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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 377 297
Rank change year-on-year -153 -80 -41
Permanent jobs citing XML 264 337 779
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.68% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.48% 3.91% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 179 247 506
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,875 £77,500 £72,313
90th Percentile £79,336 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -9.09% -5.98%

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 10,659 8,617 16,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 17.37% 19.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,829 5,629 11,599
10th Percentile £40,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 17 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 7 August 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 -152 231 £59,000 +7.27% 129
UK excluding London -99 188 £58,000 +16.00% 79
Work from Home -57 109 £55,000 -8.52% 54
South East -54 70 £60,000 -4.00% 22
London -82 52 £62,500 -10.71% 70
North of England -44 35 £71,750 +36.60% 13
South West -58 30 £31,500 -23.64% 9
Midlands -23 29 £51,250 +2.50% 15
North West -6 23 £70,000 +27.27% 5
West Midlands -22 21 £54,200 +8.40% 8
East of England -60 12 £52,500 +10.53% 5
Yorkshire -20 10 £76,919 +56.98% 7
East Midlands -26 8 £50,000 -0.50% 7
Wales - 7 £55,000 - 2
Scotland +13 3 £68,750 +37.50% 8
North East -53 2 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3

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 11 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.79%) Confluence
3 8 (3.03%) Apache
4 6 (2.27%) CMS
5 4 (1.52%) SAS
6 3 (1.14%) JBoss
7 2 (0.76%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.38%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.89%) CorelDRAW
2 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.17%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (1.52%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.52%) Elite 3E
2 4 (1.52%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.76%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.76%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.38%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 79 (29.92%) Azure
2 39 (14.77%) AWS
3 36 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 21 (7.95%) Dynamics 365
5 19 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (6.82%) SaaS
7 15 (5.68%) Boomi
8 14 (5.30%) GitHub
9 11 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (3.41%) Serverless
11 8 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (3.03%) Apigee
11 8 (3.03%) GCP
11 8 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.65%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
13 6 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.27%) Power Automate
14 5 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.89%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.55%) Firewall
2 9 (3.41%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.65%) DNS
4 6 (2.27%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.89%) Intranet
6 3 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.14%) SSL
7 1 (0.38%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.38%) HTTP
7 1 (0.38%) Multicast
7 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.91%) SQL Server
2 28 (10.61%) Power BI
3 26 (9.85%) Relational Database
4 23 (8.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (4.55%) Metadata
6 12 (4.55%) RDBMS
7 10 (3.79%) OLTP
8 9 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.41%) MySQL
9 7 (2.65%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (2.65%) GIS
9 7 (2.65%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.89%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.14%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle BI EE
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (12.88%) JIRA
2 19 (7.20%) Git
3 16 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.30%) GitLab
5 11 (4.17%) Selenium
6 10 (3.79%) JMeter
7 9 (3.41%) JUnit
8 8 (3.03%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.65%) Moq
10 6 (2.27%) ERwin
10 6 (2.27%) Maven
10 6 (2.27%) Postman
11 5 (1.89%) Mockito
11 5 (1.89%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.89%) WebDriver
12 4 (1.52%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.52%) Zephyr
13 3 (1.14%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.14%) SpecFlow
13 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (34.47%) Social Skills
2 77 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (25.76%) Finance
4 27 (10.23%) Retail
5 26 (9.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (6.82%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.92%) Marketing
8 11 (4.17%) Electronics
8 11 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.79%) Financial Institution
10 9 (3.41%) Aerospace
10 9 (3.41%) Banking
