XML Job Trends in Northern Ireland

XML
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring XML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Permanent jobs citing XML 1 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.12% - 2.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.72% - 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £31,150
25th Percentile - - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.32%
75th Percentile - - £73,750
90th Percentile - - £88,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £58,350
% change year-on-year - -1.46% -10.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 58 43 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.72% 14.38% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 44 13 129
10th Percentile £42,250 £52,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,495 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% +17.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £85,313 £74,144 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £99,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing XML relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

XML job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

XML
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing XML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing XML

XML
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 24 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
County Armagh - 1 - -
XML
UK

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) EDI
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI