SAX Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Simple API for XML (SAX)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SAX skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SAX 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.001% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.016% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary - - £126,250
% change year-on-year - - +57.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

SAX 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,187 5,077 12,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.53% 14.96% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,983 3,211 8,830
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

SAX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SAX relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SAX job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SAX
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SAX.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SAX

SAX
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAX within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Scotland - 1 - -
SAX
UK

SAX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Jakarta EE
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA