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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 316 279
Rank change year-on-year -156 -37 +13
Permanent jobs citing XML 254 409 998
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.96% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 4.89% 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 157 341 632
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £58,350
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -1.46% -9.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,601 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -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 8,745 8,364 20,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 19.73% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6,391 6,401 15,732
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,487 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +9.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 30 April 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 14 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 30 April 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 -162 217 £64,585 +12.32% 66
UK excluding London -143 166 £62,500 +19.05% 57
Work from Home -32 110 £57,500 -14.81% 39
London -74 55 £70,000 +7.69% 23
South East -87 55 £66,250 - 26
East of England -9 38 £55,000 +15.79% 4
North of England -91 36 £73,500 +47.00% 11
Midlands -39 24 £54,000 +0.58% 6
North West -51 22 £73,500 +46.92% 7
Yorkshire -67 14 £73,420 +95.79% 4
East Midlands -48 13 £54,000 -1.82% 4
West Midlands -26 11 £61,500 +44.71% 2
Scotland -15 9 £72,500 +52.45% 3
South West -68 4 £31,500 -25.44% 5

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 17 (6.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.36%) JBoss
4 3 (1.18%) Confluence
4 3 (1.18%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.39%) CICS
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
6 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.39%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.15%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.39%) Magento
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (29.53%) Azure
2 46 (18.11%) AWS
3 45 (17.72%) Power Platform
4 23 (9.06%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (8.27%) GitHub
6 20 (7.87%) SaaS
7 18 (7.09%) Boomi
8 16 (6.30%) Entra ID
9 13 (5.12%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (5.12%) Serverless
10 10 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (3.54%) Apigee
11 9 (3.54%) OCI
12 8 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.36%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.36%) iPaaS
13 6 (2.36%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.94%) Firewall
2 6 (2.36%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.57%) DNS
3 4 (1.57%) FTP
3 4 (1.57%) SSL
4 3 (1.18%) AMQP
5 2 (0.79%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.79%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.39%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.39%) HTTP
6 1 (0.39%) Modbus
6 1 (0.39%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.54%) Power BI
2 36 (14.17%) SQL Server
3 30 (11.81%) Relational Database
4 24 (9.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (6.30%) Metadata
7 15 (5.91%) OLTP
8 14 (5.51%) MySQL
9 11 (4.33%) RDBMS
10 10 (3.94%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.76%) GIS
12 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.18%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.18%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (1.18%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.79%) Big Data
13 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.79%) Oracle BI EE
13 2 (0.79%) Oracle ODI
13 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (11.81%) JIRA
2 20 (7.87%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.33%) Git
3 11 (4.33%) GitLab
4 10 (3.94%) Selenium
5 8 (3.15%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (2.76%) ERwin
7 6 (2.36%) JUnit
7 6 (2.36%) Maven
7 6 (2.36%) Postman
8 5 (1.97%) JMeter
8 5 (1.97%) Moq
8 5 (1.97%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.97%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.57%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.18%) Mockito
10 3 (1.18%) Ranorex
10 3 (1.18%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 93 (36.61%) Social Skills
2 71 (27.95%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (22.83%) Finance
4 17 (6.69%) Retail
5 14 (5.51%) Marketing
6 12 (4.72%) German Language
7 11 (4.33%) Financial Institution
7 11 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.94%) Law
9 9 (3.54%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.54%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.36%) Banking
10 6 (2.36%) Electronics
10 6 (2.36%) Front Office
