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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 272 248
Rank change year-on-year -123 -24 +8
Permanent jobs citing XML 273 565 787
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 1.06% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.76% 4.92% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 164 372 518
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,438 £41,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £78,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,348 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -3.64%

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 7,251 11,476 15,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.65% 21.59% 24.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5,345 6,748 12,666
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £63,222
Median % change year-on-year - +2.81% -6.34%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £58,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year +1.72% +5.12% -4.05%

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 23 January 2026.

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 23 January 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 -137 223 £55,000 -4.35% 211
UK excluding London -125 169 £55,000 - 205
Work from Home -14 120 £55,000 -18.52% 70
London -25 86 £70,000 +16.67% 35
South East -77 54 £57,500 -11.54% 64
East of England +40 48 £55,000 - 33
Scotland +8 23 £50,000 +11.11% 9
North of England -59 21 £52,500 +22.09% 37
Midlands -18 19 £50,000 -4.76% 28
West Midlands +2 10 £50,000 +17.65% 9
North West -34 10 £53,250 +17.68% 15
East Midlands -24 9 £50,750 -7.73% 18
Yorkshire -38 7 £55,000 +46.67% 18
North East +1 4 £45,000 -6.74% 4
South West -24 3 £60,000 -11.11% 26
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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 5 (1.83%) Anypoint
1 5 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.47%) Confluence
3 3 (1.10%) JBoss
3 3 (1.10%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.10%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
5 1 (0.37%) CICS
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) FileNet
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.30%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.73%) 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 20 (7.33%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (2.20%) Shopify
4 3 (1.10%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.37%) Magento
6 1 (0.37%) Q-Pulse
6 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (25.64%) Azure
2 53 (19.41%) AWS
3 32 (11.72%) Power Platform
4 30 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (10.62%) GitHub
6 22 (8.06%) Entra ID
7 21 (7.69%) OCI
7 21 (7.69%) Serverless
8 18 (6.59%) Power Automate
9 16 (5.86%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (5.86%) Boomi
10 15 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.76%) SaaS
12 12 (4.40%) iPaaS
13 9 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (3.30%) PowerApps
14 8 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (2.20%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.66%) FTP
2 3 (1.10%) AMQP
3 2 (0.73%) HTTP
3 2 (0.73%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.73%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.37%) DNS
4 1 (0.37%) Modbus
4 1 (0.37%) SSL
4 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.37%) VPN
4 1 (0.37%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.85%) SQL Server
2 39 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 27 (9.89%) Power BI
4 18 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.03%) MySQL
5 11 (4.03%) OLTP
5 11 (4.03%) RDBMS
6 10 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.83%) Metadata
11 4 (1.47%) GIS
11 4 (1.47%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.10%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.10%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.10%) Tableau
13 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.33%) Oracle Forms
3 19 (6.96%) JIRA
4 16 (5.86%) Git
5 15 (5.49%) JMeter
5 15 (5.49%) JUnit
6 13 (4.76%) Mockito
7 7 (2.56%) Postman
7 7 (2.56%) PowerBuilder
8 6 (2.20%) Axure RP
8 6 (2.20%) Selenium
9 4 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.10%) Maven
10 3 (1.10%) NUnit
10 3 (1.10%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.10%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.10%) Subversion
10 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.73%) Ranorex
11 2 (0.73%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 75 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.32%) Finance
3 32 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.99%) Law
5 19 (6.96%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.49%) German Language
7 12 (4.40%) Retail
