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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 275 229
Rank change year-on-year -112 -46 +23
Permanent jobs citing XML 295 653 803
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.97% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.01% 4.78% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 190 407 572
10th Percentile £38,063 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,850 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% +0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 7,365 13,663 13,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.88% 20.33% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5,261 8,209 11,302
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 -100 255 £55,000 -4.35% 174
UK excluding London -80 193 £55,000 - 108
Work from Home -20 133 £55,000 -15.38% 122
London -44 97 £70,000 +7.69% 82
South East -48 74 £55,000 -15.38% 33
East of England +39 52 £55,000 -6.54% 14
Midlands +26 21 £50,000 -3.85% 22
North of England -35 20 £45,000 -9.94% 21
Scotland +14 19 £50,000 +8.04% 6
West Midlands +29 15 £50,000 +17.65% 9
South West -9 8 £67,500 - 13
North West -21 8 £52,500 - 15
North East +12 6 £45,000 -6.74%
East Midlands +3 6 £47,500 -13.64% 13
Yorkshire -17 6 £43,250 +28.15% 6
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 6 (2.03%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.36%) Confluence
3 4 (1.36%) IIS
4 3 (1.02%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) CICS
6 1 (0.34%) FileNet
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (3.39%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (4.75%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (4.07%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (2.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (2.37%) Shopify
4 3 (1.02%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.68%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.68%) Q-Pulse
6 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 77 (26.10%) Azure
2 56 (18.98%) AWS
3 45 (15.25%) GitHub
4 36 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (10.51%) SaaS
6 24 (8.14%) Serverless
7 23 (7.80%) Power Platform
8 21 (7.12%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (7.12%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (7.12%) Power Automate
9 17 (5.76%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (5.42%) Entra ID
11 15 (5.08%) Boomi
12 14 (4.75%) OCI
13 12 (4.07%) iPaaS
14 10 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.05%) PowerApps
16 8 (2.71%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.39%) FTP
2 3 (1.02%) HTTP
3 2 (0.68%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (0.68%) Multicast
3 2 (0.68%) RFID
3 2 (0.68%) SSL
4 1 (0.34%) DMARC
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.34%) Modbus
4 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (20.34%) SQL Server
2 45 (15.25%) Relational Database
3 24 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.44%) RDBMS
5 17 (5.76%) Power BI
6 14 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (4.75%) MySQL
7 11 (3.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.39%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.37%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (2.37%) GIS
10 6 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.69%) Metadata
11 5 (1.69%) OLTP
12 3 (1.02%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.02%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.02%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.02%) Tableau
13 2 (0.68%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 42 (14.24%) Jenkins
2 28 (9.49%) Git
3 22 (7.46%) JIRA
4 21 (7.12%) JMeter
4 21 (7.12%) JUnit
4 21 (7.12%) Mockito
5 14 (4.75%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (3.39%) Visual Studio
7 8 (2.71%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (2.37%) Postman
8 7 (2.37%) PowerBuilder
9 6 (2.03%) Axure RP
9 6 (2.03%) MSBuild
9 6 (2.03%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (1.69%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.36%) Selenium
12 3 (1.02%) NUnit
12 3 (1.02%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 81 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.25%) Finance
3 40 (13.56%) Law
4 36 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (9.49%) Public Sector
6 19 (6.44%) Retail
7 16 (5.42%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.41%) Back Office
9 11 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.05%) Marketing
11 8 (2.71%) Front Office
11 8 (2.71%) Legal
12 7 (2.37%) German Language
12 7 (2.37%) Health Technology
13 6 (2.03%) Advertising
14 5 (1.69%) Automotive
14 5 (1.69%) Banking
