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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 300 252
Rank change year-on-year -147 -48 +32
Permanent jobs citing XML 259 405 1,051
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.99% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.14% 4.58% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 151 344 661
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,344 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £58,350
Median % change year-on-year - -1.46% -10.23%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 8,247 8,841 19,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.56% 21.66% 22.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,044 6,598 15,386
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 £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 28 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 28 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 -144 221 £57,500 - 111
UK excluding London -121 168 £55,000 - 104
Work from Home -28 115 £57,500 -14.81% 58
London -50 67 £71,000 +9.23% 32
South East -89 59 £62,500 -3.85% 27
East of England +2 44 £55,000 +15.79% 10
Midlands -44 24 £45,250 -15.72% 17
North of England -89 24 £55,000 +15.79% 24
North West -48 13 £55,000 +14.58% 15
East Midlands -51 13 £50,750 -7.73% 11
West Midlands -18 11 £41,500 -2.35% 6
Scotland -20 11 £72,500 +49.40% 10
Yorkshire -67 10 £62,500 +66.67% 7
South West -59 5 £31,500 -39.42% 11
North East -25 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
5 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.39%) Magento
6 1 (0.39%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 63 (24.32%) Azure
2 51 (19.69%) AWS
3 43 (16.60%) Power Platform
4 18 (6.95%) Entra ID
5 17 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (6.56%) SaaS
6 15 (5.79%) Power Automate
7 14 (5.41%) GitHub
7 14 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (5.41%) Serverless
8 13 (5.02%) Boomi
9 11 (4.25%) OCI
10 10 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.47%) Apigee
11 9 (3.47%) iPaaS
12 8 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.70%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.32%) Kong
14 6 (2.32%) PowerApps
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 45 (17.37%) SQL Server
2 39 (15.06%) Power BI
3 36 (13.90%) Relational Database
4 21 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.79%) MySQL
5 15 (5.79%) OLTP
6 13 (5.02%) RDBMS
7 12 (4.63%) Metadata
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%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.77%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (9.27%) 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%) JUnit
7 8 (3.09%) SpecFlow
8 7 (2.70%) ERwin
8 7 (2.70%) JMeter
9 6 (2.32%) Maven
9 6 (2.32%) Postman
10 5 (1.93%) Mockito
10 5 (1.93%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.54%) PowerBuilder
12 3 (1.16%) Axure RP
12 3 (1.16%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.16%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.16%) SoapUI
12 3 (1.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.62%) Finance
3 52 (20.08%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.95%) Law
5 15 (5.79%) German Language
6 11 (4.25%) Financial Institution
6 11 (4.25%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.09%) 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%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.77%) Local Government
13 2 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 91 (35.14%) Developer
2 46 (17.76%) Senior
3 23 (8.88%) Analyst
4 22 (8.49%) SQL Developer
5 21 (8.11%) Senior Developer
6 17 (6.56%) Consultant
7 16 (6.18%) Java Developer
8 15 (5.79%) Oracle Developer
8 15 (5.79%) PL/SQL Developer
8 15 (5.79%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 15 (5.79%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
8 15 (5.79%) Senior SQL Developer
9 13 (5.02%) Applications Engineer
10 12 (4.63%) Lead
11 11 (4.25%) C# Developer
12 10 (3.86%) Architect
12 10 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (3.86%) Data Analyst
12 10 (3.86%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (3.86%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (66.02%) JSON
2 75 (28.96%) HTML
3 71 (27.41%) REST
4 62 (23.94%) SOAP
5 35 (13.51%) Web Services
6 32 (12.36%) Regular Expression
7 22 (8.49%) .NET
8 19 (7.34%) Spring
9 18 (6.95%) RESTful
10 17 (6.56%) CSS
11 16 (6.18%) Spring Boot
12 11 (4.25%) Hibernate
12 11 (4.25%) WinForms
13 10 (3.86%) FIX Protocol
13 10 (3.86%) Node.js
13 10 (3.86%) XSLT
14 9 (3.47%) FpML
15 8 (3.09%) Playwright
15 8 (3.09%) React
16 7 (2.70%) Middleware
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 13 (5.02%) Cloud Native
5 13 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.63%) Low-Code
7 10 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.09%) e-Learning
8 8 (3.09%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.54%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.54%) SCADA
10 3 (1.16%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 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 69 (26.64%) Agile
2 58 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (16.99%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (16.60%) AI
5 38 (14.67%) CI/CD
6 37 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 33 (12.74%) Data Analysis
7 33 (12.74%) SDLC
8 31 (11.97%) DevOps
8 31 (11.97%) Migration
9 30 (11.58%) ERP
9 30 (11.58%) LLM
9 30 (11.58%) Test Automation
10 29 (11.20%) Software Testing
11 28 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (8.88%) Validation
13 22 (8.49%) API Integration
13 22 (8.49%) Data Governance
14 21 (8.11%) Computer Science
14 21 (8.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 136 (52.51%) SQL
2 96 (37.07%) Python
3 57 (22.01%) Java
4 47 (18.15%) JavaScript
5 43 (16.60%) C#
6 30 (11.58%) PL/SQL
7 24 (9.27%) Shell Script
8 17 (6.56%) 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 69 (26.64%) Degree
2 28 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.02%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.09%) ISTQB
5 6 (2.32%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.16%) ISEB
7 3 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.77%) HNC
8 2 (0.77%) HND
8 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.77%) PMP
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.42%) QA
2 18 (6.95%) 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 24 (9.27%) Docker
2 21 (8.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.16%) vSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 20 (7.72%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.41%) Terraform
3 11 (4.25%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.93%) 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 33 (12.74%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.41%) SAP
4 10 (3.86%) Okta
5 8 (3.09%) Splunk
6 7 (2.70%) Dell
6 7 (2.70%) IBM
6 7 (2.70%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.70%) Sparx
7 6 (2.32%) Cisco
7 6 (2.32%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.32%) F5
7 6 (2.32%) IFS
7 6 (2.32%) Intapp
7 6 (2.32%) Juniper
7 6 (2.32%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.32%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.32%) Talend
7 6 (2.32%) Workday