8 8 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.56%) Health Technology
9 7 (2.56%) Legal
9 7 (2.56%) Marketing
10 4 (1.47%) Advertising
10 4 (1.47%) Banking
10 4 (1.47%) Billing
10 4 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.47%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.47%) Front Office
10 4 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 106 (38.83%) Developer
2 58 (21.25%) Senior
3 25 (9.16%) Senior Developer
4 21 (7.69%) Analyst
5 20 (7.33%) Applications Engineer
5 20 (7.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (7.33%) Java Developer
5 20 (7.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 17 (6.23%) SQL Developer
7 13 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 13 (4.76%) ServiceNow Developer
8 12 (4.40%) Applications Support
9 11 (4.03%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.03%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 11 (4.03%) Oracle Developer
9 11 (4.03%) PL/SQL Developer
9 11 (4.03%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 11 (4.03%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
9 11 (4.03%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (68.13%) JSON
2 99 (36.26%) HTML
3 86 (31.50%) REST
4 71 (26.01%) SOAP
5 50 (18.32%) Web Services
6 32 (11.72%) CSS
7 29 (10.62%) Regular Expression
8 27 (9.89%) RESTful
9 25 (9.16%) Spring
10 19 (6.96%) Hibernate
10 19 (6.96%) Spring Boot
11 18 (6.59%) jQuery
12 16 (5.86%) .NET
13 14 (5.13%) XSLT
14 13 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
14 13 (4.76%) Apache Camel
14 13 (4.76%) WireMock
15 9 (3.30%) Middleware
16 8 (2.93%) React
17 7 (2.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.02%) Onboarding
2 31 (11.36%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (9.89%) Cloud Native
4 22 (8.06%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.76%) Low-Code
7 8 (2.93%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.47%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.47%) W3C
10 3 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.10%) Semantic Web
11 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.73%) DataPower
11 2 (0.73%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.73%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.19%) Unix
2 12 (4.40%) Linux
3 4 (1.47%) Windows
4 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (34.43%) Agile
2 70 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (19.41%) CI/CD
4 44 (16.12%) AI
4 44 (16.12%) ERP
5 43 (15.75%) DevOps
6 40 (14.65%) Test Automation
7 38 (13.92%) API Integration
8 37 (13.55%) SDLC
9 36 (13.19%) LLM
10 33 (12.09%) Data Analysis
11 32 (11.72%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (11.72%) Mentoring
12 30 (10.99%) ETL
13 29 (10.62%) Data Governance
14 28 (10.26%) Translating Business Requirements
15 25 (9.16%) Coaching
15 25 (9.16%) Data Modelling
15 25 (9.16%) Migration
16 24 (8.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 140 (51.28%) SQL
2 103 (37.73%) Python
3 70 (25.64%) JavaScript
4 62 (22.71%) Java
5 39 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 39 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 36 (13.19%) C#
7 10 (3.66%) T-SQL
7 10 (3.66%) VBA
8 8 (2.93%) ActionScript
9 7 (2.56%) C
9 7 (2.56%) Delphi
9 7 (2.56%) Perl
9 7 (2.56%) VB.NET
10 6 (2.20%) C++
10 6 (2.20%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.47%) ActionScript 2.0
11 4 (1.47%) ActionScript 3.0
11 4 (1.47%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (24.54%) Degree
2 27 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (4.40%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.93%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.10%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.10%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.10%) ISEB
5 3 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.73%) HNC
6 2 (0.73%) HND
6 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.73%) PMP
7 1 (0.37%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.59%) QA
2 15 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.66%) GDPR
5 7 (2.56%) HL7
6 2 (0.73%) EMIR
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (10.62%) Docker
2 21 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.42%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (8.06%) Terraform
4 13 (4.76%) Kibana
5 3 (1.10%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.73%) Ansible
6 2 (0.73%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 68 (24.91%) Oracle
2 37 (13.55%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.33%) Okta
4 16 (5.86%) SAP
5 15 (5.49%) ServiceNow
6 13 (4.76%) Dynatrace
6 13 (4.76%) Splunk
7 11 (4.03%) MuleSoft
8 9 (3.30%) Dell
9 8 (2.93%) IBM
10 7 (2.56%) Informatica
10 7 (2.56%) SnapLogic
10 7 (2.56%) Workday
11 6 (2.20%) Talend
12 5 (1.83%) Epicor
12 5 (1.83%) Infor
12 5 (1.83%) Intapp
12 5 (1.83%) Jitterbit
12 5 (1.83%) Software AG
12 5 (1.83%) TIBCO