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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 386 288
Rank change year-on-year -130 -98 -30
Permanent jobs citing XML 263 343 874
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.70% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.56% 3.88% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 176 255 567
10th Percentile £29,875 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -5.17% -7.20%
75th Percentile £71,563 £79,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,300 £83,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 10,271 8,848 18,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.24% 18.02% 19.62%
Number of salaries quoted 7,657 5,833 13,542
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £102,500
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 23 July 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 July 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 -148 232 £57,750 +5.00% 94
UK excluding London -100 185 £56,500 +13.00% 56
Work from Home -49 114 £55,000 -14.06% 39
South East -42 78 £60,000 -4.00% 17
London -86 52 £57,500 -17.86% 42
North of England -31 32 £73,500 +46.92% 7
Midlands -20 28 £50,000 -16.67% 13
South West -59 26 £31,500 -25.44% 9
North West 0 21 £73,500 +33.64% 4
West Midlands -21 20 £45,000 -28.00% 10
East of England -36 12 £52,500 +10.53% 6
Yorkshire -30 9 £76,997 +57.14% 3
East Midlands -26 8 £55,000 +9.45% 3
Wales - 7 £55,000 -
Scotland +17 2 £72,500 - 4
North East -54 2 £67,500 +92.86%

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 16 (6.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.42%) Confluence
4 7 (2.66%) Apache
5 6 (2.28%) CMS
6 4 (1.52%) SAS
7 3 (1.14%) JBoss
8 2 (0.76%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.76%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.38%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.90%) CorelDRAW
2 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.18%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (1.52%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.76%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.76%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.38%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 80 (30.42%) Azure
2 40 (15.21%) Power Platform
3 39 (14.83%) AWS
4 22 (8.37%) SaaS
5 21 (7.98%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (6.08%) Boomi
7 13 (4.94%) GitHub
7 13 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.42%) Apigee
9 9 (3.42%) Serverless
10 8 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.66%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.66%) GCP
12 6 (2.28%) Azure Event Grid
12 6 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.28%) Kong
12 6 (2.28%) OpenShift
13 5 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.94%) Firewall
2 8 (3.04%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.66%) DNS
4 6 (2.28%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.90%) Intranet
5 5 (1.90%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.14%) SSL
7 1 (0.38%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.38%) HTTP
7 1 (0.38%) Multicast
7 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (16.73%) SQL Server
2 33 (12.55%) Power BI
3 29 (11.03%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 19 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (5.32%) MySQL
7 13 (4.94%) Metadata
7 13 (4.94%) RDBMS
8 12 (4.56%) OLTP
9 9 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.66%) Electronic Patient Records
10 7 (2.66%) GIS
10 7 (2.66%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.52%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.14%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.76%) Oracle BI EE
13 2 (0.76%) Oracle ODI
13 2 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.76%) Spotfire
13 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (12.17%) JIRA
2 17 (6.46%) Git
3 15 (5.70%) GitLab
3 15 (5.70%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.18%) Selenium
5 8 (3.04%) JMeter
5 8 (3.04%) JUnit
6 7 (2.66%) ERwin
6 7 (2.66%) Moq
7 6 (2.28%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.90%) Mockito
8 5 (1.90%) Postman
8 5 (1.90%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.90%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.52%) Maven
9 4 (1.52%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.14%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.14%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.14%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.76%) Oracle APEX
General
1 98 (37.26%) Social Skills
2 85 (32.32%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (23.95%) Finance
4 27 (10.27%) Retail
5 25 (9.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (6.46%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.94%) Marketing
8 11 (4.18%) Electronics
8 11 (4.18%) Financial Institution
9 10 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.42%) Aerospace
10 9 (3.42%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.42%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.04%) Banking
12 7 (2.66%) Automotive
12 7 (2.66%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.90%) Law
13 5 (1.90%) Publishing
14 4 (1.52%) Back Office
14 4 (1.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 78 (29.66%) Developer
2 45 (17.11%) Analyst
2 45 (17.11%) Senior
3 29 (11.03%) Senior Developer
4 28 (10.65%) Consultant
5 24 (9.13%) Architect
6 22 (8.37%) Support Analyst
7 20 (7.60%) Software Engineer
8 19 (7.22%) Lead
9 16 (6.08%) .NET Developer
10 15 (5.70%) Web Developer
11 13 (4.94%) SQL Developer
12 12 (4.56%) Oracle Developer
12 12 (4.56%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 11 (4.18%) Applications Engineer
14 10 (3.80%) .NET Web Developer
14 10 (3.80%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 10 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (3.80%) Full-Stack Web Developer
14 10 (3.80%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (58.56%) JSON
2 61 (23.19%) HTML
3 60 (22.81%) REST
4 56 (21.29%) SOAP
5 52 (19.77%) .NET
6 36 (13.69%) CSS
7 29 (11.03%) .NET Framework
8 27 (10.27%) Middleware
9 24 (9.13%) Web Services
10 17 (6.46%) Entity Framework
11 16 (6.08%) ASP.NET
11 16 (6.08%) EDI
12 15 (5.70%) RESTful
12 15 (5.70%) XSLT
13 13 (4.94%) ASP.NET MVC
14 12 (4.56%) Node.js
15 11 (4.18%) jQuery
15 11 (4.18%) Kafka
15 11 (4.18%) React
15 11 (4.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.51%) Data Structures
2 24 (9.13%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.56%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.18%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.42%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.42%) Robotics
7 8 (3.04%) SCADA
8 7 (2.66%) Acoustics
8 7 (2.66%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.66%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.66%) NHS
9 5 (1.90%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.90%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.21%) Linux
2 36 (13.69%) Windows
3 18 (6.84%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.28%) Unix
6 3 (1.14%) Android
6 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) Debian
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (28.14%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (26.62%) Agile
3 44 (16.73%) Data Modelling
4 39 (14.83%) DevOps
5 34 (12.93%) Business Intelligence
5 34 (12.93%) CI/CD
6 32 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (11.79%) Roadmaps
7 31 (11.79%) Validation
8 30 (11.41%) Software Engineering
9 28 (10.65%) ERP
10 27 (10.27%) Collaborative Working
10 27 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (9.89%) Customer Service
12 25 (9.51%) CRM
13 24 (9.13%) Computer Science
13 24 (9.13%) Integration Patterns
13 24 (9.13%) Software Testing
14 22 (8.37%) Migration
14 22 (8.37%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 150 (57.03%) SQL
2 74 (28.14%) Python
3 68 (25.86%) JavaScript
4 59 (22.43%) C#
5 39 (14.83%) Java
6 23 (8.75%) C++
7 17 (6.46%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.32%) T-SQL
9 12 (4.56%) PL/SQL
9 12 (4.56%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.80%) PHP
11 8 (3.04%) XAML
12 6 (2.28%) VB
13 5 (1.90%) Bash
13 5 (1.90%) Perl
13 5 (1.90%) TypeScript
13 5 (1.90%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.52%) Delphi
15 3 (1.14%) Groovy
15 3 (1.14%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 69 (26.24%) Degree
2 23 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.04%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.90%) HNC
5 5 (1.90%) HND
5 5 (1.90%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.90%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.14%) ISEB
8 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.38%) CISSP
8 1 (0.38%) GIAC
8 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.38%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.89%) QA
2 15 (5.70%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.56%) TickIT
4 10 (3.80%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.66%) HL7
5 7 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.52%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.14%) CDISC
7 3 (1.14%) SLA
8 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.76%) WCAG
9 1 (0.38%) EMIR
9 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (8.75%) Docker
2 14 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.66%) vSphere
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 12 (4.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.90%) Kibana
3 4 (1.52%) Terraform
4 3 (1.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.38%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 67 (25.48%) Microsoft
2 40 (15.21%) Oracle
3 12 (4.56%) Databricks
3 12 (4.56%) Google
3 12 (4.56%) IBM
4 11 (4.18%) IBM Sterling
4 11 (4.18%) SAP
5 10 (3.80%) Palo Alto
5 10 (3.80%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.42%) Splunk
7 7 (2.66%) Sparx
7 7 (2.66%) VMware
8 6 (2.28%) Cisco
8 6 (2.28%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.28%) F5
8 6 (2.28%) Juniper
9 4 (1.52%) Ariba
9 4 (1.52%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.14%) Pega