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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 286 227
Rank change year-on-year -119 -59 +31
Permanent jobs citing XML 282 626 850
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.91% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.71% 4.46% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 194 385 614
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,563 £42,500 £47,056
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £77,188
90th Percentile £80,875 £83,750 £88,750
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 7,608 14,047 15,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.45% 20.32% 27.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,832 8,550 12,254
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% +2.68%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -108 247 £55,000 -4.35% 189
UK excluding London -84 188 £55,000 - 144
Work from Home -32 138 £55,000 -15.38% 150
London -19 91 £70,000 +3.70% 85
South East -43 86 £55,000 -15.38% 69
East of England +3 37 £55,000 -15.38% 11
North of England -39 20 £47,500 +5.33% 32
Midlands +4 18 £50,000 -3.85% 17
Scotland +14 17 £50,000 +13.64% 7
West Midlands +18 13 £50,000 +14.29% 12
South West +1 11 £55,000 -18.52% 8
North West -50 9 £52,500 +1.45% 22
North East +16 6 £45,000 -6.74% 4
East Midlands -8 5 £47,500 -13.64% 5
Yorkshire -11 5 £37,500 +50.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 12 (4.26%) IIS
2 8 (2.84%) Tomcat
3 5 (1.77%) Confluence
4 4 (1.42%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.06%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Service Bus
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) Appian
7 1 (0.35%) FileNet
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (3.55%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.26%) Dynamics NAV
1 12 (4.26%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.77%) Oracle Receivables
2 5 (1.77%) Shopify
3 4 (1.42%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.71%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.71%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.35%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 88 (31.21%) Azure
2 51 (18.09%) AWS
3 43 (15.25%) GitHub
4 37 (13.12%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (11.35%) SaaS
6 25 (8.87%) Serverless
7 24 (8.51%) Power Platform
8 22 (7.80%) Power Automate
9 21 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (7.45%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (7.09%) Entra ID
11 18 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (4.96%) OCI
13 12 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (3.90%) Boomi
15 10 (3.55%) iPaaS
16 9 (3.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.48%) DMARC
1 7 (2.48%) SSL
2 5 (1.77%) FTP
3 3 (1.06%) Asterisk PBX
3 3 (1.06%) HTTP
3 3 (1.06%) Multicast
4 2 (0.71%) RFID
5 1 (0.35%) DNS
5 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (23.05%) SQL Server
2 40 (14.18%) Relational Database
3 31 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.74%) RDBMS
5 18 (6.38%) Power BI
6 15 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (5.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (3.55%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.19%) MySQL
9 8 (2.84%) GIS
10 7 (2.48%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (2.13%) OLTP
12 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.42%) Tableau
13 3 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
13 3 (1.06%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.06%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.06%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 40 (14.18%) Jenkins
2 34 (12.06%) Git
3 21 (7.45%) JMeter
3 21 (7.45%) JUnit
3 21 (7.45%) Mockito
4 20 (7.09%) JIRA
5 14 (4.96%) Visual Studio
6 12 (4.26%) Oracle Forms
6 12 (4.26%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (3.19%) MSBuild
7 9 (3.19%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (2.13%) Axure RP
9 5 (1.77%) PowerBuilder
9 5 (1.77%) SoapUI
10 4 (1.42%) Postman
10 4 (1.42%) Selenium
11 3 (1.06%) NUnit
11 3 (1.06%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (1.06%) Subversion
General
1 82 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.89%) Finance
3 35 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.70%) Law
5 27 (9.57%) Public Sector
6 23 (8.16%) Retail
7 15 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.61%) Back Office
9 12 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (4.26%) Marketing
10 9 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.48%) Czech Language
12 7 (2.48%) Front Office
12 7 (2.48%) Health Technology
