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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 259 233
Rank change year-on-year -115 -26 +21
Permanent jobs citing XML 297 672 753
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.07% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.23% 5.03% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 176 439 534
10th Percentile £37,813 £36,250 £39,575
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.96% +0.83%
75th Percentile £72,813 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,125 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.80%

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 7,024 13,372 13,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.58% 21.29% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,206 8,114 10,962
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £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 6 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 6 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 -127 253 £55,000 -4.35% 268
UK excluding London -66 200 £55,000 - 250
Work from Home -27 129 £55,000 -15.38% 87
London -28 92 £70,000 +12.00% 53
South East -69 67 £55,000 -15.38% 66
East of England +50 61 £55,000 - 35
Scotland +21 23 £50,000 +11.11% 14
Midlands -5 23 £50,000 -3.85% 45
North of England -43 20 £45,000 -9.94% 56
West Midlands +21 15 £50,000 +17.65% 23
East Midlands -7 8 £47,500 -13.64% 20
South West -8 7 £75,000 +11.11% 29
North West -19 7 £50,000 -4.76% 25
Yorkshire -23 7 £37,500 -6.25% 27
North East +14 6 £45,000 -6.74% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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 6 (2.02%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.35%) Confluence
4 3 (1.01%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.01%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.67%) IIS
5 2 (0.67%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) CICS
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) FileNet
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.37%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.34%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (6.06%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (4.04%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (2.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (2.02%) Shopify
5 3 (1.01%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.34%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 71 (23.91%) Azure
2 58 (19.53%) AWS
3 44 (14.81%) GitHub
4 38 (12.79%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (10.10%) SaaS
6 25 (8.42%) Power Platform
7 24 (8.08%) Serverless
8 22 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (7.07%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (7.07%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (6.73%) Power Automate
11 19 (6.40%) Entra ID
12 18 (6.06%) OCI
13 17 (5.72%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (5.05%) Boomi
15 10 (3.37%) iPaaS
16 9 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (3.03%) PowerApps
17 8 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
18 6 (2.02%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.37%) FTP
2 3 (1.01%) HTTP
3 2 (0.67%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (0.67%) Multicast
3 2 (0.67%) RFID
4 1 (0.34%) AMQP
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.34%) Modbus
4 1 (0.34%) SSL
4 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (19.19%) SQL Server
2 49 (16.50%) Relational Database
3 23 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (6.73%) Power BI
5 19 (6.40%) RDBMS
6 14 (4.71%) MySQL
7 12 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (3.37%) NoSQL
9 9 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (2.36%) Electronic Patient Records
10 7 (2.36%) GIS
11 6 (2.02%) OLTP
12 5 (1.68%) Metadata
13 4 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.01%) Data Mining
14 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
14 3 (1.01%) Tableau
15 2 (0.67%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 44 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.07%) JMeter
2 21 (7.07%) JUnit
2 21 (7.07%) Mockito
3 20 (6.73%) JIRA
4 19 (6.40%) Git
5 18 (6.06%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (2.69%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.36%) Postman
7 7 (2.36%) PowerBuilder
8 6 (2.02%) Axure RP
8 6 (2.02%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.35%) MSBuild
9 4 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (1.35%) Selenium
10 3 (1.01%) NUnit
10 3 (1.01%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.01%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.67%) Subversion
11 2 (0.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 83 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 47 (15.82%) Finance
3 43 (14.48%) Law
4 35 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (5.05%) Retail
8 13 (4.38%) Back Office
9 11 (3.70%) German Language
