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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 277 220
Rank change year-on-year -111 -57 +31
Permanent jobs citing XML 290 652 825
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.96% 1.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.94% 4.74% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 191 405 592
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.80%

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 7,361 13,754 14,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.90% 20.24% 26.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,196 8,280 11,609
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,214 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £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 14 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 14 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 -108 252 £55,000 -4.35% 182
UK excluding London -70 190 £55,000 - 115
Work from Home -27 132 £55,000 -15.38% 130
London -29 96 £70,000 +7.69% 83
South East -58 78 £55,000 -15.38% 26
East of England +36 47 £55,000 -12.00% 23
Midlands +17 20 £50,000 -3.85% 20
North of England -42 20 £45,000 -0.21% 32
Scotland +8 18 £50,000 +8.04% 7
West Midlands +21 15 £50,000 +17.65% 5
South West -6 8 £67,500 - 7
North West -11 8 £52,500 - 23
North East +12 6 £45,000 -6.74%
Yorkshire -17 6 £43,250 +28.15% 9
East Midlands 0 5 £47,500 -13.64% 13
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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 (2.07%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.72%) IIS
2 5 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.38%) Confluence
4 3 (1.03%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.03%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) FileNet
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (4.48%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (4.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (2.41%) Shopify
4 6 (2.07%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.03%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (1.03%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.69%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.69%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 79 (27.24%) Azure
2 55 (18.97%) AWS
3 44 (15.17%) GitHub
4 37 (12.76%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (11.03%) SaaS
6 25 (8.62%) Serverless
7 23 (7.93%) Power Platform
8 22 (7.59%) Power Automate
9 21 (7.24%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (7.24%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (7.24%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (5.86%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (5.52%) Entra ID
12 15 (5.17%) Boomi
13 13 (4.48%) OCI
14 12 (4.14%) iPaaS
15 11 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (3.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.45%) FTP
2 3 (1.03%) Asterisk PBX
2 3 (1.03%) HTTP
2 3 (1.03%) Multicast
2 3 (1.03%) SSL
3 2 (0.69%) DMARC
3 2 (0.69%) RFID
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 62 (21.38%) SQL Server
2 44 (15.17%) Relational Database
3 26 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.55%) RDBMS
5 17 (5.86%) Power BI
6 14 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (4.83%) MySQL
7 12 (4.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.45%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.76%) GIS
10 7 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (1.72%) OLTP
12 3 (1.03%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.03%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.03%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.03%) Metadata
12 3 (1.03%) Tableau
13 2 (0.69%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 41 (14.14%) Jenkins
2 30 (10.34%) Git
3 22 (7.59%) JIRA
4 21 (7.24%) JMeter
4 21 (7.24%) JUnit
4 21 (7.24%) Mockito
5 13 (4.48%) Oracle Forms
6 11 (3.79%) Visual Studio
7 9 (3.10%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (2.41%) MSBuild
8 7 (2.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (2.41%) Postman
9 6 (2.07%) Axure RP
9 6 (2.07%) PowerBuilder
10 5 (1.72%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.38%) Selenium
12 3 (1.03%) NUnit
12 3 (1.03%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (1.03%) Subversion
General
1 83 (28.62%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.83%) Finance
3 39 (13.45%) Law
4 37 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.31%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.90%) Retail
7 16 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.48%) Back Office
9 11 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.76%) Front Office
10 8 (2.76%) Legal
10 8 (2.76%) Marketing
11 7 (2.41%) Health Technology
