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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 301 257
Rank change year-on-year -151 -44 +29
Permanent jobs citing XML 270 411 1,062
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 1.00% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.17% 4.70% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 164 347 665
10th Percentile £38,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,882 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% -2.54% -8.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,265 £93,761 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -

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 8,514 8,737 19,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.34% 21.29% 21.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,240 6,604 15,522
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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 7 April 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 15 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 7 April 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 -160 233 £60,000 +4.35% 111
UK excluding London -144 176 £56,250 +2.27% 104
Work from Home -43 118 £57,500 -14.81% 58
London -59 66 £71,000 +10.94% 32
South East -96 59 £62,500 -3.85% 27
East of England +6 44 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North of England -88 30 £70,000 +45.83% 24
Midlands -48 27 £48,750 -9.20% 17
North West -52 18 £64,000 +28.00% 15
East Midlands -52 14 £50,750 -7.73% 11
West Midlands -17 13 £46,500 +9.41% 6
Yorkshire -63 12 £73,420 +95.79% 7
Scotland -22 9 £72,500 +52.45% 10
South West -65 6 £31,500 -37.00% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 12 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.22%) JBoss
4 5 (1.85%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.48%) Confluence
6 3 (1.11%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.37%) Apache
8 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.37%) CICS
8 1 (0.37%) CMS
8 1 (0.37%) IIS
8 1 (0.37%) SAS
8 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.37%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.37%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.96%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.85%) Shopify
3 4 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.11%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.37%) Magento
6 1 (0.37%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 69 (25.56%) Azure
2 49 (18.15%) AWS
3 47 (17.41%) Power Platform
4 20 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (7.04%) Boomi
5 19 (7.04%) SaaS
6 16 (5.93%) Entra ID
6 16 (5.93%) GitHub
7 15 (5.56%) Power Automate
7 15 (5.56%) Serverless
8 14 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.70%) iPaaS
10 9 (3.33%) Apigee
10 9 (3.33%) OCI
11 8 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.59%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.33%) Firewall
2 7 (2.59%) FTP
3 6 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.48%) SSL
5 3 (1.11%) AMQP
5 3 (1.11%) DNS
6 2 (0.74%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.74%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.37%) HTTP
7 1 (0.37%) Modbus
7 1 (0.37%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (16.30%) SQL Server
2 43 (15.93%) Power BI
3 37 (13.70%) Relational Database
4 22 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (5.93%) MySQL
5 16 (5.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (5.56%) OLTP
7 14 (5.19%) Metadata
8 13 (4.81%) RDBMS
9 8 (2.96%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.85%) GIS
11 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.11%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.11%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.11%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.11%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.11%) Tableau
12 2 (0.74%) Big Data
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 28 (10.37%) JIRA
2 22 (8.15%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.19%) Git
4 13 (4.81%) Selenium
5 11 (4.07%) GitLab
6 8 (2.96%) JUnit
6 8 (2.96%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (2.96%) SpecFlow
7 7 (2.59%) ERwin
7 7 (2.59%) JMeter
8 6 (2.22%) Maven
8 6 (2.22%) Postman
9 5 (1.85%) Mockito
9 5 (1.85%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.11%) NUnit
10 3 (1.11%) PowerBuilder
10 3 (1.11%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 94 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.85%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (21.11%) Finance
4 18 (6.67%) Law
5 15 (5.56%) German Language
6 11 (4.07%) Financial Institution
6 11 (4.07%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.07%) Retail
