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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 274 245
Rank change year-on-year -108 -29 +3
Permanent jobs citing XML 287 603 691
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.09% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.08% 5.06% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 167 400 467
10th Percentile £39,250 £36,250 £40,600
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,375 £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 £71,375 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 7,036 11,915 13,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.86% 21.52% 25.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,254 7,096 10,663
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £41,250
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
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 29 December 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 29 December 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 -123 240 £55,000 -4.35% 512
UK excluding London -93 188 £55,000 - 462
Work from Home -20 124 £55,000 -15.38% 272
London -36 89 £67,500 +12.50% 92
East of England +56 59 £55,000 -3.38% 81
South East -73 57 £55,000 -16.98% 110
Scotland +24 25 £50,000 +11.11% 27
North of England -65 22 £47,500 +9.20% 99
Midlands -18 20 £50,000 -4.31% 89
West Midlands +6 13 £50,000 +17.65% 46
North West -28 9 £52,500 +5.07% 46
Yorkshire -26 7 £55,000 +29.41% 46
East Midlands -31 7 £50,750 -7.73% 39
North East +16 6 £45,000 -6.74% 7
South West -16 4 £60,000 -11.11% 50
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 5 (1.74%) Anypoint
1 5 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.39%) Confluence
3 3 (1.05%) JBoss
3 3 (1.05%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.05%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Appian
5 1 (0.35%) CICS
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) FileNet
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (3.14%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.35%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (6.97%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (3.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (2.44%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (2.09%) Shopify
5 3 (1.05%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.70%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.35%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 72 (25.09%) Azure
2 53 (18.47%) AWS
3 42 (14.63%) GitHub
4 37 (12.89%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (9.06%) Power Platform
5 26 (9.06%) SaaS
6 21 (7.32%) Entra ID
6 21 (7.32%) Serverless
7 20 (6.97%) OCI
8 18 (6.27%) Power Automate
9 17 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (5.92%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (5.57%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (5.23%) Boomi
11 15 (5.23%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (3.14%) iPaaS
12 9 (3.14%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.09%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.18%) FTP
2 3 (1.05%) HTTP
3 2 (0.70%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.35%) AMQP
4 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.35%) DNS
4 1 (0.35%) Modbus
4 1 (0.35%) Multicast
4 1 (0.35%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.35%) RFID
4 1 (0.35%) SSL
4 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.35%) VPN
4 1 (0.35%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (18.82%) SQL Server
2 44 (15.33%) Relational Database
3 21 (7.32%) Power BI
4 19 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.23%) MySQL
6 13 (4.53%) RDBMS
7 12 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (4.18%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.79%) GIS
9 8 (2.79%) OLTP
10 7 (2.44%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (1.74%) Metadata
12 3 (1.05%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.05%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.05%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.05%) Tableau
13 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 41 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.97%) JIRA
2 20 (6.97%) Oracle Forms
3 16 (5.57%) Git
4 15 (5.23%) JMeter
4 15 (5.23%) JUnit
4 15 (5.23%) Mockito
5 7 (2.44%) PowerBuilder
6 6 (2.09%) Axure RP
6 6 (2.09%) Postman
7 5 (1.74%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.39%) Selenium
8 4 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.05%) NUnit
9 3 (1.05%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.05%) Subversion
10 2 (0.70%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.70%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 1 (0.35%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.35%) Ranorex
General
1 79 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.42%) Finance
3 40 (13.94%) Law
4 33 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.23%) German Language
7 13 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (4.53%) Retail
