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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 277 251
Rank change year-on-year -116 -26 +1
Permanent jobs citing XML 269 564 725
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.06% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.83% 4.91% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 164 369 484
10th Percentile £38,688 £36,250 £38,825
25th Percentile £48,438 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £75,313
90th Percentile £76,670 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 7,029 11,479 13,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 21.52% 24.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,224 6,737 11,320
10th Percentile £35,575 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -129 223 £55,000 -4.35% 78
UK excluding London -95 172 £55,000 - 70
Work from Home -21 117 £55,000 -18.52% 58
London -16 84 £65,000 +8.33% 26
South East -79 56 £55,000 -15.38% 25
East of England +45 52 £55,000 - 11
Scotland +15 23 £50,000 +11.11% 4
North of England -42 20 £50,000 +16.28% 15
Midlands -16 17 £50,000 -3.85% 10
West Midlands +4 10 £50,000 +17.65% 6
North West -21 9 £52,500 +16.02% 10
East Midlands -30 7 £50,750 -7.73% 4
Yorkshire -30 7 £55,000 +37.50% 5
North East +6 4 £45,000 -6.74%
South West -20 3 £60,000 -11.11% 7
Northern Ireland - 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 5 (1.86%) Anypoint
1 5 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.49%) Confluence
3 3 (1.12%) JBoss
3 3 (1.12%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.12%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.74%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
5 1 (0.37%) CICS
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) FileNet
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (3.35%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.37%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.37%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (7.43%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (2.23%) Shopify
4 3 (1.12%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.37%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 69 (25.65%) Azure
2 49 (18.22%) AWS
3 31 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (11.15%) GitHub
5 26 (9.67%) Power Platform
6 21 (7.81%) Entra ID
6 21 (7.81%) OCI
7 20 (7.43%) Serverless
8 17 (6.32%) Power Automate
9 16 (5.95%) Boomi
9 16 (5.95%) SaaS
10 15 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (4.09%) iPaaS
12 10 (3.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (2.97%) PowerApps
15 7 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (2.23%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.72%) FTP
2 2 (0.74%) AMQP
2 2 (0.74%) HTTP
2 2 (0.74%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.74%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) Modbus
3 1 (0.37%) Multicast
3 1 (0.37%) SSL
3 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.37%) VPN
3 1 (0.37%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (16.73%) SQL Server
2 40 (14.87%) Relational Database
3 22 (8.18%) Power BI
4 17 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.09%) RDBMS
6 10 (3.72%) MySQL
6 10 (3.72%) OLTP
7 9 (3.35%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.60%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (1.86%) GIS
10 5 (1.86%) Metadata
11 3 (1.12%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.12%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.12%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.12%) Tableau
12 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 37 (13.75%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.43%) Oracle Forms
3 19 (7.06%) JIRA
4 14 (5.20%) Git
5 13 (4.83%) JMeter
5 13 (4.83%) JUnit
5 13 (4.83%) Mockito
6 7 (2.60%) PowerBuilder
7 6 (2.23%) Axure RP
8 5 (1.86%) Postman
9 4 (1.49%) Selenium
9 4 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.12%) NUnit
10 3 (1.12%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.12%) Subversion
10 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.74%) Ranorex
11 2 (0.74%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 75 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.22%) Finance
3 33 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (12.27%) Law
4 17 (6.32%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.58%) German Language
6 12 (4.46%) Retail
7 9 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.97%) Marketing
9 7 (2.60%) Health Technology
9 7 (2.60%) Legal
10 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.49%) Advertising
11 4 (1.49%) Automotive
11 4 (1.49%) Banking
11 4 (1.49%) Billing
