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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 379 301
Rank change year-on-year -119 -78 -26
Permanent jobs citing XML 242 327 977
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.74% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.56% 3.75% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 162 260 613
10th Percentile £36,625 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,306 £45,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £79,312 £90,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -5.66% -7.83%

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 9,470 8,730 21,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.21% 19.65% 19.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,052 5,715 16,289
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,450 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,700 £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 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 15 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 13 June 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 -142 209 £62,500 +4.17% 80
UK excluding London -106 153 £65,000 +30.00% 60
Work from Home -36 103 £57,500 -14.81% 45
South East -43 70 £65,000 -3.70% 22
London -57 57 £60,000 -14.29% 32
North of England -42 31 £73,500 +47.00% 8
North West +7 22 £73,500 +33.64% 3
Midlands -15 19 £80,000 +45.45% 8
South West -68 14 £31,500 -33.68% 9
East of England -27 13 £52,500 +10.53% 5
West Midlands -21 12 £80,000 +45.45% 2
Yorkshire -41 9 £76,997 +105.33% 2
East Midlands -19 7 - - 6
Scotland +16 3 £72,500 - 4
Wales - 3 - - 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 17 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.48%) Apache
4 4 (1.65%) Confluence
4 4 (1.65%) JBoss
5 2 (0.83%) CMS
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.83%) SAS
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.83%) CorelDRAW
3 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.31%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.65%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.83%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.41%) Magento
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.41%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 75 (30.99%) Azure
2 45 (18.60%) Power Platform
3 39 (16.12%) AWS
4 22 (9.09%) SaaS
5 19 (7.85%) Dynamics 365
6 17 (7.02%) Boomi
7 15 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.79%) GitHub
9 12 (4.96%) Serverless
10 11 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (3.72%) Apigee
11 9 (3.72%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (2.89%) GCP
14 6 (2.48%) Kong
14 6 (2.48%) OpenShift
15 5 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (2.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.96%) Firewall
2 6 (2.48%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (2.48%) DNS
3 4 (1.65%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.65%) Wireshark
4 3 (1.24%) SSL
5 2 (0.83%) AMQP
5 2 (0.83%) Intranet
5 2 (0.83%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.41%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.41%) FTP
6 1 (0.41%) HTTP
6 1 (0.41%) Multicast
6 1 (0.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (16.12%) Power BI
2 32 (13.22%) SQL Server
3 26 (10.74%) Relational Database
4 24 (9.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (7.02%) OLTP
7 13 (5.37%) Metadata
7 13 (5.37%) RDBMS
8 12 (4.96%) MySQL
9 10 (4.13%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.48%) GIS
11 4 (1.65%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.24%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.83%) Oracle BI EE
13 2 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (12.40%) JIRA
2 14 (5.79%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.96%) Git
4 11 (4.55%) GitLab
5 10 (4.13%) JUnit
5 10 (4.13%) Selenium
6 7 (2.89%) ERwin
6 7 (2.89%) JMeter
6 7 (2.89%) Maven
6 7 (2.89%) Moq
7 5 (2.07%) Mockito
7 5 (2.07%) SpecFlow
7 5 (2.07%) WebDriver
8 4 (1.65%) Postman
9 3 (1.24%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.24%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.24%) Ranorex
9 3 (1.24%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.24%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 90 (37.19%) Social Skills
2 77 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (21.90%) Finance
4 26 (10.74%) Retail
5 19 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (5.37%) Marketing
7 11 (4.55%) Financial Institution
7 11 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.72%) Banking
8 9 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.31%) Electronics
9 8 (3.31%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.31%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.89%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.89%) Automotive
11 4 (1.65%) Back Office
11 4 (1.65%) Front Office
