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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 291 256
Rank change year-on-year -140 -35 +28
Permanent jobs citing XML 256 465 993
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 1.06% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.25% 4.76% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 147 358 625
10th Percentile £41,150 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £49,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £58,350
Median % change year-on-year - -1.46% -10.23%
75th Percentile £71,750 £79,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,200 £93,778 £88,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - +0.92% -0.91%

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 7,869 9,764 18,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.78% 22.27% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,746 6,715 15,138
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -172 214 £57,500 - 163
UK excluding London -132 164 £55,000 - 147
Work from Home -15 115 £57,500 -14.81% 67
London -58 70 £70,500 +8.46% 36
South East -77 61 £62,500 -3.85% 34
East of England +21 40 £55,000 +4.76% 15
North of England -75 23 £55,000 +15.79% 32
Midlands -47 20 £43,750 -17.45% 23
Scotland -5 16 £62,500 +31.42% 18
East Midlands -50 12 £50,750 -7.73% 7
North West -42 11 £55,000 +15.18% 25
Yorkshire -51 9 £62,500 +56.25% 6
West Midlands -20 8 £40,000 -5.88% 15
North East -15 3 £45,000 +28.57% 1
South West -41 3 £72,500 +7.41% 20
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 9 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.95%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.95%) JBoss
4 3 (1.17%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) Confluence
5 2 (0.78%) IIS
5 2 (0.78%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) CICS
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) FileNet
Applications
1 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.39%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.39%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (5.47%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (2.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.95%) Shopify
4 3 (1.17%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.78%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.39%) Magento
6 1 (0.39%) Q-Pulse
6 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (26.17%) Azure
2 47 (18.36%) AWS
3 44 (17.19%) Power Platform
4 22 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (8.59%) Entra ID
5 21 (8.20%) GitHub
6 17 (6.64%) Power Automate
7 15 (5.86%) OCI
8 14 (5.47%) Boomi
8 14 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (5.47%) SaaS
8 14 (5.47%) Serverless
9 10 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.91%) iPaaS
10 9 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.13%) PowerApps
12 7 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.34%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.34%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.73%) Firewall
1 7 (2.73%) FTP
2 4 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (1.56%) DNS
3 3 (1.17%) AMQP
4 2 (0.78%) HTTP
4 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.78%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.39%) Modbus
5 1 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.41%) SQL Server
2 38 (14.84%) Power BI
3 33 (12.89%) Relational Database
4 20 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.86%) OLTP
6 14 (5.47%) MySQL
7 11 (4.30%) RDBMS
8 9 (3.52%) Metadata
8 9 (3.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.95%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.56%) Tableau
12 3 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.17%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.17%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.17%) GIS
12 3 (1.17%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (11.33%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.64%) Git
3 15 (5.86%) JIRA
4 14 (5.47%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (5.08%) Selenium
6 9 (3.52%) JUnit
7 8 (3.13%) GitLab
7 8 (3.13%) JMeter
7 8 (3.13%) SpecFlow
8 7 (2.73%) Postman
9 6 (2.34%) Axure RP
9 6 (2.34%) Mockito
9 6 (2.34%) PowerBuilder
10 5 (1.95%) ERwin
10 5 (1.95%) Maven
10 5 (1.95%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.17%) NUnit
11 3 (1.17%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.17%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
General
1 78 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 55 (21.48%) Finance
3 47 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.81%) Law
5 15 (5.86%) German Language
6 12 (4.69%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.52%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.52%) Retail