11 4 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.49%) Front Office
11 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 101 (37.55%) Developer
2 54 (20.07%) Senior
3 24 (8.92%) Senior Developer
4 20 (7.43%) Analyst
4 20 (7.43%) Applications Engineer
4 20 (7.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (7.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 17 (6.32%) Java Developer
6 16 (5.95%) SQL Developer
7 14 (5.20%) Consultant
7 14 (5.20%) ServiceNow Developer
8 13 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (4.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 12 (4.46%) Applications Support
9 12 (4.46%) Data Engineer
10 11 (4.09%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 10 (3.72%) Oracle Developer
11 10 (3.72%) PL/SQL Developer
11 10 (3.72%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
11 10 (3.72%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (69.89%) JSON
2 103 (38.29%) HTML
3 85 (31.60%) REST
4 67 (24.91%) SOAP
5 51 (18.96%) Web Services
6 36 (13.38%) CSS
7 29 (10.78%) Regular Expression
8 27 (10.04%) RESTful
9 21 (7.81%) Spring
10 18 (6.69%) Hibernate
10 18 (6.69%) jQuery
10 18 (6.69%) Spring Boot
11 15 (5.58%) .NET
12 13 (4.83%) ActiveMQ
12 13 (4.83%) Apache Camel
12 13 (4.83%) WireMock
12 13 (4.83%) XSLT
13 9 (3.35%) OAuth
14 7 (2.60%) FHIR
14 7 (2.60%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.87%) Onboarding
2 31 (11.52%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (10.04%) Cloud Native
4 22 (8.18%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.83%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.23%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.49%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.49%) W3C
10 3 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.12%) Semantic Web
11 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.74%) CMDB
11 2 (0.74%) DataPower
11 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (12.64%) Unix
2 13 (4.83%) Linux
3 4 (1.49%) Windows
4 1 (0.37%) Debian
4 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (34.57%) Agile
2 74 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (19.33%) CI/CD
4 44 (16.36%) DevOps
4 44 (16.36%) ERP
5 43 (15.99%) AI
6 39 (14.50%) Test Automation
7 38 (14.13%) API Integration
8 36 (13.38%) LLM
8 36 (13.38%) SDLC
9 34 (12.64%) ETL
10 33 (12.27%) Data Analysis
11 30 (11.15%) Data Governance
12 29 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (10.78%) Mentoring
13 27 (10.04%) Translating Business Requirements
14 26 (9.67%) Coaching
15 25 (9.29%) Migration
15 25 (9.29%) Workflow
16 24 (8.92%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 138 (51.30%) SQL
2 103 (38.29%) Python
3 73 (27.14%) JavaScript
4 57 (21.19%) Java
5 39 (14.50%) Shell Script
6 38 (14.13%) PL/SQL
7 34 (12.64%) C#
8 10 (3.72%) T-SQL
8 10 (3.72%) VBA
9 8 (2.97%) ActionScript
9 8 (2.97%) C
10 7 (2.60%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.23%) C++
11 6 (2.23%) Perl
12 5 (1.86%) Delphi
12 5 (1.86%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.49%) ActionScript 2.0
13 4 (1.49%) ActionScript 3.0
13 4 (1.49%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.12%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 67 (24.91%) Degree
2 21 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.97%) ISTQB
5 7 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.60%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.12%) ISEB
6 3 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.74%) HNC
7 2 (0.74%) HND
7 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.74%) PMP
8 1 (0.37%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.58%) QA
3 11 (4.09%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.72%) GDPR
5 7 (2.60%) HL7
6 2 (0.74%) EMIR
6 2 (0.74%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.74%) SLA
6 2 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 25 (9.29%) Docker
2 20 (7.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (10.04%) Kubernetes
2 25 (9.29%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (8.18%) Terraform
4 13 (4.83%) Kibana
5 3 (1.12%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.74%) Ansible
6 2 (0.74%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 62 (23.05%) Oracle
2 37 (13.75%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.43%) Okta
3 20 (7.43%) ServiceNow
4 15 (5.58%) SAP
5 13 (4.83%) Dynatrace
5 13 (4.83%) Splunk
6 11 (4.09%) MuleSoft
7 9 (3.35%) Dell
8 8 (2.97%) IBM
9 7 (2.60%) Informatica
9 7 (2.60%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.60%) Workday
10 6 (2.23%) Talend
11 5 (1.86%) Epicor
11 5 (1.86%) Infor
11 5 (1.86%) Intapp
11 5 (1.86%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.86%) Software AG
11 5 (1.86%) TIBCO