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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 289 253
Rank change year-on-year -144 -36 +35
Permanent jobs citing XML 259 467 989
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 1.06% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.32% 4.75% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 149 356 625
10th Percentile £41,200 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £93,778 £88,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - +0.92% -0.91%

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 7,811 9,832 18,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.82% 22.31% 22.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,718 6,754 15,121
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 9 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 9 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 -160 213 £57,500 - 174
UK excluding London -120 165 £55,000 - 172
Work from Home -11 117 £57,500 -14.81% 91
London -52 70 £71,000 +9.23% 41
South East -86 59 £62,500 -3.85% 42
East of England +25 40 £55,000 +4.76% 21
North of England -71 24 £55,000 +15.79% 35
Midlands -45 20 £43,750 -17.45% 26
Scotland +2 18 £62,500 +31.42% 20
East Midlands -41 12 £50,750 -7.73% 7
North West -47 11 £55,000 +14.58% 24
Yorkshire -51 9 £62,500 +56.25% 9
West Midlands -10 8 £40,000 -5.88% 16
North East -14 4 £45,000 +28.57% 2
South West -45 3 £72,500 +7.41% 22
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.93%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.93%) JBoss
4 3 (1.16%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.77%) Confluence
5 2 (0.77%) IIS
5 2 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) CICS
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) FileNet
Applications
1 8 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.09%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.39%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.39%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (6.18%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.70%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.93%) Shopify
4 3 (1.16%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.77%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.39%) Magento
6 1 (0.39%) Q-Pulse
6 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (27.03%) Azure
2 49 (18.92%) AWS
3 44 (16.99%) Power Platform
4 25 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (9.27%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.27%) GitHub
6 17 (6.56%) OCI
6 17 (6.56%) Power Automate
7 14 (5.41%) Boomi
7 14 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (5.41%) SaaS
7 14 (5.41%) Serverless
8 10 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (3.86%) iPaaS
9 9 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.09%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.32%) Apigee
12 6 (2.32%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.70%) FTP
2 6 (2.32%) Firewall
3 4 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.16%) AMQP
4 3 (1.16%) DNS
5 2 (0.77%) HTTP
5 2 (0.77%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.77%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.39%) Modbus
6 1 (0.39%) SSL
6 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.22%) SQL Server
2 38 (14.67%) Power BI
3 32 (12.36%) Relational Database
4 20 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (5.41%) MySQL
5 14 (5.41%) OLTP
6 10 (3.86%) RDBMS
7 9 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.09%) Metadata
9 5 (1.93%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.54%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.54%) Tableau
11 3 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.16%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.16%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.16%) GIS
12 2 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (11.97%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.56%) Git
3 16 (6.18%) Oracle Forms
4 15 (5.79%) JIRA
5 13 (5.02%) Selenium
6 9 (3.47%) JUnit
7 8 (3.09%) GitLab
7 8 (3.09%) JMeter
7 8 (3.09%) SpecFlow
8 7 (2.70%) Postman
8 7 (2.70%) PowerBuilder
9 6 (2.32%) Axure RP
9 6 (2.32%) Mockito
10 5 (1.93%) Maven
10 5 (1.93%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.54%) ERwin
12 3 (1.16%) NUnit
12 3 (1.16%) SoapUI
12 3 (1.16%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.77%) Ranorex
General
1 79 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.62%) Finance
3 47 (18.15%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.11%) Law
5 15 (5.79%) German Language
6 12 (4.63%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.47%) Retail
8 8 (3.09%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.09%) Legal
9 7 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.32%) Banking
10 6 (2.32%) Front Office
