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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 276 227
Rank change year-on-year -47 -49 -23
Permanent jobs citing XML 33 30 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.31% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 1.83% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 27 25 96
10th Percentile £47,900 £41,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £47,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,790 £86,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -3.23%

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 2,234 1,643 2,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.83% 17.21% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,813 872 2,063
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +9.65% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -15 21 £73,500 +33.64% 5
Yorkshire -40 10 £68,990 +40.79% 5
North East -55 2 £67,500 +92.86% 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 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.03%) Anypoint
3 1 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) IIS
3 1 (3.03%) JBoss
3 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) NEC Housing
2 1 (3.03%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 24 (72.73%) Azure
2 12 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (36.36%) Boomi
2 12 (36.36%) Dynamics 365
2 12 (36.36%) GitHub
2 12 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) SaaS
4 2 (6.06%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) Apigee
5 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
1 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 12 (36.36%) Power BI
3 6 (18.18%) Metadata
4 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) JUnit
2 1 (3.03%) Maven
2 1 (3.03%) Selenium
2 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 17 (51.52%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (42.42%) Retail
4 13 (39.39%) Marketing
5 8 (24.24%) Finance
6 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (3.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (54.55%) Developer
2 17 (51.52%) Senior
3 16 (48.48%) Senior Developer
4 8 (24.24%) Lead
5 5 (15.15%) Architect
5 5 (15.15%) Lead Architect
5 5 (15.15%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 5 (15.15%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (12.12%) Senior Systems Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Systems Developer
7 3 (9.09%) Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) Development Specialist
8 2 (6.06%) Support Analyst
9 1 (3.03%) .NET Web Developer
9 1 (3.03%) Android Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Web Developer
9 1 (3.03%) Integration Analyst
9 1 (3.03%) Technical Leader
9 1 (3.03%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (60.61%) JSON
2 14 (42.42%) REST
2 14 (42.42%) SOAP
3 13 (39.39%) Middleware
4 12 (36.36%) EDI
5 7 (21.21%) .NET
6 5 (15.15%) HTML
6 5 (15.15%) XBRL
7 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET
7 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (9.09%) Web Services
8 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
8 1 (3.03%) Classic ASP
8 1 (3.03%) Drools
8 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
8 1 (3.03%) Google Maps API
8 1 (3.03%) Node.js
8 1 (3.03%) WSDL
8 1 (3.03%) XSD
8 1 (3.03%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (9.09%) Taxonomies
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) Blog
5 1 (3.03%) NHS
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Android
1 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
1 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (48.48%) Collaborative Working
2 16 (48.48%) CRM
2 16 (48.48%) DevOps
2 16 (48.48%) ERP
2 16 (48.48%) Roadmaps
3 14 (42.42%) Customer Service
4 13 (39.39%) API Integration
4 13 (39.39%) B2B
5 12 (36.36%) Change Advisory Board
5 12 (36.36%) Customer Insight
5 12 (36.36%) Development Roadmap
5 12 (36.36%) Issue Tracking
5 12 (36.36%) Release Management
6 9 (27.27%) Agile
7 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (18.18%) SDLC
9 5 (15.15%) Data Collection
9 5 (15.15%) Integration Patterns
9 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (66.67%) SQL
2 8 (24.24%) Java
2 8 (24.24%) Python
3 7 (21.21%) C#
4 4 (12.12%) PHP
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.06%) Kotlin
5 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.03%) Bash
6 1 (3.03%) Groovy
6 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.03%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) A+ Certification
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (36.36%) TickIT
2 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) CloudHub
1 1 (3.03%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) NEC
3 2 (6.06%) Databricks
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) Infor
4 1 (3.03%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) SGI