10 6 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.97%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.97%) Automotive
12 3 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (33.46%) Developer
2 55 (21.65%) Senior
3 33 (12.99%) Senior Developer
4 26 (10.24%) Consultant
5 24 (9.45%) Analyst
6 22 (8.66%) Architect
7 16 (6.30%) SQL Developer
8 15 (5.91%) Oracle Developer
8 15 (5.91%) PL/SQL Developer
8 15 (5.91%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 15 (5.91%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
8 15 (5.91%) Senior SQL Developer
9 13 (5.12%) Applications Engineer
10 12 (4.72%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.72%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.33%) Applications Architect
11 11 (4.33%) C# Developer
11 11 (4.33%) Lead
12 9 (3.54%) Integration Architect
12 9 (3.54%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (65.75%) JSON
2 76 (29.92%) SOAP
3 74 (29.13%) REST
4 60 (23.62%) HTML
5 27 (10.63%) Middleware
5 27 (10.63%) Web Services
6 26 (10.24%) Regular Expression
7 23 (9.06%) .NET
8 19 (7.48%) RESTful
9 17 (6.69%) EDI
10 16 (6.30%) Spring
11 15 (5.91%) XSLT
12 14 (5.51%) CSS
12 14 (5.51%) Spring Boot
13 11 (4.33%) OAuth
13 11 (4.33%) WinForms
14 10 (3.94%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (3.94%) Node.js
15 9 (3.54%) FpML
15 9 (3.54%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.11%) Onboarding
2 27 (10.63%) Linux Command Line
3 25 (9.84%) Data Structures
4 19 (7.48%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (5.91%) Cloud Native
6 12 (4.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.94%) Product Ownership
9 9 (3.54%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (2.76%) e-Learning
10 7 (2.76%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.76%) SCADA
11 5 (1.97%) Acoustics
12 4 (1.57%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.57%) Low-Code
13 3 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.18%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.18%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.20%) Unix
2 20 (7.87%) Linux
3 11 (4.33%) Windows
4 4 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Debian
5 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (23.62%) Agile
3 44 (17.32%) Data Modelling
4 41 (16.14%) DevOps
5 39 (15.35%) ERP
6 38 (14.96%) Business Intelligence
6 38 (14.96%) CI/CD
7 36 (14.17%) AI
8 33 (12.99%) API Integration
9 31 (12.20%) Migration
10 29 (11.42%) Roadmaps
10 29 (11.42%) Test Automation
11 27 (10.63%) Collaborative Working
12 26 (10.24%) CRM
12 26 (10.24%) Decision-Making
12 26 (10.24%) Software Testing
13 25 (9.84%) Data Analysis
14 23 (9.06%) Validation
15 22 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (8.66%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 133 (52.36%) SQL
2 87 (34.25%) Python
3 56 (22.05%) Java
4 39 (15.35%) C#
4 39 (15.35%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.45%) PL/SQL
6 17 (6.69%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.72%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.33%) Delphi
9 10 (3.94%) C++
9 10 (3.94%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.15%) Perl
11 7 (2.76%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.76%) VB
12 6 (2.36%) XAML
13 5 (1.97%) VBA
14 4 (1.57%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.57%) ActionScript 2.0
14 4 (1.57%) Bash
15 3 (1.18%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 63 (24.80%) Degree
2 27 (10.63%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.97%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.97%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.99%) QA
2 13 (5.12%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.72%) TickIT
4 8 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.36%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.18%) EMIR
6 3 (1.18%) HL7
6 3 (1.18%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.18%) SLA
7 2 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.79%) WCAG
8 1 (0.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (8.66%) Docker
2 20 (7.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.57%) vSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 18 (7.09%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.72%) Terraform
3 8 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.18%) HP Fortify
4 3 (1.18%) Kibana
5 2 (0.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 61 (24.02%) Oracle
2 35 (13.78%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.94%) Palo Alto
3 10 (3.94%) SAP
4 8 (3.15%) Databricks
4 8 (3.15%) Okta
5 7 (2.76%) Sparx
6 6 (2.36%) Cisco
6 6 (2.36%) F5
6 6 (2.36%) Juniper
6 6 (2.36%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.36%) Splunk
7 5 (1.97%) Ariba
7 5 (1.97%) IBM
8 4 (1.57%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.57%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.57%) VMware
9 3 (1.18%) Dell