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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 277 241
Rank change year-on-year -124 -36 +14
Permanent jobs citing XML 271 565 729
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.06% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.79% 4.90% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 164 372 482
10th Percentile £40,300 £36,250 £39,050
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,313 £78,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,670 £87,113 £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 7,145 11,538 13,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 21.60% 24.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,294 6,787 11,307
10th Percentile £35,898 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £109,625 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -131 221 £55,000 -4.35% 100
UK excluding London -109 169 £55,000 - 93
Work from Home -15 119 £55,000 -18.52% 76
London -12 85 £65,000 +8.33% 28
South East -74 54 £55,000 -15.38% 31
East of England +47 50 £55,000 - 16
Scotland +13 23 £50,000 +11.11% 6
North of England -51 20 £50,000 +16.28% 17
Midlands -10 18 £50,000 -3.85% 10
West Midlands +7 10 £50,000 +17.65% 6
North West -26 9 £52,500 +16.02% 12
East Midlands -28 8 £50,750 -7.73% 4
Yorkshire -28 7 £55,000 +37.50% 4
North East +6 4 £45,000 -6.74% 1
South West -19 3 £60,000 -11.11% 11
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 5 (1.85%) Anypoint
1 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.48%) Confluence
3 3 (1.11%) JBoss
3 3 (1.11%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.11%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.74%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
5 1 (0.37%) CICS
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) FileNet
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (3.32%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.37%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.37%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (7.38%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.58%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (2.21%) Shopify
4 3 (1.11%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.37%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 69 (25.46%) Azure
2 51 (18.82%) AWS
3 31 (11.44%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (11.07%) GitHub
5 28 (10.33%) Power Platform
6 21 (7.75%) Entra ID
6 21 (7.75%) OCI
7 20 (7.38%) Serverless
8 17 (6.27%) Power Automate
9 16 (5.90%) Boomi
10 15 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (5.17%) SaaS
12 11 (4.06%) iPaaS
13 10 (3.69%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (2.95%) PowerApps
16 7 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
17 6 (2.21%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.69%) FTP
2 2 (0.74%) AMQP
2 2 (0.74%) HTTP
2 2 (0.74%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.74%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) Modbus
3 1 (0.37%) SSL
3 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.37%) VPN
3 1 (0.37%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.97%) SQL Server
2 41 (15.13%) Relational Database
3 24 (8.86%) Power BI
4 17 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.06%) RDBMS
6 10 (3.69%) MySQL
6 10 (3.69%) OLTP
7 9 (3.32%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.58%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (1.85%) GIS
10 5 (1.85%) Metadata
11 4 (1.48%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.11%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.11%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.11%) Tableau
13 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.74%) DataStage
13 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 39 (14.39%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.38%) JIRA
2 20 (7.38%) Oracle Forms
3 15 (5.54%) Git
3 15 (5.54%) JMeter
4 14 (5.17%) JUnit
5 13 (4.80%) Mockito
6 7 (2.58%) Postman
6 7 (2.58%) PowerBuilder
7 6 (2.21%) Axure RP
7 6 (2.21%) Selenium
8 4 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.11%) NUnit
9 3 (1.11%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.11%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.11%) Subversion
9 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.74%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.74%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 75 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.45%) Finance
3 32 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (11.81%) Law
4 17 (6.27%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.54%) German Language
6 12 (4.43%) Retail
7 9 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.58%) Health Technology
8 7 (2.58%) Legal
8 7 (2.58%) Marketing
