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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 364 287
Rank change year-on-year -143 -77 -25
Permanent jobs citing XML 267 347 927
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.70% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.61% 3.90% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 180 259 598
10th Percentile £29,975 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,031 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -4.71% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,813 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £79,336 £85,250 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 10,242 8,902 19,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.27% 18.08% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,656 5,893 14,573
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 19 July 2026.

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 19 July 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 -129 235 £58,000 +5.45% 71
UK excluding London -102 186 £58,000 +16.00% 52
Work from Home -34 118 £55,000 -15.38% 27
South East -48 80 £60,000 -5.88% 14
London -94 54 £58,000 -17.14% 22
North of England -32 33 £73,500 +47.00% 6
Midlands -22 27 £55,000 - 16
South West -65 25 £31,500 -25.44% 11
North West -7 22 £73,500 +33.64% 3
West Midlands -11 19 £45,000 -25.31% 11
East of England -45 12 £52,500 +10.53% 3
Yorkshire -34 9 £76,997 +78.03% 3
East Midlands -14 8 £55,000 +9.45% 5
Wales - 7 £55,000 - 1
Scotland +16 2 £72,500 - 3
North East -48 2 £67,500 +92.86%

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 (6.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.00%) Confluence
4 7 (2.62%) Apache
5 6 (2.25%) CMS
6 4 (1.50%) SAS
7 3 (1.12%) JBoss
8 2 (0.75%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.87%) CorelDRAW
2 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.12%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.50%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.75%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.75%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.37%) Magento
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 81 (30.34%) Azure
2 42 (15.73%) Power Platform
3 40 (14.98%) AWS
4 24 (8.99%) SaaS
5 21 (7.87%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (5.99%) Boomi
7 15 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (4.87%) GitHub
10 10 (3.75%) Serverless
11 9 (3.37%) Apigee
11 9 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.00%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.62%) GCP
14 6 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.25%) Azure Event Grid
14 6 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (2.25%) Kong
14 6 (2.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.87%) Firewall
2 8 (3.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.62%) DNS
4 6 (2.25%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.87%) Intranet
5 5 (1.87%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.12%) SSL
7 1 (0.37%) AMQP
7 1 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.37%) HTTP
7 1 (0.37%) Multicast
7 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (16.85%) SQL Server
2 35 (13.11%) Power BI
3 29 (10.86%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (5.62%) MySQL
7 13 (4.87%) Metadata
7 13 (4.87%) RDBMS
8 12 (4.49%) OLTP
9 7 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.62%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (2.62%) GIS
9 7 (2.62%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.50%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.75%) Oracle BI EE
12 2 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.75%) Spotfire
12 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (11.61%) JIRA
2 17 (6.37%) Git
3 15 (5.62%) GitLab
4 14 (5.24%) Jenkins
5 10 (3.75%) Selenium
6 9 (3.37%) JUnit
7 7 (2.62%) ERwin
7 7 (2.62%) JMeter
7 7 (2.62%) Moq
8 6 (2.25%) Maven
9 5 (1.87%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.87%) Mockito
9 5 (1.87%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.87%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.50%) Postman
11 3 (1.12%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.12%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.75%) Bower
12 2 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 100 (37.45%) Social Skills
2 85 (31.84%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (22.47%) Finance
4 28 (10.49%) Retail
5 24 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (6.37%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.87%) Marketing
8 11 (4.12%) Electronics
8 11 (4.12%) Financial Institution
9 10 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.37%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.37%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.00%) Aerospace
11 8 (3.00%) Banking
12 7 (2.62%) Automotive
12 7 (2.62%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.87%) Publishing
14 4 (1.50%) Aviation
14 4 (1.50%) Back Office
14 4 (1.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 80 (29.96%) Developer
2 45 (16.85%) Analyst
3 44 (16.48%) Senior
4 28 (10.49%) Consultant
4 28 (10.49%) Senior Developer
5 25 (9.36%) Architect
6 23 (8.61%) Support Analyst
7 21 (7.87%) Software Engineer
8 19 (7.12%) Lead
9 15 (5.62%) .NET Developer
9 15 (5.62%) Web Developer
10 12 (4.49%) Oracle Developer
10 12 (4.49%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 12 (4.49%) SQL Developer
11 11 (4.12%) Applications Engineer
11 11 (4.12%) Integration Architect
12 10 (3.75%) .NET Web Developer
12 10 (3.75%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 10 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.75%) Full-Stack Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (58.80%) JSON
2 63 (23.60%) REST
3 62 (23.22%) HTML
4 58 (21.72%) SOAP
5 50 (18.73%) .NET
6 37 (13.86%) CSS
7 29 (10.86%) Middleware
8 28 (10.49%) .NET Framework
9 25 (9.36%) Web Services
10 17 (6.37%) Entity Framework
11 16 (5.99%) EDI
12 15 (5.62%) ASP.NET
12 15 (5.62%) RESTful
13 13 (4.87%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (4.87%) Node.js
13 13 (4.87%) XSLT
14 12 (4.49%) React
14 12 (4.49%) Spring Boot
15 11 (4.12%) jQuery
15 11 (4.12%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.74%) Data Structures
1 26 (9.74%) Onboarding
2 13 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (4.49%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.37%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.37%) Robotics
7 8 (3.00%) SCADA
8 7 (2.62%) Acoustics
8 7 (2.62%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.62%) NHS
9 5 (1.87%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.87%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.12%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.98%) Linux
2 36 (13.48%) Windows
3 18 (6.74%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.25%) Unix
6 3 (1.12%) Android
6 3 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) Debian
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (25.84%) Agile
3 46 (17.23%) Data Modelling
4 37 (13.86%) DevOps
5 35 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
6 33 (12.36%) CI/CD
7 31 (11.61%) Roadmaps
7 31 (11.61%) Software Engineering
7 31 (11.61%) Validation
8 30 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (10.86%) ERP
10 28 (10.49%) Collaborative Working
11 26 (9.74%) CRM
11 26 (9.74%) Customer Service
11 26 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (9.36%) Integration Patterns
13 24 (8.99%) Computer Science
13 24 (8.99%) Software Testing
14 22 (8.24%) Migration
14 22 (8.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 152 (56.93%) SQL
2 74 (27.72%) Python
3 68 (25.47%) JavaScript
4 59 (22.10%) C#
5 42 (15.73%) Java
6 22 (8.24%) C++
7 18 (6.74%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.24%) T-SQL
9 12 (4.49%) PL/SQL
9 12 (4.49%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.75%) PHP
11 8 (3.00%) XAML
12 6 (2.25%) VB
13 5 (1.87%) Bash
13 5 (1.87%) Delphi
13 5 (1.87%) Perl
13 5 (1.87%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.50%) VB.NET
15 3 (1.12%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.12%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 68 (25.47%) Degree
2 22 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.62%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.87%) HNC
5 5 (1.87%) HND
5 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.50%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.12%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.75%) ISEB
9 1 (0.37%) CISSP
9 1 (0.37%) GIAC
9 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.37%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.36%) QA
2 15 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.49%) TickIT
4 9 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.62%) HL7
7 4 (1.50%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.12%) CDISC
8 3 (1.12%) SLA
9 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.75%) WCAG
10 1 (0.37%) EMIR
10 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (9.36%) Docker
2 15 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.62%) vSphere
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 14 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.87%) Kibana
3 4 (1.50%) Terraform
4 3 (1.12%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.37%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.37%) QRadar
Vendors
1 66 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 40 (14.98%) Oracle
3 12 (4.49%) Databricks
3 12 (4.49%) Google
3 12 (4.49%) IBM
4 11 (4.12%) IBM Sterling
4 11 (4.12%) SAP
5 10 (3.75%) Palo Alto
5 10 (3.75%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.37%) Splunk
7 7 (2.62%) Sparx
7 7 (2.62%) VMware
8 6 (2.25%) Cisco
8 6 (2.25%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.25%) F5
8 6 (2.25%) Juniper
9 4 (1.50%) Ariba
9 4 (1.50%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.50%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.12%) McAfee