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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 278 238
Rank change year-on-year -38 -40 -18
Permanent jobs citing XML 35 29 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.30% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.72% 1.82% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30 24 98
10th Percentile £51,350 £40,125 £25,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £47,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £52,527 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.60% +0.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,250 £60,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,124 £87,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -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 2,036 1,595 2,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.20% 16.61% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,665 831 2,027
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £75,250 £74,258 £69,800
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 11 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 11 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 -12 22 £71,750 +30.45% 8
Yorkshire -28 11 £76,840 +56.82% 6
North East -58 2 £67,500 +92.86% 1
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 (25.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.57%) JBoss
3 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.86%) Anypoint
4 1 (2.86%) Confluence
4 1 (2.86%) IIS
4 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) NEC Housing
2 1 (2.86%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (34.29%) Boomi
2 12 (34.29%) Dynamics 365
2 12 (34.29%) GitHub
2 12 (34.29%) Power Platform
3 6 (17.14%) AWS
4 4 (11.43%) SaaS
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.57%) Apigee
5 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (8.57%) Serverless
6 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 12 (34.29%) Power BI
3 6 (17.14%) Metadata
4 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 3 (8.57%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
2 3 (8.57%) Cypress.io
2 3 (8.57%) GitLab
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.57%) Maven
2 3 (8.57%) Selenium
2 3 (8.57%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 23 (65.71%) Social Skills
2 18 (51.43%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (37.14%) Marketing
3 13 (37.14%) Retail
4 9 (25.71%) Finance
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Developer
2 17 (48.57%) Senior
3 16 (45.71%) Senior Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Lead
5 5 (14.29%) Architect
5 5 (14.29%) Lead Architect
5 5 (14.29%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 5 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (11.43%) Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Senior Systems Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Systems Developer
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Development Specialist
7 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Payments Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Service Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Angular Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Web Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Integration Developer
8 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (54.29%) JSON
2 13 (37.14%) Middleware
2 13 (37.14%) REST
2 13 (37.14%) SOAP
3 12 (34.29%) EDI
4 7 (20.00%) .NET
5 5 (14.29%) HTML
5 5 (14.29%) XBRL
6 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
6 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET
6 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (8.57%) Drools
6 3 (8.57%) Gherkin
6 3 (8.57%) Jest
6 3 (8.57%) Node.js
6 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.71%) Web Services
8 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.86%) Classic ASP
8 1 (2.86%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.57%) Taxonomies
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (45.71%) Collaborative Working
2 16 (45.71%) CRM
2 16 (45.71%) DevOps
2 16 (45.71%) ERP
2 16 (45.71%) Roadmaps
3 13 (37.14%) B2B
3 13 (37.14%) Customer Service
4 12 (34.29%) API Integration
4 12 (34.29%) Change Advisory Board
4 12 (34.29%) Customer Insight
4 12 (34.29%) Development Roadmap
4 12 (34.29%) Issue Tracking
4 12 (34.29%) Release Management
4 12 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (31.43%) Agile
6 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 7 (20.00%) Validation
7 6 (17.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) SQL
2 9 (25.71%) Java
3 8 (22.86%) Python
4 7 (20.00%) C#
5 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.43%) PHP
6 3 (8.57%) Bash
6 3 (8.57%) Groovy
6 3 (8.57%) Kotlin
6 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.57%) AWS Certified Developer
1 3 (8.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) A+ Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (34.29%) TickIT
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) HP Fortify
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) NEC
3 2 (5.71%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Infor
4 1 (2.86%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) SGI