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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 277 222
Rank change year-on-year -51 -55 -22
Permanent jobs citing XML 37 23 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.24% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.71% 1.52% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27 20 60
10th Percentile £60,040 £37,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £60,511 £42,500 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £49,500 £47,530
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +4.14% -20.78%
75th Percentile £72,625 £56,000 £59,250
90th Percentile £75,250 £61,700 £65,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -0.83%

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 2,163 1,517 2,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.97% 15.81% 19.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,727 756 1,503
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,114 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,418 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,953 £85,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.74%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -21 19 £68,750 +30.95% 21
Yorkshire -26 14 £63,076 +28.73% 13
North East -67 4 £63,076 +40.17% 3
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 (24.32%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.70%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) IIS
3 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle Cash Management
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle EBS
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle Payables
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (10.81%) NEC Housing
3 1 (2.70%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) Power Platform
3 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (21.62%) Boomi
3 8 (21.62%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (21.62%) GitHub
4 3 (8.11%) SaaS
5 2 (5.41%) AWS
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle Reports
2 8 (21.62%) Power BI
2 8 (21.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (8.11%) Metadata
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) JUnit
3 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
2 16 (43.24%) Finance
3 13 (35.14%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (32.43%) Retail
5 9 (24.32%) General Ledger
5 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
6 8 (21.62%) Marketing
7 4 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (10.81%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (8.11%) Banking
8 3 (8.11%) Law
9 1 (2.70%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) Senior
2 14 (37.84%) Developer
3 12 (32.43%) Senior Developer
4 9 (24.32%) Applications Engineer
4 9 (24.32%) Operations Engineer
4 9 (24.32%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 9 (24.32%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Support Analyst
6 4 (10.81%) Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Integration Analyst
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Systems Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Systems Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (8.11%) Android Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Lead
7 3 (8.11%) Lead Architect
7 3 (8.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (48.65%) JSON
2 13 (35.14%) REST
2 13 (35.14%) SOAP
2 13 (35.14%) Web Services
3 9 (24.32%) Middleware
4 8 (21.62%) EDI
5 5 (13.51%) .NET
6 4 (10.81%) HTML
6 4 (10.81%) WSDL
6 4 (10.81%) XSD
6 4 (10.81%) XSLT
7 3 (8.11%) Android Jetpack
7 3 (8.11%) Dagger
7 3 (8.11%) Jetpack Compose
7 3 (8.11%) RxJava
7 3 (8.11%) XBRL
8 1 (2.70%) Classic ASP
8 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
8 1 (2.70%) RAML
8 1 (2.70%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (8.11%) Blog
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.41%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) NHS
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Android
1 3 (8.11%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (35.14%) Customer Service
2 13 (35.14%) DevOps
2 13 (35.14%) Mentoring
3 12 (32.43%) API Integration
3 12 (32.43%) CRM
3 12 (32.43%) ERP
3 12 (32.43%) Workflow
4 10 (27.03%) Collaborative Working
4 10 (27.03%) Roadmaps
5 9 (24.32%) Accounts Payable
5 9 (24.32%) Agile
5 9 (24.32%) B2B
5 9 (24.32%) Cash Management
5 9 (24.32%) Coaching
5 9 (24.32%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (24.32%) Personalization
5 9 (24.32%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (21.62%) Customer Insight
6 8 (21.62%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) SQL
2 9 (24.32%) Java
2 9 (24.32%) PL/SQL
3 5 (13.51%) C#
3 5 (13.51%) Python
4 4 (10.81%) PHP
4 4 (10.81%) XPath
5 3 (8.11%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) A+ Certification
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) TickIT
2 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.11%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 9 (24.32%) Oracle
3 4 (10.81%) NEC
4 2 (5.41%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Infor
5 1 (2.70%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.70%) SGI