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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 384 285
Rank change year-on-year -128 -99 -26
Permanent jobs citing XML 269 340 831
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.69% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 3.85% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 182 251 538
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £34,750
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 £71,250 £79,375 £71,625
90th Percentile £78,940 £83,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 10,399 8,823 17,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 17.90% 19.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,707 5,822 12,836
10th Percentile £40,500 £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 £103,750
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 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 17 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 26 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 -150 237 £57,500 +4.55% 92
UK excluding London -100 190 £55,000 +10.00% 53
Work from Home -51 118 £55,000 -12.70% 38
South East -50 77 £60,000 -4.00% 17
London -78 53 £57,750 -17.50% 46
North of England -33 33 £73,500 +46.84% 7
Midlands -24 29 £47,500 -20.83% 11
South West -62 29 £31,500 -14.86% 10
North West +2 21 £73,500 +33.64% 3
West Midlands -10 21 £46,250 -26.00% 8
East of England -45 12 £52,500 +10.53% 4
Yorkshire -35 10 £76,919 +56.98% 4
East Midlands -31 8 £55,000 +9.45% 3
Wales - 7 £55,000 -
Scotland +17 2 £72,500 - 4
North East -50 2 £67,500 +92.86%
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 15 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.09%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.72%) Confluence
4 7 (2.60%) Apache
5 6 (2.23%) CMS
6 4 (1.49%) SAS
7 3 (1.12%) JBoss
8 2 (0.74%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.86%) CorelDRAW
4 4 (1.49%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.09%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.74%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.74%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.74%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.37%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 81 (30.11%) Azure
2 40 (14.87%) AWS
3 39 (14.50%) Power Platform
4 22 (8.18%) SaaS
5 21 (7.81%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (5.95%) Boomi
8 14 (5.20%) GitHub
9 12 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (3.72%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (3.35%) Apigee
11 9 (3.35%) Serverless
12 8 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.60%) GCP
14 6 (2.23%) Azure Event Grid
14 6 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (2.23%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.23%) Kong
14 6 (2.23%) OpenShift
15 5 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.83%) Firewall
2 8 (2.97%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.60%) DNS
4 6 (2.23%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.86%) Intranet
5 5 (1.86%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.12%) SSL
7 1 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.37%) HTTP
7 1 (0.37%) Multicast
7 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (16.73%) SQL Server
2 32 (11.90%) Power BI
3 29 (10.78%) Relational Database
4 25 (9.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.83%) Metadata
6 13 (4.83%) MySQL
6 13 (4.83%) RDBMS
7 12 (4.46%) OLTP
8 9 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.60%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (2.60%) GIS
9 7 (2.60%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.49%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle BI EE
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.74%) Spotfire
12 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (12.27%) JIRA
2 18 (6.69%) Git
3 16 (5.95%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.58%) GitLab
5 12 (4.46%) Selenium
6 9 (3.35%) JMeter
6 9 (3.35%) JUnit
7 7 (2.60%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.60%) ERwin
7 7 (2.60%) Moq
8 6 (2.23%) Postman
8 6 (2.23%) WebDriver
9 5 (1.86%) Maven
9 5 (1.86%) Mockito
9 5 (1.86%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.49%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.49%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.12%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.74%) Bower
General
1 97 (36.06%) Social Skills
2 85 (31.60%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (24.54%) Finance
4 27 (10.04%) Retail
5 26 (9.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (6.69%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.83%) Marketing
8 11 (4.09%) Electronics
8 11 (4.09%) Financial Institution
9 10 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.72%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.35%) Aerospace
10 9 (3.35%) Banking
10 9 (3.35%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.60%) Automotive
11 7 (2.60%) Health Technology
12 6 (2.23%) Law
13 5 (1.86%) Publishing
14 4 (1.49%) Aviation
14 4 (1.49%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 79 (29.37%) Developer
2 47 (17.47%) Analyst
3 46 (17.10%) Senior
4 30 (11.15%) Senior Developer
5 29 (10.78%) Consultant
6 24 (8.92%) Architect
6 24 (8.92%) Support Analyst
7 20 (7.43%) Software Engineer
8 19 (7.06%) Lead
9 17 (6.32%) .NET Developer
10 15 (5.58%) Web Developer
11 14 (5.20%) SQL Developer
12 12 (4.46%) Oracle Developer
12 12 (4.46%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 11 (4.09%) Applications Engineer
13 11 (4.09%) Senior SQL Developer
14 10 (3.72%) .NET Web Developer
14 10 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (3.72%) Full-Stack Web Developer
14 10 (3.72%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (57.62%) JSON
2 63 (23.42%) HTML
3 60 (22.30%) REST
4 56 (20.82%) .NET
4 56 (20.82%) SOAP
5 38 (14.13%) CSS
6 31 (11.52%) .NET Framework
7 29 (10.78%) Middleware
8 27 (10.04%) Web Services
9 17 (6.32%) EDI
9 17 (6.32%) Entity Framework
10 16 (5.95%) ASP.NET
10 16 (5.95%) RESTful
10 16 (5.95%) XSLT
11 13 (4.83%) ASP.NET MVC
12 12 (4.46%) Node.js
13 11 (4.09%) jQuery
13 11 (4.09%) Kafka
13 11 (4.09%) React
13 11 (4.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.92%) Data Structures
2 23 (8.55%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.35%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.35%) Robotics
7 8 (2.97%) NHS
7 8 (2.97%) SCADA
8 7 (2.60%) Acoustics
8 7 (2.60%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.86%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.86%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.86%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.87%) Linux
2 38 (14.13%) Windows
3 20 (7.43%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.23%) Unix
6 3 (1.12%) Android
6 3 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) Debian
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (28.62%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (27.14%) Agile
3 43 (15.99%) Data Modelling
4 41 (15.24%) DevOps
5 35 (13.01%) CI/CD
6 33 (12.27%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (11.90%) Roadmaps
7 32 (11.90%) Validation
8 30 (11.15%) Software Engineering
9 29 (10.78%) ERP
10 28 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (9.67%) Collaborative Working
11 26 (9.67%) Customer Service
12 25 (9.29%) CRM
13 24 (8.92%) Computer Science
13 24 (8.92%) Integration Patterns
13 24 (8.92%) Project Delivery
13 24 (8.92%) Software Testing
14 23 (8.55%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 154 (57.25%) SQL
2 73 (27.14%) Python
3 68 (25.28%) JavaScript
4 62 (23.05%) C#
5 40 (14.87%) Java
6 23 (8.55%) C++
7 16 (5.95%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.83%) T-SQL
9 12 (4.46%) PL/SQL
9 12 (4.46%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.72%) PHP
11 8 (2.97%) XAML
12 6 (2.23%) VB
12 6 (2.23%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.86%) Bash
13 5 (1.86%) Perl
13 5 (1.86%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.49%) Delphi
15 3 (1.12%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.12%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 69 (25.65%) Degree
2 24 (8.92%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.97%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.86%) HNC
5 5 (1.86%) HND
5 5 (1.86%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.86%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.49%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.12%) ISEB
8 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.37%) CISSP
8 1 (0.37%) GIAC
8 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.37%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.67%) QA
2 14 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.46%) TickIT
4 10 (3.72%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.60%) HL7
6 6 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.49%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.12%) CDISC
8 3 (1.12%) SLA
9 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.74%) WCAG
10 1 (0.37%) EMIR
10 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (8.92%) Docker
2 13 (4.83%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.60%) vSphere
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 13 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.86%) Kibana
3 4 (1.49%) Terraform
4 3 (1.12%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.37%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.37%) QRadar
Vendors
1 70 (26.02%) Microsoft
2 40 (14.87%) Oracle
3 12 (4.46%) Databricks
3 12 (4.46%) Google
3 12 (4.46%) IBM
4 11 (4.09%) IBM Sterling
4 11 (4.09%) SAP
5 10 (3.72%) Palo Alto
5 10 (3.72%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.35%) Splunk
7 7 (2.60%) Sparx
7 7 (2.60%) VMware
8 6 (2.23%) Cisco
8 6 (2.23%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.23%) F5
8 6 (2.23%) Juniper
9 4 (1.49%) Ariba
9 4 (1.49%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.12%) Pega