10 6 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.54%) Publishing
12 3 (1.16%) Advertising
12 3 (1.16%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.16%) Marketing
13 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 97 (37.45%) Developer
2 51 (19.69%) Senior
3 24 (9.27%) Analyst
4 22 (8.49%) Senior Developer
5 21 (8.11%) SQL Developer
6 17 (6.56%) Applications Engineer
6 17 (6.56%) Java Developer
7 16 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (6.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.41%) Oracle Developer
8 14 (5.41%) PL/SQL Developer
8 14 (5.41%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 14 (5.41%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
8 14 (5.41%) Senior SQL Developer
9 11 (4.25%) Consultant
10 10 (3.86%) C# Developer
10 10 (3.86%) Data Analyst
10 10 (3.86%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.86%) Integration Engineer
10 10 (3.86%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (67.57%) JSON
2 80 (30.89%) HTML
3 73 (28.19%) REST
4 63 (24.32%) SOAP
5 37 (14.29%) Web Services
6 31 (11.97%) Regular Expression
7 23 (8.88%) .NET
7 23 (8.88%) RESTful
8 22 (8.49%) CSS
9 20 (7.72%) Spring
10 16 (6.18%) Spring Boot
11 12 (4.63%) Hibernate
12 11 (4.25%) XSLT
13 10 (3.86%) WinForms
14 9 (3.47%) Node.js
14 9 (3.47%) Playwright
15 8 (3.09%) React
16 7 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
16 7 (2.70%) jQuery
16 7 (2.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.31%) Onboarding
2 31 (11.97%) Linux Command Line
3 20 (7.72%) Data Structures
4 19 (7.34%) Cloud Native
4 19 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (6.18%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (5.02%) Low-Code
7 9 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.70%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.93%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.16%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.16%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.16%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.16%) SCADA
12 3 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 2 (0.77%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.44%) Unix
2 16 (6.18%) Linux
3 9 (3.47%) Windows
4 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (29.73%) Agile
2 58 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (17.37%) CI/CD
4 43 (16.60%) AI
5 41 (15.83%) Business Intelligence
6 39 (15.06%) ERP
7 38 (14.67%) DevOps
8 36 (13.90%) Test Automation
9 33 (12.74%) Data Modelling
9 33 (12.74%) SDLC
10 32 (12.36%) Data Analysis
10 32 (12.36%) Migration
11 31 (11.97%) LLM
12 29 (11.20%) Software Testing
13 26 (10.04%) API Integration
13 26 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (9.65%) Data Governance
14 25 (9.65%) Mentoring
15 23 (8.88%) Validation
16 21 (8.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 139 (53.67%) SQL
2 96 (37.07%) Python
3 62 (23.94%) Java
4 49 (18.92%) JavaScript
5 46 (17.76%) C#
6 38 (14.67%) PL/SQL
7 30 (11.58%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.79%) T-SQL
9 11 (4.25%) VBA
10 10 (3.86%) Delphi
10 10 (3.86%) PowerShell
11 9 (3.47%) VB.NET
12 7 (2.70%) C++
13 6 (2.32%) ActionScript
13 6 (2.32%) C
14 5 (1.93%) TypeScript
15 4 (1.54%) ActionScript 2.0
15 4 (1.54%) Perl
16 3 (1.16%) VB
16 3 (1.16%) VC++
Qualifications
1 65 (25.10%) Degree
2 25 (9.65%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.63%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.09%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.16%) ISEB
7 3 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.77%) HNC
8 2 (0.77%) HND
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.77%) PMP
9 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.42%) QA
2 17 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 13 (5.02%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.32%) GDPR
6 3 (1.16%) EMIR
6 3 (1.16%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.77%) WCAG
8 1 (0.39%) HL7
System Software
1 26 (10.04%) Active Directory
2 25 (9.65%) Docker
3 2 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (8.49%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.72%) Terraform
3 17 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.32%) Kibana
5 3 (1.16%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.77%) Ansible
6 2 (0.77%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 71 (27.41%) Oracle
2 37 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.18%) Okta
4 13 (5.02%) SAP
5 8 (3.09%) Dell
5 8 (3.09%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.70%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.70%) IBM
7 6 (2.32%) Databricks
7 6 (2.32%) IFS
7 6 (2.32%) Informatica
7 6 (2.32%) Intapp
7 6 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.32%) SnapLogic
7 6 (2.32%) Splunk
7 6 (2.32%) Talend
7 6 (2.32%) Workday
8 5 (1.93%) Epicor
8 5 (1.93%) Infor
8 5 (1.93%) Jitterbit