XAML Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring XAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 550 541
Rank change year-on-year +41 -9 +220
Permanent jobs citing XAML 8 30 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.081% 0.033%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% 0.26% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 10
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £53,438 £52,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £67,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year - -21.57% +18.60%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

XAML falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,613 11,468 11,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.77% 30.78% 37.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,966 6,264 8,917
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £69,500 £72,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -3.85%

XAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

XAML job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

XAML
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

XAML
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 XAML within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
North of England +27 4 £50,000 -
North East - 4 £50,000 -
Midlands +12 2 £45,000 +20.00%
South West - 2 £52,500 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £45,000 -
XAML
UK

XAML
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MS Access
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (50.00%) Electronics
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Law
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Delphi Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (50.00%) Apache Cordova
2 4 (50.00%) CSS
2 4 (50.00%) HTML
2 4 (50.00%) WPF
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (25.00%) ADO
3 2 (25.00%) Avalonia
3 2 (25.00%) Blazor
3 2 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (25.00%) ODBC
3 2 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Android
1 4 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) User Experience
1 6 (75.00%) UX Design
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 4 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) API Development
3 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) MVVM
3 2 (25.00%) OWASP
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Delphi
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform