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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 152 117
Rank change year-on-year -13 -35 -15
Permanent jobs citing XML 34 54 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.48% 1.36% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.63% 12.65% 9.91%
Number of salaries quoted 24 26 65
10th Percentile - £45,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +26.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £71,563 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £75,000 - £83,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% -14.62% +12.07%

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 734 427 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.29% 10.79% 17.82%
Number of salaries quoted 570 255 592
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,900 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +6 22 £67,500 -18.18% 7
Buckinghamshire +2 9 £60,000 +26.32%
Oxfordshire -36 3 £50,000 +14.29% 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 3 (8.82%) SAS
2 2 (5.88%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) AWS
2 13 (38.24%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (14.71%) Serverless
4 3 (8.82%) SaaS
5 2 (5.88%) Apigee
5 2 (5.88%) Kong
5 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.94%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) DNS
3 3 (8.82%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) OLTP
1 7 (20.59%) Relational Database
2 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (14.71%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (5.88%) GIS
3 2 (5.88%) QGIS
3 2 (5.88%) Spotfire
3 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
1 5 (14.71%) JMeter
1 5 (14.71%) JUnit
1 5 (14.71%) Mockito
2 4 (11.76%) GitLab
General
1 13 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.82%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Senior
2 9 (26.47%) Architect
3 8 (23.53%) Developer
4 7 (20.59%) Oracle Developer
4 7 (20.59%) Senior Developer
4 7 (20.59%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 6 (17.65%) Applications Architect
5 6 (17.65%) Integration Architect
6 4 (11.76%) Java Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) PL/SQL Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Security Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Senior SQL Developer
6 4 (11.76%) SQL Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Programmer
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Programmer
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Security Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (70.59%) JSON
2 16 (47.06%) REST
3 15 (44.12%) SOAP
4 12 (35.29%) HTML
5 8 (23.53%) Middleware
6 7 (20.59%) Kafka
7 6 (17.65%) OAuth
7 6 (17.65%) OAuth2
7 6 (17.65%) RESTful
8 5 (14.71%) ActiveMQ
8 5 (14.71%) Apache Camel
8 5 (14.71%) Hibernate
8 5 (14.71%) jQuery
8 5 (14.71%) JSON Schema
8 5 (14.71%) LDAP
8 5 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (14.71%) Regular Expression
8 5 (14.71%) Spring
8 5 (14.71%) Spring Boot
8 5 (14.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 4 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
4 3 (8.82%) PKI
5 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (5.88%) AS400
5 2 (5.88%) Life Science
5 2 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Agile
1 16 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (38.24%) CI/CD
3 12 (35.29%) Microservices
4 10 (29.41%) Data Modelling
5 9 (26.47%) Integration Patterns
6 8 (23.53%) CRM
6 8 (23.53%) ERP
6 8 (23.53%) TDD
7 7 (20.59%) Computer Science
7 7 (20.59%) DevOps
7 7 (20.59%) Software Testing
8 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 6 (17.65%) Validation
9 5 (14.71%) BDD
9 5 (14.71%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (14.71%) Integration Testing
9 5 (14.71%) Process Management
9 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
9 5 (14.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) SQL
2 16 (47.06%) Java
3 10 (29.41%) Python
3 10 (29.41%) Shell Script
4 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 7 (20.59%) PL/SQL
5 3 (8.82%) SAS Macro
6 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.94%) C#
7 1 (2.94%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (41.18%) Degree
2 5 (14.71%) DV Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.82%) CDISC
3 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Docker
2 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Oracle
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.71%) Dynatrace
3 5 (14.71%) Red Hat
3 5 (14.71%) Splunk
3 5 (14.71%) VMware
4 3 (8.82%) McAfee
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco
5 2 (5.88%) F5
5 2 (5.88%) Juniper
5 2 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.94%) IBM
6 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.94%) webMethods