XML Job Trends in the North of England

XML
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring XML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 197 217
Rank change year-on-year -42 +20 +59
Permanent jobs citing XML 20 90 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.19% 0.99% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.84% 5.80% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 16 58 36
10th Percentile £36,875 £25,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -23.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,813 £72,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,633 £75,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.96% -3.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,088 1,553 2,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.16% 17.12% 24.33%
Number of salaries quoted 892 919 1,701
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.39% -3.70%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

XML job vacancy trend in the North of England

XML
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing XML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing XML

XML
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the North of England

XML
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
North West -21 9 £52,500 +16.02% 10
Yorkshire -30 7 £55,000 +37.50% 5
North East +6 4 £45,000 -6.74%
XML
England

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (10.00%) JBoss
1 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) FrameMaker
1 1 (5.00%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
1 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
2 3 (15.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (10.00%) Boomi
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) iPaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Einstein
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) FTP
1 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
2 3 (15.00%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
1 4 (20.00%) Software Support Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Data Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) E-Commerce Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) IT Support
4 1 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Report Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (75.00%) JSON
2 8 (40.00%) REST
3 6 (30.00%) Web Services
4 3 (15.00%) SOAP
4 3 (15.00%) Spring
5 2 (10.00%) .NET
5 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (10.00%) Middleware
5 2 (10.00%) Struts
6 1 (5.00%) cXML
6 1 (5.00%) EDI
6 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (5.00%) HTML
6 1 (5.00%) Kafka
6 1 (5.00%) Mustache
6 1 (5.00%) Node.js
6 1 (5.00%) React
6 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) DataPower
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) ETL
3 4 (20.00%) AI
3 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.00%) API Integration
4 3 (15.00%) B2B
4 3 (15.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Scrum
5 2 (10.00%) Analytics
5 2 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (10.00%) Data Mapping
5 2 (10.00%) Logistics
5 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (10.00%) SDLC
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (10.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) ActionScript
4 1 (5.00%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Dell
2 2 (10.00%) Informatica
2 2 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (10.00%) SnapLogic
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe
3 1 (5.00%) Ariba
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Remedy
3 1 (5.00%) Talend