4 (4.35%) Workato
13 3 (3.26%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) HTTP
2 1 (1.09%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (32.61%) Relational Database
2 20 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (19.57%) RDBMS
4 14 (15.22%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (7.61%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.35%) Power BI
7 3 (3.26%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.17%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.17%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.09%) Big Data
9 1 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.09%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.09%) Metadata
9 1 (1.09%) Parquet
9 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (23.91%) Jenkins
2 20 (21.74%) JMeter
2 20 (21.74%) JUnit
2 20 (21.74%) Mockito
3 10 (10.87%) JIRA
4 5 (5.43%) Git
5 4 (4.35%) Selenium
6 3 (3.26%) NUnit
6 3 (3.26%) Postman
6 3 (3.26%) SpecFlow
6 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.17%) Subversion
7 2 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.17%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (1.09%) REST Assured
General
1 24 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.57%) Finance
2 18 (19.57%) Public Sector
3 16 (17.39%) Law
4 14 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (6.52%) Legal
6 6 (6.52%) Marketing
7 5 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.43%) German Language
8 4 (4.35%) Back Office
8 4 (4.35%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.35%) Front Office
9 3 (3.26%) Advertising
10 2 (2.17%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.17%) Banking
10 2 (2.17%) Billing
11 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (50.00%) Developer
2 20 (21.74%) Java Developer
3 18 (19.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (19.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 17 (18.48%) Senior
5 15 (16.30%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 12 (13.04%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.70%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Workflow Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Consultant
9 4 (4.35%) Development Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Development Support Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Integration Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Senior Integration Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (64.13%) JSON
2 50 (54.35%) REST
3 39 (42.39%) HTML
4 28 (30.43%) Web Services
5 24 (26.09%) jQuery
6 22 (23.91%) Spring
7 21 (22.83%) Hibernate
7 21 (22.83%) Spring Boot
8 20 (21.74%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (21.74%) Apache Camel
8 20 (21.74%) WireMock
9 11 (11.96%) CSS
10 9 (9.78%) SOAP
11 8 (8.70%) .NET
12 7 (7.61%) XSLT
13 6 (6.52%) ASP.NET
13 6 (6.52%) RESTful
14 5 (5.43%) React
14 5 (5.43%) Regular Expression
14 5 (5.43%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (14.13%) Onboarding
3 10 (10.87%) Low-Code
4 8 (8.70%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.43%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.35%) NHS
6 4 (4.35%) W3C
7 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.17%) BYOD
8 2 (2.17%) CMDB
8 2 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.78%) Unix
2 4 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (57.61%) Agile
2 37 (40.22%) CI/CD
3 30 (32.61%) Workflow
4 27 (29.35%) DevOps
4 27 (29.35%) Microservices
5 24 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (23.91%) SDLC
7 21 (22.83%) BDD
7 21 (22.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (21.74%) TDD
9 18 (19.57%) Process Management
10 17 (18.48%) ETL
11 16 (17.39%) AI
11 16 (17.39%) Test Automation
12 14 (15.22%) API Integration
13 13 (14.13%) LLM
13 13 (14.13%) Validation
14 11 (11.96%) Data Modelling
14 11 (11.96%) Roadmaps
15 9 (9.78%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 50 (54.35%) Python
2 49 (53.26%) JavaScript
3 42 (45.65%) SQL
4 30 (32.61%) Java
5 25 (27.17%) Shell Script
6 24 (26.09%) C#
7 4 (4.35%) C
8 3 (3.26%) ActionScript
8 3 (3.26%) ActionScript 3.0
8 3 (3.26%) Bicep
8 3 (3.26%) Objective-C
8 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.17%) C++
9 2 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.17%) Scala
9 2 (2.17%) VBA
10 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.09%) R
10 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.09%) VC++
Qualifications
1 24 (26.09%) Degree
2 17 (18.48%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.35%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.26%) ISEB
6 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.17%) PMP
6 2 (2.17%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.70%) GDPR
2 5 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.35%) ISO 9001
3 4 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.17%) QA
4 2 (2.17%) SLA
5 1 (1.09%) EMIR
System Software
1 32 (34.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 20 (21.74%) Kibana
3 4 (4.35%) Terraform
4 3 (3.26%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.17%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 20 (21.74%) Dynatrace
1 20 (21.74%) Splunk
2 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.96%) Oracle
4 6 (6.52%) MuleSoft
5 5 (5.43%) Informatica
5 5 (5.43%) Intapp
5 5 (5.43%) OpenAI
5 5 (5.43%) Workday
6 4 (4.35%) Dell
6 4 (4.35%) Epicor
6 4 (4.35%) IBM
6 4 (4.35%) IFS
6 4 (4.35%) Infor
6 4 (4.35%) Jitterbit
6 4 (4.35%) SAP
6 4 (4.35%) SnapLogic
6 4 (4.35%) Software AG
6 4 (4.35%) Talend
6 4 (4.35%) TIBCO