XML
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring XML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 403 306
Rank change year-on-year -122 -97 -77
Permanent jobs citing XML 299 299 645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.60% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.52% 3.56% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 198 206 382
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,313 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -10.20% +1.24%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £78,563
90th Percentile £82,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,873 8,407 16,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.04% 16.90% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8,409 5,360 10,005
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% +4.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

XML job vacancy trend in the UK

XML
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing XML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing XML

XML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the UK over the 6 months to 4 October 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
England -118 267 £60,000 +9.09% 398
UK excluding London -112 215 £55,000 +4.76% 208
Work from Home -53 128 £55,000 - 173
London -91 67 £75,000 +9.09% 211
South East -69 65 £60,000 +9.09% 64
Midlands -8 51 £52,500 +5.00% 28
West Midlands -4 46 £55,000 +10.00% 22
North of England -49 38 £67,500 +35.00% 40
South West -53 31 £36,500 -10.98% 25
North West -12 20 £70,000 +33.33% 22
Yorkshire -36 14 £63,076 +28.73% 14
East of England -67 10 £42,500 -22.73% 19
Wales - 7 £55,000 - 8
Scotland -10 5 £63,750 +27.50% 22
East Midlands -44 5 £45,000 -5.26% 6
Isle of Man - 5 £38,500 - 1
North East -62 4 £63,076 +40.17% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 3

