XML Job Trends in the Midlands

XML
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring XML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 210 241
Rank change year-on-year -17 +31 -8
Permanent jobs citing XML 19 16 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.15% 0.32% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.25% 2.06% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 79
10th Percentile £34,000 £48,950 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% - -6.78%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile - - £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +3.45% -10.77%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 846 776 2,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.84% 15.44% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 636 537 1,720
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

XML job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing XML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing XML

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
West Midlands -18 12 £80,000 +45.45% 2
East Midlands -22 7 - - 5
XML
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (5.26%) Boomi
2 1 (5.26%) SaaS
2 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) Power BI
1 7 (36.84%) Relational Database
2 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) C# Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) Managed Services Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) SAP Support
3 4 (21.05%) SAP Support Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) Support Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Integration Developer
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Developer
4 2 (10.53%) VB.NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) XML Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Development Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Graduate
5 1 (5.26%) Graduate Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) WinForms
2 3 (15.79%) CSS
2 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 3 (15.79%) JSON
2 3 (15.79%) REST
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (10.53%) SOAP
3 2 (10.53%) XSLT
4 1 (5.26%) EDI
4 1 (5.26%) EDIFACT
4 1 (5.26%) Middleware
4 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) SDLC
2 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 4 (21.05%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (21.05%) Data Privacy
3 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
3 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
3 4 (21.05%) Supplier Management
3 4 (21.05%) Thought Leadership
3 4 (21.05%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
4 3 (15.79%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) User Experience
4 3 (15.79%) Workflow
5 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) ETL
5 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) C#
2 6 (31.58%) Delphi
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) PHP
5 2 (10.53%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) VB.NET
6 1 (5.26%) ActionScript
6 1 (5.26%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (5.26%) Java
6 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 4 (21.05%) Ariba
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks