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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 301 252
Rank change year-on-year -141 -49 +34
Permanent jobs citing XML 270 409 1,066
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 1.00% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.17% 4.70% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 164 345 668
10th Percentile £38,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,398 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% -2.54% -8.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,265 £93,767 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 8,526 8,710 20,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 21.31% 21.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6,227 6,591 15,653
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 15 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 9 April 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 -162 232 £60,000 +4.35% 111
UK excluding London -138 174 £57,500 +4.55% 104
Work from Home -19 117 £57,500 -14.81% 58
London -68 66 £71,500 +10.00% 32
South East -86 58 £62,500 -3.85% 27
East of England +5 44 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North of England -106 30 £70,000 +45.83% 24
Midlands -50 26 £50,000 -6.87% 17
North West -55 18 £64,000 +28.00% 15
West Midlands -26 13 £46,500 +9.41% 6
East Midlands -58 13 £54,000 -1.82% 11
Yorkshire -68 12 £73,420 +83.55% 7
Scotland -7 9 £72,500 +52.45% 10
South West -49 6 £31,500 -37.00% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 12 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.22%) JBoss
4 5 (1.85%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.48%) Confluence
6 3 (1.11%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.37%) Apache
8 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.37%) CICS
8 1 (0.37%) CMS
8 1 (0.37%) IIS
8 1 (0.37%) SAS
8 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.48%) MS Visio
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 8 (2.96%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.85%) Shopify
3 4 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.11%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.37%) Magento
6 1 (0.37%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 69 (25.56%) Azure
2 49 (18.15%) AWS
3 46 (17.04%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (7.04%) Boomi
4 19 (7.04%) SaaS
5 16 (5.93%) Entra ID
5 16 (5.93%) GitHub
6 14 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (5.19%) Power Automate
6 14 (5.19%) Serverless
7 10 (3.70%) iPaaS
8 9 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (3.33%) Apigee
8 9 (3.33%) OCI
9 8 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.59%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.33%) Firewall
2 7 (2.59%) FTP
3 6 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.48%) SSL
5 3 (1.11%) AMQP
5 3 (1.11%) DNS
6 2 (0.74%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.74%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.37%) HTTP
7 1 (0.37%) Modbus
7 1 (0.37%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.93%) SQL Server
2 42 (15.56%) Power BI
3 36 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 22 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (5.93%) MySQL
5 16 (5.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 14 (5.19%) Metadata
6 14 (5.19%) OLTP
7 12 (4.44%) RDBMS
8 9 (3.33%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.22%) GIS
10 5 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.11%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.11%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.11%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.11%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.11%) Tableau
12 2 (0.74%) Big Data
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 28 (10.37%) JIRA
2 21 (7.78%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.81%) Git
3 13 (4.81%) Selenium
4 11 (4.07%) GitLab
5 8 (2.96%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (2.96%) SpecFlow
6 7 (2.59%) ERwin
6 7 (2.59%) JUnit
7 6 (2.22%) JMeter
7 6 (2.22%) Maven
7 6 (2.22%) Postman
8 5 (1.85%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.48%) Mockito
10 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.11%) NUnit
10 3 (1.11%) Ranorex
10 3 (1.11%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 95 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (21.11%) Finance
4 18 (6.67%) Law
5 15 (5.56%) German Language
6 11 (4.07%) Financial Institution
6 11 (4.07%) Retail
7 10 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.59%) Legal
9 7 (2.59%) Marketing
10 6 (2.22%) Banking
10 6 (2.22%) Front Office
