eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring XBRL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited XBRL over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 710 877 972
Rank change year-on-year +167 +95 +265
Permanent jobs citing XBRL 2 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.001% 0.001%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.021% 0.005% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 £79,043 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £81,945 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.83% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 £84,848 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XBRL 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,497 21,024 30,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.24% 21.23% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,223 15,725 18,834
10th Percentile £37,733 £36,250 £40,775
25th Percentile £50,300 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

XBRL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XBRL in the UK

XBRL
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for XBRL in the UK

XBRL
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XBRL within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +143 2 £57,500 -29.83% 2
London +115 2 £57,500 -29.83% 2

XBRL
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Regtech
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL