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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 106 93
Rank change year-on-year -43 -13 +108
Permanent jobs citing XML 52 90 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.32% 1.87% 2.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.30% 10.61% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24 69 65
10th Percentile £52,750 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% +23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile - £83,750 -
South East median annual salary £55,500 £65,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -14.62% +21.50% -10.46%

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 391 848 1,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.93% 17.59% 28.33%
Number of salaries quoted 232 563 794
10th Percentile £37,600 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £56,509 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.18% -5.82% +4.35%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for XML 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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for XML in the Thames Valley

XML
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 16 September 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 -29 40 £82,500 +3.13% 11
Oxfordshire +12 11 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Buckinghamshire -10 1 £47,500 - 3
XML
South East

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.85%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Q-Pulse
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.92%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) AWS
2 17 (32.69%) Amazon EC2
2 17 (32.69%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (32.69%) Amazon EKS
2 17 (32.69%) Azure
2 17 (32.69%) Serverless
3 15 (28.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 15 (28.85%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (28.85%) Azure Service Bus
3 15 (28.85%) SonarCloud
4 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.85%) iPaaS
5 2 (3.85%) OCI
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.92%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.69%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (32.69%) RDBMS
1 17 (32.69%) Relational Database
2 15 (28.85%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (9.62%) OLTP
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (3.85%) Power BI
5 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.92%) Power Query
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (32.69%) Jenkins
1 17 (32.69%) JMeter
1 17 (32.69%) JUnit
1 17 (32.69%) Mockito
2 16 (30.77%) Visual Studio
3 15 (28.85%) Git
3 15 (28.85%) MSBuild
3 15 (28.85%) Octopus Deploy
3 15 (28.85%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.92%) Postman
General
1 17 (32.69%) Public Sector
2 14 (26.92%) Retail
3 9 (17.31%) Finance
4 7 (13.46%) Aerospace
4 7 (13.46%) Aviation
4 7 (13.46%) Military
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Billing
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (44.23%) Developer
2 16 (30.77%) Architect
2 16 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 15 (28.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (28.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 15 (28.85%) Technical Architect
4 9 (17.31%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 7 (13.46%) Software Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Senior
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (9.62%) PL/SQL Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Senior SQL Developer
7 5 (9.62%) SQL Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Oracle Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (75.00%) JSON
2 37 (71.15%) HTML
3 35 (67.31%) REST
4 18 (34.62%) Web Services
5 17 (32.69%) ActiveMQ
5 17 (32.69%) Apache Camel
5 17 (32.69%) Hibernate
5 17 (32.69%) jQuery
5 17 (32.69%) Spring
5 17 (32.69%) Spring Boot
5 17 (32.69%) WireMock
6 16 (30.77%) .NET
6 16 (30.77%) ASP.NET
7 15 (28.85%) Bootstrap
7 15 (28.85%) CSS
7 15 (28.85%) gRPC
8 9 (17.31%) SOAP
9 2 (3.85%) Middleware
9 2 (3.85%) React
9 2 (3.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.69%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (13.46%) e-Learning
2 7 (13.46%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.92%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.92%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (61.54%) Microservices
2 22 (42.31%) Agile
3 20 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (38.46%) Workflow
4 18 (34.62%) BDD
4 18 (34.62%) CI/CD
5 17 (32.69%) DevOps
5 17 (32.69%) Process Management
5 17 (32.69%) TDD
6 16 (30.77%) API Integration
6 16 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (28.85%) Code Quality
7 15 (28.85%) Data Encryption
7 15 (28.85%) Design Patterns
7 15 (28.85%) Event-Driven
7 15 (28.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 15 (28.85%) MVC
7 15 (28.85%) Performance Optimisation
7 15 (28.85%) Performance Testing
7 15 (28.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (65.38%) SQL
2 33 (63.46%) JavaScript
3 18 (34.62%) Java
3 18 (34.62%) Python
4 17 (32.69%) Shell Script
5 15 (28.85%) C#
6 13 (25.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) Degree
3 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (30.77%) GDPR
2 7 (13.46%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 33 (63.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 17 (32.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (32.69%) Dynatrace
1 17 (32.69%) Splunk
2 8 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.92%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow