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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 88 162
Rank change year-on-year -41 +74 +5
Permanent jobs citing XML 40 85 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.72% 2.81% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.94% 18.01% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 35 75 59
10th Percentile £55,000 - £34,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £36,250 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +28.57% -1.87%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 - £83,750
South East median annual salary £66,250 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +10.42% +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 504 472 1,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.05% 15.61% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 405 341 975
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £91,250
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 30 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 30 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 -14 28 £67,500 -18.18% 8
Buckinghamshire -12 12 £66,250 +10.42% 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) Azure
2 12 (30.00%) AWS
3 5 (12.50%) Apigee
3 5 (12.50%) iPaaS
3 5 (12.50%) Kong
3 5 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (7.50%) Serverless
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) Firewall
2 5 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (37.50%) OLTP
2 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.50%) RDBMS
2 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) GitLab
2 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) JMeter
3 3 (7.50%) JUnit
3 3 (7.50%) Mockito
4 1 (2.50%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
General
1 15 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Developer
1 16 (40.00%) Senior
2 15 (37.50%) Oracle Developer
2 15 (37.50%) PL/SQL Developer
2 15 (37.50%) Senior Developer
2 15 (37.50%) Senior Oracle Developer
2 15 (37.50%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
2 15 (37.50%) Senior SQL Developer
2 15 (37.50%) SQL Developer
3 13 (32.50%) Architect
4 11 (27.50%) Applications Architect
5 9 (22.50%) Integration Architect
6 5 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Automation Specialist
6 5 (12.50%) Network Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Network Specialist
6 5 (12.50%) Telecoms Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Telecoms Specialist
7 2 (5.00%) Design Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (67.50%) SOAP
2 24 (60.00%) JSON
3 19 (47.50%) REST
4 18 (45.00%) HTML
5 11 (27.50%) Middleware
6 5 (12.50%) Jinja
6 5 (12.50%) OAuth
6 5 (12.50%) OAuth2
6 5 (12.50%) YAML
6 5 (12.50%) YANG
7 4 (10.00%) JSON Schema
7 4 (10.00%) JWT
7 4 (10.00%) Kafka
7 4 (10.00%) LDAP
7 4 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (10.00%) Regular Expression
8 3 (7.50%) Hibernate
8 3 (7.50%) Spring
8 3 (7.50%) Web Services
8 3 (7.50%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.00%) AS400
4 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Unix
3 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (10.00%) Windows
3 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (65.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 15 (37.50%) Agile
4 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
5 12 (30.00%) Microservices
6 11 (27.50%) Application Security
6 11 (27.50%) CRM
6 11 (27.50%) Data Modelling
6 11 (27.50%) ERP
6 11 (27.50%) Integration Patterns
7 10 (25.00%) TDD
8 9 (22.50%) DevOps
9 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 7 (17.50%) Computer Science
10 7 (17.50%) End-to-End Testing
10 7 (17.50%) Technical Analysis
10 7 (17.50%) Translating Business Requirements
10 7 (17.50%) UML
11 5 (12.50%) Business Analysis
11 5 (12.50%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) SQL
2 15 (37.50%) PL/SQL
3 14 (35.00%) Java
4 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (20.00%) Python
5 7 (17.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (55.00%) Degree
2 7 (17.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 4 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Oracle
2 5 (12.50%) Cisco
2 5 (12.50%) F5
2 5 (12.50%) Juniper
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 5 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.00%) VMware
4 3 (7.50%) Dynatrace
4 3 (7.50%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.50%) webMethods