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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 273 256
Rank change year-on-year -151 -17 +6
Permanent jobs citing XML 257 536 883
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 1.05% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.45% 4.81% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 150 359 579
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £74,375 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,050 £89,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% 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 7,452 11,134 17,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 21.82% 23.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,490 6,614 14,284
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +5.60% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,189 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -157 208 £55,000 -7.45% 111
UK excluding London -126 163 £55,000 - 90
Work from Home +3 116 £55,000 -18.52% 52
London -37 74 £70,500 +8.46% 37
South East -77 55 £55,000 -15.38% 34
East of England +33 43 £55,000 - 9
Scotland +11 22 £47,750 +3.18% 6
North of England -73 20 £52,500 +22.81% 19
Midlands -27 19 £50,000 -4.76% 16
East Midlands -32 10 £50,750 -7.73% 3
West Midlands +3 9 £50,000 +17.65% 13
North West -35 9 £54,000 +13.68% 15
Yorkshire -42 7 £55,000 +37.50% 3
North East - 4 £45,000 - 1
South West -23 3 £60,000 -11.11% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.95%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.56%) Confluence
4 3 (1.17%) JBoss
4 3 (1.17%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.17%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) Appian
6 1 (0.39%) CICS
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) FileNet
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (3.50%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.39%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.39%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (7.78%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.72%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (2.33%) Shopify
4 3 (1.17%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.78%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.39%) Magento
6 1 (0.39%) Q-Pulse
6 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (28.40%) Azure
2 49 (19.07%) AWS
3 38 (14.79%) Power Platform
4 28 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (10.89%) GitHub
5 27 (10.51%) Entra ID
6 21 (8.17%) OCI
7 18 (7.00%) Power Automate
8 17 (6.61%) Boomi
9 16 (6.23%) Serverless
10 14 (5.45%) SaaS
11 12 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (4.67%) iPaaS
12 11 (4.28%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (3.50%) PowerApps
14 8 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (2.33%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.72%) FTP
2 3 (1.17%) AMQP
3 2 (0.78%) HTTP
3 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.78%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.39%) DNS
4 1 (0.39%) Firewall
4 1 (0.39%) Modbus
4 1 (0.39%) SSL
4 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.39%) VPN
4 1 (0.39%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (17.51%) SQL Server
2 33 (12.84%) Power BI
3 31 (12.06%) Relational Database
4 19 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.06%) MySQL
6 12 (4.67%) OLTP
7 9 (3.50%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.50%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (1.95%) Metadata
11 4 (1.56%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.17%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.17%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.17%) Tableau
13 2 (0.78%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (13.62%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.78%) Oracle Forms
3 17 (6.61%) JIRA
4 15 (5.84%) Git
5 11 (4.28%) JMeter
5 11 (4.28%) JUnit
6 9 (3.50%) Mockito
7 8 (3.11%) Postman
8 7 (2.72%) PowerBuilder
8 7 (2.72%) Selenium
9 6 (2.33%) Axure RP
10 4 (1.56%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.17%) Maven
11 3 (1.17%) NUnit
11 3 (1.17%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.17%) Subversion
11 3 (1.17%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.78%) Ranorex
12 2 (0.78%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 72 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.68%) Finance
3 35 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.12%) Law
5 17 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.84%) German Language
7 10 (3.89%) Retail
8 7 (2.72%) Legal
9 6 (2.33%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.33%) Marketing
10 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.56%) Advertising
11 4 (1.56%) Billing
11 4 (1.56%) Front Office