7 9 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.59%) Legal
8 7 (2.59%) Marketing
9 6 (2.22%) Banking
9 6 (2.22%) Front Office
9 6 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.48%) Publishing
12 3 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.11%) Local Government
13 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 93 (34.44%) Developer
2 49 (18.15%) Senior
3 26 (9.63%) Senior Developer
4 25 (9.26%) Analyst
5 22 (8.15%) Consultant
6 20 (7.41%) SQL Developer
7 16 (5.93%) Java Developer
8 15 (5.56%) Lead
8 15 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
8 15 (5.56%) PL/SQL Developer
8 15 (5.56%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 15 (5.56%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
8 15 (5.56%) Senior SQL Developer
9 13 (4.81%) Architect
10 12 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
11 11 (4.07%) C# Developer
12 10 (3.70%) QA Engineer
13 9 (3.33%) Data Analyst
13 9 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (2.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (66.67%) JSON
2 76 (28.15%) REST
3 74 (27.41%) HTML
4 68 (25.19%) SOAP
5 35 (12.96%) Web Services
6 32 (11.85%) Regular Expression
7 21 (7.78%) .NET
8 19 (7.04%) Spring
9 17 (6.30%) RESTful
10 16 (5.93%) CSS
10 16 (5.93%) Spring Boot
11 14 (5.19%) Middleware
12 11 (4.07%) EDI
12 11 (4.07%) Hibernate
12 11 (4.07%) WinForms
13 10 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
13 10 (3.70%) Node.js
13 10 (3.70%) XSLT
14 9 (3.33%) FpML
15 8 (2.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.63%) Onboarding
2 33 (12.22%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 19 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.44%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.44%) Low-Code
6 11 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.96%) e-Learning
8 8 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.85%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.85%) SCADA
10 4 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.11%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.11%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.56%) Unix
2 22 (8.15%) Linux
3 10 (3.70%) Windows
4 3 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Debian
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.56%) Agile
2 66 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 44 (16.30%) AI
5 39 (14.44%) Data Modelling
6 38 (14.07%) CI/CD
7 34 (12.59%) DevOps
8 33 (12.22%) Data Analysis
8 33 (12.22%) ERP
9 32 (11.85%) Migration
9 32 (11.85%) SDLC
10 30 (11.11%) LLM
10 30 (11.11%) Software Testing
10 30 (11.11%) Test Automation
11 29 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (9.63%) API Integration
13 25 (9.26%) Validation
14 24 (8.89%) Decision-Making
15 22 (8.15%) Computer Science
15 22 (8.15%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 141 (52.22%) SQL
2 96 (35.56%) Python
3 56 (20.74%) Java
4 47 (17.41%) JavaScript
5 43 (15.93%) C#
6 27 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 22 (8.15%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.56%) T-SQL
9 11 (4.07%) Delphi
10 9 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.59%) C++
11 7 (2.59%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.59%) VBA
12 6 (2.22%) C
12 6 (2.22%) Perl
13 5 (1.85%) VB
13 5 (1.85%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.48%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.48%) ActionScript 2.0
14 4 (1.48%) Bash
Qualifications
1 70 (25.93%) Degree
2 29 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.33%) ISTQB
6 8 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.11%) ISEB
9 3 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.74%) HNC
10 2 (0.74%) HND
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.74%) QA
2 16 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.22%) GDPR
5 5 (1.85%) TickIT
6 3 (1.11%) EMIR
6 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.11%) SLA
7 2 (0.74%) HL7
7 2 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (8.89%) Docker
2 19 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.11%) vSphere
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 20 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.44%) Terraform
3 9 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.85%) Kibana
5 3 (1.11%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.11%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 64 (23.70%) Oracle
2 34 (12.59%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.93%) SAP
4 8 (2.96%) IBM
4 8 (2.96%) MuleSoft
4 8 (2.96%) Okta
4 8 (2.96%) Splunk
5 7 (2.59%) Databricks
5 7 (2.59%) Dell
5 7 (2.59%) Palo Alto
5 7 (2.59%) Sparx
6 6 (2.22%) Cisco
6 6 (2.22%) F5
6 6 (2.22%) IFS
6 6 (2.22%) Intapp
6 6 (2.22%) Juniper
6 6 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.22%) Talend
6 6 (2.22%) Workday