XML
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring XML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited XML over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 292 266
Rank change year-on-year -105 -26 -16
Permanent jobs citing XML 372 997 1,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.94% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.75% 4.64% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 283 638 898
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,925
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £64,470
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -10.81% +12.12%
75th Percentile £79,375 £71,250 £77,542
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,164
% change year-on-year - -3.78% +12.09%

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 9,907 21,468 25,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.60% 20.16% 28.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,021 15,914 17,317
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.43% +2.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the UK

XML
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing XML.

Salary trend for XML in the UK

XML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 -76 361 £60,000 +4.35% 424
UK excluding London -81 251 £55,000 - 262
Work from Home -18 149 £67,500 +12.50% 229
South East +7 128 £65,000 +8.33% 80
London -25 104 £72,500 +3.57% 202
North of England -38 40 £50,027 -9.04% 42
East of England +16 32 £47,500 +18.75% 27
South West +49 29 £47,500 - 48
North West -45 25 £50,055 -8.99% 23
Midlands +2 18 £57,500 +4.55% 35
Yorkshire +31 13 £37,500 -30.23% 13
West Midlands +3 11 £61,375 +14.19% 20
East Midlands +40 7 £50,250 -16.25% 15
Scotland -21 4 - - 8
North East +39 2 £35,000 -44.00% 6
Wales +27 2 £65,000 +30.00% 15

