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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 401 301
Rank change year-on-year -106 -100 -69
Permanent jobs citing XML 310 301 652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.61% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.58% 3.58% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 208 208 385
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,938 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,600 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

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 12,006 8,418 16,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.18% 17.01% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 8,519 5,380 10,048
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,911 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,167
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -107 276 £60,000 +9.09% 311
UK excluding London -101 221 £55,000 +4.76% 173
Work from Home -53 132 £55,000 - 122
London -87 68 £75,000 +11.11% 152
South East -78 67 £60,000 +9.09% 48
Midlands -10 51 £52,500 +5.00% 26
West Midlands -13 45 £55,000 +10.00% 19
North of England -58 41 £67,500 +34.93% 36
South West -58 32 £31,500 -23.17% 20
North West -20 23 £70,000 +30.23% 20
Yorkshire -27 14 £63,076 +28.73% 15
East of England -62 10 £42,500 -22.73% 18
Wales - 7 £55,000 - 5
East Midlands -32 6 £45,000 -5.26% 7
Scotland +4 5 £63,750 +27.50% 18
Isle of Man - 5 £38,500 - 1
North East -67 4 £63,076 +40.17% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 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 16 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.84%) CMS
2 15 (4.84%) Oracle Workflow
3 11 (3.55%) Confluence
4 10 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (2.90%) Apache
6 6 (1.94%) IIS
7 4 (1.29%) SAS
8 2 (0.65%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
Applications
1 12 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.61%) CorelDRAW
3 5 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.32%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (4.84%) Oracle Cash Management
1 15 (4.84%) Oracle EBS
1 15 (4.84%) Oracle Payables
1 15 (4.84%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (3.87%) Elite 3E
3 11 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (3.55%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (1.29%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.97%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.65%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.32%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.32%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 91 (29.35%) Azure
2 45 (14.52%) Power Platform
3 34 (10.97%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (9.03%) Dynamics 365
5 27 (8.71%) AWS
6 21 (6.77%) Power Automate
7 18 (5.81%) SaaS
7 18 (5.81%) Serverless
8 16 (5.16%) Boomi
8 16 (5.16%) GitHub
9 14 (4.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (3.87%) PowerApps
11 11 (3.55%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.94%) Azure Event Grid
13 6 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.48%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.58%) Wireshark
3 7 (2.26%) DNS
4 5 (1.61%) Intranet
5 4 (1.29%) Firewall
6 3 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.97%) VPN
7 2 (0.65%) FTP
8 1 (0.32%) HTTP
8 1 (0.32%) Network Security
8 1 (0.32%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 30 (9.68%) Power BI
3 25 (8.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (7.10%) Relational Database
5 15 (4.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 15 (4.84%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.23%) MySQL
9 7 (2.26%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.94%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (1.94%) OLTP
11 5 (1.61%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.61%) Db2
11 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.61%) GIS
11 5 (1.61%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.61%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (9.35%) Git
1 29 (9.35%) JIRA
2 17 (5.48%) JUnit
3 16 (5.16%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.19%) JMeter
5 11 (3.55%) Postman
6 8 (2.58%) Selenium
7 7 (2.26%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.26%) GitLab
7 7 (2.26%) Moq
7 7 (2.26%) SoapUI
8 6 (1.94%) Mockito
8 6 (1.94%) Zephyr
9 5 (1.61%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.97%) Maven
10 3 (0.97%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.65%) Bower
11 2 (0.65%) PowerBuilder
11 2 (0.65%) TestNG
11 2 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 99 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 93 (30.00%) Finance
3 80 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (13.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (11.61%) Public Sector
6 33 (10.65%) Retail
7 29 (9.35%) Law
8 27 (8.71%) Manufacturing
9 19 (6.13%) Banking
9 19 (6.13%) Legal
10 15 (4.84%) Electronics
