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 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 272 224
Rank change year-on-year -61 -48 -25
Permanent jobs citing XML 30 20 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.22% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.34% 1.32% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 21 17 57
10th Percentile £59,334 £35,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £60,511 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £47,500 £45,096
Median % change year-on-year +32.79% +5.33% -24.84%
75th Percentile £68,750 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £57,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -0.83%

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.

6 months to
20 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,244 1,513 2,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.30% 16.77% 18.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,769 756 1,403
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 20 October 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 20 October 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 -39 15 £67,500 +28.57% 12
Yorkshire -29 11 £63,076 +68.20% 8
North East -75 4 £63,076 +40.17% 4
XML
England

XML Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Web Services43.3%13
2JSON36.7%11
3REST26.7%8
3SOAP26.7%8
5.NET16.7%5
6Android Jetpack13.3%4
6Dagger13.3%4
6HTML13.3%4
6Jetpack Compose13.3%4
6Middleware13.3%4
6RxJava13.3%4
6WSDL13.3%4
6XSD13.3%4
6XSLT13.3%4
15EDI10.0%3
16.NET Framework3.3%1
16ASP.NET3.3%1
16ASP.NET MVC3.3%1
16Classic ASP3.3%1
16Entity Framework3.3%1