9 11 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.03%) Marketing
11 8 (2.69%) Legal
12 7 (2.36%) Health Technology
13 6 (2.02%) Advertising
14 5 (1.68%) Automotive
14 5 (1.68%) Banking
15 4 (1.35%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.35%) Front Office
16 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
16 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 113 (38.05%) Developer
2 51 (17.17%) Senior
3 22 (7.41%) Analyst
3 22 (7.41%) Senior Developer
4 21 (7.07%) Java Developer
5 20 (6.73%) Consultant
6 19 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
7 18 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (6.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 18 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 15 (5.05%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 14 (4.71%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.71%) ServiceNow Developer
9 14 (4.71%) SQL Developer
10 13 (4.38%) Applications Support
10 13 (4.38%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 12 (4.04%) Lead
11 12 (4.04%) Support Consultant
12 11 (3.70%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (68.69%) JSON
2 121 (40.74%) HTML
3 91 (30.64%) REST
4 61 (20.54%) SOAP
5 56 (18.86%) Web Services
6 50 (16.84%) CSS
7 28 (9.43%) Regular Expression
7 28 (9.43%) RESTful
8 25 (8.42%) .NET
8 25 (8.42%) jQuery
8 25 (8.42%) Spring
9 24 (8.08%) Hibernate
10 22 (7.41%) Spring Boot
11 21 (7.07%) ActiveMQ
11 21 (7.07%) Apache Camel
11 21 (7.07%) WireMock
12 11 (3.70%) ASP.NET
13 9 (3.03%) XSLT
14 8 (2.69%) FHIR
14 8 (2.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.79%) Onboarding
2 30 (10.10%) Cloud Native
3 28 (9.43%) Linux Command Line
4 21 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.04%) Low-Code
6 12 (4.04%) NHS
7 8 (2.69%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.35%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.35%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.35%) W3C
11 3 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.01%) Semantic Web
12 2 (0.67%) BYOD
12 2 (0.67%) CMDB
12 2 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.67%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.11%) Unix
2 13 (4.38%) Linux
3 3 (1.01%) Windows
4 2 (0.67%) Debian
4 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (35.69%) Agile
2 79 (26.60%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (21.21%) DevOps
4 60 (20.20%) CI/CD
5 48 (16.16%) Test Automation
6 44 (14.81%) AI
6 44 (14.81%) SDLC
7 40 (13.47%) ERP
8 39 (13.13%) API Integration
8 39 (13.13%) Mentoring
9 38 (12.79%) LLM
10 37 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (11.78%) Workflow
12 34 (11.45%) ETL
12 34 (11.45%) Microservices
13 32 (10.77%) Data Analysis
14 30 (10.10%) Computer Science
14 30 (10.10%) Problem Management
15 29 (9.76%) Data Governance
15 29 (9.76%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 145 (48.82%) SQL
2 109 (36.70%) Python
3 99 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 62 (20.88%) Java
5 52 (17.51%) C#
6 46 (15.49%) Shell Script
7 33 (11.11%) PL/SQL
8 18 (6.06%) C
9 10 (3.37%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.03%) VBA
11 7 (2.36%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.36%) VB.NET
12 6 (2.02%) C++
13 5 (1.68%) Perl
14 4 (1.35%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.35%) ActionScript 3.0
14 4 (1.35%) Delphi
14 4 (1.35%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.01%) Bicep
15 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 76 (25.59%) Degree
2 27 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.69%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.01%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.01%) ISEB
8 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.67%) HNC
9 2 (0.67%) HND
9 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.67%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.39%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.71%) GDPR
3 12 (4.04%) ISO 9001
3 12 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 10 (3.37%) QA
6 8 (2.69%) HL7
7 2 (0.67%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) COBIT
8 1 (0.34%) DICOM
8 1 (0.34%) EMIR
System Software
1 39 (13.13%) Docker
2 18 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (11.78%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.74%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (7.74%) Terraform
3 21 (7.07%) Kibana
4 3 (1.01%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 53 (17.85%) Microsoft
2 51 (17.17%) Oracle
3 28 (9.43%) ServiceNow
4 21 (7.07%) Dynatrace
4 21 (7.07%) Splunk
5 18 (6.06%) Okta
6 12 (4.04%) SAP
7 11 (3.70%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.69%) Informatica
9 7 (2.36%) Cisco
9 7 (2.36%) Dell
9 7 (2.36%) IBM
9 7 (2.36%) OpenAI
9 7 (2.36%) SnapLogic
10 6 (2.02%) Talend
10 6 (2.02%) Workday
11 5 (1.68%) Epicor
11 5 (1.68%) Infor
11 5 (1.68%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.68%) Software AG