XML Job Trends in the Thames Valley

XML
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring XML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 73 122
Rank change year-on-year -59 +49 +55
Permanent jobs citing XML 38 89 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.74% 3.24% 1.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.66% 18.46% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 31 80 69
10th Percentile £53,750 - £34,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +22.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 - £83,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 439 482 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.57% 17.55% 18.70%
Number of salaries quoted 340 343 987
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,375 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

XML job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

XML
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing XML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing XML

XML
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 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
Berkshire -20 27 £67,500 -18.18% 7
Buckinghamshire -26 10 £60,000 - 4
Oxfordshire -28 1 - - 1
XML
South East

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.63%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Q-Pulse
1 1 (2.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) iPaaS
4 5 (13.16%) Apigee
4 5 (13.16%) Kong
4 5 (13.16%) OpenShift
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (10.53%) Serverless
6 1 (2.63%) Boomi
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.63%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) Firewall
2 5 (13.16%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (7.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (36.84%) OLTP
2 5 (13.16%) Relational Database
3 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.53%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) GitLab
1 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.53%) JMeter
2 4 (10.53%) JUnit
2 4 (10.53%) Mockito
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Telecoms
4 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.63%) Aviation
5 1 (2.63%) Finance
5 1 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Developer
2 16 (42.11%) SQL Developer
3 15 (39.47%) Senior
4 14 (36.84%) Oracle Developer
4 14 (36.84%) PL/SQL Developer
4 14 (36.84%) Senior Developer
4 14 (36.84%) Senior Oracle Developer
4 14 (36.84%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
4 14 (36.84%) Senior SQL Developer
5 8 (21.05%) Applications Architect
5 8 (21.05%) Architect
6 6 (15.79%) Integration Architect
7 5 (13.16%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (13.16%) Automation Specialist
7 5 (13.16%) Network Engineer
7 5 (13.16%) Network Specialist
7 5 (13.16%) Telecoms Engineer
7 5 (13.16%) Telecoms Specialist
8 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
9 3 (7.89%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (57.89%) JSON
1 22 (57.89%) SOAP
2 18 (47.37%) HTML
2 18 (47.37%) REST
3 6 (15.79%) Middleware
4 5 (13.16%) Jinja
4 5 (13.16%) Web Services
4 5 (13.16%) YAML
4 5 (13.16%) YANG
5 4 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (10.53%) Apache Camel
5 4 (10.53%) Hibernate
5 4 (10.53%) jQuery
5 4 (10.53%) Spring
5 4 (10.53%) Spring Boot
5 4 (10.53%) WireMock
6 3 (7.89%) JSON Schema
6 3 (7.89%) LDAP
6 3 (7.89%) Regular Expression
7 2 (5.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (34.21%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Linux
2 6 (15.79%) Unix
3 3 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Windows
3 3 (7.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (39.47%) Software Testing
3 12 (31.58%) Agile
4 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
5 10 (26.32%) Microservices
6 9 (23.68%) TDD
7 8 (21.05%) Application Security
8 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
8 7 (18.42%) ERP
9 6 (15.79%) CRM
9 6 (15.79%) Data Modelling
9 6 (15.79%) DevOps
9 6 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
10 5 (13.16%) API Management
10 5 (13.16%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (13.16%) Task Automation
10 5 (13.16%) Technical Analysis
10 5 (13.16%) Translating Business Requirements
10 5 (13.16%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) SQL
2 15 (39.47%) PL/SQL
3 11 (28.95%) Java
4 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 10 (26.32%) Python
5 8 (21.05%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.26%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) Cisco
2 5 (13.16%) F5
2 5 (13.16%) Juniper
2 5 (13.16%) Palo Alto
2 5 (13.16%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.53%) Dynatrace
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.53%) Splunk
4 3 (7.89%) VMware
5 2 (5.26%) IBM
5 2 (5.26%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.63%) Dell
6 1 (2.63%) Epicor
6 1 (2.63%) IFS
6 1 (2.63%) Informatica
6 1 (2.63%) Jitterbit
6 1 (2.63%) SnapLogic
6 1 (2.63%) Talend
6 1 (2.63%) Workday