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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 67 65
Rank change year-on-year -78 -2 +105
Permanent jobs citing XML 31 133 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.78% 3.78% 3.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.01% 16.44% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 15 105 67
10th Percentile £37,500 - £37,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,250 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% -4.35%

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 344 809 759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.66% 23.02% 24.10%
Number of salaries quoted 250 487 565
10th Percentile £34,775 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £50,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £87,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,175
% change year-on-year - +3.14% -3.04%

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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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 -51 24 £70,000 -12.50% 7
Buckinghamshire -1 6 £40,000 -33.33% 4
Oxfordshire -15 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Q-Pulse
1 1 (3.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) AWS
2 14 (45.16%) Amazon EC2
2 14 (45.16%) Amazon ECS
2 14 (45.16%) Amazon EKS
2 14 (45.16%) Serverless
3 3 (9.68%) Azure
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (6.45%) SonarCloud
5 1 (3.23%) Boomi
5 1 (3.23%) iPaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.23%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (48.39%) Relational Database
2 14 (45.16%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (45.16%) RDBMS
3 7 (22.58%) OLTP
4 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) Jenkins
2 14 (45.16%) JMeter
2 14 (45.16%) JUnit
2 14 (45.16%) Mockito
3 2 (6.45%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) MSBuild
3 2 (6.45%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (6.45%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (6.45%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.23%) JIRA
4 1 (3.23%) Postman
4 1 (3.23%) SoapUI
General
1 14 (45.16%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.45%) Retail
3 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.23%) Aviation
3 1 (3.23%) Banking
3 1 (3.23%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Law
3 1 (3.23%) Legal
3 1 (3.23%) Military
3 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (80.65%) Developer
2 14 (45.16%) Full-Stack Developer
2 14 (45.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 14 (45.16%) Java Developer
2 14 (45.16%) Mid-Level Java Developer
3 11 (35.48%) SQL Developer
4 8 (25.81%) Senior
5 7 (22.58%) Oracle Developer
5 7 (22.58%) PL/SQL Developer
5 7 (22.58%) Senior Developer
5 7 (22.58%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 7 (22.58%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
5 7 (22.58%) Senior SQL Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (12.90%) Data Engineer
7 4 (12.90%) Data Integration Developer
7 4 (12.90%) Data Integration Engineer
7 4 (12.90%) Integration Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Architect
8 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (74.19%) HTML
2 21 (67.74%) JSON
2 21 (67.74%) REST
3 15 (48.39%) Web Services
4 14 (45.16%) ActiveMQ
4 14 (45.16%) Apache Camel
4 14 (45.16%) Hibernate
4 14 (45.16%) jQuery
4 14 (45.16%) Spring
4 14 (45.16%) Spring Boot
4 14 (45.16%) WireMock
5 9 (29.03%) SOAP
6 2 (6.45%) .NET
6 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
6 2 (6.45%) Bootstrap
6 2 (6.45%) CSS
6 2 (6.45%) gRPC
7 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) e-Learning
2 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.23%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
1 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Agile
1 16 (51.61%) Microservices
2 15 (48.39%) BDD
3 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
3 14 (45.16%) Full-Stack Development
3 14 (45.16%) Process Management
3 14 (45.16%) SDLC
3 14 (45.16%) TDD
3 14 (45.16%) Workflow
4 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.81%) Software Testing
6 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (12.90%) Data Integration
6 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
7 2 (6.45%) Code Quality
7 2 (6.45%) Data Encryption
7 2 (6.45%) Design Patterns
7 2 (6.45%) Event-Driven
7 2 (6.45%) Performance Testing
7 2 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) JavaScript
2 16 (51.61%) SQL
3 15 (48.39%) Java
3 15 (48.39%) Python
3 15 (48.39%) Shell Script
4 8 (25.81%) PL/SQL
5 4 (12.90%) T-SQL
6 3 (9.68%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (51.61%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.68%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 17 (54.84%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (48.39%) Kubernetes
2 14 (45.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Dynatrace
1 14 (45.16%) Splunk
2 8 (25.81%) Oracle
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) Dell
4 1 (3.23%) Epicor
4 1 (3.23%) IBM
4 1 (3.23%) IFS
4 1 (3.23%) Infor
4 1 (3.23%) Informatica
4 1 (3.23%) Jitterbit
4 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) SnapLogic
4 1 (3.23%) Software AG
4 1 (3.23%) Talend
4 1 (3.23%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.23%) Workday