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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 263 233
Rank change year-on-year -110 -30 +19
Permanent jobs citing XML 300 629 710
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.10% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.29% 5.08% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 179 416 492
10th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £71,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 6,997 12,391 12,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.95% 21.61% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5,268 7,551 10,529
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £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 16 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 16 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 -104 254 £55,000 -4.35% 89
UK excluding London -87 200 £55,000 - 65
Work from Home -20 130 £55,000 -15.38% 45
London -32 91 £70,000 +16.67% 34
East of England +49 63 £55,000 -3.38% 4
South East -75 62 £55,000 -16.98% 19
Scotland +20 24 £50,000 +11.11% 3
North of England -53 23 £45,000 -1.64% 19
Midlands -12 22 £50,000 -3.85% 12
West Midlands +8 13 £50,000 +17.65% 6
East Midlands -22 9 £47,500 -13.64% 6
Yorkshire -32 9 £45,000 +12.50% 8
North West -34 8 £52,500 +5.00% 10
North East +7 6 £45,000 -6.74% 1
South West -13 5 £67,500 - 10
Northern Ireland - 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 6 (2.00%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.33%) Confluence
4 3 (1.00%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.00%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.67%) IIS
5 2 (0.67%) JBoss
5 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) Appian
6 1 (0.33%) CICS
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) FileNet
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.33%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (6.33%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (4.00%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (2.00%) Shopify
5 3 (1.00%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.33%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 70 (23.33%) Azure
2 57 (19.00%) AWS
3 44 (14.67%) GitHub
4 38 (12.67%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (10.00%) SaaS
6 25 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 23 (7.67%) Serverless
8 20 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
8 20 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (6.67%) Entra ID
9 19 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (6.33%) OCI
9 19 (6.33%) Power Automate
10 17 (5.67%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (5.00%) Boomi
12 9 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (3.00%) iPaaS
12 9 (3.00%) PowerApps
13 7 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (2.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.67%) FTP
2 3 (1.00%) HTTP
3 2 (0.67%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (0.67%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.67%) Multicast
3 2 (0.67%) RFID
4 1 (0.33%) AMQP
4 1 (0.33%) DNS
4 1 (0.33%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.33%) Modbus
4 1 (0.33%) SSL
4 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.33%) VPN
4 1 (0.33%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (19.00%) SQL Server
2 47 (15.67%) Relational Database
3 23 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (6.67%) Power BI
5 16 (5.33%) RDBMS
6 15 (5.00%) MySQL
7 12 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (4.00%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.67%) GIS
10 7 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (2.00%) OLTP
12 5 (1.67%) Metadata
13 3 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.00%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.00%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.00%) Tableau
14 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 44 (14.67%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.00%) JIRA
3 19 (6.33%) Git
3 19 (6.33%) Oracle Forms
4 18 (6.00%) JMeter
4 18 (6.00%) JUnit
4 18 (6.00%) Mockito
5 7 (2.33%) Postman
5 7 (2.33%) PowerBuilder
5 7 (2.33%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.00%) Axure RP
7 5 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.33%) Selenium
9 3 (1.00%) MSBuild
9 3 (1.00%) NUnit
9 3 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.00%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.00%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.67%) Subversion
10 2 (0.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 84 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.67%) Finance
3 43 (14.33%) Law
4 34 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.67%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (4.67%) Retail
