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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 283 250
Rank change year-on-year -118 -33 +10
Permanent jobs citing XML 270 551 838
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 1.05% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.73% 4.84% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 161 364 554
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £59,175
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.83% -5.32%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,643 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -3.64%

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 7,235 11,387 16,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.54% 21.63% 24.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,319 6,664 13,346
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,064
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,514 £59,430 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.14% +8.05% -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 26 January 2026.

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 26 January 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 -142 220 £55,000 -4.35% 90
UK excluding London -122 169 £55,000 - 71
Work from Home -9 120 £55,000 -18.52% 43
London -22 83 £70,000 +11.11% 35
South East -80 54 £57,500 -11.54% 32
East of England +33 48 £55,000 - 9
Scotland +14 23 £50,000 +8.04% 5
North of England -58 21 £52,500 +22.09% 11
Midlands -21 19 £50,000 -4.76% 10
West Midlands +9 10 £50,000 +17.65% 8
North West -22 10 £53,250 +17.68% 6
East Midlands -31 9 £50,750 -7.73% 2
Yorkshire -33 7 £55,000 +46.67% 5
North East +2 4 £45,000 -6.74%
South West -29 3 £60,000 -11.11% 5
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 5 (1.85%) Anypoint
1 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.48%) Confluence
3 3 (1.11%) JBoss
3 3 (1.11%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.11%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.74%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
5 1 (0.37%) CICS
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) FileNet
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.37%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.37%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (7.41%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.59%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (2.22%) Shopify
4 3 (1.11%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.37%) Magento
6 1 (0.37%) Q-Pulse
6 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (25.93%) Azure
2 52 (19.26%) AWS
3 33 (12.22%) Power Platform
4 29 (10.74%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (10.74%) GitHub
5 23 (8.52%) Entra ID
6 21 (7.78%) OCI
7 20 (7.41%) Serverless
8 18 (6.67%) Power Automate
9 16 (5.93%) Boomi
10 15 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (5.19%) SaaS
12 12 (4.44%) iPaaS
13 9 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (3.33%) PowerApps
14 8 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.70%) FTP
2 3 (1.11%) AMQP
3 2 (0.74%) HTTP
3 2 (0.74%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.74%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.37%) DNS
4 1 (0.37%) Modbus
4 1 (0.37%) SSL
4 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.37%) VPN
4 1 (0.37%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.41%) SQL Server
2 37 (13.70%) Relational Database
3 28 (10.37%) Power BI
4 18 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.44%) MySQL
6 11 (4.07%) OLTP
7 10 (3.70%) RDBMS
8 9 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.33%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.59%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.85%) Metadata
12 4 (1.48%) GIS
12 4 (1.48%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.11%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.11%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.11%) Tableau
14 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 38 (14.07%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.41%) Oracle Forms
3 18 (6.67%) JIRA
4 16 (5.93%) Git
5 14 (5.19%) JMeter
5 14 (5.19%) JUnit
6 12 (4.44%) Mockito
7 7 (2.59%) Postman
7 7 (2.59%) PowerBuilder
8 6 (2.22%) Axure RP
8 6 (2.22%) Selenium
9 4 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.11%) Maven
10 3 (1.11%) NUnit
10 3 (1.11%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.11%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.11%) Subversion
10 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.74%) Ranorex
11 2 (0.74%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 75 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.15%) Finance
3 33 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.11%) Law
5 18 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.56%) German Language
