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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 386 301
Rank change year-on-year -133 -85 -52
Permanent jobs citing XML 288 330 728
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.66% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.43% 3.71% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 201 238 466
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% -8.99% -

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 11,866 8,899 17,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.78% 17.89% 21.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,609 5,788 11,564
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £109,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 3 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 3 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 -128 257 £60,000 +9.09% 308
UK excluding London -101 209 £55,000 +9.88% 160
Work from Home -56 119 £55,000 - 129
South East -64 64 £60,000 +8.60% 48
London -101 60 £75,000 +13.21% 181
Midlands -18 43 £55,000 +10.00% 30
North of England -32 40 £70,000 +33.33% 28
West Midlands -5 37 £55,000 +10.00% 18
South West -60 33 £31,500 +6.78% 18
North West -11 22 £73,500 +33.64% 16
Yorkshire -44 15 £63,076 +28.73% 9
East of England -71 12 £42,500 -12.82% 9
Wales - 7 £55,000 - 5
East Midlands -22 6 £50,000 -0.50% 12
Isle of Man - 5 £38,500 -
Scotland +8 3 £63,750 +27.50% 18
North East -57 3 £65,288 +86.54% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 8

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 13 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.17%) Confluence
3 10 (3.47%) CMS
4 9 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (2.78%) Apache
6 6 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (1.39%) IIS
7 4 (1.39%) SAS
8 2 (0.69%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.35%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.74%) CorelDRAW
4 4 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (3.82%) Oracle Retail
2 10 (3.47%) Elite 3E
3 7 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (2.08%) Oracle Cash Management
4 6 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (2.08%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (2.08%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 5 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (1.39%) NEC Housing
7 3 (1.04%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.69%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.69%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.35%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.35%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 92 (31.94%) Azure
2 40 (13.89%) Power Platform
3 34 (11.81%) AWS
4 29 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (6.25%) SaaS
7 16 (5.56%) Boomi
8 15 (5.21%) Power Automate
9 14 (4.86%) GitHub
10 12 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (3.82%) PowerApps
11 11 (3.82%) Serverless
12 9 (3.13%) GCP
13 6 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.08%) Azure Event Grid
13 6 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (1.74%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.86%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.43%) DNS
2 7 (2.43%) Firewall
3 6 (2.08%) Wireshark
4 5 (1.74%) Intranet
5 3 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.04%) SSL
6 2 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.69%) FTP
6 2 (0.69%) VPN
7 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.35%) Multicast
7 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (18.06%) SQL Server
2 29 (10.07%) Power BI
3 25 (8.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (7.64%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (3.47%) Metadata
6 10 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.13%) RDBMS
8 8 (2.78%) OLTP
9 7 (2.43%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (2.43%) MySQL
10 6 (2.08%) GIS
10 6 (2.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 6 (2.08%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.74%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (12.15%) JIRA
2 24 (8.33%) Git
3 15 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.17%) JMeter
5 10 (3.47%) GitLab
6 9 (3.13%) JUnit
7 8 (2.78%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.78%) Postman
7 8 (2.78%) Selenium
8 7 (2.43%) Moq
8 7 (2.43%) SoapUI
9 6 (2.08%) Zephyr
10 5 (1.74%) Mockito
11 4 (1.39%) Maven
11 4 (1.39%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.04%) ERwin
13 2 (0.69%) Bower
13 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.69%) WebDriver
General
1 95 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 86 (29.86%) Finance
3 78 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (9.38%) Retail
6 25 (8.68%) Manufacturing
7 22 (7.64%) Public Sector
8 20 (6.94%) Law
9 16 (5.56%) Legal
10 15 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (4.86%) Electronics
