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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 392 299
Rank change year-on-year -120 -93 -49
Permanent jobs citing XML 291 314 707
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.63% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.44% 3.64% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 203 226 445
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -0.83%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
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 11,911 8,626 16,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.67% 17.43% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8,640 5,540 11,238
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year - +6.15% -5.79%

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 6 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 6 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 -130 260 £60,000 +9.09% 244
UK excluding London -85 212 £55,000 +4.76% 130
Work from Home -61 122 £55,000 - 111
South East -66 64 £60,000 +8.60% 36
London -108 61 £75,000 +15.38% 140
Midlands -2 45 £52,500 +5.00% 27
North of England -49 40 £70,000 +30.23% 20
West Midlands -4 39 £52,500 +5.00% 17
South West -57 33 £31,500 +6.78% 17
North West -14 22 £73,500 +33.64% 11
Yorkshire -39 15 £63,076 +28.73% 5
East of England -63 13 £42,500 -15.00% 8
Wales - 7 £55,000 - 4
East Midlands -27 6 £50,000 +5.26% 10
Isle of Man - 5 £38,500 -
Scotland +1 3 £63,750 +27.50% 12
North East -65 3 £65,288 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 8

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 14 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.12%) Confluence
3 10 (3.44%) CMS
4 9 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (2.75%) Apache
6 6 (2.06%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (1.72%) IIS
8 4 (1.37%) SAS
9 2 (0.69%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.34%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.72%) CorelDRAW
4 4 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (3.78%) Elite 3E
1 11 (3.78%) Oracle Retail
2 7 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.06%) Oracle Cash Management
3 6 (2.06%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.06%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (2.06%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 5 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (1.37%) NEC Housing
6 3 (1.03%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.69%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.69%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.34%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.34%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 92 (31.62%) Azure
2 41 (14.09%) Power Platform
3 34 (11.68%) AWS
4 29 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (8.25%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (6.19%) SaaS
7 16 (5.50%) Boomi
7 16 (5.50%) Power Automate
8 14 (4.81%) GitHub
9 12 (4.12%) PowerApps
9 12 (4.12%) Serverless
10 11 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (3.09%) GCP
12 6 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.06%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (1.72%) Azure Event Grid
13 5 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.15%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.41%) DNS
2 7 (2.41%) Firewall
3 6 (2.06%) Wireshark
4 5 (1.72%) Intranet
5 3 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.03%) SSL
6 2 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.69%) FTP
6 2 (0.69%) VPN
7 1 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.34%) Multicast
7 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (18.56%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.31%) Power BI
3 26 (8.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 23 (7.90%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (3.44%) Metadata
6 10 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.09%) RDBMS
8 8 (2.75%) OLTP
9 7 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (2.41%) MySQL
10 6 (2.06%) GIS
10 6 (2.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 6 (2.06%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.06%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.72%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (12.03%) JIRA
2 24 (8.25%) Git
3 15 (5.15%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.12%) JMeter
5 10 (3.44%) GitLab
6 9 (3.09%) JUnit
7 8 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.75%) Postman
7 8 (2.75%) Selenium
8 7 (2.41%) Moq
8 7 (2.41%) SoapUI
9 6 (2.06%) Zephyr
10 5 (1.72%) Mockito
11 4 (1.37%) Maven
11 4 (1.37%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.03%) ERwin
13 2 (0.69%) Bower
13 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.69%) WebDriver
General
1 97 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 85 (29.21%) Finance
3 79 (27.15%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (9.28%) Retail
6 26 (8.93%) Manufacturing
7 22 (7.56%) Public Sector
8 21 (7.22%) Law
9 17 (5.84%) Legal
10 15 (5.15%) Electronics