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (4.84%) IIS
2 12 (3.23%) Tomcat
3 5 (1.34%) OpenEdge
3 5 (1.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (1.34%) WordPress
4 4 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.08%) Mule
4 4 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.08%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.81%) Confluence
5 3 (0.81%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.54%) CMS
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Service Bus
6 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (7.53%) NetSuite
2 15 (4.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (2.96%) JDE OneWorld
4 8 (2.15%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (1.88%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (1.88%) Q-Pulse
6 6 (1.61%) Magento
7 4 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.81%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle HRMS
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle iRecruitment
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (29.03%) Azure
2 42 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (10.48%) Azure Service Bus
4 37 (9.95%) AWS
5 36 (9.68%) Power Platform
6 35 (9.41%) SaaS
7 29 (7.80%) Power Automate
8 28 (7.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 28 (7.53%) GitHub
8 28 (7.53%) SonarCloud
9 25 (6.72%) Serverless
10 23 (6.18%) Boomi
10 23 (6.18%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (4.30%) PowerApps
13 15 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.49%) SSL
2 11 (2.96%) FTP
3 9 (2.42%) DMARC
4 8 (2.15%) Internet
5 5 (1.34%) HTTP
6 3 (0.81%) RTP
7 2 (0.54%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.54%) Multicast
8 1 (0.27%) DNS
8 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.27%) RFID
8 1 (0.27%) SMTP
8 1 (0.27%) SSH
8 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.27%) VPN
8 1 (0.27%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (28.76%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.06%) Power BI
2 30 (8.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 29 (7.80%) Relational Database
4 28 (7.53%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (6.45%) MySQL
6 23 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (4.03%) RDBMS
8 13 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (2.96%) OLTP
10 8 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.88%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.08%) Metadata
12 4 (1.08%) Parquet
13 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.81%) GIS
13 3 (0.81%) Tableau
14 2 (0.54%) DB2
14 2 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 92 (24.73%) Git
2 47 (12.63%) Visual Studio
3 31 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 30 (8.06%) Octopus Deploy
5 28 (7.53%) MSBuild
6 27 (7.26%) JIRA
7 22 (5.91%) Jenkins
8 15 (4.03%) JMeter
8 15 (4.03%) JUnit
9 14 (3.76%) MagicDraw
10 12 (3.23%) Mockito
11 10 (2.69%) Postman
12 7 (1.88%) ClearCase
12 7 (1.88%) Rational DOORS
12 7 (1.88%) Selenium
13 6 (1.61%) SoapUI
14 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
14 4 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
15 3 (0.81%) Eclipse
16 2 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 115 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 35 (9.41%) Finance
3 34 (9.14%) Retail
4 28 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.72%) Marketing
6 24 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.23%) Banking
8 12 (3.23%) Law
8 12 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.69%) Front Office
10 9 (2.42%) Back Office
10 9 (2.42%) Czech Language
10 9 (2.42%) Local Government
10 9 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.15%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.88%) Aviation
12 7 (1.88%) Military
13 6 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.34%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 174 (46.77%) Developer
2 80 (21.51%) Senior
3 60 (16.13%) Senior Developer
4 41 (11.02%) Architect
5 35 (9.41%) Analyst
6 31 (8.33%) Technical Architect
7 30 (8.06%) Lead
8 24 (6.45%) .NET Developer
8 24 (6.45%) SQL Developer
9 23 (6.18%) C# Developer
10 22 (5.91%) Software Engineer
10 22 (5.91%) Support Analyst
11 21 (5.65%) NetSuite Developer
12 19 (5.11%) Software Developer
13 18 (4.84%) Java Developer
14 17 (4.57%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (4.30%) Senior Software Developer
16 15 (4.03%) C# .NET Developer
16 15 (4.03%) Software Team Leader
16 15 (4.03%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (52.69%) JSON
2 145 (38.98%) HTML
3 130 (34.95%) .NET
4 126 (33.87%) REST
5 100 (26.88%) CSS
6 86 (23.12%) SOAP
7 83 (22.31%) Web Services
8 73 (19.62%) ASP.NET
9 48 (12.90%) .NET Core
10 36 (9.68%) Bootstrap
11 35 (9.41%) .NET Framework
12 30 (8.06%) jQuery
13 28 (7.53%) gRPC
14 27 (7.26%) Hibernate
15 24 (6.45%) ASP.NET Web API
15 24 (6.45%) Middleware
16 21 (5.65%) AngularJS
17 19 (5.11%) Spring
18 18 (4.84%) React
19 17 (4.57%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (5.11%) Mobile App
3 14 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.76%) Embedded Systems
4 13 (3.49%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.96%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.42%) Client/Server
7 9 (2.42%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.42%) NHS
8 7 (1.88%) e-Learning
8 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.88%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.61%) BYOD
9 6 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.34%) Blog
11 4 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.57%) Linux
2 16 (4.30%) Windows
3 14 (3.76%) Unix
4 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.54%) Debian
5 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (31.72%) Agile
2 108 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (21.24%) DevOps
4 71 (19.09%) Microservices
5 53 (14.25%) Software Engineering
6 49 (13.17%) Data Modelling
7 46 (12.37%) Migration
7 46 (12.37%) MVC
7 46 (12.37%) Workflow
8 43 (11.56%) CRM
9 42 (11.29%) Performance Optimisation
9 42 (11.29%) Project Management
9 42 (11.29%) Test Automation
9 42 (11.29%) User Experience
10 40 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
11 39 (10.48%) API Integration
12 38 (10.22%) UML
13 37 (9.95%) CI/CD
13 37 (9.95%) Code Quality
13 37 (9.95%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 218 (58.60%) SQL
2 145 (38.98%) JavaScript
3 130 (34.95%) C#
4 58 (15.59%) Java
5 44 (11.83%) Python
6 25 (6.72%) PL/SQL
7 24 (6.45%) C
8 20 (5.38%) Shell Script
9 18 (4.84%) PowerShell
9 18 (4.84%) T-SQL
10 14 (3.76%) Ada
11 13 (3.49%) PHP
12 12 (3.23%) TypeScript
13 10 (2.69%) C++
14 9 (2.42%) VBA
15 6 (1.61%) VB.NET
16 5 (1.34%) SPARQL
16 5 (1.34%) XQuery
17 4 (1.08%) OpenEdge ABL
18 3 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 45 (12.10%) Degree
2 35 (9.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 26 (6.99%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.76%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.34%) HNC
6 5 (1.34%) HND
7 4 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.54%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.54%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.33%) GDPR
2 25 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.23%) QA
4 8 (2.15%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.54%) Dublin Core
5 2 (0.54%) HL7
5 2 (0.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) DICOM
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) SEPA
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (16.40%) Docker
2 11 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.11%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (3.23%) Kibana
4 9 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.54%) Graylog
5 2 (0.54%) Terraform
6 1 (0.27%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.27%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 83 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 51 (13.71%) Oracle
3 15 (4.03%) Salesforce
3 15 (4.03%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.76%) MuleSoft
4 14 (3.76%) Splunk
5 12 (3.23%) Dell
5 12 (3.23%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.15%) Trayport
7 7 (1.88%) Adobe
7 7 (1.88%) Talend
8 6 (1.61%) Databricks
8 6 (1.61%) Google
8 6 (1.61%) New Relic
9 5 (1.34%) Informatica
9 5 (1.34%) Screaming Frog
10 4 (1.08%) IBM
11 3 (0.81%) Cisco
11 3 (0.81%) Pega
11 3 (0.81%) Progress