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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 382 307
Rank change year-on-year -137 -75 -64
Permanent jobs citing XML 299 313 675
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.64% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.54% 3.68% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 207 221 416
10th Percentile £34,400 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -0.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 11,772 8,494 16,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.34% 17.29% 21.42%
Number of salaries quoted 8,468 5,422 10,741
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +7.31% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 18 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 15 September 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 -129 267 £60,900 +10.73% 419
UK excluding London -82 219 £55,000 +4.76% 205
Work from Home -50 128 £55,000 - 171
South East -67 61 £60,000 +8.11% 56
London -90 61 £75,000 +15.38% 248
Midlands -16 48 £55,000 +10.00% 34
North of England -35 45 £70,000 +30.23% 38
West Midlands -8 42 £55,000 +10.00% 22
South West -63 33 £31,500 +6.78% 20
North West -10 24 £71,750 +30.45% 25
Yorkshire -34 17 £63,076 +28.73% 11
East of England -63 13 £42,500 -15.00% 17
Wales - 7 £55,000 - 9
East Midlands -26 6 £50,000 +5.26% 12
Isle of Man - 5 £38,500 -
Scotland -3 4 £63,750 +37.10% 25
North East -60 4 £63,076 +40.17% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 6

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 16 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 15 (5.02%) Oracle Workflow
3 11 (3.68%) CMS
3 11 (3.68%) Confluence
4 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (2.68%) Apache
6 6 (2.01%) IIS
7 4 (1.34%) SAS
8 2 (0.67%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.67%) CorelDRAW
3 5 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.33%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (5.02%) Oracle Cash Management
1 15 (5.02%) Oracle EBS
1 15 (5.02%) Oracle Payables
1 15 (5.02%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (4.01%) Elite 3E
3 11 (3.68%) Oracle Retail
4 9 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (1.34%) NEC Housing
7 3 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.67%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.67%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.33%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.33%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 92 (30.77%) Azure
2 43 (14.38%) Power Platform
3 32 (10.70%) AWS
4 31 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (6.02%) Power Automate
7 16 (5.35%) Boomi
7 16 (5.35%) SaaS
8 15 (5.02%) Serverless
9 14 (4.68%) GitHub
10 12 (4.01%) PowerApps
11 11 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (3.01%) GCP
13 8 (2.68%) Azure Functions
14 7 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
16 5 (1.67%) Azure Event Grid
16 5 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.35%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.34%) DNS
2 7 (2.34%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.67%) Intranet
4 4 (1.34%) Firewall
5 3 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.00%) VPN
6 2 (0.67%) FTP
6 2 (0.67%) SSL
7 1 (0.33%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.33%) Multicast
7 1 (0.33%) Network Security
7 1 (0.33%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (19.73%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.03%) Power BI
3 27 (9.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 24 (8.03%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 15 (5.02%) Oracle Reports
6 13 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.01%) RDBMS
9 8 (2.68%) Metadata
9 8 (2.68%) MySQL
10 7 (2.34%) Electronic Patient Records
10 7 (2.34%) OLTP
11 5 (1.67%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.67%) GIS
11 5 (1.67%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.34%) Db2
12 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (11.04%) JIRA
2 26 (8.70%) Git
3 16 (5.35%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.35%) JMeter
5 11 (3.68%) JUnit
6 9 (3.01%) Postman
7 8 (2.68%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.68%) GitLab
7 8 (2.68%) Selenium
8 7 (2.34%) Moq
8 7 (2.34%) SoapUI
9 6 (2.01%) Mockito
9 6 (2.01%) Zephyr
10 4 (1.34%) Maven
10 4 (1.34%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.67%) Bower
11 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.67%) ERwin
11 2 (0.67%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 96 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 93 (31.10%) Finance
3 78 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (12.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (11.04%) Public Sector
6 28 (9.36%) Retail
7 26 (8.70%) Manufacturing
8 22 (7.36%) Law
9 18 (6.02%) Legal
10 15 (5.02%) Electronics
10 15 (5.02%) General Ledger
