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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 382 304
Rank change year-on-year -139 -78 -69
Permanent jobs citing XML 311 309 664
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.63% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 3.61% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 211 215 400
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,875 £75,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

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 12,024 8,552 16,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 17.36% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,566 5,487 10,349
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,049 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% -4.17%

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 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 18 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 24 September 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 -119 277 £60,900 +10.73% 317
UK excluding London -98 224 £55,000 +4.76% 163
Work from Home -53 133 £55,000 - 132
London -88 67 £75,000 +11.11% 184
South East -77 66 £60,000 +9.09% 48
Midlands -15 50 £55,000 +10.00% 21
West Midlands -13 44 £55,000 +10.00% 15
North of England -42 44 £67,500 +31.64% 31
South West -60 33 £31,500 +6.78% 16
North West -16 23 £70,000 +27.27% 18
Yorkshire -29 17 £63,076 +28.73% 10
East of England -67 11 £42,500 -22.73% 14
Wales - 7 £55,000 - 6
East Midlands -25 6 £45,000 -5.26% 6
Scotland -5 5 £63,750 +27.50% 23
Isle of Man - 5 £38,500 - 1
North East -65 4 £63,076 +40.17% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 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 (5.14%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.82%) Oracle Workflow
3 13 (4.18%) CMS
4 11 (3.54%) Confluence
5 10 (3.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (2.89%) Apache
7 6 (1.93%) IIS
8 3 (0.96%) SAS
9 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.64%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.32%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.61%) CorelDRAW
3 5 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.32%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (4.82%) Oracle Cash Management
1 15 (4.82%) Oracle EBS
1 15 (4.82%) Oracle Payables
1 15 (4.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (3.86%) Elite 3E
3 11 (3.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (3.54%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (1.29%) NEC Housing
4 4 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.96%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.96%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.64%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.32%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.32%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 95 (30.55%) Azure
2 45 (14.47%) Power Platform
3 34 (10.93%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (9.00%) AWS
4 28 (9.00%) Dynamics 365
5 21 (6.75%) Power Automate
6 19 (6.11%) SaaS
7 18 (5.79%) Serverless
8 16 (5.14%) Boomi
8 16 (5.14%) GitHub
9 14 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (3.86%) PowerApps
11 11 (3.54%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.93%) Azure Event Grid
13 6 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.93%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.47%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.57%) Wireshark
3 7 (2.25%) DNS
4 5 (1.61%) Intranet
5 4 (1.29%) Firewall
6 3 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.96%) VPN
7 2 (0.64%) FTP
8 1 (0.32%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.32%) HTTP
8 1 (0.32%) Multicast
8 1 (0.32%) Network Security
8 1 (0.32%) SSL
8 1 (0.32%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (19.29%) SQL Server
2 30 (9.65%) Power BI
3 25 (8.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 21 (6.75%) Relational Database
5 15 (4.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 15 (4.82%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (3.54%) MySQL
9 7 (2.25%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (2.25%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.93%) Metadata
10 6 (1.93%) OLTP
11 5 (1.61%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.61%) Db2
11 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.61%) GIS
11 5 (1.61%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (9.97%) JIRA
2 28 (9.00%) Git
3 16 (5.14%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.14%) JUnit
4 13 (4.18%) JMeter
5 11 (3.54%) Postman
6 9 (2.89%) Selenium
7 8 (2.57%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.57%) GitLab
8 7 (2.25%) Moq
8 7 (2.25%) SoapUI
9 6 (1.93%) Mockito
9 6 (1.93%) Zephyr
10 5 (1.61%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.29%) Maven
12 3 (0.96%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.64%) Bower
13 2 (0.64%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.64%) TestNG
13 2 (0.64%) WebDriver
General
1 98 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 95 (30.55%) Finance
3 78 (25.08%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (13.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (11.58%) Public Sector
6 32 (10.29%) Retail
7 28 (9.00%) Law
8 27 (8.68%) Manufacturing
9 19 (6.11%) Legal
10 18 (5.79%) Banking
11 15 (4.82%) Electronics
11 15 (4.82%) General Ledger
11 15 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (4.50%) Marketing
13 11 (3.54%) Publishing
14 10 (3.22%) Aerospace
15 8 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (2.25%) Automotive
16 7 (2.25%) Health Technology
16 7 (2.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (30.55%) Developer
2 76 (24.44%) Senior
3 48 (15.43%) Analyst
4 38 (12.22%) Senior Developer
5 30 (9.65%) Support Analyst
6 27 (8.68%) Consultant
7 26 (8.36%) Architect
7 26 (8.36%) Lead
8 25 (8.04%) Applications Engineer
9 22 (7.07%) .NET Developer
9 22 (7.07%) Software Engineer
10 19 (6.11%) Web Developer
11 15 (4.82%) Senior Applications Engineer
12 14 (4.50%) .NET Web Developer
12 14 (4.50%) Operations Engineer
12 14 (4.50%) Senior Operations Engineer
12 14 (4.50%) SQL Developer
13 12 (3.86%) Author
13 12 (3.86%) Technical Author
13 12 (3.86%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (49.20%) JSON
2 66 (21.22%) HTML
3 65 (20.90%) REST
4 64 (20.58%) .NET
5 58 (18.65%) SOAP
6 54 (17.36%) Web Services
7 45 (14.47%) CSS
8 43 (13.83%) .NET Framework
9 35 (11.25%) XSLT
10 30 (9.65%) Middleware
11 22 (7.07%) EDI
11 22 (7.07%) RESTful
12 21 (6.75%) Entity Framework
13 16 (5.14%) jQuery
14 15 (4.82%) ASP.NET
15 12 (3.86%) React
16 11 (3.54%) ASP.NET MVC
17 10 (3.22%) Google Maps API
17 10 (3.22%) Kafka
17 10 (3.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.75%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (5.79%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.47%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.50%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.18%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.18%) Taxonomies
6 11 (3.54%) Robotics
7 10 (3.22%) SCADA
8 9 (2.89%) Client/Server
8 9 (2.89%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (2.57%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.57%) NHS
10 7 (2.25%) Acoustics
10 7 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.93%) AS400
11 6 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.93%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.96%) Derivative
12 3 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.83%) Windows
2 34 (10.93%) Linux
3 24 (7.72%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.57%) Android
4 8 (2.57%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.32%) Debian
7 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (32.15%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (25.40%) Agile
3 62 (19.94%) DevOps
4 43 (13.83%) CI/CD
5 41 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (12.54%) CRM
6 39 (12.54%) ERP
7 38 (12.22%) Roadmaps
8 37 (11.90%) AI
8 37 (11.90%) Mentoring
9 36 (11.58%) Validation
10 34 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (10.93%) Workflow
11 33 (10.61%) Data Modelling
12 32 (10.29%) Customer Service
12 32 (10.29%) Software Engineering
13 29 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (9.32%) User Acceptance Testing
14 27 (8.68%) Project Delivery
15 26 (8.36%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 180 (57.88%) SQL
2 82 (26.37%) JavaScript
3 62 (19.94%) C#
4 56 (18.01%) Python
5 43 (13.83%) Java
6 26 (8.36%) C++
7 22 (7.07%) PL/SQL
8 14 (4.50%) VB.NET
9 12 (3.86%) XPath
10 11 (3.54%) PowerShell
11 10 (3.22%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.89%) PHP
13 7 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (2.25%) T-SQL
13 7 (2.25%) XAML
14 5 (1.61%) Kotlin
15 4 (1.29%) Bash
15 4 (1.29%) RPG IV
15 4 (1.29%) VB
15 4 (1.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 83 (26.69%) Degree
2 18 (5.79%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.89%) Azure Certification
3 9 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.25%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.61%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.61%) HNC
6 5 (1.61%) HND
6 5 (1.61%) ISEB
6 5 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.61%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.64%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.64%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.32%) GIAC
9 1 (0.32%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.61%) QA
2 23 (7.40%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.43%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.86%) TickIT
5 9 (2.89%) GDPR
5 9 (2.89%) WCAG
6 7 (2.25%) HL7
7 5 (1.61%) FATCA
8 3 (0.96%) CDISC
9 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.32%) GRC
10 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (7.07%) Docker
2 4 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.29%) vSphere
3 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (3.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.25%) Kibana
3 1 (0.32%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.32%) Grafana
3 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 96 (30.87%) Microsoft
2 44 (14.15%) Oracle
3 17 (5.47%) IBM
4 13 (4.18%) SAP
5 12 (3.86%) Google
6 11 (3.54%) IBM Sterling
7 9 (2.89%) Databricks
7 9 (2.89%) Splunk
8 7 (2.25%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.61%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.61%) Pega
9 5 (1.61%) VMware
10 4 (1.29%) NEC
10 4 (1.29%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.29%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.29%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.96%) Adobe
11 3 (0.96%) Ariba
11 3 (0.96%) Infor
11 3 (0.96%) Workday