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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 274 227
Rank change year-on-year -121 -47 +23
Permanent jobs citing XML 288 642 825
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.94% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.79% 4.66% 5.72%
Number of salaries quoted 192 396 594
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 7,599 13,771 14,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.98% 20.23% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,098 8,311 11,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,460
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.70% +0.71%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £108,750 £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 7 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 7 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 -111 252 £55,000 -4.35% 285
UK excluding London -87 189 £55,000 - 211
Work from Home -40 133 £55,000 -15.38% 182
London -39 96 £70,000 +7.69% 147
South East -57 80 £55,000 -15.38% 103
East of England +42 44 £55,000 -13.73% 19
North of England -56 21 £46,250 +2.56% 35
Midlands +11 19 £50,000 -4.31% 28
Scotland +7 17 £50,000 +13.64% 7
West Midlands +25 14 £50,000 +17.65% 9
South West 0 9 £60,000 -11.11% 10
North West -32 9 £52,500 - 24
North East +14 6 £45,000 -6.74%
Yorkshire -4 6 £43,250 +73.00% 11
East Midlands +8 5 £47,500 -13.64% 17
Northern Ireland - 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 7 (2.43%) IIS
2 6 (2.08%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.74%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.39%) Confluence
5 3 (1.04%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) Appian
7 1 (0.35%) FileNet
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (3.47%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.17%) Dynamics NAV
1 12 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.43%) Shopify
3 6 (2.08%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (1.39%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (1.04%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.69%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.69%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 79 (27.43%) Azure
2 54 (18.75%) AWS
3 43 (14.93%) GitHub
4 35 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (11.11%) SaaS
6 26 (9.03%) Serverless
7 25 (8.68%) Power Automate
8 23 (7.99%) Power Platform
9 22 (7.64%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (7.64%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (7.64%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (5.90%) Entra ID
12 15 (5.21%) Boomi
13 13 (4.51%) OCI
14 12 (4.17%) iPaaS
15 11 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (3.47%) PowerApps
17 9 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.13%) FTP
2 4 (1.39%) DMARC
2 4 (1.39%) SSL
3 3 (1.04%) Asterisk PBX
3 3 (1.04%) HTTP
3 3 (1.04%) Multicast
4 2 (0.69%) RFID
5 1 (0.35%) DNS
5 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (21.53%) SQL Server
2 44 (15.28%) Relational Database
3 29 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (6.94%) RDBMS
5 17 (5.90%) Power BI
6 15 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (4.51%) MySQL
8 11 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.47%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.78%) GIS
11 7 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.43%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (1.74%) OLTP
13 3 (1.04%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.04%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.04%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.04%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.04%) Tableau
14 2 (0.69%) Metadata
14 2 (0.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 41 (14.24%) Jenkins
2 30 (10.42%) Git
3 22 (7.64%) JMeter
3 22 (7.64%) JUnit
3 22 (7.64%) Mockito
4 21 (7.29%) JIRA
5 12 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
6 11 (3.82%) Visual Studio
7 9 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (2.43%) MSBuild
8 7 (2.43%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (2.08%) Axure RP
9 6 (2.08%) Postman
9 6 (2.08%) PowerBuilder
10 5 (1.74%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.39%) Selenium
12 3 (1.04%) NUnit
12 3 (1.04%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 84 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.93%) Finance
3 38 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (13.19%) Law
4 28 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.29%) Retail
6 15 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (4.51%) Back Office
8 12 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.78%) Front Office
9 8 (2.78%) Legal
9 8 (2.78%) Marketing
10 7 (2.43%) Health Technology
11 6 (2.08%) Advertising