11 14 (4.68%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (4.35%) Marketing
13 12 (4.01%) Banking
14 10 (3.34%) Aerospace
15 8 (2.68%) Publishing
16 7 (2.34%) Automotive
16 7 (2.34%) Health Technology
16 7 (2.34%) Telecoms
17 6 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (30.10%) Developer
2 71 (23.75%) Senior
3 47 (15.72%) Analyst
4 34 (11.37%) Senior Developer
5 30 (10.03%) Support Analyst
6 29 (9.70%) Consultant
7 26 (8.70%) Architect
7 26 (8.70%) Lead
8 25 (8.36%) Applications Engineer
9 23 (7.69%) .NET Developer
10 20 (6.69%) Software Engineer
11 19 (6.35%) Web Developer
12 15 (5.02%) Senior Applications Engineer
13 14 (4.68%) .NET Web Developer
13 14 (4.68%) Operations Engineer
13 14 (4.68%) Senior Operations Engineer
13 14 (4.68%) SQL Developer
14 12 (4.01%) Test Engineer
15 11 (3.68%) Author
15 11 (3.68%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (48.49%) JSON
2 64 (21.40%) .NET
3 62 (20.74%) HTML
4 60 (20.07%) REST
5 57 (19.06%) SOAP
6 52 (17.39%) Web Services
7 42 (14.05%) .NET Framework
8 41 (13.71%) CSS
9 32 (10.70%) XSLT
10 30 (10.03%) Middleware
11 22 (7.36%) EDI
12 21 (7.02%) Entity Framework
12 21 (7.02%) RESTful
13 17 (5.69%) ASP.NET
14 16 (5.35%) jQuery
15 13 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
16 11 (3.68%) Kafka
17 10 (3.34%) Classic ASP
17 10 (3.34%) Google Maps API
17 10 (3.34%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (5.69%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.35%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.34%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.34%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.34%) SCADA
5 10 (3.34%) Taxonomies
6 9 (3.01%) Client/Server
6 9 (3.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.01%) Robotics
7 8 (2.68%) NHS
8 7 (2.34%) Acoustics
8 7 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.67%) AS400
9 5 (1.67%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.38%) Windows
2 31 (10.37%) Linux
3 24 (8.03%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.34%) Android
4 4 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Debian
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (32.78%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (25.75%) Agile
3 55 (18.39%) DevOps
4 40 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (12.71%) Roadmaps
6 37 (12.37%) CI/CD
7 36 (12.04%) ERP
7 36 (12.04%) Mentoring
8 35 (11.71%) CRM
8 35 (11.71%) Data Modelling
9 34 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (11.37%) Validation
10 33 (11.04%) Customer Service
10 33 (11.04%) Workflow
11 29 (9.70%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (9.70%) Software Engineering
12 28 (9.36%) Project Delivery
13 27 (9.03%) AI
13 27 (9.03%) User Acceptance Testing
14 24 (8.03%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 176 (58.86%) SQL
2 75 (25.08%) JavaScript
3 62 (20.74%) C#
4 55 (18.39%) Python
5 42 (14.05%) Java
6 23 (7.69%) C++
7 22 (7.36%) PL/SQL
8 13 (4.35%) VB.NET
9 12 (4.01%) XPath
10 11 (3.68%) PowerShell
11 10 (3.34%) Shell Script
12 9 (3.01%) PHP
12 9 (3.01%) T-SQL
13 7 (2.34%) XAML
14 6 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (1.34%) Bash
15 4 (1.34%) VB
15 4 (1.34%) VBA
16 3 (1.00%) Perl
16 3 (1.00%) RPG
Qualifications
1 82 (27.42%) Degree
2 18 (6.02%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.34%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.34%) ISTQB
5 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.67%) HNC
6 5 (1.67%) HND
6 5 (1.67%) ISEB
6 5 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.34%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.67%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CISSP
10 1 (0.33%) GIAC
10 1 (0.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.03%) QA
2 17 (5.69%) Accessibility
2 17 (5.69%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.01%) TickIT
4 7 (2.34%) GDPR
4 7 (2.34%) HL7
4 7 (2.34%) WCAG
5 5 (1.67%) FATCA
6 3 (1.00%) CDISC
7 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.67%) SLA
7 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.33%) Dublin Core
8 1 (0.33%) GRC
8 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (7.02%) Docker
2 4 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.34%) vSphere
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.34%) Kibana
3 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 91 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 45 (15.05%) Oracle
3 16 (5.35%) IBM
4 14 (4.68%) SAP
5 12 (4.01%) Google
6 11 (3.68%) IBM Sterling
7 10 (3.34%) Splunk
8 9 (3.01%) Databricks
9 6 (2.01%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.67%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.67%) Pega
10 5 (1.67%) VMware
11 4 (1.34%) Ariba
11 4 (1.34%) NEC
11 4 (1.34%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.34%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.00%) Infor
12 3 (1.00%) McAfee
12 3 (1.00%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.67%) Salesforce