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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 290 253
Rank change year-on-year -167 -37 +30
Permanent jobs citing XML 259 404 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.99% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 4.59% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 153 343 665
10th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.54% -9.23%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £73,886
90th Percentile £79,288 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 8,272 8,797 19,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 21.49% 22.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,059 6,587 15,468
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 31 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 31 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 -152 221 £57,500 - 111
UK excluding London -128 169 £55,000 - 104
Work from Home -20 117 £57,500 -14.81% 58
London -74 65 £71,000 +9.23% 32
South East -85 57 £65,000 - 27
East of England +4 44 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North of England -86 26 £56,500 +18.95% 24
Midlands -42 25 £47,500 -11.53% 17
North West -43 13 £55,000 +14.58% 15
East Midlands -52 13 £50,750 -7.73% 11
West Midlands -18 12 £43,000 +1.18% 6
Yorkshire -50 12 £73,420 +95.79% 7
Scotland -25 11 £72,500 +49.40% 10
South West -58 5 £31,500 -39.42% 11
North East -19 1 £45,000 +28.57% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 11 (4.25%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.32%) JBoss
4 5 (1.93%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.54%) Confluence
6 3 (1.16%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.77%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.39%) Apache
8 1 (0.39%) CICS
8 1 (0.39%) CMS
8 1 (0.39%) IIS
8 1 (0.39%) SAS
8 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.93%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.77%) 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 10 (3.86%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.93%) Shopify
3 4 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.16%) SAP Business One
4 3 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.77%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.39%) Magento
6 1 (0.39%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 65 (25.10%) Azure
2 50 (19.31%) AWS
3 43 (16.60%) Power Platform
4 18 (6.95%) Entra ID
4 18 (6.95%) SaaS
5 17 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (5.79%) Power Automate
7 14 (5.41%) GitHub
7 14 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (5.02%) Boomi
8 13 (5.02%) Serverless
9 11 (4.25%) OCI
10 9 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.47%) Apigee
10 9 (3.47%) iPaaS
11 7 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (2.70%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.32%) GCP
12 6 (2.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.47%) Firewall
2 7 (2.70%) FTP
3 6 (2.32%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.54%) SSL
5 3 (1.16%) AMQP
5 3 (1.16%) DNS
6 2 (0.77%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.77%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.39%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.39%) HTTP
7 1 (0.39%) Modbus
7 1 (0.39%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (16.99%) SQL Server
2 39 (15.06%) Power BI
3 35 (13.51%) Relational Database
4 20 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.79%) MySQL
5 15 (5.79%) OLTP
6 14 (5.41%) Metadata
7 12 (4.63%) RDBMS
8 11 (4.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.32%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.54%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.54%) GIS
10 4 (1.54%) Tableau
11 3 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.16%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.16%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.16%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.77%) Big Data
12 2 (0.77%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 23 (8.88%) Jenkins
2 22 (8.49%) JIRA
3 14 (5.41%) Git
4 13 (5.02%) Selenium
5 11 (4.25%) GitLab
6 10 (3.86%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (3.09%) SpecFlow
8 7 (2.70%) ERwin
8 7 (2.70%) JUnit
9 6 (2.32%) JMeter
9 6 (2.32%) Maven
9 6 (2.32%) Postman
10 5 (1.93%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.54%) Mockito
11 4 (1.54%) PowerBuilder
12 3 (1.16%) Axure RP
12 3 (1.16%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.16%) NUnit
12 3 (1.16%) SoapUI
12 3 (1.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 85 (32.82%) Social Skills
2 58 (22.39%) Finance
3 51 (19.69%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.95%) Law
5 15 (5.79%) German Language
6 11 (4.25%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.86%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.47%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.70%) Legal
