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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 189 252
Rank change year-on-year -86 +63 +22
Permanent jobs citing XML 26 58 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.91% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 4.91% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 20 47 87
10th Percentile £39,950 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.95% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,938 £59,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,402 £93,778 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%

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 1,374 1,182 3,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.93% 18.49% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,133 984 2,620
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,313 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £81,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,318 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.99% +10.53% -11.11%

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

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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 31 March 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the North of England

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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 31 March 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 -43 13 £55,000 +14.58% 15
Yorkshire -50 12 £73,420 +95.79% 7
North East -19 1 £45,000 +28.57% 2
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 5 (19.23%) JBoss
2 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.85%) CMS
3 1 (3.85%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) IIS
3 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) FrameMaker
1 1 (3.85%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) SAP Business One
2 1 (3.85%) Magento
2 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 4 (15.38%) Serverless
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.54%) Apigee
4 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (11.54%) Power Automate
4 3 (11.54%) PowerApps
5 2 (7.69%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) Salesforce Einstein
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.85%) Firebase
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.85%) SaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Metadata
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
2 3 (11.54%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
2 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
2 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
2 3 (11.54%) GitLab
2 3 (11.54%) Maven
2 3 (11.54%) Selenium
2 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
3 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Finance
3 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Lead
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Administrator
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Development Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Payments Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Service Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) Angular Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) JSON
2 8 (30.77%) Web Services
3 5 (19.23%) .NET
3 5 (19.23%) REST
4 4 (15.38%) Node.js
4 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
5 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
5 3 (11.54%) Drools
5 3 (11.54%) Gherkin
5 3 (11.54%) Jest
5 3 (11.54%) Middleware
5 3 (11.54%) Spring
6 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (7.69%) Hibernate
6 2 (7.69%) HTML
6 2 (7.69%) SOAP
6 2 (7.69%) Struts
6 2 (7.69%) XBRL
7 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) DataPower
2 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (26.92%) Agile
2 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (19.23%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
3 5 (19.23%) MVC
3 5 (19.23%) SDLC
4 4 (15.38%) AI
4 4 (15.38%) BDD
4 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 4 (15.38%) Design Patterns
4 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 4 (15.38%) SOA
4 4 (15.38%) Software Architecture
4 4 (15.38%) Validation
4 4 (15.38%) Workflow
5 3 (11.54%) B2B
5 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
5 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) Java
3 6 (23.08%) Python
4 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.54%) Bash
5 3 (11.54%) C#
5 3 (11.54%) Groovy
5 3 (11.54%) Kotlin
5 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.85%) ActionScript
7 1 (3.85%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (3.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
1 3 (11.54%) AWS Certified Developer
1 3 (11.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.69%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) HP Fortify
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) SAP
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) Adobe
4 1 (3.85%) Ariba
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Remedy
4 1 (3.85%) Talend