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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 310 276
Rank change year-on-year -154 -34 +12
Permanent jobs citing XML 264 413 1,014
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.98% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.03% 4.84% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 161 341 647
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,350
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -1.46% -6.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.41% -2.39% -

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 8,716 8,530 20,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 20.34% 21.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,368 6,510 15,732
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
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 £87,500 £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 23 April 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 14 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 April 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 -166 226 £62,500 +8.70% 64
UK excluding London -136 172 £62,500 +16.41% 56
Work from Home -20 113 £57,500 -14.81% 39
London -74 59 £72,500 +11.54% 20
South East -96 54 £66,250 +1.92% 25
East of England -16 42 £55,000 +15.79% 2
North of England -85 38 £73,500 +46.92% 12
Midlands -42 25 £48,500 -9.66% 4
North West -44 23 £73,500 +46.84% 9
Yorkshire -56 15 £76,840 +104.91% 3
East Midlands -50 13 £54,000 -1.82% 3
West Midlands -29 12 £43,000 -18.10% 1
Scotland -18 9 £72,500 +52.45% 2
South West -66 4 £31,500 -33.68% 7

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 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.27%) JBoss
4 3 (1.14%) Confluence
4 3 (1.14%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.76%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.76%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) CICS
6 1 (0.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) SAS
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.38%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 8 (3.03%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.76%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.76%) Shopify
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.38%) Magento
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.38%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 74 (28.03%) Azure
2 46 (17.42%) AWS
2 46 (17.42%) Power Platform
3 22 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (7.58%) GitHub
4 20 (7.58%) SaaS
5 19 (7.20%) Boomi
6 16 (6.06%) Entra ID
7 13 (4.92%) Serverless
8 12 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (3.41%) Apigee
10 9 (3.41%) OCI
11 8 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.65%) iPaaS
12 7 (2.65%) Power Automate
13 6 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.27%) Kong
13 6 (2.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.79%) Firewall
2 7 (2.65%) FTP
3 6 (2.27%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.52%) DNS
4 4 (1.52%) SSL
5 3 (1.14%) AMQP
6 2 (0.76%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.76%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.38%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.38%) HTTP
7 1 (0.38%) Modbus
7 1 (0.38%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.29%) Power BI
2 39 (14.77%) SQL Server
3 32 (12.12%) Relational Database
4 23 (8.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (6.44%) Metadata
6 17 (6.44%) MySQL
7 14 (5.30%) OLTP
8 11 (4.17%) RDBMS
9 10 (3.79%) Oracle Database
10 7 (2.65%) GIS
11 3 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.14%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.76%) Big Data
12 2 (0.76%) DTS
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (11.36%) JIRA
2 20 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.17%) Git
3 11 (4.17%) GitLab
4 10 (3.79%) Selenium
5 8 (3.03%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (2.65%) ERwin
7 6 (2.27%) JUnit
7 6 (2.27%) Maven
7 6 (2.27%) Postman
8 5 (1.89%) JMeter
8 5 (1.89%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.89%) WebDriver
9 3 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.14%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.14%) Mockito
9 3 (1.14%) Ranorex
9 3 (1.14%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.14%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 98 (37.12%) Social Skills
2 66 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (22.73%) Finance
4 16 (6.06%) Retail
5 15 (5.68%) German Language
6 13 (4.92%) Marketing
7 12 (4.55%) Law
8 11 (4.17%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.41%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.41%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.27%) Banking