8 13 (4.33%) Back Office
8 13 (4.33%) German Language
9 11 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.67%) Marketing
11 7 (2.33%) Health Technology
11 7 (2.33%) Legal
12 6 (2.00%) Advertising
13 5 (1.67%) Automotive
13 5 (1.67%) Banking
13 5 (1.67%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.33%) Front Office
15 3 (1.00%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 111 (37.00%) Developer
2 51 (17.00%) Senior
3 24 (8.00%) Analyst
4 22 (7.33%) Consultant
5 21 (7.00%) Senior Developer
6 20 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 19 (6.33%) Applications Engineer
7 19 (6.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 17 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (5.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 14 (4.67%) Applications Support
9 14 (4.67%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.67%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 14 (4.67%) ServiceNow Developer
10 13 (4.33%) ServiceNow Consultant
10 13 (4.33%) SQL Developer
11 12 (4.00%) Lead
11 12 (4.00%) Support Consultant
12 11 (3.67%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (68.33%) JSON
2 120 (40.00%) HTML
3 89 (29.67%) REST
4 62 (20.67%) SOAP
5 56 (18.67%) Web Services
6 49 (16.33%) CSS
7 30 (10.00%) Regular Expression
8 29 (9.67%) RESTful
9 24 (8.00%) Spring
10 23 (7.67%) .NET
11 22 (7.33%) jQuery
12 21 (7.00%) Hibernate
12 21 (7.00%) Spring Boot
13 18 (6.00%) ActiveMQ
13 18 (6.00%) Apache Camel
13 18 (6.00%) WireMock
14 11 (3.67%) XSLT
15 10 (3.33%) ASP.NET
16 8 (2.67%) OAuth
16 8 (2.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 30 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 20 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.33%) Low-Code
6 12 (4.00%) NHS
7 8 (2.67%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.33%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.33%) W3C
10 3 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.00%) Semantic Web
11 2 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.67%) DataPower
11 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.67%) Unix
2 12 (4.00%) Linux
3 2 (0.67%) Debian
3 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (35.67%) Agile
2 80 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (21.33%) DevOps
4 59 (19.67%) CI/CD
5 49 (16.33%) Test Automation
6 46 (15.33%) AI
7 42 (14.00%) SDLC
8 40 (13.33%) API Integration
8 40 (13.33%) ERP
8 40 (13.33%) LLM
9 39 (13.00%) Mentoring
10 37 (12.33%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (11.33%) Data Analysis
11 34 (11.33%) ETL
12 31 (10.33%) Microservices
12 31 (10.33%) Workflow
13 30 (10.00%) Computer Science
13 30 (10.00%) Data Governance
13 30 (10.00%) Problem Management
14 28 (9.33%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 144 (48.00%) SQL
2 112 (37.33%) Python
3 94 (31.33%) JavaScript
4 63 (21.00%) Java
5 52 (17.33%) C#
6 44 (14.67%) Shell Script
7 34 (11.33%) PL/SQL
8 18 (6.00%) C
9 10 (3.33%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.33%) VBA
10 7 (2.33%) C++
10 7 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.33%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.00%) Perl
12 5 (1.67%) ActionScript
12 5 (1.67%) Delphi
13 4 (1.33%) ActionScript 3.0
13 4 (1.33%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.00%) Bicep
15 2 (0.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 76 (25.33%) Degree
2 27 (9.00%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.67%) ISTQB
6 7 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.00%) ISEB
8 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.67%) HNC
9 2 (0.67%) HND
9 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.67%) PMP
10 1 (0.33%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.33%) GDPR
3 12 (4.00%) ISO 9001
3 12 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.67%) Accessibility
5 10 (3.33%) QA
6 7 (2.33%) HL7
7 2 (0.67%) EMIR
7 2 (0.67%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) COBIT
System Software
1 36 (12.00%) Docker
2 19 (6.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (8.00%) Terraform
3 18 (6.00%) Kibana
4 3 (1.00%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.67%) Ansible
5 2 (0.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 55 (18.33%) Oracle
2 54 (18.00%) Microsoft
3 27 (9.00%) ServiceNow
4 19 (6.33%) Okta
5 18 (6.00%) Dynatrace
5 18 (6.00%) Splunk
6 13 (4.33%) SAP
7 11 (3.67%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.67%) Informatica
9 7 (2.33%) Cisco
9 7 (2.33%) Dell
9 7 (2.33%) IBM
9 7 (2.33%) OpenAI
9 7 (2.33%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.33%) Workday
10 6 (2.00%) Talend
11 5 (1.67%) Epicor
11 5 (1.67%) Infor
11 5 (1.67%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.67%) Software AG