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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 381 290
Rank change year-on-year -146 -91 -44
Permanent jobs citing XML 260 336 775
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.67% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.44% 4.00% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 179 247 503
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,875 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,336 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,027 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.94% -9.04% -4.35%

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 10,661 8,409 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 16.85% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,780 5,443 11,343
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -146 231 £58,000 +5.45% 235
UK excluding London -99 192 £55,000 +9.94% 130
Work from Home -61 105 £55,000 -8.33% 94
South East -58 67 £60,000 +8.11% 36
London -97 50 £62,500 -10.71% 142
North of England -33 35 £71,750 +36.67% 32
Midlands -27 32 £48,500 -3.00% 16
South West -52 32 £31,500 -10.00% 13
West Midlands -16 25 £48,500 -3.00% 9
North West -10 22 £73,500 +33.64% 16
Yorkshire -20 11 £68,990 +40.79% 13
East of England -61 11 £50,000 +5.26% 10
East Midlands -19 7 £50,000 -0.50% 7
Wales - 7 £55,000 - 1
Scotland -5 3 £63,750 +27.50% 13
Isle of Man - 3 £38,500 - 3
North East -57 2 £67,500 +92.86% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 8

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 10 (3.85%) Confluence
2 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.08%) Apache
3 8 (3.08%) CMS
4 4 (1.54%) SAS
5 2 (0.77%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.77%) IIS
5 2 (0.77%) JBoss
5 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
Applications
1 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.92%) CorelDRAW
4 4 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.38%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.23%) Oracle Retail
2 6 (2.31%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.54%) NEC Housing
3 4 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.77%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.77%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.38%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 77 (29.62%) Azure
2 34 (13.08%) AWS
3 31 (11.92%) Power Platform
4 20 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 18 (6.92%) SaaS
6 15 (5.77%) Boomi
7 14 (5.38%) GitHub
8 11 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (3.08%) GCP
9 8 (3.08%) Serverless
10 7 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.69%) Power Automate
10 7 (2.69%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.31%) Apigee
11 6 (2.31%) Azure Event Grid
11 6 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.62%) TCP/IP
2 11 (4.23%) Firewall
3 9 (3.46%) DNS
4 6 (2.31%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.92%) Intranet
6 4 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (1.15%) SSL
8 2 (0.77%) FTP
8 2 (0.77%) VPN
9 1 (0.38%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.38%) Multicast
9 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.15%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.23%) Power BI
3 23 (8.85%) Relational Database
4 22 (8.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (4.62%) Metadata
6 11 (4.23%) RDBMS
7 10 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.46%) OLTP
9 7 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.69%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (2.69%) MySQL
10 6 (2.31%) GIS
10 6 (2.31%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.92%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.77%) Db2
13 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.77%) Spotfire
13 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 33 (12.69%) JIRA
2 18 (6.92%) Git
3 14 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.23%) GitLab
5 10 (3.85%) JMeter
6 9 (3.46%) JUnit
6 9 (3.46%) Selenium
7 7 (2.69%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.69%) Moq
8 6 (2.31%) Postman
9 5 (1.92%) ERwin
9 5 (1.92%) Maven
9 5 (1.92%) Mockito
9 5 (1.92%) SoapUI
10 4 (1.54%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.54%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.54%) Zephyr
11 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.77%) Bower
12 2 (0.77%) SpecFlow
General
1 86 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 75 (28.85%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (26.54%) Finance
4 27 (10.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (10.38%) Retail
5 22 (8.46%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.00%) Marketing
6 13 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.62%) Electronics
8 11 (4.23%) Law
9 10 (3.85%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.46%) Aerospace
10 9 (3.46%) Legal
11 8 (3.08%) Banking
11 8 (3.08%) Financial Institution
11 8 (3.08%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.69%) Automotive
12 7 (2.69%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.92%) Publishing