8 10 (3.48%) Back Office
8 10 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.79%) Marketing
10 7 (2.44%) Health Technology
10 7 (2.44%) Legal
11 4 (1.39%) Advertising
11 4 (1.39%) Automotive
11 4 (1.39%) Banking
11 4 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.05%) Front Office
12 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 107 (37.28%) Developer
2 53 (18.47%) Senior
3 22 (7.67%) Analyst
3 22 (7.67%) Senior Developer
4 21 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (6.97%) Applications Engineer
5 20 (6.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 18 (6.27%) Java Developer
7 17 (5.92%) Consultant
8 15 (5.23%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (5.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 14 (4.88%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.88%) ServiceNow Developer
9 14 (4.88%) SQL Developer
10 13 (4.53%) Applications Support
10 13 (4.53%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 11 (3.83%) Lead
12 10 (3.48%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (3.48%) ServiceNow Consultant
13 9 (3.14%) Dynamics NAV Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (69.69%) JSON
2 113 (39.37%) HTML
3 87 (30.31%) REST
4 64 (22.30%) SOAP
5 53 (18.47%) Web Services
6 44 (15.33%) CSS
7 30 (10.45%) Regular Expression
8 29 (10.10%) RESTful
9 22 (7.67%) Spring
10 20 (6.97%) jQuery
11 19 (6.62%) .NET
11 19 (6.62%) Hibernate
11 19 (6.62%) Spring Boot
12 15 (5.23%) ActiveMQ
12 15 (5.23%) Apache Camel
12 15 (5.23%) WireMock
13 13 (4.53%) XSLT
14 8 (2.79%) ASP.NET
14 8 (2.79%) OAuth
14 8 (2.79%) React
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.94%) Onboarding
2 31 (10.80%) Linux Command Line
3 30 (10.45%) Cloud Native
4 22 (7.67%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.53%) Low-Code
7 10 (3.48%) NHS
8 7 (2.44%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.09%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.39%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.39%) W3C
12 3 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.05%) Semantic Web
13 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.70%) DataPower
13 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.20%) Unix
2 12 (4.18%) Linux
3 3 (1.05%) Windows
4 1 (0.35%) Debian
4 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (34.84%) Agile
2 76 (26.48%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (20.21%) DevOps
4 56 (19.51%) CI/CD
5 48 (16.72%) Test Automation
6 46 (16.03%) AI
7 44 (15.33%) ERP
8 40 (13.94%) LLM
9 39 (13.59%) API Integration
10 38 (13.24%) SDLC
11 37 (12.89%) Mentoring
12 36 (12.54%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (11.85%) Data Analysis
13 34 (11.85%) ETL
14 31 (10.80%) Data Governance
15 28 (9.76%) Computer Science
16 27 (9.41%) Problem Management
16 27 (9.41%) Workflow
17 26 (9.06%) Coaching
17 26 (9.06%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 141 (49.13%) SQL
2 109 (37.98%) Python
3 85 (29.62%) JavaScript
4 62 (21.60%) Java
5 45 (15.68%) C#
6 42 (14.63%) Shell Script
7 37 (12.89%) PL/SQL
8 16 (5.57%) C
9 10 (3.48%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.48%) VBA
10 7 (2.44%) ActionScript
10 7 (2.44%) C++
10 7 (2.44%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.09%) Perl
12 5 (1.74%) Delphi
12 5 (1.74%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.39%) ActionScript 3.0
13 4 (1.39%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.05%) ActionScript 2.0
14 3 (1.05%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 76 (26.48%) Degree
2 25 (8.71%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.79%) ISTQB
4 8 (2.79%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.05%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.05%) ISEB
7 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.70%) HNC
8 2 (0.70%) HND
8 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.70%) PMP
9 1 (0.35%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.92%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.18%) QA
3 11 (3.83%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.83%) GDPR
4 10 (3.48%) ISO 9001
4 10 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.44%) HL7
6 2 (0.70%) EMIR
6 2 (0.70%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) COBIT
7 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 30 (10.45%) Docker
2 20 (6.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 25 (8.71%) Single Sign-On
2 25 (8.71%) Terraform
3 15 (5.23%) Kibana
4 3 (1.05%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.70%) Ansible
5 2 (0.70%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 59 (20.56%) Oracle
2 51 (17.77%) Microsoft
3 24 (8.36%) ServiceNow
4 20 (6.97%) Okta
5 15 (5.23%) Dynatrace
5 15 (5.23%) Splunk
6 14 (4.88%) SAP
7 10 (3.48%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.79%) Dell
9 7 (2.44%) Cisco
9 7 (2.44%) IBM
9 7 (2.44%) Informatica
9 7 (2.44%) OpenAI
9 7 (2.44%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.44%) Workday
10 6 (2.09%) Talend
11 5 (1.74%) Epicor
11 5 (1.74%) Infor
11 5 (1.74%) Software AG
11 5 (1.74%) TIBCO