10 15 (4.84%) General Ledger
10 15 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (4.52%) Marketing
12 13 (4.19%) Publishing
13 10 (3.23%) Aerospace
14 9 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (2.58%) Financial Institution
16 7 (2.26%) Automotive
16 7 (2.26%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 96 (30.97%) Developer
2 78 (25.16%) Senior
3 48 (15.48%) Analyst
4 38 (12.26%) Senior Developer
5 30 (9.68%) Support Analyst
6 26 (8.39%) Consultant
7 25 (8.06%) Architect
8 24 (7.74%) Applications Engineer
9 23 (7.42%) Lead
10 22 (7.10%) .NET Developer
10 22 (7.10%) Software Engineer
11 19 (6.13%) Web Developer
12 15 (4.84%) Senior Applications Engineer
13 14 (4.52%) .NET Web Developer
13 14 (4.52%) Operations Engineer
13 14 (4.52%) Senior Operations Engineer
13 14 (4.52%) SQL Developer
14 13 (4.19%) Author
14 13 (4.19%) Technical Author
15 12 (3.87%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (48.71%) JSON
2 66 (21.29%) HTML
3 65 (20.97%) .NET
3 65 (20.97%) REST
4 58 (18.71%) SOAP
5 56 (18.06%) Web Services
6 45 (14.52%) CSS
7 43 (13.87%) .NET Framework
8 35 (11.29%) XSLT
9 30 (9.68%) Middleware
10 23 (7.42%) RESTful
11 22 (7.10%) EDI
12 21 (6.77%) Entity Framework
13 16 (5.16%) jQuery
14 15 (4.84%) ASP.NET
15 12 (3.87%) React
16 11 (3.55%) ASP.NET MVC
17 10 (3.23%) Classic ASP
17 10 (3.23%) Google Maps API
17 10 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.77%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.16%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.87%) Taxonomies
7 11 (3.55%) Robotics
8 10 (3.23%) SCADA
9 9 (2.90%) Client/Server
9 9 (2.90%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (2.58%) Data Structures
11 7 (2.26%) Acoustics
11 7 (2.26%) NHS
12 6 (1.94%) AS400
12 6 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.94%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.97%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.97%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.87%) Windows
2 32 (10.32%) Linux
3 24 (7.74%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.90%) Android
4 9 (2.90%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (32.58%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (25.48%) Agile
3 63 (20.32%) DevOps
4 44 (14.19%) CI/CD
5 43 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (12.90%) ERP
7 39 (12.58%) AI
7 39 (12.58%) CRM
8 37 (11.94%) Mentoring
8 37 (11.94%) Roadmaps
9 34 (10.97%) Validation
10 33 (10.65%) Workflow
11 32 (10.32%) Data Modelling
11 32 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (10.00%) Customer Service
12 31 (10.00%) Software Engineering
13 28 (9.03%) User Acceptance Testing
14 27 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (8.39%) Project Delivery
15 26 (8.39%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 177 (57.10%) SQL
2 81 (26.13%) JavaScript
3 63 (20.32%) C#
4 56 (18.06%) Python
5 43 (13.87%) Java
6 26 (8.39%) C++
7 23 (7.42%) PL/SQL
8 15 (4.84%) VB.NET
9 12 (3.87%) XPath
10 11 (3.55%) PowerShell
11 10 (3.23%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.90%) PHP
13 7 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (2.26%) T-SQL
13 7 (2.26%) XAML
14 4 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.29%) RPG
14 4 (1.29%) RPG IV
14 4 (1.29%) VB
14 4 (1.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (26.45%) Degree
2 17 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.90%) Azure Certification
4 8 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.26%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.61%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.61%) HNC
6 5 (1.61%) HND
6 5 (1.61%) ISEB
6 5 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.61%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.65%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.32%) GIAC
8 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.97%) QA
2 24 (7.74%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.45%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.87%) TickIT
5 9 (2.90%) GDPR
5 9 (2.90%) WCAG
6 6 (1.94%) HL7
7 5 (1.61%) FATCA
8 4 (1.29%) CDISC
9 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.32%) GRC
10 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (7.10%) Docker
2 4 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.29%) vSphere
3 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.26%) Kibana
3 2 (0.65%) Grafana
4 1 (0.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.32%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 97 (31.29%) Microsoft
2 45 (14.52%) Oracle
3 17 (5.48%) IBM
4 12 (3.87%) Google
4 12 (3.87%) SAP
5 11 (3.55%) IBM Sterling
6 8 (2.58%) Databricks
6 8 (2.58%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.58%) Splunk
7 6 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.61%) Pega
8 5 (1.61%) VMware
9 4 (1.29%) NEC
9 4 (1.29%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.29%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.97%) Adobe
10 3 (0.97%) Infor
10 3 (0.97%) McAfee
10 3 (0.97%) Workday