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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 188 242
Rank change year-on-year -54 +54 +18
Permanent jobs citing XML 21 92 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.19% 1.02% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 5.88% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17 60 35
10th Percentile £38,000 £35,125 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -21.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,688 £72,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,878 £75,350
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -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 1,109 1,565 2,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.94% 17.33% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 903 927 1,910
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.31% -4.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.11%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -28 10 £53,250 +17.68% 12
Yorkshire -36 7 £55,000 +37.50% 8
North East +9 4 £45,000 -6.74% 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 2 (9.52%) JBoss
1 2 (9.52%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) FrameMaker
1 1 (4.76%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) SAP Business One
2 1 (4.76%) Magento
2 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
1 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 3 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 2 (9.52%) Boomi
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) iPaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Salesforce Einstein
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) FTP
1 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Power BI
2 3 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.76%) Metadata
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.76%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Analyst
1 4 (19.05%) Software Support Engineer
1 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Administrator
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Support Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Data Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) E-Commerce Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) IT Support
4 1 (4.76%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Report Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (76.19%) JSON
2 8 (38.10%) REST
3 6 (28.57%) Web Services
4 3 (14.29%) Middleware
4 3 (14.29%) SOAP
4 3 (14.29%) Spring
5 2 (9.52%) .NET
5 2 (9.52%) Hibernate
5 2 (9.52%) Struts
6 1 (4.76%) cXML
6 1 (4.76%) EDI
6 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.76%) HTML
6 1 (4.76%) IDoc
6 1 (4.76%) Kafka
6 1 (4.76%) Mustache
6 1 (4.76%) Node.js
6 1 (4.76%) React
6 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) DataPower
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Agile
2 5 (23.81%) ETL
3 4 (19.05%) AI
3 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
4 3 (14.29%) API Integration
4 3 (14.29%) B2B
4 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (9.52%) B2C
5 2 (9.52%) CRM
5 2 (9.52%) Data Integration
5 2 (9.52%) Data Mapping
5 2 (9.52%) E-Commerce
5 2 (9.52%) Logistics
5 2 (9.52%) MVC
5 2 (9.52%) SOA
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) ActionScript
4 1 (4.76%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) A+ Certification
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) SAP
2 2 (9.52%) Dell
2 2 (9.52%) Informatica
2 2 (9.52%) MuleSoft
2 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
2 2 (9.52%) SnapLogic
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe
3 1 (4.76%) Ariba
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Remedy
3 1 (4.76%) Talend