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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 388 304
Rank change year-on-year -135 -84 -66
Permanent jobs citing XML 294 316 701
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.64% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.49% 3.67% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 205 224 433
10th Percentile £32,600 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -0.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

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 11,823 8,620 16,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.43% 17.38% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 8,520 5,518 10,914
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -130 264 £60,000 +9.09% 190
UK excluding London -105 216 £55,000 +4.76% 109
Work from Home -53 125 £55,000 - 341
South East -64 62 £60,000 +8.11% 35
London -86 60 £75,000 +15.38% 101
Midlands -4 49 £55,000 +10.00% 21
West Midlands -8 43 £55,000 +10.00% 15
North of England -36 42 £70,000 +30.23% 11
South West -63 33 £31,500 +6.78% 15
North West -10 23 £73,500 +33.64% 6
Yorkshire -40 16 £63,076 +28.73% 4
East of England -62 13 £42,500 -15.00% 7
Wales - 7 £55,000 - 3
East Midlands -33 6 £50,000 +5.26% 6
Isle of Man - 5 £38,500 -
Scotland +1 3 £63,750 +37.10% 15
North East -62 3 £65,288 +45.08% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 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 16 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.08%) Confluence
3 11 (3.74%) CMS
4 10 (3.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 9 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.72%) Apache
7 5 (1.70%) IIS
8 4 (1.36%) SAS
9 2 (0.68%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.34%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.70%) CorelDRAW
3 5 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (3.74%) Elite 3E
1 11 (3.74%) Oracle Retail
2 10 (3.40%) Oracle Cash Management
2 10 (3.40%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (3.40%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (3.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 9 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (1.36%) NEC Housing
6 3 (1.02%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.68%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.68%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.34%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.34%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 93 (31.63%) Azure
2 43 (14.63%) Power Platform
3 34 (11.56%) AWS
4 31 (10.54%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (8.84%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (6.12%) Power Automate
6 18 (6.12%) SaaS
7 16 (5.44%) Boomi
8 15 (5.10%) Serverless
9 14 (4.76%) GitHub
10 12 (4.08%) PowerApps
11 11 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (3.06%) GCP
13 8 (2.72%) Azure Functions
14 7 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
16 5 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.10%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.04%) DNS
2 6 (2.04%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.70%) Firewall
3 5 (1.70%) Intranet
4 3 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (1.02%) SSL
5 2 (0.68%) FTP
5 2 (0.68%) VPN
6 1 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.34%) Multicast
6 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.20%) Power BI
3 26 (8.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 23 (7.82%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (3.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 10 (3.40%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.06%) RDBMS
8 8 (2.72%) Metadata
9 7 (2.38%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (2.38%) MySQL
9 7 (2.38%) OLTP
10 5 (1.70%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.70%) GIS
10 5 (1.70%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.02%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (11.90%) JIRA
2 26 (8.84%) Git
3 16 (5.44%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.42%) JMeter
5 11 (3.74%) JUnit
6 9 (3.06%) GitLab
7 8 (2.72%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.72%) Postman
7 8 (2.72%) Selenium
8 7 (2.38%) Moq
8 7 (2.38%) SoapUI
9 6 (2.04%) Mockito
9 6 (2.04%) Zephyr
10 4 (1.36%) Maven
10 4 (1.36%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.68%) Bower
11 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.68%) ERwin
11 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 96 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 88 (29.93%) Finance
3 78 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 28 (9.52%) Retail
6 26 (8.84%) Manufacturing
7 22 (7.48%) Law
8 17 (5.78%) Legal
9 15 (5.10%) Electronics
9 15 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (4.42%) Marketing
11 12 (4.08%) Banking