13 6 (2.13%) Advertising
14 5 (1.77%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.77%) Automotive
14 5 (1.77%) Legal
15 4 (1.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 116 (41.13%) Developer
2 45 (15.96%) Senior
3 24 (8.51%) Analyst
4 20 (7.09%) Consultant
4 20 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (7.09%) Java Developer
4 20 (7.09%) Senior Developer
4 20 (7.09%) SQL Developer
5 17 (6.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 14 (4.96%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 13 (4.61%) Architect
7 13 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (4.61%) Data Engineer
7 13 (4.61%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 12 (4.26%) Applications Engineer
8 12 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
8 12 (4.26%) Lead
8 12 (4.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 12 (4.26%) Support Consultant
9 11 (3.90%) Dynamics NAV Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (64.89%) JSON
2 101 (35.82%) REST
3 96 (34.04%) HTML
4 60 (21.28%) SOAP
5 57 (20.21%) Web Services
6 56 (19.86%) CSS
7 38 (13.48%) .NET
8 26 (9.22%) jQuery
9 23 (8.16%) ASP.NET
9 23 (8.16%) Spring
10 22 (7.80%) RESTful
11 21 (7.45%) ActiveMQ
11 21 (7.45%) Apache Camel
11 21 (7.45%) Hibernate
11 21 (7.45%) Spring Boot
11 21 (7.45%) WireMock
12 10 (3.55%) Bootstrap
12 10 (3.55%) XSLT
13 9 (3.19%) gRPC
14 8 (2.84%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.09%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (4.96%) NHS
6 12 (4.26%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.19%) Low-Code
7 9 (3.19%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.13%) BYOD
9 5 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.77%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.42%) e-Learning
10 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.42%) W3C
11 3 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.71%) CMDB
12 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.38%) Linux
2 13 (4.61%) Unix
3 9 (3.19%) Windows
4 3 (1.06%) Debian
4 3 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (41.13%) Agile
2 86 (30.50%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (24.47%) DevOps
4 59 (20.92%) CI/CD
5 45 (15.96%) Microservices
6 41 (14.54%) Test Automation
7 40 (14.18%) ETL
8 37 (13.12%) Business Intelligence
8 37 (13.12%) SDLC
9 36 (12.77%) API Integration
10 34 (12.06%) Mentoring
10 34 (12.06%) Workflow
11 32 (11.35%) Computer Science
11 32 (11.35%) Data Integration
12 31 (10.99%) ERP
13 27 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (8.87%) ITSM
15 24 (8.51%) Analytics
15 24 (8.51%) Data Governance
15 24 (8.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 153 (54.26%) SQL
2 114 (40.43%) JavaScript
3 79 (28.01%) Python
4 64 (22.70%) C#
5 60 (21.28%) Java
6 37 (13.12%) Shell Script
7 29 (10.28%) PL/SQL
8 17 (6.03%) PowerShell
9 16 (5.67%) C
10 15 (5.32%) T-SQL
11 13 (4.61%) VBA
12 6 (2.13%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.42%) ActionScript
13 4 (1.42%) ActionScript 3.0
13 4 (1.42%) Objective-C
13 4 (1.42%) Perl
14 3 (1.06%) Bash
14 3 (1.06%) Bicep
14 3 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.06%) PHP
Qualifications
1 51 (18.09%) Degree
2 28 (9.93%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.84%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.77%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.06%) ISEB
9 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.71%) HNC
9 2 (0.71%) HND
9 2 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.35%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.35%) PhD
10 1 (0.35%) PMP
10 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.74%) Data Quality
3 18 (6.38%) GDPR
4 12 (4.26%) ISO 9001
5 10 (3.55%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.84%) HL7
7 6 (2.13%) QA
8 2 (0.71%) SLA
9 1 (0.35%) COBIT
9 1 (0.35%) DICOM
System Software
1 46 (16.31%) Docker
2 19 (6.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (13.12%) Kubernetes
2 25 (8.87%) Single Sign-On
3 21 (7.45%) Kibana
4 17 (6.03%) Terraform
5 7 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.06%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 59 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 45 (15.96%) Oracle
3 27 (9.57%) ServiceNow
4 21 (7.45%) Dynatrace
4 21 (7.45%) Splunk
5 12 (4.26%) Okta
6 9 (3.19%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.84%) Cisco
8 7 (2.48%) OpenAI
8 7 (2.48%) SAP
8 7 (2.48%) Trayport
9 6 (2.13%) Informatica
10 5 (1.77%) Dell
10 5 (1.77%) IBM
10 5 (1.77%) SnapLogic
10 5 (1.77%) Workday
11 4 (1.42%) Talend
12 3 (1.06%) Jitterbit
12 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.06%) TIBCO