14 4 (1.54%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 72 (27.69%) Developer
2 47 (18.08%) Senior
3 45 (17.31%) Analyst
4 29 (11.15%) Senior Developer
5 28 (10.77%) Consultant
6 27 (10.38%) Support Analyst
7 26 (10.00%) Architect
8 21 (8.08%) Software Engineer
9 19 (7.31%) Lead
10 18 (6.92%) .NET Developer
11 15 (5.77%) Web Developer
12 12 (4.62%) SQL Developer
13 11 (4.23%) Applications Engineer
14 10 (3.85%) .NET Web Developer
14 10 (3.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 10 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (3.85%) Full-Stack Web Developer
14 10 (3.85%) Senior SQL Developer
14 10 (3.85%) Software Analyst
14 10 (3.85%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (51.92%) JSON
2 60 (23.08%) HTML
3 56 (21.54%) .NET
3 56 (21.54%) REST
4 53 (20.38%) SOAP
5 38 (14.62%) CSS
6 34 (13.08%) .NET Framework
7 30 (11.54%) Middleware
7 30 (11.54%) Web Services
8 21 (8.08%) XSLT
9 20 (7.69%) EDI
10 17 (6.54%) Entity Framework
11 15 (5.77%) ASP.NET
11 15 (5.77%) RESTful
12 13 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
13 12 (4.62%) React
14 11 (4.23%) jQuery
14 11 (4.23%) Node.js
15 10 (3.85%) Classic ASP
15 10 (3.85%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.92%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.77%) Data Structures
3 14 (5.38%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.46%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.46%) Robotics
7 8 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (3.08%) NHS
7 8 (3.08%) SCADA
7 8 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.69%) Acoustics
8 7 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.31%) Client/Server
9 6 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.92%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.54%) AS400
11 4 (1.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.62%) Windows
2 37 (14.23%) Linux
3 22 (8.46%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.54%) Unix
6 3 (1.15%) Android
6 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.77%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.38%) Debian
8 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (27.31%) Agile
3 42 (16.15%) DevOps
4 33 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (12.69%) Data Modelling
5 32 (12.31%) CI/CD
5 32 (12.31%) Roadmaps
6 31 (11.92%) ERP
6 31 (11.92%) Software Engineering
7 30 (11.54%) Validation
8 29 (11.15%) Customer Service
9 28 (10.77%) Project Delivery
9 28 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (10.38%) CRM
11 25 (9.62%) SDLC
11 25 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
12 24 (9.23%) Integration Patterns
13 23 (8.85%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (8.85%) Computer Science
14 20 (7.69%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 146 (56.15%) SQL
2 66 (25.38%) JavaScript
3 63 (24.23%) Python
4 55 (21.15%) C#
5 37 (14.23%) Java
6 24 (9.23%) C++
7 12 (4.62%) PHP
7 12 (4.62%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.46%) PL/SQL
10 8 (3.08%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.08%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.69%) XAML
11 7 (2.69%) XPath
12 5 (1.92%) VB
13 4 (1.54%) Bash
13 4 (1.54%) Perl
13 4 (1.54%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.15%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.15%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 72 (27.69%) Degree
2 21 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.08%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.92%) HNC
5 5 (1.92%) HND
5 5 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.54%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.15%) ISEB
7 3 (1.15%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.77%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) GIAC
9 1 (0.38%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.85%) QA
2 12 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.62%) TickIT
3 9 (3.46%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.69%) HL7
5 3 (1.15%) CDISC
5 3 (1.15%) FATCA
5 3 (1.15%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.15%) SLA
6 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.38%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.38%) EMIR
7 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (8.85%) Docker
2 7 (2.69%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.69%) vSphere
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 12 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.92%) Kibana
3 2 (0.77%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.77%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 74 (28.46%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.92%) Oracle
3 14 (5.38%) IBM
4 11 (4.23%) Google
4 11 (4.23%) IBM Sterling
4 11 (4.23%) SAP
5 9 (3.46%) Databricks
5 9 (3.46%) Splunk
6 8 (3.08%) Palo Alto
6 8 (3.08%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.69%) VMware
8 5 (1.92%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.92%) Sparx
9 4 (1.54%) Ariba
9 4 (1.54%) Cisco
9 4 (1.54%) F5
9 4 (1.54%) Juniper
9 4 (1.54%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.54%) NEC
10 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow