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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 286 249
Rank change year-on-year -159 -37 +27
Permanent jobs citing XML 260 457 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 1.04% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.20% 4.72% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 152 354 634
10th Percentile £40,550 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,188 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £58,350
Median % change year-on-year - -1.46% -10.23%
75th Percentile £71,313 £79,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,890 £93,778 £88,750
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 8,117 9,692 18,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.91% 22.10% 22.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,947 6,717 15,107
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,280
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 £102,500 £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 15 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 15 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 -163 217 £57,500 - 120
UK excluding London -121 170 £55,000 - 122
Work from Home +3 117 £57,500 -14.81% 59
London -55 67 £71,000 +9.23% 39
South East -70 62 £62,500 -3.85% 28
East of England +26 41 £55,000 +4.76% 11
North of England -84 25 £54,500 +14.74% 22
Midlands -46 22 £43,000 -19.39% 19
Scotland -7 16 £62,500 +31.42% 21
North West -37 12 £55,000 +15.18% 19
East Midlands -54 12 £50,750 -7.73% 6
West Midlands -9 10 £40,000 -5.88% 13
Yorkshire -52 10 £55,000 +46.67% 2
North East -11 3 £45,000 +28.57% 1
South West -46 3 £72,500 +7.41% 18
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 9 (3.46%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.92%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.92%) JBoss
4 3 (1.15%) Confluence
4 3 (1.15%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.77%) IIS
5 2 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) CICS
6 1 (0.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) FileNet
Applications
1 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.08%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.38%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.38%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (5.38%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (2.31%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.92%) Shopify
4 3 (1.15%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.77%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.38%) Magento
6 1 (0.38%) Q-Pulse
6 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (26.15%) Azure
2 51 (19.62%) AWS
3 42 (16.15%) Power Platform
4 22 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (8.46%) Entra ID
5 21 (8.08%) GitHub
6 16 (6.15%) Power Automate
6 16 (6.15%) SaaS
7 15 (5.77%) OCI
8 14 (5.38%) Boomi
8 14 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (5.38%) Serverless
9 10 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.85%) iPaaS
10 9 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.08%) Apigee
12 7 (2.69%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.31%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.46%) Firewall
2 7 (2.69%) FTP
3 6 (2.31%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.54%) DNS
5 3 (1.15%) AMQP
6 2 (0.77%) HTTP
6 2 (0.77%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.77%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.77%) SSL
7 1 (0.38%) Modbus
7 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.15%) SQL Server
2 37 (14.23%) Power BI
3 33 (12.69%) Relational Database
4 21 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.77%) OLTP
6 14 (5.38%) MySQL
7 11 (4.23%) RDBMS
8 10 (3.85%) Metadata
9 9 (3.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.31%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.54%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.54%) GIS
12 4 (1.54%) Tableau
13 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.15%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.15%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.77%) Data Vault
14 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.77%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 29 (11.15%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.54%) Git
2 17 (6.54%) JIRA
3 14 (5.38%) Oracle Forms
4 13 (5.00%) Selenium
5 10 (3.85%) GitLab
6 9 (3.46%) JUnit
7 8 (3.08%) JMeter
7 8 (3.08%) SpecFlow
8 7 (2.69%) Postman
9 6 (2.31%) Axure RP
9 6 (2.31%) Mockito
9 6 (2.31%) PowerBuilder
10 5 (1.92%) ERwin
10 5 (1.92%) Maven
10 5 (1.92%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.15%) NUnit
11 3 (1.15%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.15%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
General
1 82 (31.54%) Social Skills
2 55 (21.15%) Finance
3 49 (18.85%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.92%) Law
5 15 (5.77%) German Language
6 12 (4.62%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.46%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.46%) Retail