10 6 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.48%) Publishing
13 3 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.11%) Local Government
14 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 91 (33.70%) Developer
2 49 (18.15%) Senior
3 26 (9.63%) Analyst
4 25 (9.26%) Senior Developer
5 23 (8.52%) Consultant
6 19 (7.04%) SQL Developer
7 15 (5.56%) Java Developer
7 15 (5.56%) Lead
8 14 (5.19%) Architect
8 14 (5.19%) Oracle Developer
8 14 (5.19%) PL/SQL Developer
8 14 (5.19%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 14 (5.19%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
8 14 (5.19%) Senior SQL Developer
9 12 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
10 11 (4.07%) C# Developer
11 10 (3.70%) QA Engineer
12 9 (3.33%) Data Analyst
12 9 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (2.96%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (66.67%) JSON
2 77 (28.52%) REST
3 72 (26.67%) HTML
4 69 (25.56%) SOAP
5 35 (12.96%) Web Services
6 32 (11.85%) Regular Expression
7 20 (7.41%) .NET
8 19 (7.04%) RESTful
9 18 (6.67%) Spring
10 16 (5.93%) CSS
11 15 (5.56%) Middleware
11 15 (5.56%) Spring Boot
12 11 (4.07%) EDI
12 11 (4.07%) WinForms
13 10 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
13 10 (3.70%) Hibernate
13 10 (3.70%) Node.js
13 10 (3.70%) XSLT
14 9 (3.33%) FpML
15 8 (2.96%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 54 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 33 (12.22%) Linux Command Line
3 28 (10.37%) Data Structures
4 19 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.81%) Cloud Native
6 11 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (4.07%) Low-Code
7 10 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.33%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.96%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.22%) Operational Technology
10 6 (2.22%) SCADA
11 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.48%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.11%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.56%) Unix
2 22 (8.15%) Linux
3 10 (3.70%) Windows
4 3 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Debian
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.56%) Agile
2 67 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (16.30%) AI
3 44 (16.30%) Business Intelligence
4 41 (15.19%) Data Modelling
5 39 (14.44%) CI/CD
6 34 (12.59%) DevOps
6 34 (12.59%) ERP
7 33 (12.22%) Data Analysis
8 32 (11.85%) Migration
9 31 (11.48%) SDLC
9 31 (11.48%) Test Automation
10 30 (11.11%) LLM
11 29 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (10.74%) Software Testing
12 27 (10.00%) API Integration
13 25 (9.26%) Decision-Making
13 25 (9.26%) Validation
14 23 (8.52%) Computer Science
15 22 (8.15%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 140 (51.85%) SQL
2 97 (35.93%) Python
3 56 (20.74%) Java
4 47 (17.41%) JavaScript
5 43 (15.93%) C#
6 26 (9.63%) PL/SQL
7 21 (7.78%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.56%) T-SQL
9 11 (4.07%) Delphi
10 10 (3.70%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.59%) C++
11 7 (2.59%) Perl
11 7 (2.59%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.59%) VBA
12 6 (2.22%) C
12 6 (2.22%) VB
13 5 (1.85%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.48%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.48%) ActionScript 2.0
14 4 (1.48%) Bash
Qualifications
1 70 (25.93%) Degree
2 29 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.33%) ISTQB
6 8 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.11%) ISEB
9 3 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.74%) HNC
10 2 (0.74%) HND
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.11%) QA
2 16 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.22%) GDPR
5 5 (1.85%) TickIT
6 3 (1.11%) EMIR
6 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.11%) SLA
7 2 (0.74%) HL7
7 2 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (8.89%) Docker
2 19 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.11%) vSphere
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 20 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.44%) Terraform
3 9 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.48%) Kibana
5 3 (1.11%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.11%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 64 (23.70%) Oracle
2 34 (12.59%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.93%) SAP
4 8 (2.96%) IBM
4 8 (2.96%) MuleSoft
4 8 (2.96%) Okta
4 8 (2.96%) Palo Alto
5 7 (2.59%) Databricks
5 7 (2.59%) Dell
5 7 (2.59%) Sparx
5 7 (2.59%) Splunk
6 6 (2.22%) Cisco
6 6 (2.22%) F5
6 6 (2.22%) IFS
6 6 (2.22%) Intapp
6 6 (2.22%) Juniper
6 6 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.22%) Talend
6 6 (2.22%) Workday