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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 298 278
Rank change year-on-year -156 -20 +6
Permanent jobs citing XML 268 412 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.99% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.09% 4.78% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 164 343 645
10th Percentile £40,650 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,549 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -9.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,801 £93,772 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 8,678 8,613 20,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.01% 20.70% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,324 6,523 15,742
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,250
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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 14 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 April 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 -168 231 £62,500 +8.70% 92
UK excluding London -133 175 £60,000 +9.09% 69
Work from Home -27 116 £57,500 -14.81% 44
London -59 62 £72,000 +10.77% 26
South East -99 57 £62,500 -3.85% 28
East of England -8 44 £55,000 +15.79% 3
North of England -85 36 £71,750 +43.50% 17
Midlands -44 25 £48,500 -9.08% 10
North West -44 21 £70,000 +39.85% 11
Yorkshire -70 15 £76,840 +104.91% 6
East Midlands -51 13 £54,000 -1.82% 8
West Midlands -29 12 £43,000 -9.47% 2
Scotland -21 9 £72,500 +52.45% 2
South West -65 4 £31,500 -35.38% 9

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 14 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.24%) JBoss
4 4 (1.49%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.49%) Confluence
5 3 (1.12%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.37%) Apache
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.37%) CICS
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.37%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.99%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.49%) Shopify
4 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.75%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.37%) Magento
5 1 (0.37%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 75 (27.99%) Azure
2 48 (17.91%) AWS
3 45 (16.79%) Power Platform
4 22 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (7.46%) Boomi
5 20 (7.46%) SaaS
6 18 (6.72%) GitHub
7 16 (5.97%) Entra ID
8 14 (5.22%) Serverless
9 13 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (3.73%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.36%) Apigee
12 9 (3.36%) iPaaS
12 9 (3.36%) OCI
13 7 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.24%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.24%) GCP
14 6 (2.24%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.73%) Firewall
2 7 (2.61%) FTP
3 6 (2.24%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.49%) DNS
4 4 (1.49%) SSL
5 3 (1.12%) AMQP
6 2 (0.75%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.75%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.37%) HTTP
7 1 (0.37%) Modbus
7 1 (0.37%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.67%) Power BI
2 40 (14.93%) SQL Server
3 35 (13.06%) Relational Database
4 22 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (8.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 17 (6.34%) Metadata
5 17 (6.34%) MySQL
6 14 (5.22%) OLTP
7 12 (4.48%) RDBMS
8 9 (3.36%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.24%) GIS
10 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.75%) Big Data
11 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.75%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (0.75%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 31 (11.57%) JIRA
2 21 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.48%) Selenium
4 11 (4.10%) Git
4 11 (4.10%) GitLab
5 8 (2.99%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (2.61%) ERwin
6 7 (2.61%) JUnit
6 7 (2.61%) SpecFlow
7 6 (2.24%) JMeter
7 6 (2.24%) Maven
7 6 (2.24%) Postman
8 5 (1.87%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.49%) Mockito
10 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.12%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.12%) Ranorex
10 3 (1.12%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 97 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 65 (24.25%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (22.01%) Finance
4 15 (5.60%) German Language
4 15 (5.60%) Law
5 13 (4.85%) Retail
6 11 (4.10%) Financial Institution
6 11 (4.10%) Marketing
7 10 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.36%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.24%) Banking
9 6 (2.24%) Front Office
9 6 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.24%) Legal
10 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.12%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.12%) Local Government