11 4 (1.65%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.65%) Law
12 3 (1.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (30.99%) Developer
2 49 (20.25%) Senior
3 33 (13.64%) Analyst
4 32 (13.22%) Senior Developer
5 27 (11.16%) Consultant
6 23 (9.50%) Architect
7 21 (8.68%) Software Engineer
8 17 (7.02%) Oracle Developer
8 17 (7.02%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 17 (7.02%) SQL Developer
9 15 (6.20%) Lead
10 14 (5.79%) PL/SQL Developer
10 14 (5.79%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
10 14 (5.79%) Senior SQL Developer
10 14 (5.79%) Support Analyst
11 12 (4.96%) Integration Architect
12 11 (4.55%) Applications Architect
13 10 (4.13%) Java Developer
14 9 (3.72%) Applications Engineer
15 8 (3.31%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (58.68%) JSON
2 71 (29.34%) REST
3 66 (27.27%) SOAP
4 51 (21.07%) HTML
5 33 (13.64%) .NET
6 29 (11.98%) Middleware
7 25 (10.33%) Web Services
8 24 (9.92%) CSS
9 18 (7.44%) EDI
10 15 (6.20%) XSLT
11 14 (5.79%) Spring
11 14 (5.79%) Spring Boot
12 13 (5.37%) .NET Framework
12 13 (5.37%) RESTful
13 12 (4.96%) Node.js
14 11 (4.55%) OAuth
14 11 (4.55%) React
15 10 (4.13%) FIX Protocol
16 9 (3.72%) FpML
16 9 (3.72%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.98%) Onboarding
2 25 (10.33%) Data Structures
3 16 (6.61%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (5.37%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (4.13%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.72%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (2.89%) Acoustics
9 7 (2.89%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.48%) Operational Technology
10 6 (2.48%) SCADA
11 5 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (2.07%) Robotics
12 4 (1.65%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.65%) NHS
13 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.81%) Linux
2 27 (11.16%) Windows
3 12 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.13%) Unix
5 6 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.24%) Android
6 3 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.41%) Debian
7 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (29.34%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (23.55%) Agile
3 45 (18.60%) Data Modelling
4 35 (14.46%) Business Intelligence
5 34 (14.05%) ERP
6 33 (13.64%) DevOps
7 32 (13.22%) CI/CD
7 32 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (12.40%) CRM
9 29 (11.98%) Roadmaps
10 28 (11.57%) Collaborative Working
10 28 (11.57%) Software Engineering
10 28 (11.57%) Software Testing
11 25 (10.33%) Customer Service
11 25 (10.33%) Decision-Making
12 24 (9.92%) Validation
13 23 (9.50%) Computer Science
13 23 (9.50%) Integration Patterns
13 23 (9.50%) Migration
14 22 (9.09%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 141 (58.26%) SQL
2 69 (28.51%) Python
3 47 (19.42%) Java
4 46 (19.01%) JavaScript
5 43 (17.77%) C#
6 18 (7.44%) PL/SQL
7 16 (6.61%) C++
8 15 (6.20%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.96%) Shell Script
9 12 (4.96%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.31%) XAML
11 7 (2.89%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.89%) VB
12 6 (2.48%) Delphi
12 6 (2.48%) Perl
13 5 (2.07%) PHP
14 4 (1.65%) Bash
14 4 (1.65%) VB.NET
15 3 (1.24%) ActionScript 2.0
15 3 (1.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 61 (25.21%) Degree
2 24 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.24%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.24%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.83%) HNC
7 2 (0.83%) HND
7 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.41%) CISSP
8 1 (0.41%) GIAC
8 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.41%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.64%) QA
2 12 (4.96%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.96%) TickIT
3 9 (3.72%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.65%) HL7
6 3 (1.24%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.24%) SLA
7 2 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.83%) WCAG
8 1 (0.41%) CDISC
8 1 (0.41%) EMIR
System Software
1 26 (10.74%) Docker
2 15 (6.20%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.48%) vSphere
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 17 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.07%) Kibana
2 5 (2.07%) Terraform
3 3 (1.24%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.41%) QRadar
4 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (21.49%) Oracle
2 42 (17.36%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.13%) Databricks
3 10 (4.13%) IBM
3 10 (4.13%) Palo Alto
4 9 (3.72%) SAP
4 9 (3.72%) Splunk
5 8 (3.31%) IBM Sterling
5 8 (3.31%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.89%) Sparx
7 6 (2.48%) Cisco
7 6 (2.48%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.48%) F5
7 6 (2.48%) Juniper
7 6 (2.48%) VMware
8 4 (1.65%) Ariba
8 4 (1.65%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.83%) Freshdesk
9 2 (0.83%) Google