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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 701 838 931
Rank change year-on-year +137 +93 +263
Permanent jobs citing XAML 7 76 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.074% 0.023%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.043% 0.23% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 4 70 21
10th Percentile £39,875 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,563 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +83.33%
75th Percentile £47,500 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile - £74,622 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +75.00%

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 16,314 33,562 41,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.74% 32.71% 43.01%
Number of salaries quoted 10,612 25,071 26,942
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,772 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.28% -2.23% +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
Top 7 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 29 May 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
UK excluding London +131 7 £45,000 -14.29% 5
England +107 7 £45,000 -14.29% 5
West Midlands +44 4 £45,000 -25.00%
Midlands +42 4 £45,000 -14.29%
South West +116 2 - -
North of England +28 1 - - 2
North West +4 1 - - 2

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 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) MS Access
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
2 3 (42.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Software Developer
3 3 (42.86%) C# Developer
3 3 (42.86%) C# Software Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Delphi Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (85.71%) .NET Framework
2 6 (85.71%) Blazor
3 4 (57.14%) ODBC
3 4 (57.14%) WPF
4 3 (42.86%) ADO
5 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
5 2 (28.57%) Entity Framework
5 2 (28.57%) HTML
5 2 (28.57%) React
5 2 (28.57%) RESTful
6 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET
6 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (28.57%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Integration Testing
2 4 (57.14%) System Integration Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Test Planning
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) API Development
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
4 2 (28.57%) MVC
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 2 (28.57%) UX Design
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) Delphi
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker