Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring XAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited XAML over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 698 761 997
Rank change year-on-year +63 +236 +86
Permanent jobs citing XAML 36 43 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.056% 0.017%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.19% 0.15% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 24 39 18
10th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £42,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +61.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £90,625 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £100,000 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +61.54%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18,475 28,549 49,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.83% 37.06% 45.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,198 22,650 31,697
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

XAML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XAML in the UK

XAML
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing XAML.

Salary trend for XAML in the UK

XAML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XAML over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for XAML in the UK

XAML
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XAML within the UK over the 6 months to 19 February 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
England +60 36 £50,000 -13.04% 14
UK excluding London +74 32 £50,000 -13.04% 12
Midlands +9 12 £37,500 -37.50% 8
East of England - 12 £50,000 -
East Midlands - 11 £37,500 -
Work from Home +97 9 £65,000 - 5
London +33 4 £77,500 -22.50% 1
South East +27 4 £62,500 +8.70%
North of England +36 2 £50,000 +11.11% 2
South West - 2 - - 2
Yorkshire +40 1 £50,000 +11.11%
North West +5 1 - - 2
West Midlands -6 1 £45,000 -25.00% 7

XAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) Firebase
1 15 (41.67%) GitHub
1 15 (41.67%) Google Play
2 14 (38.89%) SaaS
3 6 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
1 1 (2.78%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) SQLite
2 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.78%) MS Access
4 1 (2.78%) MySQL
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Bitbucket
2 7 (19.44%) Git
3 4 (11.11%) Visual Studio
4 3 (8.33%) JIRA
5 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 22 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Back Office
3 2 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Legal
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (77.78%) Developer
2 15 (41.67%) Senior
2 15 (41.67%) Senior Developer
3 14 (38.89%) Mobile Developer
3 14 (38.89%) Senior Mobile Developer
4 13 (36.11%) Xamarin Developer
5 12 (33.33%) Senior Xamarin Developer
5 12 (33.33%) Software Engineer
6 11 (30.56%) C# Developer
7 10 (27.78%) C# Software Engineer
8 7 (19.44%) Software Developer
9 5 (13.89%) C# Software Developer
10 4 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 3 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
11 3 (8.33%) C# WPF Developer
11 3 (8.33%) WPF Developer
12 1 (2.78%) Case Management Developer
12 1 (2.78%) Delphi Developer
12 1 (2.78%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (97.22%) .NET
2 18 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 16 (44.44%) Entity Framework
3 16 (44.44%) WPF
4 15 (41.67%) .NET Core
4 15 (41.67%) SwiftUI
5 14 (38.89%) AutoMapper
5 14 (38.89%) RESTful
6 12 (33.33%) SOAP
7 8 (22.22%) Web Services
8 6 (16.67%) HTML
9 4 (11.11%) ASP.NET
9 4 (11.11%) Universal Windows Platform
9 4 (11.11%) WinUI
10 3 (8.33%) Blazor
10 3 (8.33%) WinForms
11 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
11 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (5.56%) React
12 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) N-Tier
2 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (41.67%) Android
1 15 (41.67%) Apple iOS
1 15 (41.67%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) Agile
2 16 (44.44%) User Experience
3 14 (38.89%) Dependency Injection
3 14 (38.89%) Mobile Development
4 12 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 6 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 6 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (13.89%) Software Testing
7 4 (11.11%) B2B
7 4 (11.11%) Mathematics
7 4 (11.11%) MVC
7 4 (11.11%) OO
7 4 (11.11%) OOP
7 4 (11.11%) Physics
7 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.11%) Product Management
7 4 (11.11%) TDD
8 3 (8.33%) Cross-Platform Development
8 3 (8.33%) PRINCE2
8 3 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) C#
2 15 (41.67%) Java
2 15 (41.67%) Objective-C
3 10 (27.78%) SQL
4 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.89%) T-SQL
5 4 (11.11%) C++
5 4 (11.11%) VB.NET
6 3 (8.33%) Perl
6 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.33%) Python
7 1 (2.78%) C
7 1 (2.78%) Delphi
7 1 (2.78%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.78%) Embedded C++
7 1 (2.78%) IronPython
7 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Degree
3 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) ISO 13485
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 23 (63.89%) Microsoft
2 15 (41.67%) Google
2 15 (41.67%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.78%) Parasoft