7 9 (3.46%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.08%) Legal
9 6 (2.31%) Banking
9 6 (2.31%) Front Office
9 6 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.54%) Publishing
11 3 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Billing
12 2 (0.77%) Marketing
12 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (37.31%) Developer
2 51 (19.62%) Senior
3 25 (9.62%) Analyst
4 22 (8.46%) Senior Developer
4 22 (8.46%) SQL Developer
5 17 (6.54%) Java Developer
6 15 (5.77%) Applications Engineer
6 15 (5.77%) Oracle Developer
6 15 (5.77%) PL/SQL Developer
6 15 (5.77%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 15 (5.77%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
6 15 (5.77%) Senior SQL Developer
7 14 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (5.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.00%) Consultant
9 10 (3.85%) C# Developer
9 10 (3.85%) Data Analyst
9 10 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (3.85%) QA Engineer
10 9 (3.46%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (68.08%) JSON
2 81 (31.15%) HTML
3 75 (28.85%) REST
4 63 (24.23%) SOAP
5 36 (13.85%) Web Services
6 32 (12.31%) Regular Expression
7 21 (8.08%) .NET
7 21 (8.08%) CSS
7 21 (8.08%) RESTful
8 20 (7.69%) Spring
9 16 (6.15%) Spring Boot
10 12 (4.62%) Hibernate
11 11 (4.23%) XSLT
12 10 (3.85%) WinForms
13 9 (3.46%) Node.js
13 9 (3.46%) Playwright
14 8 (3.08%) FIX Protocol
14 8 (3.08%) React
15 7 (2.69%) jQuery
15 7 (2.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.62%) Onboarding
2 31 (11.92%) Linux Command Line
3 23 (8.85%) Data Structures
4 19 (7.31%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (6.15%) Cloud Native
7 13 (5.00%) Low-Code
8 9 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.69%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.31%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.54%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.54%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.54%) SCADA
13 3 (1.15%) Reference Data
13 3 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 2 (0.77%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 42 (16.15%) Unix
2 19 (7.31%) Linux
3 10 (3.85%) Windows
4 4 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Android
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (28.85%) Agile
2 59 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (16.92%) CI/CD
4 42 (16.15%) AI
5 40 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (13.85%) DevOps
6 36 (13.85%) ERP
7 35 (13.46%) Test Automation
8 33 (12.69%) Data Modelling
8 33 (12.69%) SDLC
9 32 (12.31%) Data Analysis
10 31 (11.92%) Migration
11 30 (11.54%) LLM
12 29 (11.15%) Software Testing
13 27 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (9.23%) API Integration
14 24 (9.23%) Mentoring
15 23 (8.85%) Data Governance
15 23 (8.85%) Validation
16 20 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 135 (51.92%) SQL
2 97 (37.31%) Python
3 61 (23.46%) Java
4 50 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 43 (16.54%) C#
6 36 (13.85%) PL/SQL
7 29 (11.15%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.77%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.85%) Delphi
9 10 (3.85%) VBA
10 9 (3.46%) PowerShell
11 8 (3.08%) VB.NET
12 7 (2.69%) C++
13 6 (2.31%) C
13 6 (2.31%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.92%) Perl
15 4 (1.54%) ActionScript
15 4 (1.54%) ActionScript 2.0
15 4 (1.54%) VB
16 3 (1.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (25.00%) Degree
2 27 (10.38%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.08%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.31%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.15%) ISEB
7 3 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.77%) HNC
8 2 (0.77%) HND
8 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.77%) PMP
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.77%) QA
2 18 (6.92%) Data Quality
3 13 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.31%) GDPR
6 3 (1.15%) EMIR
6 3 (1.15%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.77%) WCAG
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (9.62%) Active Directory
1 25 (9.62%) Docker
2 3 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (8.46%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.54%) Terraform
3 15 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.31%) Kibana
5 3 (1.15%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.77%) Ansible
6 2 (0.77%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 70 (26.92%) Oracle
2 34 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.38%) Okta
4 13 (5.00%) SAP
5 8 (3.08%) Dell
5 8 (3.08%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.69%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.69%) IBM
6 7 (2.69%) Splunk
7 6 (2.31%) Cisco
7 6 (2.31%) F5
7 6 (2.31%) IFS
7 6 (2.31%) Informatica
7 6 (2.31%) Juniper
7 6 (2.31%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.31%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.31%) SnapLogic
7 6 (2.31%) Talend
7 6 (2.31%) Workday