15 4 (1.36%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.36%) Financial Institution
16 3 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (39.66%) Developer
2 49 (16.61%) Senior
3 24 (8.14%) Analyst
4 22 (7.46%) Senior Developer
5 21 (7.12%) Java Developer
6 20 (6.78%) Consultant
7 19 (6.44%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (6.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 17 (5.76%) SQL Developer
10 15 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (5.08%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 14 (4.75%) Applications Engineer
11 14 (4.75%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.41%) Applications Support
12 13 (4.41%) ServiceNow Consultant
13 12 (4.07%) Integration Engineer
13 12 (4.07%) Lead
13 12 (4.07%) ServiceNow Developer
13 12 (4.07%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (68.47%) JSON
2 112 (37.97%) HTML
3 98 (33.22%) REST
4 60 (20.34%) SOAP
4 60 (20.34%) Web Services
5 52 (17.63%) CSS
6 31 (10.51%) .NET
7 26 (8.81%) jQuery
8 25 (8.47%) RESTful
9 23 (7.80%) Spring
10 21 (7.12%) ActiveMQ
10 21 (7.12%) Apache Camel
10 21 (7.12%) Hibernate
10 21 (7.12%) Spring Boot
10 21 (7.12%) WireMock
11 19 (6.44%) Regular Expression
12 15 (5.08%) ASP.NET
13 9 (3.05%) XSLT
14 8 (2.71%) FHIR
14 8 (2.71%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.17%) Onboarding
2 27 (9.15%) Cloud Native
3 21 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (6.44%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (4.41%) Low-Code
6 13 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (4.07%) NHS
8 9 (3.05%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.03%) BYOD
10 5 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.69%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.36%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.36%) W3C
12 3 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.02%) Semantic Web
13 2 (0.68%) CMDB
13 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.47%) Unix
2 14 (4.75%) Linux
3 4 (1.36%) Windows
4 2 (0.68%) Debian
4 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (38.31%) Agile
2 83 (28.14%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (22.37%) DevOps
4 60 (20.34%) CI/CD
5 46 (15.59%) Test Automation
6 40 (13.56%) Microservices
7 39 (13.22%) SDLC
8 38 (12.88%) ERP
9 37 (12.54%) API Integration
10 36 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
10 36 (12.20%) ETL
10 36 (12.20%) Mentoring
10 36 (12.20%) Workflow
11 35 (11.86%) AI
12 30 (10.17%) Computer Science
13 29 (9.83%) Data Integration
13 29 (9.83%) LLM
14 27 (9.15%) Problem Management
15 26 (8.81%) BDD
15 26 (8.81%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 153 (51.86%) SQL
2 106 (35.93%) JavaScript
3 100 (33.90%) Python
4 59 (20.00%) C#
5 58 (19.66%) Java
6 42 (14.24%) Shell Script
7 29 (9.83%) PL/SQL
8 17 (5.76%) C
9 11 (3.73%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.39%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.39%) VBA
11 7 (2.37%) VB.NET
12 6 (2.03%) C++
13 5 (1.69%) Perl
14 4 (1.36%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.36%) ActionScript 3.0
14 4 (1.36%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.02%) Bicep
15 3 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (1.02%) PHP
Qualifications
1 66 (22.37%) Degree
2 30 (10.17%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.73%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.71%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.02%) ISEB
8 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.68%) HNC
9 2 (0.68%) HND
9 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.68%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PhD
10 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.76%) GDPR
3 13 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.07%) ISO 9001
5 11 (3.73%) QA
6 10 (3.39%) Accessibility
7 8 (2.71%) HL7
8 2 (0.68%) SLA
9 1 (0.34%) COBIT
9 1 (0.34%) DICOM
9 1 (0.34%) EMIR
System Software
1 45 (15.25%) Docker
2 15 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (13.22%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.12%) Kibana
2 21 (7.12%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (6.44%) Terraform
4 3 (1.02%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 57 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 45 (15.25%) Oracle
3 27 (9.15%) ServiceNow
4 21 (7.12%) Dynatrace
4 21 (7.12%) Splunk
5 14 (4.75%) Okta
6 12 (4.07%) SAP
7 11 (3.73%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.71%) IBM
8 8 (2.71%) Informatica
9 7 (2.37%) Cisco
9 7 (2.37%) Dell
9 7 (2.37%) OpenAI
9 7 (2.37%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.37%) Workday
10 6 (2.03%) Talend
10 6 (2.03%) Trayport
11 5 (1.69%) Infor
11 5 (1.69%) Software AG
11 5 (1.69%) TIBCO