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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 305 251
Rank change year-on-year -145 -54 +33
Permanent jobs citing XML 260 402 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.98% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.12% 4.58% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 155 340 664
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £41,719 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.54% -9.23%
75th Percentile £74,375 £80,000 £73,914
90th Percentile £79,241 £92,178 £87,500
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 8,321 8,776 19,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.48% 21.48% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,095 6,569 15,464
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 1 April 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 1 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 -151 224 £58,000 +0.87% 111
UK excluding London -133 169 £55,000 - 104
Work from Home -34 115 £57,500 -14.81% 58
London -64 66 £71,500 +10.00% 32
South East -93 58 £62,500 -3.85% 27
East of England +6 44 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North of England -85 27 £58,000 +22.11% 24
Midlands -42 25 £47,500 -11.53% 17
North West -47 14 £56,500 +17.71% 15
East Midlands -48 13 £50,750 -7.73% 11
West Midlands -20 12 £43,000 +1.18% 6
Yorkshire -57 12 £73,420 +95.79% 7
Scotland -16 9 £72,500 +52.45% 10
South West -55 5 £31,500 -38.24% 11
North East -26 1 £45,000 +28.57% 2
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 11 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.31%) JBoss
4 5 (1.92%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.54%) Confluence
6 3 (1.15%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.77%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.38%) Apache
8 1 (0.38%) CICS
8 1 (0.38%) CMS
8 1 (0.38%) IIS
8 1 (0.38%) SAS
8 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.92%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.38%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.38%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.08%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.92%) Shopify
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.15%) SAP Business One
3 3 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.38%) Magento
5 1 (0.38%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 64 (24.62%) Azure
2 48 (18.46%) AWS
3 44 (16.92%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.31%) SaaS
5 16 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (6.15%) Entra ID
6 15 (5.77%) Power Automate
7 14 (5.38%) Boomi
7 14 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (5.00%) GitHub
8 13 (5.00%) Serverless
9 9 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (3.46%) Apigee
9 9 (3.46%) iPaaS
9 9 (3.46%) OCI
10 7 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.69%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.31%) GCP
11 6 (2.31%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.46%) Firewall
2 7 (2.69%) FTP
3 6 (2.31%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.54%) SSL
5 3 (1.15%) AMQP
5 3 (1.15%) DNS
6 2 (0.77%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.77%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.38%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.38%) HTTP
7 1 (0.38%) Modbus
7 1 (0.38%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (16.92%) SQL Server
2 40 (15.38%) Power BI
3 35 (13.46%) Relational Database
4 21 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.77%) MySQL
5 15 (5.77%) OLTP
6 14 (5.38%) Metadata
7 12 (4.62%) RDBMS
7 12 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (2.69%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.92%) GIS
11 4 (1.54%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.54%) Tableau
12 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.15%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.15%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.15%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.77%) Big Data
13 2 (0.77%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 23 (8.85%) JIRA
2 21 (8.08%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.38%) Git
4 13 (5.00%) Selenium
5 11 (4.23%) GitLab
6 8 (3.08%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (3.08%) SpecFlow
7 7 (2.69%) ERwin
7 7 (2.69%) JUnit
8 6 (2.31%) JMeter
8 6 (2.31%) Maven
8 6 (2.31%) Postman
9 5 (1.92%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.54%) Mockito
11 3 (1.15%) Axure RP
11 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.15%) NUnit
11 3 (1.15%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.92%) Finance
3 53 (20.38%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.92%) Law
5 15 (5.77%) German Language
6 11 (4.23%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.46%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.08%) Retail
10 7 (2.69%) Legal
11 6 (2.31%) Banking
11 6 (2.31%) Front Office
11 6 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.54%) Publishing
13 3 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.15%) Marketing
14 2 (0.77%) Billing
14 2 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 90 (34.62%) Developer
2 45 (17.31%) Senior
3 23 (8.85%) Analyst
4 22 (8.46%) Senior Developer
5 21 (8.08%) SQL Developer
6 20 (7.69%) Consultant
7 15 (5.77%) Java Developer
7 15 (5.77%) Oracle Developer
7 15 (5.77%) PL/SQL Developer
7 15 (5.77%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 15 (5.77%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
7 15 (5.77%) Senior SQL Developer
8 14 (5.38%) Lead
9 12 (4.62%) Architect
10 11 (4.23%) Applications Engineer
10 11 (4.23%) C# Developer
11 10 (3.85%) Data Analyst
11 10 (3.85%) QA Engineer
12 9 (3.46%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (65.77%) JSON
2 74 (28.46%) HTML
3 71 (27.31%) REST
4 62 (23.85%) SOAP
5 34 (13.08%) Web Services
6 32 (12.31%) Regular Expression
7 21 (8.08%) .NET
8 18 (6.92%) Spring
9 17 (6.54%) CSS
9 17 (6.54%) RESTful
10 15 (5.77%) Spring Boot
11 11 (4.23%) WinForms
12 10 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
12 10 (3.85%) Hibernate
12 10 (3.85%) Node.js
12 10 (3.85%) XSLT
13 9 (3.46%) FpML
14 8 (3.08%) Middleware
14 8 (3.08%) Playwright
14 8 (3.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.38%) Onboarding
2 32 (12.31%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (10.38%) Data Structures
4 18 (6.92%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.62%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.62%) Low-Code
6 11 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.08%) e-Learning
8 8 (3.08%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.92%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.92%) SCADA
11 4 (1.54%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.15%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 2 (0.77%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 42 (16.15%) Unix
2 21 (8.08%) Linux
3 9 (3.46%) Windows
4 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Debian
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (25.77%) Agile
2 59 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (16.92%) AI
3 44 (16.92%) Business Intelligence
4 39 (15.00%) Data Modelling
5 37 (14.23%) CI/CD
6 33 (12.69%) Data Analysis
7 31 (11.92%) SDLC
8 30 (11.54%) DevOps
8 30 (11.54%) LLM
8 30 (11.54%) Migration
9 29 (11.15%) Software Testing
9 29 (11.15%) Test Automation
10 28 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (10.77%) ERP
11 25 (9.62%) Validation
12 22 (8.46%) API Integration
12 22 (8.46%) Data Governance
13 21 (8.08%) Computer Science
13 21 (8.08%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 134 (51.54%) SQL
2 95 (36.54%) Python
3 54 (20.77%) Java
4 47 (18.08%) JavaScript
5 42 (16.15%) C#
6 27 (10.38%) PL/SQL
7 21 (8.08%) Shell Script
8 16 (6.15%) T-SQL
9 11 (4.23%) Delphi
10 9 (3.46%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.69%) C++
11 7 (2.69%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.69%) VBA
12 6 (2.31%) C
12 6 (2.31%) Perl
13 5 (1.92%) VB
13 5 (1.92%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.54%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.54%) ActionScript 2.0
14 4 (1.54%) Bash
Qualifications
1 68 (26.15%) Degree
2 28 (10.77%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.08%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.15%) ISEB
8 3 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.77%) HNC
9 2 (0.77%) HND
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.38%) QA
2 17 (6.54%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.46%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.31%) GDPR
6 3 (1.15%) EMIR
6 3 (1.15%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.15%) SLA
7 2 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.77%) WCAG
8 1 (0.38%) HL7
8 1 (0.38%) TickIT
System Software
1 23 (8.85%) Docker
2 19 (7.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.15%) vSphere
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 19 (7.31%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.62%) Terraform
3 9 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.54%) Kibana
5 3 (1.15%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.15%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 63 (24.23%) Oracle
2 32 (12.31%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.77%) SAP
4 8 (3.08%) IBM
4 8 (3.08%) MuleSoft
4 8 (3.08%) Okta
5 7 (2.69%) Dell
5 7 (2.69%) Palo Alto
5 7 (2.69%) Sparx
5 7 (2.69%) Splunk
6 6 (2.31%) Cisco
6 6 (2.31%) Databricks
6 6 (2.31%) F5
6 6 (2.31%) IFS
6 6 (2.31%) Intapp
6 6 (2.31%) Juniper
6 6 (2.31%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.31%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.31%) Talend
6 6 (2.31%) Workday