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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 324 286
Rank change year-on-year -151 -38 +3
Permanent jobs citing XML 250 379 962
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.87% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.78% 4.36% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 151 314 617
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,336 £92,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £50,816 £55,000
% change year-on-year +32.83% -7.61% -1.79%

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 9,005 8,699 20,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 19.99% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,614 6,119 15,728
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,063 £50,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 15 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 15 May 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 -153 214 £66,750 +16.09% 96
UK excluding London -109 163 £67,500 +32.83% 71
Work from Home -8 108 £62,500 -7.41% 41
South East -69 61 £67,500 - 27
London -90 54 £70,000 +7.69% 30
North of England -45 36 £73,500 +47.00% 14
East of England -8 30 £55,000 +15.79% 4
Midlands -32 23 £67,000 +23.29% 11
North West -12 22 £73,500 +46.84% 8
Yorkshire -53 14 £73,420 +95.79% 5
East Midlands -17 13 £54,000 -1.82% 3
West Midlands -32 10 £80,000 +49.01% 8
Scotland 0 7 £72,500 +93.33% 2
South West -71 5 £31,500 -14.86% 13
Wales -30 1 - - 1

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 17 (6.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.40%) JBoss
2 6 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 3 (1.20%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.40%) CICS
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.40%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.40%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.40%) Magento
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 75 (30.00%) Azure
2 47 (18.80%) AWS
2 47 (18.80%) Power Platform
3 23 (9.20%) SaaS
4 20 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (7.60%) GitHub
6 17 (6.80%) Boomi
7 16 (6.40%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (6.00%) Serverless
9 14 (5.60%) Entra ID
10 10 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.60%) Apigee
11 9 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.80%) GCP
13 7 (2.80%) OCI
14 6 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.40%) Kong
14 6 (2.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.00%) Firewall
2 6 (2.40%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.60%) DNS
4 3 (1.20%) AMQP
4 3 (1.20%) SSL
5 2 (0.80%) FTP
5 2 (0.80%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.40%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.40%) HTTP
6 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.40%) Multicast
6 1 (0.40%) Network Security
6 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (17.20%) Power BI
2 33 (13.20%) SQL Server
3 30 (12.00%) Relational Database
4 24 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (9.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 17 (6.80%) OLTP
6 14 (5.60%) Metadata
7 13 (5.20%) RDBMS
8 12 (4.80%) MySQL
9 10 (4.00%) Oracle Database
10 7 (2.80%) GIS
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.20%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.80%) Oracle BI EE
12 2 (0.80%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (11.20%) JIRA
2 20 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.40%) Git
3 11 (4.40%) GitLab
4 10 (4.00%) JUnit
4 10 (4.00%) Selenium
5 7 (2.80%) ERwin
5 7 (2.80%) JMeter
5 7 (2.80%) Moq
6 6 (2.40%) Maven
6 6 (2.40%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (2.00%) Mockito
7 5 (2.00%) SpecFlow
7 5 (2.00%) WebDriver
8 4 (1.60%) Postman
8 4 (1.60%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.20%) Ranorex
9 3 (1.20%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 87 (34.80%) Social Skills
2 73 (29.20%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (22.80%) Finance
4 19 (7.60%) Retail
5 17 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.60%) Marketing
7 12 (4.80%) Financial Institution
8 10 (4.00%) German Language
8 10 (4.00%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.60%) Telecoms
10 8 (3.20%) Banking
10 8 (3.20%) Electronics
10 8 (3.20%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.80%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.80%) Automotive
11 7 (2.80%) Law
11 7 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.00%) Front Office
13 4 (1.60%) Back Office
14 3 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 83 (33.20%) Developer