11 6 (2.08%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.74%) Automotive
12 5 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.39%) Aviation
13 4 (1.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 113 (39.24%) Developer
2 44 (15.28%) Senior
3 24 (8.33%) Analyst
4 21 (7.29%) Java Developer
5 20 (6.94%) Consultant
6 19 (6.60%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (6.60%) Senior Developer
7 18 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 17 (5.90%) SQL Developer
9 15 (5.21%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 14 (4.86%) Data Engineer
10 14 (4.86%) Integration Engineer
11 13 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.51%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 12 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
12 12 (4.17%) Applications Support
12 12 (4.17%) Lead
12 12 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.17%) ServiceNow Developer
12 12 (4.17%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (67.01%) JSON
2 103 (35.76%) HTML
2 103 (35.76%) REST
3 61 (21.18%) SOAP
3 61 (21.18%) Web Services
4 52 (18.06%) CSS
5 31 (10.76%) .NET
6 27 (9.38%) jQuery
7 24 (8.33%) Spring
8 23 (7.99%) RESTful
9 22 (7.64%) ActiveMQ
9 22 (7.64%) Apache Camel
9 22 (7.64%) Hibernate
9 22 (7.64%) Spring Boot
9 22 (7.64%) WireMock
10 16 (5.56%) ASP.NET
11 10 (3.47%) Regular Expression
11 10 (3.47%) XSLT
12 8 (2.78%) Bootstrap
12 8 (2.78%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.68%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.29%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.51%) Low-Code
6 12 (4.17%) NHS
7 10 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.13%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.08%) BYOD
10 5 (1.74%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.74%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.39%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.39%) W3C
12 3 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.04%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.69%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.60%) Unix
2 17 (5.90%) Linux
3 6 (2.08%) Windows
4 3 (1.04%) Debian
4 3 (1.04%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (39.58%) Agile
2 88 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (22.92%) DevOps
4 58 (20.14%) CI/CD
5 43 (14.93%) Microservices
5 43 (14.93%) Test Automation
6 39 (13.54%) SDLC
7 38 (13.19%) ETL
8 37 (12.85%) Workflow
9 36 (12.50%) API Integration
10 35 (12.15%) Business Intelligence
10 35 (12.15%) ERP
11 34 (11.81%) Mentoring
12 30 (10.42%) Computer Science
12 30 (10.42%) Data Integration
13 27 (9.38%) AI
14 26 (9.03%) BDD
14 26 (9.03%) ITSM
14 26 (9.03%) Problem Management
15 25 (8.68%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 153 (53.13%) SQL
2 111 (38.54%) JavaScript
3 90 (31.25%) Python
4 60 (20.83%) C#
4 60 (20.83%) Java
5 40 (13.89%) Shell Script
6 29 (10.07%) PL/SQL
7 16 (5.56%) C
8 14 (4.86%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.17%) VBA
10 11 (3.82%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.08%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.39%) ActionScript
12 4 (1.39%) ActionScript 3.0
12 4 (1.39%) C++
12 4 (1.39%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.39%) Perl
13 3 (1.04%) Bash
13 3 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 56 (19.44%) Degree
2 30 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.43%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.04%) ISEB
8 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.69%) Azure 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%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.69%) PMP
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.35%) PhD
10 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 18 (6.25%) GDPR
2 16 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.17%) ISO 9001
4 10 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.78%) HL7
5 8 (2.78%) QA
6 2 (0.69%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) COBIT
7 1 (0.35%) DICOM
7 1 (0.35%) EMIR
System Software
1 47 (16.32%) Docker
2 16 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.64%) Kibana
2 22 (7.64%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (5.90%) Terraform
4 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.04%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.69%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 58 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 44 (15.28%) Oracle
3 28 (9.72%) ServiceNow
4 22 (7.64%) Dynatrace
4 22 (7.64%) Splunk
5 12 (4.17%) Okta
6 11 (3.82%) MuleSoft
6 11 (3.82%) SAP
7 8 (2.78%) Cisco
7 8 (2.78%) Informatica
8 7 (2.43%) Dell
8 7 (2.43%) IBM
8 7 (2.43%) OpenAI
8 7 (2.43%) SnapLogic
8 7 (2.43%) Talend
8 7 (2.43%) Workday
9 6 (2.08%) Trayport
10 5 (1.74%) Infor
10 5 (1.74%) Software AG
10 5 (1.74%) TIBCO