8 8 (3.13%) Legal
9 7 (2.73%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.34%) Banking
10 6 (2.34%) Front Office
10 6 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.56%) Publishing
12 3 (1.17%) Advertising
12 3 (1.17%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.17%) Marketing
13 2 (0.78%) Billing
Job Titles
1 97 (37.89%) Developer
2 50 (19.53%) Senior
3 24 (9.38%) Analyst
4 23 (8.98%) Senior Developer
5 22 (8.59%) SQL Developer
6 17 (6.64%) Java Developer
7 15 (5.86%) Applications Engineer
7 15 (5.86%) Oracle Developer
7 15 (5.86%) PL/SQL Developer
7 15 (5.86%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 15 (5.86%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
7 15 (5.86%) Senior SQL Developer
8 14 (5.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.69%) Consultant
10 10 (3.91%) C# Developer
10 10 (3.91%) Data Analyst
10 10 (3.91%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.91%) Integration Engineer
10 10 (3.91%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (67.19%) JSON
2 81 (31.64%) HTML
3 72 (28.13%) REST
4 62 (24.22%) SOAP
5 36 (14.06%) Web Services
6 32 (12.50%) Regular Expression
7 22 (8.59%) CSS
8 21 (8.20%) .NET
8 21 (8.20%) RESTful
9 20 (7.81%) Spring
10 16 (6.25%) Spring Boot
11 12 (4.69%) Hibernate
12 11 (4.30%) XSLT
13 10 (3.91%) WinForms
14 9 (3.52%) Node.js
14 9 (3.52%) Playwright
15 8 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
16 7 (2.73%) FpML
16 7 (2.73%) jQuery
16 7 (2.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.53%) Onboarding
2 31 (12.11%) Linux Command Line
3 21 (8.20%) Data Structures
4 17 (6.64%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (6.64%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (6.25%) Cloud Native
6 13 (5.08%) Low-Code
7 9 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.73%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.34%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.17%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.17%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.17%) SCADA
12 3 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.63%) Unix
2 17 (6.64%) Linux
3 10 (3.91%) Windows
4 4 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (29.30%) Agile
2 58 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (16.41%) AI
3 42 (16.41%) CI/CD
4 41 (16.02%) Business Intelligence
5 36 (14.06%) ERP
6 35 (13.67%) DevOps
7 34 (13.28%) Data Modelling
7 34 (13.28%) Test Automation
8 32 (12.50%) Data Analysis
8 32 (12.50%) SDLC
9 31 (12.11%) Migration
10 30 (11.72%) LLM
10 30 (11.72%) Software Testing
11 26 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (9.38%) API Integration
12 24 (9.38%) Data Governance
13 23 (8.98%) Mentoring
13 23 (8.98%) Validation
14 19 (7.42%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 136 (53.13%) SQL
2 94 (36.72%) Python
3 60 (23.44%) Java
4 48 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 44 (17.19%) C#
6 36 (14.06%) PL/SQL
7 29 (11.33%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.86%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.91%) Delphi
9 10 (3.91%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.91%) VBA
10 8 (3.13%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.73%) C++
12 6 (2.34%) ActionScript
12 6 (2.34%) C
13 5 (1.95%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.56%) ActionScript 2.0
14 4 (1.56%) Perl
15 3 (1.17%) VB
15 3 (1.17%) VC++
Qualifications
1 65 (25.39%) Degree
2 26 (10.16%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.13%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.17%) ISEB
7 3 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.78%) HNC
8 2 (0.78%) HND
8 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.78%) PMP
9 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.55%) QA
2 17 (6.64%) Data Quality
3 13 (5.08%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.34%) GDPR
6 3 (1.17%) EMIR
6 3 (1.17%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (9.77%) Active Directory
2 24 (9.38%) Docker
3 3 (1.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.64%) Terraform
3 15 (5.86%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.34%) Kibana
5 3 (1.17%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.78%) Ansible
6 2 (0.78%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 69 (26.95%) Oracle
2 35 (13.67%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.47%) Okta
4 13 (5.08%) SAP
5 8 (3.13%) Dell
5 8 (3.13%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.73%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.73%) IBM
7 6 (2.34%) Databricks
7 6 (2.34%) IFS
7 6 (2.34%) Informatica
7 6 (2.34%) Intapp
7 6 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.34%) SnapLogic
7 6 (2.34%) Splunk
7 6 (2.34%) Talend
7 6 (2.34%) Workday
8 5 (1.95%) Infor
8 5 (1.95%) Jitterbit
8 5 (1.95%) Sparx