11 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.17%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.17%) Banking
12 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 98 (38.13%) Developer
2 58 (22.57%) Senior
3 26 (10.12%) Senior Developer
4 22 (8.56%) Analyst
5 20 (7.78%) Applications Engineer
5 20 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (7.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 18 (7.00%) SQL Developer
7 16 (6.23%) Java Developer
8 12 (4.67%) Oracle Developer
8 12 (4.67%) PL/SQL Developer
8 12 (4.67%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 12 (4.67%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
8 12 (4.67%) Senior SQL Developer
9 11 (4.28%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (4.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (3.89%) Integration Engineer
10 10 (3.89%) ServiceNow Developer
11 9 (3.50%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 9 (3.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (68.09%) JSON
2 88 (34.24%) HTML
3 78 (30.35%) REST
4 66 (25.68%) SOAP
5 41 (15.95%) Web Services
6 29 (11.28%) Regular Expression
7 28 (10.89%) CSS
8 25 (9.73%) RESTful
9 21 (8.17%) Spring
10 17 (6.61%) .NET
11 15 (5.84%) Hibernate
11 15 (5.84%) Spring Boot
12 14 (5.45%) jQuery
13 13 (5.06%) XSLT
14 9 (3.50%) ActiveMQ
14 9 (3.50%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.50%) Middleware
14 9 (3.50%) WireMock
15 8 (3.11%) React
15 8 (3.11%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.90%) Onboarding
2 31 (12.06%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (10.51%) Cloud Native
4 22 (8.56%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (5.06%) Data Structures
5 13 (5.06%) Low-Code
6 12 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.56%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.56%) W3C
9 3 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.17%) Semantic Web
10 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.78%) DataPower
10 2 (0.78%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.40%) Unix
2 11 (4.28%) Linux
3 4 (1.56%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (33.07%) Agile
2 64 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (19.07%) CI/CD
4 44 (17.12%) ERP
5 42 (16.34%) AI
6 38 (14.79%) DevOps
6 38 (14.79%) Test Automation
7 36 (14.01%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (13.62%) API Integration
8 35 (13.62%) LLM
9 34 (13.23%) Data Analysis
10 33 (12.84%) SDLC
11 31 (12.06%) Mentoring
12 28 (10.89%) Translating Business Requirements
13 27 (10.51%) Data Modelling
14 26 (10.12%) Data Governance
15 25 (9.73%) Coaching
15 25 (9.73%) ETL
15 25 (9.73%) Migration
16 23 (8.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 137 (53.31%) SQL
2 100 (38.91%) Python
3 60 (23.35%) JavaScript
4 59 (22.96%) Java
5 40 (15.56%) PL/SQL
6 38 (14.79%) C#
7 35 (13.62%) Shell Script
8 14 (5.45%) T-SQL
9 11 (4.28%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.89%) VBA
11 8 (3.11%) ActionScript
11 8 (3.11%) Delphi
12 7 (2.72%) VB.NET
13 6 (2.33%) C
13 6 (2.33%) C++
14 5 (1.95%) Perl
15 4 (1.56%) ActionScript 2.0
15 4 (1.56%) ActionScript 3.0
15 4 (1.56%) Objective-C
16 3 (1.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 68 (26.46%) Degree
2 26 (10.12%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.11%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.17%) ISEB
6 3 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.78%) HNC
7 2 (0.78%) HND
7 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.78%) PMP
8 1 (0.39%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.39%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.39%) QA
2 17 (6.61%) Data Quality
3 13 (5.06%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.89%) GDPR
5 6 (2.33%) HL7
5 6 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.78%) EMIR
6 2 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (10.12%) Active Directory
2 25 (9.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (9.73%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.56%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (8.56%) Terraform
3 9 (3.50%) Kibana
4 3 (1.17%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.78%) Ansible
5 2 (0.78%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 71 (27.63%) Oracle
2 33 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.78%) Okta
4 16 (6.23%) SAP
5 11 (4.28%) MuleSoft
6 10 (3.89%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.50%) Dell
7 9 (3.50%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.50%) Splunk
8 8 (3.11%) IBM
9 7 (2.72%) Informatica
9 7 (2.72%) SnapLogic
10 6 (2.33%) IFS
10 6 (2.33%) Talend
10 6 (2.33%) Workday
11 5 (1.95%) Epicor
11 5 (1.95%) Infor
11 5 (1.95%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.95%) Software AG
11 5 (1.95%) TIBCO