9 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.48%) Advertising
10 4 (1.48%) Banking
10 4 (1.48%) Billing
10 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.48%) Front Office
10 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.11%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 104 (38.38%) Developer
2 57 (21.03%) Senior
3 24 (8.86%) Senior Developer
4 20 (7.38%) Analyst
4 20 (7.38%) Applications Engineer
4 20 (7.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (7.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 18 (6.64%) Java Developer
6 16 (5.90%) SQL Developer
7 14 (5.17%) ServiceNow Developer
8 13 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (4.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 12 (4.43%) Applications Support
9 12 (4.43%) Consultant
9 12 (4.43%) Data Engineer
10 11 (4.06%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 10 (3.69%) Oracle Developer
11 10 (3.69%) PL/SQL Developer
11 10 (3.69%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
11 10 (3.69%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (69.00%) JSON
2 100 (36.90%) HTML
3 85 (31.37%) REST
4 69 (25.46%) SOAP
5 50 (18.45%) Web Services
6 34 (12.55%) CSS
7 29 (10.70%) Regular Expression
8 27 (9.96%) RESTful
9 22 (8.12%) Spring
10 18 (6.64%) Hibernate
10 18 (6.64%) jQuery
10 18 (6.64%) Spring Boot
11 15 (5.54%) .NET
12 14 (5.17%) XSLT
13 13 (4.80%) ActiveMQ
13 13 (4.80%) Apache Camel
13 13 (4.80%) WireMock
14 8 (2.95%) OAuth
15 7 (2.58%) FHIR
15 7 (2.58%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.76%) Onboarding
2 31 (11.44%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (9.96%) Cloud Native
4 22 (8.12%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.80%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.58%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.48%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.48%) W3C
9 3 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.11%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.11%) Semantic Web
10 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.74%) DataPower
10 2 (0.74%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.28%) Unix
2 12 (4.43%) Linux
3 4 (1.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (35.06%) Agile
2 72 (26.57%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (19.19%) CI/CD
4 44 (16.24%) DevOps
4 44 (16.24%) ERP
5 43 (15.87%) AI
6 41 (15.13%) Test Automation
7 38 (14.02%) API Integration
8 37 (13.65%) SDLC
9 36 (13.28%) LLM
10 33 (12.18%) Data Analysis
10 33 (12.18%) ETL
11 31 (11.44%) Business Intelligence
11 31 (11.44%) Mentoring
12 30 (11.07%) Data Governance
13 27 (9.96%) Translating Business Requirements
14 25 (9.23%) Coaching
14 25 (9.23%) Migration
14 25 (9.23%) Workflow
15 24 (8.86%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 138 (50.92%) SQL
2 103 (38.01%) Python
3 70 (25.83%) JavaScript
4 60 (22.14%) Java
5 39 (14.39%) Shell Script
6 38 (14.02%) PL/SQL
7 35 (12.92%) C#
8 10 (3.69%) T-SQL
8 10 (3.69%) VBA
9 8 (2.95%) ActionScript
9 8 (2.95%) C
10 7 (2.58%) Perl
10 7 (2.58%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.21%) C++
11 6 (2.21%) Delphi
12 5 (1.85%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.48%) ActionScript 2.0
13 4 (1.48%) ActionScript 3.0
13 4 (1.48%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (24.35%) Degree
2 26 (9.59%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.06%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.95%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.11%) ISEB
6 3 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.74%) HNC
7 2 (0.74%) HND
7 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.74%) PMP
8 1 (0.37%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.27%) QA
2 16 (5.90%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.80%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.69%) GDPR
5 7 (2.58%) HL7
6 2 (0.74%) EMIR
6 2 (0.74%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.74%) SLA
6 2 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 27 (9.96%) Docker
2 20 (7.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (9.96%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.86%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (8.12%) Terraform
4 13 (4.80%) Kibana
5 3 (1.11%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.74%) Ansible
6 2 (0.74%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 66 (24.35%) Oracle
2 37 (13.65%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.38%) Okta
4 18 (6.64%) ServiceNow
5 15 (5.54%) SAP
6 13 (4.80%) Dynatrace
6 13 (4.80%) Splunk
7 11 (4.06%) MuleSoft
8 9 (3.32%) Dell
9 8 (2.95%) IBM
10 7 (2.58%) Informatica
10 7 (2.58%) SnapLogic
10 7 (2.58%) Workday
11 6 (2.21%) Talend
12 5 (1.85%) Epicor
12 5 (1.85%) Infor
12 5 (1.85%) Intapp
12 5 (1.85%) Jitterbit
12 5 (1.85%) Software AG
12 5 (1.85%) TIBCO