9 7 (2.70%) Retail
10 6 (2.32%) Banking
10 6 (2.32%) Front Office
10 6 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.54%) Publishing
12 3 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.77%) Billing
13 2 (0.77%) Local Government
13 2 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 89 (34.36%) Developer
2 45 (17.37%) Senior
3 23 (8.88%) Analyst
4 21 (8.11%) Senior Developer
4 21 (8.11%) SQL Developer
5 18 (6.95%) Consultant
6 15 (5.79%) Java Developer
6 15 (5.79%) Oracle Developer
6 15 (5.79%) PL/SQL Developer
6 15 (5.79%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 15 (5.79%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
6 15 (5.79%) Senior SQL Developer
7 14 (5.41%) Lead
8 13 (5.02%) Applications Engineer
9 12 (4.63%) Architect
10 11 (4.25%) C# Developer
11 10 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.86%) Data Analyst
11 10 (3.86%) QA Engineer
11 10 (3.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (65.64%) JSON
2 74 (28.57%) HTML
3 69 (26.64%) REST
4 62 (23.94%) SOAP
5 34 (13.13%) Web Services
6 32 (12.36%) Regular Expression
7 22 (8.49%) .NET
8 18 (6.95%) RESTful
8 18 (6.95%) Spring
9 17 (6.56%) CSS
10 15 (5.79%) Spring Boot
11 11 (4.25%) WinForms
12 10 (3.86%) FIX Protocol
12 10 (3.86%) Hibernate
12 10 (3.86%) Node.js
12 10 (3.86%) XSLT
13 9 (3.47%) FpML
14 8 (3.09%) Playwright
14 8 (3.09%) React
15 7 (2.70%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.46%) Onboarding
2 32 (12.36%) Linux Command Line
3 26 (10.04%) Data Structures
4 18 (6.95%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (5.41%) Cloud Native
6 13 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (4.63%) Low-Code
8 10 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (3.09%) e-Learning
9 8 (3.09%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.54%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.54%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.54%) SCADA
12 3 (1.16%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 2 (0.77%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 42 (16.22%) Unix
2 21 (8.11%) Linux
3 9 (3.47%) Windows
4 3 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Debian
5 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (25.87%) Agile
2 57 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (16.99%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (16.60%) AI
5 38 (14.67%) Data Modelling
6 37 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 33 (12.74%) Data Analysis
8 32 (12.36%) SDLC
9 31 (11.97%) DevOps
9 31 (11.97%) Migration
10 30 (11.58%) ERP
10 30 (11.58%) LLM
10 30 (11.58%) Test Automation
11 29 (11.20%) Software Testing
12 28 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (9.65%) Validation
14 24 (9.27%) Data Governance
15 22 (8.49%) API Integration
16 21 (8.11%) Computer Science
16 21 (8.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 136 (52.51%) SQL
2 95 (36.68%) Python
3 56 (21.62%) Java
4 46 (17.76%) JavaScript
5 43 (16.60%) C#
6 30 (11.58%) PL/SQL
7 23 (8.88%) Shell Script
8 16 (6.18%) T-SQL
9 11 (4.25%) Delphi
10 8 (3.09%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.09%) VBA
11 7 (2.70%) C++
11 7 (2.70%) TypeScript
12 6 (2.32%) C
12 6 (2.32%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.93%) Perl
14 4 (1.54%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.54%) ActionScript 2.0
14 4 (1.54%) Bash
14 4 (1.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (26.25%) Degree
2 27 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.09%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.16%) ISEB
8 3 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.77%) HNC
9 2 (0.77%) HND
10 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.42%) QA
2 17 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.32%) GDPR
6 3 (1.16%) EMIR
6 3 (1.16%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.16%) SLA
7 2 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.77%) WCAG
8 1 (0.39%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (8.88%) Docker
2 21 (8.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.16%) vSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 19 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.41%) Terraform
3 11 (4.25%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.54%) Kibana
5 3 (1.16%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.16%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 65 (25.10%) Oracle
2 32 (12.36%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.79%) SAP
4 10 (3.86%) Okta
5 7 (2.70%) Dell
5 7 (2.70%) IBM
5 7 (2.70%) MuleSoft
5 7 (2.70%) Sparx
5 7 (2.70%) Splunk
6 6 (2.32%) Cisco
6 6 (2.32%) Databricks
6 6 (2.32%) F5
6 6 (2.32%) IFS
6 6 (2.32%) Intapp
6 6 (2.32%) Juniper
6 6 (2.32%) Palo Alto
6 6 (2.32%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.32%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.32%) Talend
6 6 (2.32%) Workday