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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 96 68
Rank change year-on-year -48 -28 +129
Permanent jobs citing XML 48 110 146
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.26% 2.50% 4.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.71% 13.08% 14.70%
Number of salaries quoted 21 83 62
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £63,750 £46,250 £45,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +23.81% -10.26%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £70,313
90th Percentile - £83,750 £71,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -12.50%

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 350 841 993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.18% 19.11% 28.49%
Number of salaries quoted 216 499 678
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £42,798
25th Percentile £44,688 £45,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,125 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

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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

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

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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 19 October 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 19 October 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 -41 35 £82,500 +3.13% 9
Oxfordshire -8 9 £67,500 +80.00% 5
Buckinghamshire +4 4 £40,000 - 4
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 2 (4.17%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Q-Pulse
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.08%) NetSuite
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) AWS
2 17 (35.42%) Amazon EC2
2 17 (35.42%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (35.42%) Amazon EKS
2 17 (35.42%) Serverless
3 11 (22.92%) Azure
4 9 (18.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
4 9 (18.75%) SonarCloud
5 2 (4.17%) iPaaS
5 2 (4.17%) OCI
5 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (35.42%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (35.42%) RDBMS
1 17 (35.42%) Relational Database
2 9 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (12.50%) OLTP
4 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.08%) Power BI
6 1 (2.08%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (35.42%) Jenkins
1 17 (35.42%) JMeter
1 17 (35.42%) JUnit
1 17 (35.42%) Mockito
2 9 (18.75%) Git
2 9 (18.75%) MSBuild
2 9 (18.75%) Octopus Deploy
2 9 (18.75%) Team Foundation Server
2 9 (18.75%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.08%) Postman
General
1 17 (35.42%) Public Sector
2 9 (18.75%) Retail
3 8 (16.67%) Finance
4 6 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 6 (12.50%) Aviation
4 6 (12.50%) Military
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Billing
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (54.17%) Developer
2 16 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 15 (31.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (31.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 13 (27.08%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 10 (20.83%) Architect
6 9 (18.75%) SQL Developer
6 9 (18.75%) Technical Architect
7 7 (14.58%) Senior
7 7 (14.58%) Senior Developer
8 6 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
8 6 (12.50%) PL/SQL Developer
8 6 (12.50%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 6 (12.50%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
8 6 (12.50%) Senior SQL Developer
8 6 (12.50%) Software Engineer
8 6 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Analyst
9 3 (6.25%) Data Integration Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (72.92%) JSON
2 32 (66.67%) HTML
2 32 (66.67%) REST
3 18 (37.50%) Web Services
4 17 (35.42%) ActiveMQ
4 17 (35.42%) Apache Camel
4 17 (35.42%) Hibernate
4 17 (35.42%) jQuery
4 17 (35.42%) Spring
4 17 (35.42%) Spring Boot
4 17 (35.42%) WireMock
5 10 (20.83%) SOAP
6 9 (18.75%) .NET
6 9 (18.75%) ASP.NET
6 9 (18.75%) Bootstrap
6 9 (18.75%) CSS
6 9 (18.75%) gRPC
7 2 (4.17%) Middleware
7 2 (4.17%) XSLT
8 1 (2.08%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (35.42%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.50%) e-Learning
2 6 (12.50%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.08%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.08%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Microservices
2 21 (43.75%) Agile
3 19 (39.58%) Workflow
4 18 (37.50%) BDD
4 18 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 17 (35.42%) Process Management
5 17 (35.42%) TDD
6 16 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (33.33%) SDLC
7 10 (20.83%) API Integration
7 10 (20.83%) DevOps
7 10 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (18.75%) Code Quality
8 9 (18.75%) Data Encryption
8 9 (18.75%) Design Patterns
8 9 (18.75%) Event-Driven
8 9 (18.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 9 (18.75%) MVC
8 9 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (62.50%) SQL
2 27 (56.25%) JavaScript
3 18 (37.50%) Java
3 18 (37.50%) Python
4 17 (35.42%) Shell Script
5 13 (27.08%) PL/SQL
6 9 (18.75%) C#
7 3 (6.25%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) Degree
3 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.83%) GDPR
2 9 (18.75%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 27 (56.25%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 17 (35.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (35.42%) Dynatrace
1 17 (35.42%) Splunk
2 9 (18.75%) Oracle
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.08%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow