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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 391 306
Rank change year-on-year -119 -85 -57
Permanent jobs citing XML 306 313 676
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.63% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.57% 3.64% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 212 218 414
10th Percentile £35,575 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
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 11,928 8,596 16,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.35% 17.39% 21.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8,530 5,521 10,739
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 18 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 18 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 -111 273 £61,020 +10.94% 313
UK excluding London -106 224 £55,000 +4.76% 143
Work from Home -34 132 £55,000 - 135
South East -64 63 £60,000 +9.09% 43
London -97 63 £75,000 +11.11% 191
Midlands -8 51 £55,000 +10.00% 23
West Midlands -11 44 £60,900 +21.80% 15
North of England -49 44 £68,750 +30.95% 25
South West -68 33 £31,500 +6.78% 11
North West -6 23 £70,000 +27.27% 19
Yorkshire -37 17 £63,076 +28.73% 3
East of England -62 13 £42,500 -22.73% 12
East Midlands -39 7 £45,000 -5.26% 8
Wales - 7 £55,000 - 4
Scotland -5 5 £63,750 +27.50% 21
Isle of Man - 5 £38,500 -
North East -68 4 £63,076 +40.17% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4

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 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.90%) Oracle Workflow
3 12 (3.92%) Confluence
4 11 (3.59%) CMS
5 9 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.61%) Apache
7 6 (1.96%) IIS
8 4 (1.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.65%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.63%) CorelDRAW
3 5 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.33%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (4.90%) Oracle Cash Management
1 15 (4.90%) Oracle EBS
1 15 (4.90%) Oracle Payables
1 15 (4.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (3.92%) Elite 3E
3 11 (3.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (3.59%) Oracle Retail
4 5 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (1.31%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.98%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.98%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.65%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.33%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.33%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 94 (30.72%) Azure
2 46 (15.03%) Power Platform
3 33 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (10.13%) AWS
5 28 (9.15%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (6.86%) Power Automate
7 17 (5.56%) Serverless
8 16 (5.23%) Boomi
8 16 (5.23%) SaaS
9 15 (4.90%) GitHub
10 12 (3.92%) PowerApps
11 11 (3.59%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (3.27%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.61%) GCP
14 7 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.23%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.29%) DNS
2 7 (2.29%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.63%) Intranet
4 4 (1.31%) Firewall
5 3 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.98%) VPN
6 2 (0.65%) FTP
6 2 (0.65%) SSL
7 1 (0.33%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.33%) HTTP
7 1 (0.33%) Multicast
7 1 (0.33%) Network Security
7 1 (0.33%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (19.93%) SQL Server
2 31 (10.13%) Power BI
3 26 (8.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 23 (7.52%) Relational Database
5 15 (4.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 15 (4.90%) Oracle Reports
6 13 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.94%) MySQL
9 8 (2.61%) RDBMS
10 7 (2.29%) Electronic Patient Records
10 7 (2.29%) Metadata
10 7 (2.29%) OLTP
11 5 (1.63%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.63%) GIS
11 5 (1.63%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.31%) Db2
12 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (10.78%) JIRA
2 28 (9.15%) Git
3 16 (5.23%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.25%) JMeter
5 12 (3.92%) JUnit
6 11 (3.59%) Postman
7 9 (2.94%) Selenium
8 8 (2.61%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.61%) GitLab
9 7 (2.29%) Moq
9 7 (2.29%) SoapUI
10 6 (1.96%) Mockito
10 6 (1.96%) Zephyr
11 4 (1.31%) Maven
11 4 (1.31%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.98%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.65%) Bower
13 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.65%) TestNG
13 2 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 98 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 92 (30.07%) Finance
3 80 (26.14%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (11.44%) Public Sector
6 28 (9.15%) Retail
7 27 (8.82%) Manufacturing
8 23 (7.52%) Law
9 18 (5.88%) Legal
10 15 (4.90%) Electronics
10 15 (4.90%) General Ledger
10 15 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (4.58%) Marketing
12 12 (3.92%) Banking
13 10 (3.27%) Aerospace
14 8 (2.61%) Publishing
15 7 (2.29%) Automotive
15 7 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (2.29%) Health Technology
15 7 (2.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (30.72%) Developer
2 74 (24.18%) Senior
3 48 (15.69%) Analyst
4 37 (12.09%) Senior Developer
5 30 (9.80%) Consultant
5 30 (9.80%) Support Analyst
6 26 (8.50%) Architect
6 26 (8.50%) Lead
7 24 (7.84%) Applications Engineer
8 23 (7.52%) .NET Developer
9 21 (6.86%) Software Engineer
10 19 (6.21%) Web Developer
11 15 (4.90%) Senior Applications Engineer
12 14 (4.58%) .NET Web Developer
12 14 (4.58%) Operations Engineer
12 14 (4.58%) Senior Operations Engineer
12 14 (4.58%) SQL Developer
13 12 (3.92%) Test Engineer
14 11 (3.59%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 11 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (48.37%) JSON
2 65 (21.24%) .NET
2 65 (21.24%) HTML
3 62 (20.26%) REST
4 59 (19.28%) SOAP
5 54 (17.65%) Web Services
6 43 (14.05%) CSS
7 42 (13.73%) .NET Framework
8 35 (11.44%) XSLT
9 30 (9.80%) Middleware
10 23 (7.52%) RESTful
11 22 (7.19%) EDI
12 21 (6.86%) Entity Framework
13 16 (5.23%) ASP.NET
13 16 (5.23%) jQuery
14 12 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (3.59%) Kafka
15 11 (3.59%) React
16 10 (3.27%) Classic ASP
16 10 (3.27%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.86%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.23%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.25%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.92%) Taxonomies
6 10 (3.27%) SCADA
7 9 (2.94%) Client/Server
7 9 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.94%) Robotics
8 8 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.61%) NHS
9 7 (2.29%) Acoustics
9 7 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.96%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.63%) AS400
12 4 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.98%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 41 (13.40%) Windows
2 32 (10.46%) Linux
3 24 (7.84%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.31%) Android
4 4 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Debian
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (33.01%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (26.14%) Agile
3 58 (18.95%) DevOps
4 40 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (12.75%) CI/CD
5 39 (12.75%) Roadmaps
6 38 (12.42%) CRM
6 38 (12.42%) ERP
6 38 (12.42%) Mentoring
7 35 (11.44%) Data Modelling
7 35 (11.44%) Validation
8 34 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (11.11%) Workflow
9 33 (10.78%) AI
10 32 (10.46%) Customer Service
11 30 (9.80%) Software Engineering
12 29 (9.48%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (9.48%) User Acceptance Testing
13 28 (9.15%) Project Delivery
14 25 (8.17%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 177 (57.84%) SQL
2 80 (26.14%) JavaScript
3 65 (21.24%) C#
4 54 (17.65%) Python
5 43 (14.05%) Java
6 24 (7.84%) C++
7 23 (7.52%) PL/SQL
8 14 (4.58%) VB.NET
9 12 (3.92%) XPath
10 11 (3.59%) PowerShell
11 10 (3.27%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.94%) PHP
13 8 (2.61%) T-SQL
14 7 (2.29%) XAML
15 6 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (1.31%) Bash
16 4 (1.31%) Kotlin
16 4 (1.31%) VB
16 4 (1.31%) VBA
17 3 (0.98%) RPG
Qualifications
1 82 (26.80%) Degree
2 18 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.61%) Azure Certification
4 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.29%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.63%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.63%) HNC
6 5 (1.63%) HND
6 5 (1.63%) ISEB
6 5 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.31%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.65%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CISSP
10 1 (0.33%) GIAC
10 1 (0.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.48%) QA
2 20 (6.54%) Data Quality
3 19 (6.21%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.92%) TickIT
5 9 (2.94%) GDPR
5 9 (2.94%) WCAG
6 7 (2.29%) HL7
7 5 (1.63%) FATCA
8 3 (0.98%) CDISC
9 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.65%) SLA
9 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.33%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.33%) GRC
10 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (6.86%) Docker
2 4 (1.31%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.31%) vSphere
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.29%) Kibana
3 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 95 (31.05%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.03%) Oracle
3 16 (5.23%) IBM
4 14 (4.58%) SAP
5 12 (3.92%) Google
6 11 (3.59%) IBM Sterling
7 10 (3.27%) Splunk
8 9 (2.94%) Databricks
9 6 (1.96%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.63%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.63%) Pega
10 5 (1.63%) VMware
11 4 (1.31%) Ariba
11 4 (1.31%) NEC
11 4 (1.31%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.31%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.31%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.98%) Adobe
12 3 (0.98%) Infor
12 3 (0.98%) Workday