10 15 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (4.81%) Marketing
12 11 (3.78%) Banking
13 9 (3.09%) Aerospace
13 9 (3.09%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.41%) Automotive
14 7 (2.41%) Health Technology
14 7 (2.41%) Publishing
15 6 (2.06%) Financial Institution
15 6 (2.06%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 87 (29.90%) Developer
2 63 (21.65%) Senior
3 46 (15.81%) Analyst
4 34 (11.68%) Senior Developer
5 31 (10.65%) Consultant
6 29 (9.97%) Support Analyst
7 27 (9.28%) Architect
8 25 (8.59%) Lead
9 22 (7.56%) .NET Developer
10 21 (7.22%) Software Engineer
11 18 (6.19%) Web Developer
12 16 (5.50%) Applications Engineer
13 15 (5.15%) SQL Developer
14 13 (4.47%) .NET Web Developer
15 12 (4.12%) Test Engineer
16 11 (3.78%) Integration Architect
17 10 (3.44%) Author
17 10 (3.44%) Software Support Analyst
17 10 (3.44%) Systems Analyst
17 10 (3.44%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (50.17%) JSON
2 63 (21.65%) HTML
3 62 (21.31%) .NET
4 61 (20.96%) REST
5 58 (19.93%) SOAP
6 41 (14.09%) .NET Framework
6 41 (14.09%) CSS
7 40 (13.75%) Web Services
8 30 (10.31%) Middleware
9 29 (9.97%) XSLT
10 22 (7.56%) EDI
11 20 (6.87%) Entity Framework
11 20 (6.87%) RESTful
12 17 (5.84%) ASP.NET
13 14 (4.81%) jQuery
14 13 (4.47%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (3.78%) Kafka
15 11 (3.78%) React
16 10 (3.44%) Classic ASP
16 10 (3.44%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.19%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.15%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.47%) Data Structures
3 13 (4.47%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.78%) SCADA
6 9 (3.09%) Client/Server
6 9 (3.09%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.09%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.09%) Robotics
7 8 (2.75%) NHS
7 8 (2.75%) Taxonomies
8 7 (2.41%) Acoustics
8 7 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.37%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.40%) Windows
2 33 (11.34%) Linux
3 23 (7.90%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.03%) Android
5 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.69%) Unix
7 1 (0.34%) Debian
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (30.93%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (26.12%) Agile
3 55 (18.90%) DevOps
4 39 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (13.06%) CI/CD
5 38 (13.06%) Roadmaps
6 35 (12.03%) Data Modelling
6 35 (12.03%) ERP
7 34 (11.68%) Validation
8 33 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (11.00%) CRM
9 32 (11.00%) Customer Service
10 31 (10.65%) Software Engineering
11 29 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (9.62%) Project Delivery
13 26 (8.93%) Mentoring
13 26 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
14 25 (8.59%) AI
15 24 (8.25%) SDLC
15 24 (8.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 167 (57.39%) SQL
2 75 (25.77%) JavaScript
3 59 (20.27%) C#
4 58 (19.93%) Python
5 41 (14.09%) Java
6 23 (7.90%) C++
7 14 (4.81%) PL/SQL
8 12 (4.12%) VB.NET
9 10 (3.44%) PHP
9 10 (3.44%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.44%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.44%) XPath
10 9 (3.09%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.41%) XAML
12 6 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.72%) VB
14 4 (1.37%) Perl
14 4 (1.37%) VBA
15 3 (1.03%) Bash
15 3 (1.03%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 82 (28.18%) Degree
2 19 (6.53%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.41%) ISTQB
5 6 (2.06%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.72%) HNC
6 5 (1.72%) HND
6 5 (1.72%) ISEB
6 5 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.03%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.03%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.69%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.34%) GIAC
10 1 (0.34%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.93%) QA
2 17 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.81%) Accessibility
4 12 (4.12%) TickIT
5 7 (2.41%) HL7
6 5 (1.72%) FATCA
6 5 (1.72%) WCAG
7 4 (1.37%) GDPR
8 3 (1.03%) CDISC
8 3 (1.03%) SLA
9 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.34%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.34%) GRC
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (7.22%) Docker
2 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.72%) vSphere
3 1 (0.34%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 12 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.72%) Kibana
3 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 87 (29.90%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.71%) Oracle
3 15 (5.15%) IBM
4 14 (4.81%) SAP
5 12 (4.12%) Google
6 11 (3.78%) IBM Sterling
7 9 (3.09%) Databricks
7 9 (3.09%) Splunk
8 6 (2.06%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.06%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.72%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.72%) Pega
9 5 (1.72%) VMware
10 4 (1.37%) Ariba
10 4 (1.37%) NEC
11 3 (1.03%) Infor
11 3 (1.03%) McAfee
11 3 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.03%) Sparx