7 12 (4.44%) Retail
8 7 (2.59%) Health Technology
8 7 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.59%) Legal
8 7 (2.59%) Marketing
9 4 (1.48%) Advertising
9 4 (1.48%) Banking
9 4 (1.48%) Billing
9 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.48%) Front Office
9 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.11%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 105 (38.89%) Developer
2 57 (21.11%) Senior
3 25 (9.26%) Senior Developer
4 21 (7.78%) Analyst
5 20 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
5 20 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (7.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 19 (7.04%) Java Developer
7 17 (6.30%) SQL Developer
8 13 (4.81%) ServiceNow Developer
9 12 (4.44%) Applications Support
9 12 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (4.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 11 (4.07%) Oracle Developer
10 11 (4.07%) PL/SQL Developer
10 11 (4.07%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 11 (4.07%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
10 11 (4.07%) Senior SQL Developer
11 10 (3.70%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.70%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (68.52%) JSON
2 98 (36.30%) HTML
3 84 (31.11%) REST
4 69 (25.56%) SOAP
5 48 (17.78%) Web Services
6 32 (11.85%) CSS
7 29 (10.74%) Regular Expression
8 27 (10.00%) RESTful
9 24 (8.89%) Spring
10 18 (6.67%) Hibernate
10 18 (6.67%) Spring Boot
11 17 (6.30%) jQuery
12 16 (5.93%) .NET
13 13 (4.81%) XSLT
14 12 (4.44%) ActiveMQ
14 12 (4.44%) Apache Camel
14 12 (4.44%) WireMock
15 9 (3.33%) Middleware
16 8 (2.96%) React
17 7 (2.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.56%) Onboarding
2 31 (11.48%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 22 (8.15%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.81%) Low-Code
6 9 (3.33%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.48%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.48%) W3C
9 3 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.11%) Semantic Web
10 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.74%) DataPower
10 2 (0.74%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.33%) Unix
2 12 (4.44%) Linux
3 4 (1.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (34.07%) Agile
2 70 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (19.26%) CI/CD
4 44 (16.30%) ERP
5 43 (15.93%) AI
6 42 (15.56%) DevOps
7 39 (14.44%) Test Automation
8 37 (13.70%) API Integration
9 36 (13.33%) LLM
9 36 (13.33%) SDLC
10 33 (12.22%) Business Intelligence
10 33 (12.22%) Data Analysis
11 32 (11.85%) Mentoring
12 29 (10.74%) Data Governance
12 29 (10.74%) ETL
13 28 (10.37%) Translating Business Requirements
14 25 (9.26%) Coaching
14 25 (9.26%) Data Modelling
14 25 (9.26%) Migration
15 23 (8.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 139 (51.48%) SQL
2 102 (37.78%) Python
3 69 (25.56%) JavaScript
4 61 (22.59%) Java
5 39 (14.44%) PL/SQL
6 38 (14.07%) Shell Script
7 36 (13.33%) C#
8 11 (4.07%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.70%) VBA
10 8 (2.96%) ActionScript
11 7 (2.59%) C
11 7 (2.59%) Delphi
11 7 (2.59%) Perl
11 7 (2.59%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.59%) VB.NET
12 6 (2.22%) C++
13 4 (1.48%) ActionScript 2.0
13 4 (1.48%) ActionScript 3.0
13 4 (1.48%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (24.81%) Degree
2 26 (9.63%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.96%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.11%) ISEB
5 3 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.74%) HNC
6 2 (0.74%) HND
6 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.74%) PMP
7 1 (0.37%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.67%) QA
2 15 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.81%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.70%) GDPR
5 7 (2.59%) HL7
6 3 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.74%) EMIR
7 2 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (10.37%) Docker
2 22 (8.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (10.37%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.52%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (8.15%) Terraform
4 12 (4.44%) Kibana
5 3 (1.11%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.74%) Ansible
6 2 (0.74%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 68 (25.19%) Oracle
2 37 (13.70%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.41%) Okta
4 16 (5.93%) SAP
5 15 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.44%) Dynatrace
6 12 (4.44%) Splunk
7 11 (4.07%) MuleSoft
8 9 (3.33%) Dell
9 8 (2.96%) IBM
10 7 (2.59%) Informatica
10 7 (2.59%) SnapLogic
11 6 (2.22%) Talend
11 6 (2.22%) Workday
12 5 (1.85%) Epicor
12 5 (1.85%) Infor
12 5 (1.85%) Intapp
12 5 (1.85%) Jitterbit
12 5 (1.85%) Software AG
12 5 (1.85%) TIBCO