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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 390 302
Rank change year-on-year -124 -88 -71
Permanent jobs citing XML 310 303 670
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.61% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 3.57% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 211 210 395
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -3.03%
75th Percentile £71,875 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 11,982 8,489 16,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 17.11% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,518 5,434 10,246
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,813 £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 £110,778
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 27 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 27 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 -101 277 £60,900 +10.73% 247
UK excluding London -100 223 £55,000 +4.76% 140
Work from Home -47 133 £55,000 -2.22% 104
London -87 67 £75,000 +11.11% 123
South East -68 66 £60,000 +9.09% 40
Midlands -16 51 £55,000 +10.00% 22
West Midlands -7 45 £55,000 +10.00% 16
North of England -36 43 £67,500 +34.93% 27
South West -65 32 £31,500 -23.17% 13
North West -17 23 £70,000 +30.23% 15
Yorkshire -24 16 £63,076 +28.73% 10
East of England -64 11 £42,500 -22.73% 13
Wales - 7 £55,000 - 6
East Midlands -35 6 £45,000 -5.26% 6
Scotland +7 5 £63,750 +27.50% 17
Isle of Man - 5 £38,500 - 1
North East -64 4 £63,076 +40.17% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4

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%) Oracle Workflow
3 14 (4.52%) CMS
4 11 (3.55%) Confluence
5 10 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (2.90%) Apache
7 6 (1.94%) IIS
8 3 (0.97%) SAS
9 2 (0.65%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
10 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
4 4 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
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 94 (30.32%) 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 19 (6.13%) SaaS
8 17 (5.48%) Serverless
9 16 (5.16%) Boomi
9 16 (5.16%) GitHub
10 14 (4.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (3.87%) PowerApps
12 11 (3.55%) Azure Functions
13 7 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
14 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%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.32%) HTTP
8 1 (0.32%) Multicast
8 1 (0.32%) Network Security
8 1 (0.32%) SSL
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 21 (6.77%) 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%) Metadata
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%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (9.68%) JIRA
2 28 (9.03%) Git
3 16 (5.16%) JUnit
4 15 (4.84%) Jenkins
5 13 (4.19%) JMeter
6 11 (3.55%) Postman
7 8 (2.58%) Selenium
8 7 (2.26%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.26%) GitLab
8 7 (2.26%) Moq
8 7 (2.26%) SoapUI
9 6 (1.94%) Mockito
9 6 (1.94%) Zephyr
10 5 (1.61%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.97%) Maven
11 3 (0.97%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.65%) Bower
12 2 (0.65%) PowerBuilder
12 2 (0.65%) TestNG
12 2 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 98 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 95 (30.65%) Finance
3 78 (25.16%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (13.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (11.61%) Public Sector
6 32 (10.32%) Retail
7 28 (9.03%) Law
8 27 (8.71%) Manufacturing
9 19 (6.13%) Legal
10 18 (5.81%) Banking
11 15 (4.84%) Electronics
11 15 (4.84%) General Ledger
11 15 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (4.52%) Marketing
13 12 (3.87%) Publishing
14 10 (3.23%) Aerospace
15 9 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (2.26%) Automotive
16 7 (2.26%) Financial Institution
16 7 (2.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (30.65%) Developer
2 76 (24.52%) Senior
3 48 (15.48%) Analyst
4 38 (12.26%) Senior Developer
5 30 (9.68%) Support Analyst
6 27 (8.71%) Consultant
7 26 (8.39%) Architect
8 25 (8.06%) Lead
9 24 (7.74%) Applications Engineer
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 55 (17.74%) Web Services
6 45 (14.52%) CSS
7 43 (13.87%) .NET Framework
8 35 (11.29%) XSLT
9 30 (9.68%) Middleware
10 22 (7.10%) EDI
10 22 (7.10%) RESTful
11 21 (6.77%) Entity Framework
12 16 (5.16%) jQuery
13 15 (4.84%) ASP.NET
14 12 (3.87%) React
15 11 (3.55%) ASP.NET MVC
16 10 (3.23%) Classic ASP
16 10 (3.23%) Google Maps API
16 10 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.77%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.48%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.52%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.19%) Taxonomies
6 12 (3.87%) Product Ownership
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%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.97%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.87%) Windows
2 33 (10.65%) Linux
3 24 (7.74%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.58%) Android
4 8 (2.58%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.32%) Debian
7 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (25.16%) Agile
3 62 (20.00%) DevOps
4 43 (13.87%) CI/CD
5 42 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (12.90%) ERP
7 39 (12.58%) CRM
8 38 (12.26%) Roadmaps
9 37 (11.94%) AI
10 36 (11.61%) Mentoring
10 36 (11.61%) Validation
11 34 (10.97%) Workflow
12 33 (10.65%) Data Modelling
12 33 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (10.32%) Software Engineering
14 31 (10.00%) Customer Service
15 28 (9.03%) User Acceptance Testing
16 27 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
16 27 (8.71%) Project Delivery
17 26 (8.39%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 179 (57.74%) SQL
2 80 (25.81%) JavaScript
3 63 (20.32%) C#
4 56 (18.06%) Python
5 42 (13.55%) 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 83 (26.77%) Degree
2 17 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.90%) Azure Certification
3 9 (2.90%) 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
7 4 (1.29%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.65%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.32%) CISSP
9 1 (0.32%) SSCP
9 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.65%) QA
2 23 (7.42%) 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 3 (0.97%) 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
10 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (6.77%) 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 12 (3.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.26%) Kibana
3 1 (0.32%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.32%) Grafana
3 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 97 (31.29%) Microsoft
2 45 (14.52%) Oracle
3 17 (5.48%) IBM
4 13 (4.19%) SAP
5 12 (3.87%) Google
6 11 (3.55%) IBM Sterling
7 9 (2.90%) Databricks
7 9 (2.90%) Splunk
8 7 (2.26%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.61%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.61%) Pega
9 5 (1.61%) VMware
10 4 (1.29%) NEC
10 4 (1.29%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.29%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.29%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.97%) Adobe
11 3 (0.97%) Ariba
11 3 (0.97%) Infor
11 3 (0.97%) Workday