XML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 16 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 15 (5.02%) CMS
2 15 (5.02%) Oracle Workflow
3 11 (3.68%) Confluence
4 9 (3.01%) Apache
5 7 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (2.01%) IIS
7 4 (1.34%) SAS
8 2 (0.67%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
Applications
1 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.67%) CorelDRAW
3 5 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.33%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (5.02%) Oracle Cash Management
1 15 (5.02%) Oracle EBS
1 15 (5.02%) Oracle Payables
1 15 (5.02%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (4.01%) Elite 3E
3 11 (3.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (3.68%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (1.34%) NEC Housing
5 3 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (1.00%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.67%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.33%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.33%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 85 (28.43%) Azure
2 42 (14.05%) Power Platform
3 31 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (9.03%) AWS
5 25 (8.36%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (7.02%) Power Automate
7 17 (5.69%) SaaS
7 17 (5.69%) Serverless
8 13 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (4.35%) GitHub
9 12 (4.01%) Boomi
9 12 (4.01%) PowerApps
10 10 (3.34%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.01%) GCP
13 5 (1.67%) Azure Event Grid
13 5 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.69%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.68%) Wireshark
3 7 (2.34%) DNS
4 5 (1.67%) Intranet
5 4 (1.34%) Firewall
6 3 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.00%) VPN
7 2 (0.67%) FTP
8 1 (0.33%) HTTP
8 1 (0.33%) Network Security
8 1 (0.33%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (20.07%) SQL Server
2 27 (9.03%) Power BI
3 22 (7.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 21 (7.02%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 15 (5.02%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.01%) MySQL
9 7 (2.34%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.01%) OLTP
11 5 (1.67%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.67%) Db2
11 5 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (1.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.67%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.34%) GIS
12 4 (1.34%) Metadata
12 4 (1.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (9.70%) Git
2 25 (8.36%) JIRA
3 17 (5.69%) JUnit
4 16 (5.35%) Jenkins
5 13 (4.35%) JMeter
6 11 (3.68%) Postman
7 8 (2.68%) Selenium
8 7 (2.34%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.34%) GitLab
8 7 (2.34%) Moq
8 7 (2.34%) SoapUI
9 6 (2.01%) Mockito
9 6 (2.01%) Visual Studio
9 6 (2.01%) Zephyr
10 3 (1.00%) Maven
10 3 (1.00%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.67%) Bower
11 2 (0.67%) PowerBuilder
11 2 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 92 (30.77%) Finance
2 91 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 73 (24.41%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (14.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (12.04%) Public Sector
6 30 (10.03%) Retail
7 29 (9.70%) Law
8 27 (9.03%) Manufacturing
9 19 (6.35%) Banking
9 19 (6.35%) Legal
10 15 (5.02%) Electronics
10 15 (5.02%) General Ledger
11 14 (4.68%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (4.35%) Publishing
13 11 (3.68%) Marketing
14 10 (3.34%) Aerospace
15 9 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (2.68%) Financial Institution
17 7 (2.34%) Back Office
17 7 (2.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (31.10%) Developer
2 73 (24.41%) Senior
3 46 (15.38%) Analyst
4 35 (11.71%) Senior Developer
5 30 (10.03%) Support Analyst
6 24 (8.03%) Architect
7 23 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
7 23 (7.69%) Consultant
8 22 (7.36%) .NET Developer
8 22 (7.36%) Lead
8 22 (7.36%) Software Engineer
9 19 (6.35%) Web Developer
10 15 (5.02%) Senior Applications Engineer
11 14 (4.68%) .NET Web Developer
11 14 (4.68%) Operations Engineer
11 14 (4.68%) Senior Operations Engineer
11 14 (4.68%) SQL Developer
12 13 (4.35%) Author
12 13 (4.35%) Technical Author
13 12 (4.01%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (46.82%) JSON
2 66 (22.07%) HTML
3 65 (21.74%) .NET
4 59 (19.73%) REST
5 55 (18.39%) Web Services
6 53 (17.73%) SOAP
7 45 (15.05%) CSS
8 43 (14.38%) .NET Framework
9 35 (11.71%) XSLT
10 25 (8.36%) Middleware
11 22 (7.36%) RESTful
12 21 (7.02%) Entity Framework
13 18 (6.02%) EDI
14 16 (5.35%) jQuery
15 15 (5.02%) ASP.NET
16 12 (4.01%) React
17 11 (3.68%) ASP.NET MVC
18 10 (3.34%) Classic ASP
18 10 (3.34%) Google Maps API
18 10 (3.34%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.35%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.68%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 12 (4.01%) Taxonomies
7 11 (3.68%) Robotics
8 9 (3.01%) Client/Server
8 9 (3.01%) SCADA
9 7 (2.34%) Acoustics
9 7 (2.34%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.01%) AS400
10 6 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.01%) NHS
10 6 (2.01%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.00%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.38%) Windows
2 31 (10.37%) Linux
3 24 (8.03%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.01%) Android
4 9 (3.01%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (31.44%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (25.08%) Agile
3 60 (20.07%) DevOps
4 43 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (14.05%) CI/CD
6 38 (12.71%) AI
7 36 (12.04%) ERP
7 36 (12.04%) Mentoring
8 35 (11.71%) CRM
9 34 (11.37%) Validation
10 33 (11.04%) Roadmaps
10 33 (11.04%) Workflow
11 31 (10.37%) Software Engineering
11 31 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (10.03%) Data Modelling
13 27 (9.03%) Customer Service
13 27 (9.03%) User Acceptance Testing
14 26 (8.70%) Project Delivery
15 25 (8.36%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (8.36%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 170 (56.86%) SQL
2 79 (26.42%) JavaScript
3 63 (21.07%) C#
4 53 (17.73%) Python
5 43 (14.38%) Java
6 26 (8.70%) C++
7 23 (7.69%) PL/SQL
8 15 (5.02%) VB.NET
9 12 (4.01%) XPath
10 10 (3.34%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.34%) Shell Script
11 9 (3.01%) PHP
12 7 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (2.34%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.34%) XAML
13 5 (1.67%) VBA
14 4 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.34%) RPG
14 4 (1.34%) RPG IV
14 4 (1.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 80 (26.76%) Degree
2 16 (5.35%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.01%) Azure Certification
4 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.34%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.67%) HNC
6 5 (1.67%) HND
6 5 (1.67%) ISEB
6 5 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.67%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.67%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.33%) GIAC
8 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.04%) QA
2 24 (8.03%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.69%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.01%) GDPR
4 9 (3.01%) TickIT
4 9 (3.01%) WCAG
5 5 (1.67%) FATCA
5 5 (1.67%) HL7
6 4 (1.34%) CDISC
7 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.33%) Dublin Core
8 1 (0.33%) GRC
8 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (7.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.34%) vSphere
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.34%) Kibana
3 2 (0.67%) Grafana
4 1 (0.33%) Ansible
4 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.33%) QRadar
4 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (31.77%) Microsoft
2 44 (14.72%) Oracle
3 16 (5.35%) IBM
4 12 (4.01%) Google
4 12 (4.01%) SAP
5 11 (3.68%) IBM Sterling
6 8 (2.68%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.68%) Splunk
7 7 (2.34%) Databricks
8 6 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.67%) Pega
9 5 (1.67%) VMware
10 4 (1.34%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.34%) NEC
10 4 (1.34%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.00%) Adobe
11 3 (1.00%) Infor
11 3 (1.00%) McAfee
11 3 (1.00%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.00%) Workday