XML Job Trends in the UK excluding London

XML
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring XML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 308 272
Rank change year-on-year -115 -36 +10
Permanent jobs citing XML 164 238 680
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.82% 0.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.18% 4.67% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 103 201 405
10th Percentile £37,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £51,578 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.87% -6.22% -2.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £83,750 £76,500
UK median annual salary £63,335 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +10.15% -0.86% -7.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,152 5,096 13,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.80% 17.58% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,047 3,409 10,298
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,389 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

XML job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

XML
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

XML
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK excluding London

XML
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 XML within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
South East -63 62 £67,500 - 29
North of England -39 36 £73,500 +47.00% 11
East of England -10 30 £55,000 +15.79% 3
Midlands -22 23 £67,000 +23.29% 14
North West -7 22 £73,500 +46.84% 6
Yorkshire -53 14 £73,420 +95.79% 4
East Midlands -24 13 £54,000 -1.82% 3
West Midlands -40 10 £80,000 +49.01% 11
Scotland -1 7 £72,500 +93.33% 2
South West -68 5 £31,500 -14.86% 10
Wales -27 1 - - 1
XML
UK

XML
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 17 (10.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.05%) JBoss
3 4 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.83%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.22%) Confluence
5 2 (1.22%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.61%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) CICS
6 1 (0.61%) CMS
6 1 (0.61%) IIS
6 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.61%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 6 (3.66%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.61%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 58 (35.37%) Azure
2 36 (21.95%) AWS
3 35 (21.34%) Power Platform
4 18 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (10.98%) GitHub
5 16 (9.76%) SaaS
6 14 (8.54%) Boomi
6 14 (8.54%) Entra ID
7 13 (7.93%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (6.10%) Serverless
9 9 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (4.88%) Apigee
10 8 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.66%) OCI
12 5 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.05%) GCP
12 5 (3.05%) iPaaS
12 5 (3.05%) Kong
12 5 (3.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.49%) Firewall
2 5 (3.05%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.44%) DNS
4 3 (1.83%) SSL
5 2 (1.22%) FTP
6 1 (0.61%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.61%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.61%) Multicast
6 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (21.34%) Power BI
2 28 (17.07%) SQL Server
3 24 (14.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 21 (12.80%) Relational Database
5 18 (10.98%) OLTP
6 15 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (5.49%) MySQL
8 7 (4.27%) Metadata
9 5 (3.05%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.83%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.83%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.22%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (1.22%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.22%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.61%) Adabas
12 1 (0.61%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (12.20%) JIRA
2 16 (9.76%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.88%) GitLab
4 7 (4.27%) Moq
5 6 (3.66%) Git
5 6 (3.66%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (3.05%) JMeter
6 5 (3.05%) JUnit
6 5 (3.05%) Mockito
7 3 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.83%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.83%) Maven
7 3 (1.83%) Ranorex
7 3 (1.83%) Selenium
7 3 (1.83%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.22%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.61%) Postman
9 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
General
1 66 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 51 (31.10%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (15.24%) Finance
4 14 (8.54%) Marketing
5 13 (7.93%) Retail
6 10 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.88%) Electronics
7 8 (4.88%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.27%) Aerospace
8 7 (4.27%) Automotive
8 7 (4.27%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.66%) Telecoms
10 5 (3.05%) German Language
11 3 (1.83%) Banking
11 3 (1.83%) Law
11 3 (1.83%) Local Government
12 2 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (34.76%) Developer
2 41 (25.00%) Senior
3 33 (20.12%) Senior Developer
4 21 (12.80%) Architect
5 18 (10.98%) Oracle Developer
5 18 (10.98%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 16 (9.76%) PL/SQL Developer
6 16 (9.76%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
6 16 (9.76%) Senior SQL Developer
6 16 (9.76%) SQL Developer
7 15 (9.15%) Analyst
8 12 (7.32%) Applications Engineer
8 12 (7.32%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.71%) Applications Architect
10 10 (6.10%) C# Developer
10 10 (6.10%) Integration Architect
11 9 (5.49%) Lead
12 8 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
12 8 (4.88%) SQL Analyst
12 8 (4.88%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (59.76%) JSON
2 61 (37.20%) SOAP
3 50 (30.49%) REST
4 49 (29.88%) HTML
5 28 (17.07%) Middleware
6 17 (10.37%) Regular Expression
7 15 (9.15%) .NET
7 15 (9.15%) EDI
7 15 (9.15%) Web Services
8 11 (6.71%) CSS
8 11 (6.71%) RESTful
8 11 (6.71%) WinForms
9 9 (5.49%) OAuth
9 9 (5.49%) Spring Boot
10 8 (4.88%) .NET Framework
10 8 (4.88%) Spring
10 8 (4.88%) XSLT
11 7 (4.27%) Entity Framework
11 7 (4.27%) Hibernate
12 6 (3.66%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.90%) Onboarding
2 13 (7.93%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (7.93%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.49%) Data Structures
5 9 (5.49%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (4.27%) Acoustics
6 7 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.27%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.83%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.83%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.83%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.22%) AS400
8 2 (1.22%) DataPower
8 2 (1.22%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.98%) Unix
2 12 (7.32%) Linux
3 10 (6.10%) Windows
4 5 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Debian
6 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (20.12%) Agile
2 33 (20.12%) ERP
3 30 (18.29%) DevOps
4 29 (17.68%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (15.85%) CRM
6 25 (15.24%) CI/CD
6 25 (15.24%) Collaborative Working
7 24 (14.63%) API Integration
7 24 (14.63%) Data Modelling
8 23 (14.02%) Customer Service
9 22 (13.41%) SDLC
9 22 (13.41%) Software Testing
10 21 (12.80%) Roadmaps
11 20 (12.20%) TDD
12 19 (11.59%) AI
12 19 (11.59%) B2B
12 19 (11.59%) Software Engineering
13 17 (10.37%) Computer Science
13 17 (10.37%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 93 (56.71%) SQL
2 50 (30.49%) Python
3 35 (21.34%) Java
4 28 (17.07%) C#
5 26 (15.85%) JavaScript
6 24 (14.63%) PL/SQL
7 15 (9.15%) Shell Script
8 11 (6.71%) Delphi
9 10 (6.10%) T-SQL
10 9 (5.49%) C++
11 8 (4.88%) PowerShell
12 7 (4.27%) XAML
13 4 (2.44%) Bash
13 4 (2.44%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.83%) Groovy
14 3 (1.83%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.83%) PHP
15 2 (1.22%) ActionScript
15 2 (1.22%) ActionScript 2.0
16 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (34.76%) Degree
2 13 (7.93%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (7.93%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.05%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.83%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.83%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.37%) QA
2 12 (7.32%) TickIT
3 11 (6.71%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.83%) SLA
6 2 (1.22%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (10.98%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.76%) Docker
3 4 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.49%) Terraform
3 6 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (3.05%) Kibana
5 3 (1.83%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (25.61%) Oracle
2 28 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.88%) Splunk
4 7 (4.27%) SAP
5 6 (3.66%) Okta
6 5 (3.05%) Ariba
6 5 (3.05%) Cisco
6 5 (3.05%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.05%) F5
6 5 (3.05%) Juniper
6 5 (3.05%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.05%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.44%) VMware
8 3 (1.83%) Databricks
8 3 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.22%) IBM
9 2 (1.22%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.61%) Adobe
10 1 (0.61%) Remedy
10 1 (0.61%) webMethods