11 8 (3.03%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.65%) Automotive
12 7 (2.65%) Health Technology
12 7 (2.65%) Law
12 7 (2.65%) Legal
13 4 (1.52%) Aviation
13 4 (1.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 78 (29.55%) Developer
2 48 (18.18%) Senior
3 43 (16.29%) Analyst
4 31 (11.74%) Senior Developer
5 29 (10.98%) Consultant
6 26 (9.85%) Architect
7 24 (9.09%) Support Analyst
8 21 (7.95%) Software Engineer
9 19 (7.20%) Lead
10 18 (6.82%) .NET Developer
11 15 (5.68%) Web Developer
12 13 (4.92%) SQL Developer
13 11 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
14 10 (3.79%) .NET Web Developer
14 10 (3.79%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 10 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (3.79%) Full-Stack Web Developer
14 10 (3.79%) Senior SQL Developer
14 10 (3.79%) Software Analyst
14 10 (3.79%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (56.44%) JSON
2 62 (23.48%) HTML
3 58 (21.97%) .NET
4 57 (21.59%) REST
5 53 (20.08%) SOAP
6 38 (14.39%) CSS
7 33 (12.50%) .NET Framework
8 30 (11.36%) Middleware
8 30 (11.36%) Web Services
9 19 (7.20%) XSLT
10 17 (6.44%) EDI
10 17 (6.44%) Entity Framework
11 16 (6.06%) ASP.NET
11 16 (6.06%) RESTful
12 13 (4.92%) ASP.NET MVC
12 13 (4.92%) Node.js
13 12 (4.55%) Kafka
13 12 (4.55%) React
14 11 (4.17%) AngularJS
14 11 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.20%) Data Structures
1 19 (7.20%) Onboarding
2 14 (5.30%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.30%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.41%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.41%) Robotics
7 8 (3.03%) NHS
7 8 (3.03%) SCADA
8 7 (2.65%) Acoustics
8 7 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.27%) e-Learning
9 6 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.89%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.89%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.15%) Linux
2 39 (14.77%) Windows
3 20 (7.58%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.89%) Unix
6 3 (1.14%) Android
6 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) Debian
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (28.41%) Agile
1 75 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (17.05%) DevOps
3 39 (14.77%) Data Modelling
4 35 (13.26%) CI/CD
5 33 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 31 (11.74%) Software Engineering
6 31 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (10.98%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (10.98%) ERP
8 29 (10.98%) Project Delivery
8 29 (10.98%) Validation
9 27 (10.23%) CRM
10 26 (9.85%) Customer Service
10 26 (9.85%) SDLC
11 24 (9.09%) Computer Science
11 24 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
11 24 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
12 22 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 151 (57.20%) SQL
2 69 (26.14%) Python
3 67 (25.38%) JavaScript
4 59 (22.35%) C#
5 39 (14.77%) Java
6 24 (9.09%) C++
7 12 (4.55%) PHP
7 12 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.79%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.79%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.03%) VB.NET
9 8 (3.03%) XAML
10 6 (2.27%) VB
11 5 (1.89%) Bash
11 5 (1.89%) Perl
11 5 (1.89%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.89%) XPath
12 3 (1.14%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.14%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 67 (25.38%) Degree
2 22 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.89%) HNC
5 5 (1.89%) HND
5 5 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.14%) ISEB
7 3 (1.14%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.38%) GIAC
9 1 (0.38%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.09%) QA
2 12 (4.55%) TickIT
3 11 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.79%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.65%) HL7
6 4 (1.52%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.14%) CDISC
7 3 (1.14%) SLA
8 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.76%) WCAG
9 1 (0.38%) EMIR
9 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (9.47%) Docker
2 9 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.65%) vSphere
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 13 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.89%) Kibana
3 4 (1.52%) Terraform
4 3 (1.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.38%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 72 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.64%) Oracle
3 13 (4.92%) Databricks
4 12 (4.55%) Google
4 12 (4.55%) IBM
5 11 (4.17%) IBM Sterling
5 11 (4.17%) SAP
6 9 (3.41%) Palo Alto
6 9 (3.41%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.41%) Splunk
7 7 (2.65%) VMware
8 6 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.27%) Sparx
9 5 (1.89%) Cisco
9 5 (1.89%) F5
9 5 (1.89%) Juniper
10 4 (1.52%) Ariba
10 4 (1.52%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.52%) NEC
11 3 (1.14%) Pega