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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 206 274
Rank change year-on-year -78 +68 +3
Permanent jobs citing XML 36 59 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.20% 0.83% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.40% 5.13% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 30 49 85
10th Percentile £51,300 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,250 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,336 £93,778 £71,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -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 1,500 1,150 3,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.27% 16.20% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,223 961 2,715
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,934 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.31% +10.49% -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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -45 22 £73,500 +46.84% 8
Yorkshire -65 14 £73,420 +95.79% 4
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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (13.89%) JBoss
3 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.56%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.78%) CMS
4 1 (2.78%) Confluence
4 1 (2.78%) IIS
4 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) FrameMaker
1 1 (2.78%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Magento
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (58.33%) Azure
2 13 (36.11%) Power Platform
3 12 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (33.33%) Boomi
3 12 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 12 (33.33%) GitHub
4 7 (19.44%) AWS
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (11.11%) Serverless
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.33%) Apigee
6 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (5.56%) GCP
7 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (5.56%) SaaS
7 2 (5.56%) Salesforce Einstein
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (38.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 13 (36.11%) Power BI
3 6 (16.67%) Metadata
4 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
4 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 3 (8.33%) GitLab
3 3 (8.33%) Maven
3 3 (8.33%) Selenium
3 3 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.56%) Git
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (47.22%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (36.11%) Marketing
3 13 (36.11%) Retail
4 9 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Developer
2 14 (38.89%) Senior
3 13 (36.11%) Senior Developer
4 8 (22.22%) Lead
5 7 (19.44%) Architect
5 7 (19.44%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (13.89%) Lead Architect
6 5 (13.89%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Analyst
7 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Development Specialist
8 2 (5.56%) Payments Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Service Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Angular Developer
9 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (2.78%) Node.js Developer
9 1 (2.78%) Report Manager
9 1 (2.78%) Senior .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (58.33%) JSON
2 17 (47.22%) REST
3 15 (41.67%) Middleware
4 14 (38.89%) SOAP
5 13 (36.11%) EDI
6 8 (22.22%) Web Services
7 5 (13.89%) .NET
7 5 (13.89%) XBRL
8 4 (11.11%) Node.js
8 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
9 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
9 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET
9 3 (8.33%) Drools
9 3 (8.33%) Gherkin
9 3 (8.33%) Jest
9 3 (8.33%) Spring
10 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
10 2 (5.56%) HTML
10 2 (5.56%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Taxonomies
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) DataPower
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
2 16 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 15 (41.67%) API Integration
3 15 (41.67%) B2B
4 14 (38.89%) CRM
4 14 (38.89%) DevOps
5 13 (36.11%) Customer Service
6 12 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
6 12 (33.33%) Customer Insight
6 12 (33.33%) Development Roadmap
6 12 (33.33%) ERP
6 12 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
6 12 (33.33%) Release Management
7 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (19.44%) Agile
8 7 (19.44%) Validation
9 6 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
9 6 (16.67%) Workflow
10 5 (13.89%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) Java
3 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.89%) Python
4 3 (8.33%) Bash
4 3 (8.33%) C#
4 3 (8.33%) Groovy
4 3 (8.33%) Kotlin
4 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.78%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.78%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 3 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (33.33%) TickIT
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) HP Fortify
1 3 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Databricks
2 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) Adobe
3 1 (2.78%) Ariba
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Remedy