10 6 (2.27%) Front Office
10 6 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.52%) Legal
13 3 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.14%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.14%) Local Government
14 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.76%) Billing
Job Titles
1 87 (32.95%) Developer
2 54 (20.45%) Senior
3 31 (11.74%) Senior Developer
4 26 (9.85%) Analyst
4 26 (9.85%) Consultant
5 21 (7.95%) Architect
6 15 (5.68%) SQL Developer
7 14 (5.30%) Oracle Developer
7 14 (5.30%) PL/SQL Developer
7 14 (5.30%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 14 (5.30%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
7 14 (5.30%) Senior SQL Developer
8 13 (4.92%) Applications Engineer
8 13 (4.92%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.17%) Applications Architect
9 11 (4.17%) C# Developer
9 11 (4.17%) Lead
10 10 (3.79%) QA Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (3.03%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (67.80%) JSON
2 77 (29.17%) REST
2 77 (29.17%) SOAP
3 69 (26.14%) HTML
4 33 (12.50%) Regular Expression
5 32 (12.12%) Web Services
6 25 (9.47%) Middleware
7 19 (7.20%) .NET
7 19 (7.20%) RESTful
8 16 (6.06%) EDI
8 16 (6.06%) Spring
9 14 (5.30%) CSS
9 14 (5.30%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.17%) WinForms
11 10 (3.79%) FIX Protocol
11 10 (3.79%) Node.js
11 10 (3.79%) OAuth
11 10 (3.79%) XSLT
12 9 (3.41%) FpML
12 9 (3.41%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 52 (19.70%) Onboarding
2 34 (12.88%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (10.23%) Data Structures
4 19 (7.20%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (5.30%) Cloud Native
6 12 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.79%) Product Ownership
9 9 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (3.03%) e-Learning
10 8 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (2.65%) Operational Technology
11 7 (2.65%) SCADA
12 6 (2.27%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.52%) Algorithms
14 3 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (1.14%) Driving Licence
14 3 (1.14%) Reference Data
14 3 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 39 (14.77%) Unix
2 21 (7.95%) Linux
3 11 (4.17%) Windows
4 4 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Debian
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (26.52%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (23.11%) Agile
3 44 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 43 (16.29%) AI
5 40 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (15.15%) ERP
6 39 (14.77%) DevOps
7 38 (14.39%) CI/CD
8 33 (12.50%) API Integration
8 33 (12.50%) Data Analysis
9 32 (12.12%) Migration
10 29 (10.98%) LLM
10 29 (10.98%) Roadmaps
10 29 (10.98%) Test Automation
11 27 (10.23%) Decision-Making
12 26 (9.85%) Collaborative Working
13 25 (9.47%) CRM
13 25 (9.47%) Software Testing
13 25 (9.47%) Validation
14 23 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 136 (51.52%) SQL
2 95 (35.98%) Python
3 56 (21.21%) Java
4 41 (15.53%) JavaScript
5 36 (13.64%) C#
6 25 (9.47%) PL/SQL
7 18 (6.82%) Shell Script
8 12 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.17%) Delphi
10 10 (3.79%) T-SQL
11 8 (3.03%) Perl
12 7 (2.65%) TypeScript
12 7 (2.65%) VB
13 6 (2.27%) VBA
14 5 (1.89%) C++
15 4 (1.52%) ActionScript
15 4 (1.52%) ActionScript 2.0
15 4 (1.52%) Bash
15 4 (1.52%) VB.NET
16 3 (1.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 64 (24.24%) Degree
2 30 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.27%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.50%) QA
2 15 (5.68%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.17%) TickIT
4 8 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.14%) EMIR
6 3 (1.14%) HL7
6 3 (1.14%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.14%) SLA
7 2 (0.76%) GDPR
7 2 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (8.33%) Docker
2 20 (7.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.52%) vSphere
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 18 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.55%) Terraform
3 8 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.14%) HP Fortify
4 3 (1.14%) Kibana
5 2 (0.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 62 (23.48%) Oracle
2 37 (14.02%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.92%) SAP
4 10 (3.79%) Palo Alto
5 8 (3.03%) Databricks
5 8 (3.03%) Okta
6 7 (2.65%) Sparx
7 6 (2.27%) Cisco
7 6 (2.27%) F5
7 6 (2.27%) IBM
7 6 (2.27%) Juniper
7 6 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.27%) Splunk
8 5 (1.89%) Ariba
8 5 (1.89%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.52%) Dell
9 4 (1.52%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.52%) VMware