XML Job Trends in the South East

XML
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring XML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 140 134
Rank change year-on-year -77 -6 +59
Permanent jobs citing XML 58 160 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.52% 1.90% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.68% 8.59% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 42 119 150
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 - £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,350
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.83% -6.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,021 1,862 2,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.15% 22.07% 19.82%
Number of salaries quoted 825 1,054 2,012
10th Percentile £34,850 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -8.78%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

XML job vacancy trend in the South East

XML
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing XML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing XML

XML
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML in the South East over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the South East

XML
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Thames Valley -63 33 £67,500 +3.85% 12
Berkshire -49 23 £70,000 -12.50% 6
Surrey -1 15 £50,000 -37.50% 1
Buckinghamshire +2 9 £57,500 -4.17% 3
Hampshire -4 7 £51,500 -8.04% 4
Isle of Wight - 2 £75,900 -
Middlesex +7 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire -14 1 - - 3
XML
England

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Q-Pulse
1 1 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.93%) Azure
2 12 (20.69%) AWS
3 9 (15.52%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (15.52%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (15.52%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (15.52%) SaaS
3 9 (15.52%) Serverless
4 8 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (13.79%) Power Platform
5 7 (12.07%) Entra ID
6 6 (10.34%) GitHub
6 6 (10.34%) Miro
7 5 (8.62%) iPaaS
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.45%) Boomi
9 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.72%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 13 (22.41%) OLTP
3 12 (20.69%) Relational Database
4 9 (15.52%) RDBMS
5 8 (13.79%) Power BI
5 8 (13.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (12.07%) MySQL
7 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.52%) JMeter
2 9 (15.52%) JUnit
2 9 (15.52%) Mockito
3 8 (13.79%) Git
4 6 (10.34%) Axure RP
5 2 (3.45%) JIRA
5 2 (3.45%) Ranorex
5 2 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.72%) Postman
6 1 (1.72%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.34%) Retail
5 3 (5.17%) Finance
6 2 (3.45%) Law
7 1 (1.72%) Advertising
7 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.72%) Automotive
7 1 (1.72%) Aviation
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (60.34%) Developer
2 17 (29.31%) SQL Developer
3 14 (24.14%) Senior
4 13 (22.41%) Oracle Developer
4 13 (22.41%) PL/SQL Developer
4 13 (22.41%) Senior Developer
4 13 (22.41%) Senior Oracle Developer
4 13 (22.41%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
4 13 (22.41%) Senior SQL Developer
5 9 (15.52%) Analyst
5 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (15.52%) Java Developer
5 9 (15.52%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 8 (13.79%) Data Analyst
7 7 (12.07%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 7 (12.07%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 7 (12.07%) SQL Analyst
7 7 (12.07%) SQL Data Analyst
7 7 (12.07%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (65.52%) JSON
2 30 (51.72%) HTML
3 28 (48.28%) REST
4 23 (39.66%) SOAP
5 11 (18.97%) Web Services
6 9 (15.52%) ActiveMQ
6 9 (15.52%) Apache Camel
6 9 (15.52%) Hibernate
6 9 (15.52%) jQuery
6 9 (15.52%) Spring
6 9 (15.52%) Spring Boot
6 9 (15.52%) WireMock
7 8 (13.79%) CSS
8 4 (6.90%) Middleware
9 2 (3.45%) OAuth
9 2 (3.45%) XSL
10 1 (1.72%) HTML5
10 1 (1.72%) RESTful
10 1 (1.72%) SAML
10 1 (1.72%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (12.07%) Data Structures
2 7 (12.07%) Onboarding
3 5 (8.62%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.45%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.72%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.72%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) Agile
2 23 (39.66%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (27.59%) Software Testing
4 13 (22.41%) TDD
5 12 (20.69%) SDLC
6 11 (18.97%) Data Modelling
7 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 10 (17.24%) Microservices
8 9 (15.52%) BDD
8 9 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (15.52%) Process Management
8 9 (15.52%) Workflow
9 8 (13.79%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (13.79%) Computer Science
10 7 (12.07%) Data Validation
10 7 (12.07%) ERP
10 7 (12.07%) Task Automation
10 7 (12.07%) Validation
11 6 (10.34%) UML
Programming Languages
1 39 (67.24%) SQL
2 19 (32.76%) Python
3 18 (31.03%) JavaScript
4 16 (27.59%) Java
5 14 (24.14%) PL/SQL
6 12 (20.69%) T-SQL
7 10 (17.24%) Shell Script
8 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
9 5 (8.62%) C#
10 2 (3.45%) C
11 1 (1.72%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.72%) ActionScript 3.0
11 1 (1.72%) C++
11 1 (1.72%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 21 (36.21%) Degree
2 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.45%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.41%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (10.34%) Accessibility
3 6 (10.34%) QA
4 2 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Docker
2 7 (12.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.52%) Kibana
3 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) Oracle
2 9 (15.52%) Dynatrace
2 9 (15.52%) Splunk
3 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.45%) IFS
5 1 (1.72%) Dell
5 1 (1.72%) Epicor
5 1 (1.72%) IBM
5 1 (1.72%) Infor
5 1 (1.72%) Informatica
5 1 (1.72%) Jitterbit
5 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.72%) SAP
5 1 (1.72%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.72%) Software AG
5 1 (1.72%) Talend
5 1 (1.72%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.72%) Workday