12 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 87 (32.46%) Developer
2 51 (19.03%) Senior
3 29 (10.82%) Senior Developer
4 26 (9.70%) Analyst
5 25 (9.33%) Consultant
6 20 (7.46%) Architect
7 16 (5.97%) SQL Developer
8 15 (5.60%) Lead
9 14 (5.22%) Java Developer
9 14 (5.22%) Oracle Developer
9 14 (5.22%) PL/SQL Developer
9 14 (5.22%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 14 (5.22%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
9 14 (5.22%) Senior SQL Developer
10 13 (4.85%) Applications Engineer
11 11 (4.10%) C# Developer
12 10 (3.73%) Applications Architect
12 10 (3.73%) QA Engineer
13 9 (3.36%) Data Analyst
14 8 (2.99%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (67.54%) JSON
2 78 (29.10%) REST
3 75 (27.99%) SOAP
4 70 (26.12%) HTML
5 34 (12.69%) Web Services
6 33 (12.31%) Regular Expression
7 22 (8.21%) Middleware
8 20 (7.46%) RESTful
9 19 (7.09%) .NET
10 18 (6.72%) Spring
11 15 (5.60%) Spring Boot
12 14 (5.22%) CSS
12 14 (5.22%) EDI
13 11 (4.10%) WinForms
14 10 (3.73%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (3.73%) Hibernate
14 10 (3.73%) Node.js
14 10 (3.73%) XSLT
15 9 (3.36%) FpML
15 9 (3.36%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.78%) Onboarding
2 34 (12.69%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (10.07%) Data Structures
4 19 (7.09%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (5.22%) Cloud Native
6 12 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.73%) Product Ownership
9 9 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (3.36%) Low-Code
10 8 (2.99%) e-Learning
11 6 (2.24%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (2.24%) Operational Technology
11 6 (2.24%) SCADA
12 4 (1.49%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.12%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.12%) Reference Data
13 3 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 41 (15.30%) Unix
2 23 (8.58%) Linux
3 11 (4.10%) Windows
4 4 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Debian
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.75%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (25.00%) Agile
3 43 (16.04%) AI
4 42 (15.67%) Data Modelling
5 41 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
6 39 (14.55%) CI/CD
6 39 (14.55%) ERP
7 38 (14.18%) DevOps
8 33 (12.31%) Data Analysis
9 32 (11.94%) Migration
10 31 (11.57%) API Integration
10 31 (11.57%) Test Automation
11 29 (10.82%) LLM
12 28 (10.45%) SDLC
13 27 (10.07%) Roadmaps
13 27 (10.07%) Software Testing
14 26 (9.70%) Decision-Making
14 26 (9.70%) Validation
15 25 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (8.96%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 139 (51.87%) SQL
2 96 (35.82%) Python
3 58 (21.64%) Java
4 44 (16.42%) JavaScript
5 40 (14.93%) C#
6 25 (9.33%) PL/SQL
7 21 (7.84%) Shell Script
8 11 (4.10%) Delphi
8 11 (4.10%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.10%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.61%) Perl
9 7 (2.61%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.24%) C++
10 6 (2.24%) VB
10 6 (2.24%) VBA
11 4 (1.49%) ActionScript
11 4 (1.49%) ActionScript 2.0
11 4 (1.49%) Bash
11 4 (1.49%) C
11 4 (1.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 67 (25.00%) Degree
2 30 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.48%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.99%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.24%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.75%) ISEB
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.31%) QA
2 16 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.36%) TickIT
4 8 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.24%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.87%) GDPR
7 3 (1.12%) EMIR
7 3 (1.12%) HL7
7 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.12%) SLA
8 2 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (8.96%) Docker
2 20 (7.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.49%) vSphere
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 20 (7.46%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.48%) Terraform
3 9 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.49%) Kibana
5 3 (1.12%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.75%) Ansible
6 2 (0.75%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 62 (23.13%) Oracle
2 36 (13.43%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.60%) SAP
4 9 (3.36%) Palo Alto
5 8 (2.99%) Databricks
5 8 (2.99%) Okta
6 7 (2.61%) IBM
6 7 (2.61%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.61%) Sparx
6 7 (2.61%) Splunk
7 6 (2.24%) Cisco
7 6 (2.24%) Dell
7 6 (2.24%) F5
7 6 (2.24%) Juniper
7 6 (2.24%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.24%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.87%) Ariba
8 5 (1.87%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.87%) IFS
8 5 (1.87%) Workday