2 54 (21.60%) Senior
3 34 (13.60%) Senior Developer
4 26 (10.40%) Consultant
5 23 (9.20%) Architect
6 22 (8.80%) Analyst
7 17 (6.80%) Oracle Developer
7 17 (6.80%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 17 (6.80%) SQL Developer
8 16 (6.40%) PL/SQL Developer
8 16 (6.40%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
8 16 (6.40%) Senior SQL Developer
8 16 (6.40%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.80%) Applications Engineer
9 12 (4.80%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.80%) Lead
10 11 (4.40%) Applications Architect
10 11 (4.40%) C# Developer
11 10 (4.00%) Integration Architect
12 8 (3.20%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (62.80%) JSON
2 73 (29.20%) REST
2 73 (29.20%) SOAP
3 58 (23.20%) HTML
4 29 (11.60%) Middleware
5 28 (11.20%) .NET
6 27 (10.80%) Web Services
7 22 (8.80%) Regular Expression
8 18 (7.20%) Spring
9 17 (6.80%) EDI
9 17 (6.80%) RESTful
10 16 (6.40%) Spring Boot
11 15 (6.00%) XSLT
12 14 (5.60%) CSS
13 11 (4.40%) Hibernate
13 11 (4.40%) Node.js
13 11 (4.40%) OAuth
13 11 (4.40%) WinForms
14 10 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (4.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.20%) Onboarding
2 24 (9.60%) Data Structures
3 23 (9.20%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (7.20%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (5.20%) Cloud Native
5 13 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (5.20%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (4.80%) Product Ownership
7 11 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (3.60%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.80%) Acoustics
9 7 (2.80%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.80%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.80%) SCADA
10 3 (1.20%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.20%) NHS
10 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.40%) Unix
2 21 (8.40%) Linux
3 14 (5.60%) Windows
4 5 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.20%) Android
6 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) Debian
7 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (23.60%) Agile
3 44 (17.60%) Data Modelling
4 40 (16.00%) DevOps
5 39 (15.60%) Business Intelligence
5 39 (15.60%) CI/CD
6 38 (15.20%) ERP
7 34 (13.60%) AI
8 30 (12.00%) API Integration
9 29 (11.60%) CRM
10 28 (11.20%) Migration
10 28 (11.20%) Roadmaps
10 28 (11.20%) Software Testing
11 27 (10.80%) Collaborative Working
12 26 (10.40%) Test Automation
13 25 (10.00%) Customer Service
13 25 (10.00%) Decision-Making
13 25 (10.00%) SDLC
14 23 (9.20%) Data Analysis
14 23 (9.20%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 130 (52.00%) SQL
2 84 (33.60%) Python
3 56 (22.40%) Java
4 42 (16.80%) C#
5 40 (16.00%) JavaScript
6 24 (9.60%) PL/SQL
7 15 (6.00%) Shell Script
8 13 (5.20%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.40%) C++
9 11 (4.40%) Delphi
10 10 (4.00%) T-SQL
11 8 (3.20%) XAML
12 7 (2.80%) Perl
12 7 (2.80%) TypeScript
12 7 (2.80%) VB
13 4 (1.60%) ActionScript
13 4 (1.60%) ActionScript 2.0
13 4 (1.60%) Bash
13 4 (1.60%) VBA
14 3 (1.20%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 66 (26.40%) Degree
2 26 (10.40%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.20%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.40%) CISSP
8 1 (0.40%) GIAC
8 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.40%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.20%) QA
2 12 (4.80%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.80%) TickIT
3 8 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.20%) HL7
4 3 (1.20%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.20%) SLA
5 2 (0.80%) EMIR
5 2 (0.80%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (10.00%) Docker
2 18 (7.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.60%) vSphere
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 20 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.00%) Terraform
3 6 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.00%) Kibana
5 3 (1.20%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.80%) Ansible
7 1 (0.40%) QRadar
Vendors
1 58 (23.20%) Oracle
2 34 (13.60%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.00%) Palo Alto
3 10 (4.00%) SAP
4 9 (3.60%) Databricks
4 9 (3.60%) Splunk
5 7 (2.80%) Sparx
6 6 (2.40%) Cisco
6 6 (2.40%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.40%) F5
6 6 (2.40%) Juniper
6 6 (2.40%) Okta
6 6 (2.40%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.00%) Ariba
8 4 (1.60%) IBM
8 4 (1.60%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.60%) VMware
9 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.80%) Dell