11 14 (4.86%) Marketing
12 11 (3.82%) Banking
13 9 (3.13%) Aerospace
14 8 (2.78%) Telecoms
15 7 (2.43%) Automotive
15 7 (2.43%) Health Technology
15 7 (2.43%) Publishing
16 6 (2.08%) Financial Institution
16 6 (2.08%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 84 (29.17%) Developer
2 63 (21.88%) Senior
3 46 (15.97%) Analyst
4 34 (11.81%) Senior Developer
5 30 (10.42%) Consultant
6 29 (10.07%) Support Analyst
7 27 (9.38%) Architect
8 24 (8.33%) Lead
9 21 (7.29%) Software Engineer
10 20 (6.94%) .NET Developer
11 17 (5.90%) Web Developer
12 16 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
13 15 (5.21%) SQL Developer
14 12 (4.17%) .NET Web Developer
15 11 (3.82%) Integration Architect
15 11 (3.82%) Test Engineer
16 10 (3.47%) Author
16 10 (3.47%) Software Support Analyst
16 10 (3.47%) Systems Analyst
16 10 (3.47%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (50.35%) JSON
2 61 (21.18%) .NET
2 61 (21.18%) HTML
3 60 (20.83%) REST
4 58 (20.14%) SOAP
5 40 (13.89%) Web Services
6 39 (13.54%) .NET Framework
6 39 (13.54%) CSS
7 30 (10.42%) Middleware
8 29 (10.07%) XSLT
9 22 (7.64%) EDI
10 19 (6.60%) Entity Framework
11 18 (6.25%) RESTful
12 16 (5.56%) ASP.NET
13 13 (4.51%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (4.51%) jQuery
14 11 (3.82%) Kafka
14 11 (3.82%) React
15 10 (3.47%) Classic ASP
15 10 (3.47%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.21%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.51%) Data Structures
3 13 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.47%) SCADA
6 9 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.13%) Robotics
7 8 (2.78%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.78%) NHS
7 8 (2.78%) Taxonomies
8 7 (2.43%) Acoustics
8 7 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.39%) AS400
10 4 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (13.19%) Windows
2 33 (11.46%) Linux
3 22 (7.64%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.04%) Android
5 3 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.69%) Unix
7 1 (0.35%) Debian
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (30.90%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (26.39%) Agile
3 55 (19.10%) DevOps
4 40 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (13.19%) CI/CD
5 38 (13.19%) Roadmaps
6 35 (12.15%) Data Modelling
7 34 (11.81%) ERP
8 33 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (11.46%) Validation
9 32 (11.11%) CRM
9 32 (11.11%) Customer Service
10 31 (10.76%) Software Engineering
11 28 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (9.72%) Project Delivery
12 26 (9.03%) Mentoring
12 26 (9.03%) User Acceptance Testing
13 24 (8.33%) AI
13 24 (8.33%) SDLC
13 24 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 164 (56.94%) SQL
2 72 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 58 (20.14%) C#
3 58 (20.14%) Python
4 40 (13.89%) Java
5 23 (7.99%) C++
6 14 (4.86%) PL/SQL
7 12 (4.17%) VB.NET
8 10 (3.47%) PHP
8 10 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.47%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.47%) XPath
9 9 (3.13%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.43%) XAML
11 6 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.74%) VB
13 4 (1.39%) Perl
14 3 (1.04%) Bash
14 3 (1.04%) SAS Macro
14 3 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (28.13%) Degree
2 19 (6.60%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.43%) ISTQB
5 6 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.74%) HNC
6 5 (1.74%) HND
6 5 (1.74%) ISEB
6 5 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.04%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.69%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.35%) GIAC
10 1 (0.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.03%) QA
2 16 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.86%) Accessibility
4 12 (4.17%) TickIT
5 7 (2.43%) HL7
6 5 (1.74%) FATCA
6 5 (1.74%) WCAG
7 4 (1.39%) GDPR
8 3 (1.04%) CDISC
8 3 (1.04%) SLA
9 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.35%) GRC
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (7.64%) Docker
2 5 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.74%) vSphere
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 12 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.74%) Kibana
3 1 (0.35%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 85 (29.51%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.85%) Oracle
3 15 (5.21%) IBM
4 14 (4.86%) SAP
5 12 (4.17%) Google
6 11 (3.82%) IBM Sterling
7 9 (3.13%) Databricks
7 9 (3.13%) Splunk
8 6 (2.08%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.08%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.74%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.74%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.74%) Pega
9 5 (1.74%) VMware
10 4 (1.39%) Ariba
10 4 (1.39%) NEC
11 3 (1.04%) Infor
11 3 (1.04%) McAfee
11 3 (1.04%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.04%) Sparx