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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 188 247
Rank change year-on-year -74 +59 +23
Permanent jobs citing XML 24 65 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.96% 0.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.83% 5.19% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19 48 77
10th Percentile £31,100 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,000 £62,813 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £93,778 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -5.78%

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 1,315 1,253 2,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.15% 18.48% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,089 975 2,530
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,200 £88,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -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

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 17 March 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 17 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 -44 12 £55,000 +15.18% 19
Yorkshire -49 10 £55,000 +46.67% 1
North East -22 2 £45,000 +28.57% 5
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 4 (16.67%) JBoss
2 2 (8.33%) IIS
2 2 (8.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (4.17%) CMS
3 1 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) FrameMaker
1 1 (4.17%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) SAP Business One
2 1 (4.17%) Magento
2 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 3 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 3 (12.50%) Serverless
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.33%) Apigee
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Einstein
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.17%) Firebase
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
1 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
1 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Power BI
2 3 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.33%) Metadata
4 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.17%) SAP HANA
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Maven
2 2 (8.33%) Selenium
2 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Analyst
1 4 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Administrator
2 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Service Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Software Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Angular Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Senior .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (54.17%) JSON
2 7 (29.17%) Web Services
3 5 (20.83%) REST
4 4 (16.67%) .NET
5 3 (12.50%) Middleware
5 3 (12.50%) Node.js
5 3 (12.50%) Spring
5 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
6 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
6 2 (8.33%) Drools
6 2 (8.33%) Gherkin
6 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
6 2 (8.33%) HTML
6 2 (8.33%) Jest
6 2 (8.33%) SOAP
6 2 (8.33%) Struts
7 1 (4.17%) CSS
7 1 (4.17%) EDI
7 1 (4.17%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.33%) DataPower
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
3 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (16.67%) AI
4 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.67%) MVC
4 4 (16.67%) SDLC
5 3 (12.50%) API Integration
5 3 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (12.50%) B2B
5 3 (12.50%) BDD
5 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
5 3 (12.50%) ETL
5 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.50%) SOA
5 3 (12.50%) Software Architecture
6 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) Bash
5 2 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (8.33%) Groovy
5 2 (8.33%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.17%) ActionScript
6 1 (4.17%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) HP Fortify
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) SAP
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Adobe
3 1 (4.17%) Ariba
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Remedy
3 1 (4.17%) Talend