12 10 (3.40%) General Ledger
13 9 (3.06%) Aerospace
14 8 (2.72%) Publishing
14 8 (2.72%) Telecoms
15 7 (2.38%) Automotive
15 7 (2.38%) Health Technology
16 5 (1.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 88 (29.93%) Developer
2 66 (22.45%) Senior
3 47 (15.99%) Analyst
4 34 (11.56%) Senior Developer
5 30 (10.20%) Support Analyst
6 29 (9.86%) Consultant
7 26 (8.84%) Architect
7 26 (8.84%) Lead
8 22 (7.48%) .NET Developer
9 21 (7.14%) Software Engineer
10 20 (6.80%) Applications Engineer
11 18 (6.12%) Web Developer
12 14 (4.76%) SQL Developer
13 13 (4.42%) .NET Web Developer
14 12 (4.08%) Test Engineer
15 11 (3.74%) Author
15 11 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (3.74%) Integration Architect
15 11 (3.74%) Technical Author
16 10 (3.40%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (49.32%) JSON
2 62 (21.09%) .NET
2 62 (21.09%) REST
3 61 (20.75%) HTML
4 58 (19.73%) SOAP
5 46 (15.65%) Web Services
6 41 (13.95%) .NET Framework
7 40 (13.61%) CSS
8 32 (10.88%) XSLT
9 30 (10.20%) Middleware
10 22 (7.48%) EDI
11 20 (6.80%) Entity Framework
11 20 (6.80%) RESTful
12 17 (5.78%) ASP.NET
13 15 (5.10%) jQuery
14 13 (4.42%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (3.74%) Kafka
15 11 (3.74%) React
16 10 (3.40%) Classic ASP
16 10 (3.40%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.12%) Onboarding
2 16 (5.44%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.74%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.40%) SCADA
5 10 (3.40%) Taxonomies
6 9 (3.06%) Client/Server
6 9 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.06%) Robotics
7 8 (2.72%) NHS
8 7 (2.38%) Acoustics
8 7 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.36%) AS400
11 3 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.93%) Windows
2 31 (10.54%) Linux
3 22 (7.48%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.36%) Android
4 4 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.34%) Debian
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (31.97%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (26.53%) Agile
3 56 (19.05%) DevOps
4 41 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (13.27%) CI/CD
5 39 (13.27%) Roadmaps
6 35 (11.90%) Data Modelling
6 35 (11.90%) ERP
7 34 (11.56%) CRM
7 34 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 34 (11.56%) Validation
8 33 (11.22%) Customer Service
9 31 (10.54%) Mentoring
9 31 (10.54%) Software Engineering
10 29 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (9.52%) AI
11 28 (9.52%) Project Delivery
11 28 (9.52%) Workflow
12 26 (8.84%) User Acceptance Testing
13 25 (8.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 168 (57.14%) SQL
2 76 (25.85%) JavaScript
3 61 (20.75%) C#
4 55 (18.71%) Python
5 43 (14.63%) Java
6 23 (7.82%) C++
7 17 (5.78%) PL/SQL
8 12 (4.08%) VB.NET
9 11 (3.74%) XPath
10 10 (3.40%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.40%) Shell Script
11 9 (3.06%) PHP
11 9 (3.06%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.38%) XAML
13 6 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.36%) VB
14 4 (1.36%) VBA
15 3 (1.02%) Bash
15 3 (1.02%) Perl
15 3 (1.02%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 83 (28.23%) Degree
2 18 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.38%) ISTQB
5 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.70%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.70%) HNC
6 5 (1.70%) HND
6 5 (1.70%) ISEB
6 5 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.36%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.68%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.34%) GIAC
10 1 (0.34%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.84%) QA
2 17 (5.78%) Accessibility
3 16 (5.44%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.08%) TickIT
5 7 (2.38%) HL7
5 7 (2.38%) WCAG
6 6 (2.04%) GDPR
7 5 (1.70%) FATCA
8 3 (1.02%) CDISC
8 3 (1.02%) SLA
9 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.34%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.34%) GRC
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (7.48%) Docker
2 4 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.36%) vSphere
3 1 (0.34%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 13 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.04%) Kibana
3 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 89 (30.27%) Microsoft
2 39 (13.27%) Oracle
3 15 (5.10%) IBM
4 14 (4.76%) SAP
5 12 (4.08%) Google
6 11 (3.74%) IBM Sterling
7 10 (3.40%) Splunk
8 9 (3.06%) Databricks
9 6 (2.04%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.70%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.70%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.70%) Pega
10 5 (1.70%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.36%) Ariba
11 4 (1.36%) NEC
11 4 (1.36%) VMware
12 3 (1.02%) Infor
12 3 (1.02%) McAfee
12 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.68%) Adobe