XML Job Trends

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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 266 225
Rank change year-on-year -107 -41 +25
Permanent jobs citing XML 298 677 781
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.02% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.10% 4.91% 5.75%
Number of salaries quoted 178 433 562
10th Percentile £37,938 £36,250 £38,775
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,972
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.96% +0.83%
75th Percentile £71,875 £80,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.80%

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 7,260 13,795 13,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.42% 20.82% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,263 8,363 11,212
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,993
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%
75th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 16 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 29 November 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 -110 255 £55,000 -4.35% 115
UK excluding London -79 198 £55,000 - 99
Work from Home -17 128 £55,000 -15.38% 56
London -27 95 £68,750 +5.77% 40
South East -60 66 £55,000 -15.38% 34
East of England +54 59 £55,000 - 8
Midlands +18 22 £50,000 -4.31% 23
Scotland +16 22 £50,000 +11.11% 2
North of England -28 22 £45,000 -10.00% 20
West Midlands +42 15 £50,000 +17.65% 13
North West -8 8 £52,500 - 9
South West -11 8 £67,500 - 10
Yorkshire -21 8 £43,250 +1.76% 6
East Midlands +3 7 £47,500 -13.64% 9
North East +19 6 £45,000 -6.74% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 6 (2.01%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.34%) Confluence
4 3 (1.01%) IIS
4 3 (1.01%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.01%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.67%) JBoss
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) CICS
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) FileNet
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.36%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.34%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (5.70%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (4.03%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (2.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (2.35%) Shopify
4 3 (1.01%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.34%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 74 (24.83%) Azure
2 57 (19.13%) AWS
3 44 (14.77%) GitHub
4 37 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (10.07%) SaaS
6 24 (8.05%) Power Platform
7 23 (7.72%) Serverless
8 21 (7.05%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (7.05%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (6.71%) Power Automate
10 18 (6.04%) Entra ID
11 17 (5.70%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (5.70%) OCI
12 15 (5.03%) Boomi
13 12 (4.03%) iPaaS
14 10 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.02%) PowerApps
16 8 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
17 6 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.36%) FTP
2 3 (1.01%) HTTP
3 2 (0.67%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (0.67%) Multicast
3 2 (0.67%) RFID
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.34%) Modbus
4 1 (0.34%) SSL
4 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (19.13%) SQL Server
2 47 (15.77%) Relational Database
3 23 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.38%) RDBMS
5 18 (6.04%) Power BI
6 14 (4.70%) MySQL
7 13 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (3.36%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.35%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (2.35%) GIS
10 5 (1.68%) Metadata
11 4 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.34%) OLTP
12 3 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.01%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.01%) Tableau
13 2 (0.67%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 43 (14.43%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.72%) Git
3 21 (7.05%) JMeter
3 21 (7.05%) JUnit
3 21 (7.05%) Mockito
4 20 (6.71%) JIRA
5 17 (5.70%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (2.68%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.35%) Postman
7 7 (2.35%) PowerBuilder
8 6 (2.01%) Axure RP
8 6 (2.01%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.34%) MSBuild
9 4 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (1.34%) Selenium
10 3 (1.01%) NUnit
10 3 (1.01%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.01%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.01%) Subversion
11 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 80 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 46 (15.44%) Finance
3 41 (13.76%) Law
4 36 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.06%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.70%) Retail
7 16 (5.37%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.36%) Back Office
9 11 (3.69%) German Language
9 11 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.02%) Marketing
11 8 (2.68%) Legal
12 7 (2.35%) Health Technology
13 6 (2.01%) Advertising
14 5 (1.68%) Automotive
14 5 (1.68%) Banking
14 5 (1.68%) Front Office
15 4 (1.34%) Financial Institution
16 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
16 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 114 (38.26%) Developer
2 49 (16.44%) Senior
3 23 (7.72%) Analyst
4 21 (7.05%) Java Developer
4 21 (7.05%) Senior Developer
5 20 (6.71%) Consultant
6 19 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (6.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (6.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 17 (5.70%) Applications Engineer
8 17 (5.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 15 (5.03%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 14 (4.70%) Data Engineer
11 13 (4.36%) Applications Support
11 13 (4.36%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 13 (4.36%) SQL Developer
12 12 (4.03%) Integration Engineer
12 12 (4.03%) Lead
12 12 (4.03%) ServiceNow Developer
12 12 (4.03%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (69.13%) JSON
2 119 (39.93%) HTML
3 94 (31.54%) REST
4 60 (20.13%) SOAP
5 58 (19.46%) Web Services
6 50 (16.78%) CSS
7 28 (9.40%) .NET
7 28 (9.40%) Regular Expression
8 27 (9.06%) RESTful
9 26 (8.72%) jQuery
10 24 (8.05%) Spring
11 23 (7.72%) Hibernate
12 21 (7.05%) ActiveMQ
12 21 (7.05%) Apache Camel
12 21 (7.05%) Spring Boot
12 21 (7.05%) WireMock
13 13 (4.36%) ASP.NET
14 9 (3.02%) XSLT
15 8 (2.68%) FHIR
15 8 (2.68%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.75%) Onboarding
2 29 (9.73%) Cloud Native
3 28 (9.40%) Linux Command Line
4 21 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (5.70%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (4.36%) Low-Code
7 12 (4.03%) NHS
8 9 (3.02%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.68%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.34%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.34%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.34%) W3C
12 3 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.01%) BYOD
12 3 (1.01%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.01%) Semantic Web
13 2 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.67%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.07%) Unix
2 13 (4.36%) Linux
3 3 (1.01%) Windows
4 2 (0.67%) Debian
4 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (36.58%) Agile
2 78 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (21.14%) DevOps
4 59 (19.80%) CI/CD
5 47 (15.77%) Test Automation
6 45 (15.10%) AI
7 43 (14.43%) SDLC
8 41 (13.76%) ERP
9 39 (13.09%) Mentoring
10 38 (12.75%) API Integration
10 38 (12.75%) LLM
11 36 (12.08%) Business Intelligence
11 36 (12.08%) Workflow
12 35 (11.74%) ETL
12 35 (11.74%) Microservices
13 32 (10.74%) Data Analysis
14 30 (10.07%) Computer Science
15 29 (9.73%) Data Integration
16 28 (9.40%) Data Governance
16 28 (9.40%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (49.66%) SQL
2 110 (36.91%) Python
3 103 (34.56%) JavaScript
4 60 (20.13%) Java
5 54 (18.12%) C#
6 45 (15.10%) Shell Script
7 30 (10.07%) PL/SQL
8 18 (6.04%) C
9 10 (3.36%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.02%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.02%) VBA
11 7 (2.35%) VB.NET
12 6 (2.01%) C++
13 5 (1.68%) Perl
14 4 (1.34%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.34%) ActionScript 3.0
14 4 (1.34%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.01%) Bicep
15 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (24.83%) Degree
2 27 (9.06%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.02%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.68%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.01%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.01%) ISEB
8 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.67%) HNC
9 2 (0.67%) HND
9 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.67%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PhD
10 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.37%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.03%) GDPR
3 12 (4.03%) ISO 9001
3 12 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.69%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.69%) QA
5 8 (2.68%) HL7
6 2 (0.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) DICOM
7 1 (0.34%) EMIR
System Software
1 39 (13.09%) Docker
2 17 (5.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (11.74%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.38%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (7.38%) Terraform
3 21 (7.05%) Kibana
4 3 (1.01%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 56 (18.79%) Microsoft
2 47 (15.77%) Oracle
3 27 (9.06%) ServiceNow
4 21 (7.05%) Dynatrace
4 21 (7.05%) Splunk
5 17 (5.70%) Okta
6 12 (4.03%) SAP
7 11 (3.69%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.68%) Informatica
9 7 (2.35%) Cisco
9 7 (2.35%) Dell
9 7 (2.35%) IBM
9 7 (2.35%) OpenAI
9 7 (2.35%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.35%) Workday
10 6 (2.01%) Talend
11 5 (1.68%) Epicor
11 5 (1.68%) Infor
11 5 (1.68%) Software AG
11 5 (1.68%) TIBCO