12 6 (2.07%) Advertising
13 5 (1.72%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.72%) Automotive
13 5 (1.72%) German Language
14 4 (1.38%) Banking
14 4 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (38.97%) Developer
2 45 (15.52%) Senior
3 24 (8.28%) Analyst
4 21 (7.24%) Java Developer
5 20 (6.90%) Consultant
6 19 (6.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (6.55%) Senior Developer
7 18 (6.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 17 (5.86%) SQL Developer
9 15 (5.17%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 14 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.83%) Data Engineer
11 13 (4.48%) Applications Engineer
11 13 (4.48%) Applications Support
11 13 (4.48%) Integration Engineer
11 13 (4.48%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.48%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 12 (4.14%) Lead
12 12 (4.14%) ServiceNow Developer
12 12 (4.14%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (67.59%) JSON
2 108 (37.24%) HTML
3 100 (34.48%) REST
4 60 (20.69%) SOAP
5 59 (20.34%) Web Services
6 53 (18.28%) CSS
7 31 (10.69%) .NET
8 26 (8.97%) jQuery
9 24 (8.28%) RESTful
10 23 (7.93%) Spring
11 21 (7.24%) ActiveMQ
11 21 (7.24%) Apache Camel
11 21 (7.24%) Hibernate
11 21 (7.24%) Spring Boot
11 21 (7.24%) WireMock
12 16 (5.52%) ASP.NET
13 14 (4.83%) Regular Expression
14 9 (3.10%) XSLT
15 8 (2.76%) Bootstrap
15 8 (2.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.62%) Onboarding
3 21 (7.24%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (4.83%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (4.48%) Low-Code
7 12 (4.14%) NHS
8 9 (3.10%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.07%) BYOD
10 5 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.38%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.38%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.38%) W3C
12 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.03%) e-Learning
13 2 (0.69%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.24%) Unix
2 16 (5.52%) Linux
3 5 (1.72%) Windows
4 3 (1.03%) Debian
4 3 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (38.97%) Agile
2 86 (29.66%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (23.10%) DevOps
4 59 (20.34%) CI/CD
5 45 (15.52%) Test Automation
6 41 (14.14%) Microservices
7 38 (13.10%) SDLC
8 37 (12.76%) API Integration
9 36 (12.41%) ERP
9 36 (12.41%) ETL
9 36 (12.41%) Workflow
10 35 (12.07%) Business Intelligence
10 35 (12.07%) Mentoring
11 31 (10.69%) Computer Science
12 30 (10.34%) AI
12 30 (10.34%) Data Integration
13 27 (9.31%) Problem Management
14 26 (8.97%) BDD
14 26 (8.97%) ITSM
15 25 (8.62%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 153 (52.76%) SQL
2 108 (37.24%) JavaScript
3 93 (32.07%) Python
4 59 (20.34%) C#
5 58 (20.00%) Java
6 41 (14.14%) Shell Script
7 28 (9.66%) PL/SQL
8 17 (5.86%) C
9 12 (4.14%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.45%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.45%) VBA
11 6 (2.07%) C++
11 6 (2.07%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.72%) Perl
13 4 (1.38%) ActionScript
13 4 (1.38%) ActionScript 3.0
13 4 (1.38%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.03%) Bash
14 3 (1.03%) Bicep
14 3 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 62 (21.38%) Degree
2 29 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.10%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.76%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.03%) ISEB
8 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.69%) HNC
9 2 (0.69%) HND
9 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.69%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PhD
10 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.21%) Data Quality
1 18 (6.21%) GDPR
2 14 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.14%) ISO 9001
4 10 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.10%) QA
6 8 (2.76%) HL7
7 2 (0.69%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) COBIT
8 1 (0.34%) DICOM
8 1 (0.34%) EMIR
System Software
1 46 (15.86%) Docker
2 15 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (13.45%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.24%) Kibana
2 21 (7.24%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (6.21%) Terraform
4 3 (1.03%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.69%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 57 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 44 (15.17%) Oracle
3 28 (9.66%) ServiceNow
4 21 (7.24%) Dynatrace
4 21 (7.24%) Splunk
5 13 (4.48%) Okta
6 11 (3.79%) MuleSoft
6 11 (3.79%) SAP
7 8 (2.76%) Cisco
7 8 (2.76%) Informatica
8 7 (2.41%) Dell
8 7 (2.41%) IBM
8 7 (2.41%) OpenAI
8 7 (2.41%) SnapLogic
8 7 (2.41%) Workday
9 6 (2.07%) Talend
9 6 (2.07%) Trayport
10 5 (1.72%) Infor
10 5 (1.72%) Software AG
10 5 (1.72%) TIBCO