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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 272 254
Rank change year-on-year -109 -18 -3
Permanent jobs citing XML 277 577 699
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.06% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.93% 4.96% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 166 381 463
10th Percentile £37,813 £36,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 7,052 11,638 13,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.44% 24.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,256 6,862 10,885
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £41,039
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 7 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 7 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 -117 231 £55,000 -4.35% 86
UK excluding London -93 179 £55,000 - 70
Work from Home -28 119 £55,000 -18.52% 51
London -18 87 £65,000 +8.33% 28
South East -77 57 £55,000 -15.38% 22
East of England +47 56 £55,000 - 9
Scotland +13 24 £50,000 +11.11% 5
North of England -56 20 £47,500 +10.47% 15
Midlands -22 18 £50,000 -4.31% 14
West Midlands +5 11 £50,000 +17.65% 11
North West -28 8 £52,500 +10.53% 8
East Midlands -21 7 £50,750 -7.73% 3
Yorkshire -32 7 £55,000 +29.41% 7
North East +9 5 £45,000 -6.74%
South West -21 3 £60,000 -11.11% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 (1.81%) Anypoint
1 5 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.44%) Confluence
3 3 (1.08%) JBoss
3 3 (1.08%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.08%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.72%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Appian
5 1 (0.36%) CICS
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) FileNet
5 1 (0.36%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (3.25%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.36%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.36%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (7.22%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (2.17%) Shopify
4 5 (1.81%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (1.08%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.72%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.72%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.36%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 71 (25.63%) Azure
2 51 (18.41%) AWS
3 34 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (12.27%) GitHub
4 26 (9.39%) Power Platform
5 21 (7.58%) Entra ID
5 21 (7.58%) OCI
5 21 (7.58%) Serverless
6 20 (7.22%) SaaS
7 18 (6.50%) Power Automate
8 16 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (5.78%) Boomi
9 10 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (3.61%) iPaaS
10 9 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.25%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.17%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.33%) FTP
2 2 (0.72%) AMQP
2 2 (0.72%) HTTP
2 2 (0.72%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.72%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Modbus
3 1 (0.36%) Multicast
3 1 (0.36%) SSL
3 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.36%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (18.41%) SQL Server
2 43 (15.52%) Relational Database
3 21 (7.58%) Power BI
4 18 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.69%) MySQL
6 12 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.33%) RDBMS
7 10 (3.61%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.25%) OLTP
8 9 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.53%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.17%) GIS
11 5 (1.81%) Metadata
12 3 (1.08%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.08%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.08%) Tableau
13 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.72%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 39 (14.08%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.58%) JIRA
3 20 (7.22%) Oracle Forms
4 14 (5.05%) Git
4 14 (5.05%) JMeter
4 14 (5.05%) JUnit
4 14 (5.05%) Mockito
5 7 (2.53%) PowerBuilder
6 6 (2.17%) Axure RP
7 5 (1.81%) Postman
8 4 (1.44%) Selenium
8 4 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.44%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.08%) NUnit
9 3 (1.08%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.08%) Subversion
10 2 (0.72%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.72%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.72%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 76 (27.44%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.69%) Finance
3 35 (12.64%) Law
4 34 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.42%) German Language
7 13 (4.69%) Retail
8 10 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.89%) Marketing
10 7 (2.53%) Health Technology
10 7 (2.53%) Legal
11 5 (1.81%) Back Office
12 4 (1.44%) Advertising
12 4 (1.44%) Automotive
12 4 (1.44%) Billing
12 4 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.08%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.08%) Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (37.55%) Developer
2 54 (19.49%) Senior
3 23 (8.30%) Senior Developer
4 22 (7.94%) Analyst
5 20 (7.22%) Applications Engineer
5 20 (7.22%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (7.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 18 (6.50%) Java Developer
7 15 (5.42%) Consultant
7 15 (5.42%) SQL Developer
8 14 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (5.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 14 (5.05%) ServiceNow Developer
9 13 (4.69%) Applications Support
9 13 (4.69%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 10 (3.61%) Integration Engineer
12 9 (3.25%) Applications Support Analyst
12 9 (3.25%) PL/SQL Developer
12 9 (3.25%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (70.04%) JSON
2 107 (38.63%) HTML
3 87 (31.41%) REST
4 68 (24.55%) SOAP
5 54 (19.49%) Web Services
6 37 (13.36%) CSS
7 30 (10.83%) Regular Expression
8 27 (9.75%) RESTful
9 22 (7.94%) Spring
10 19 (6.86%) Hibernate
10 19 (6.86%) jQuery
10 19 (6.86%) Spring Boot
11 16 (5.78%) .NET
12 14 (5.05%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (5.05%) Apache Camel
12 14 (5.05%) WireMock
12 14 (5.05%) XSLT
13 9 (3.25%) OAuth
14 7 (2.53%) FHIR
14 7 (2.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.44%) Onboarding
2 32 (11.55%) Linux Command Line
3 28 (10.11%) Cloud Native
4 22 (7.94%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.69%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.81%) NHS
9 4 (1.44%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.44%) W3C
10 3 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.08%) Semantic Web
11 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.72%) DataPower
11 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.64%) Unix
2 13 (4.69%) Linux
3 4 (1.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.36%) Debian
4 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (34.30%) Agile
2 74 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (19.49%) CI/CD
4 50 (18.05%) DevOps
5 46 (16.61%) ERP
6 44 (15.88%) AI
6 44 (15.88%) Test Automation
7 38 (13.72%) API Integration
7 38 (13.72%) LLM
8 37 (13.36%) SDLC
9 34 (12.27%) Data Analysis
9 34 (12.27%) ETL
10 32 (11.55%) Mentoring
11 31 (11.19%) Business Intelligence
11 31 (11.19%) Data Governance
12 26 (9.39%) Coaching
12 26 (9.39%) Translating Business Requirements
13 25 (9.03%) Migration
13 25 (9.03%) Root Cause Analysis
13 25 (9.03%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 139 (50.18%) SQL
2 106 (38.27%) Python
3 76 (27.44%) JavaScript
4 59 (21.30%) Java
5 40 (14.44%) Shell Script
6 38 (13.72%) C#
7 37 (13.36%) PL/SQL
8 11 (3.97%) C
9 10 (3.61%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.61%) VBA
10 8 (2.89%) ActionScript
11 7 (2.53%) C++
11 7 (2.53%) VB.NET
12 6 (2.17%) Perl
13 5 (1.81%) Delphi
13 5 (1.81%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.44%) ActionScript 2.0
14 4 (1.44%) ActionScript 3.0
14 4 (1.44%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.08%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 71 (25.63%) Degree
2 24 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.89%) ISTQB
4 8 (2.89%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.08%) ISEB
6 3 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.72%) HNC
7 2 (0.72%) HND
7 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.72%) PMP
8 1 (0.36%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.14%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.05%) QA
3 11 (3.97%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.61%) GDPR
5 7 (2.53%) HL7
6 5 (1.81%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.72%) EMIR
7 2 (0.72%) SLA
7 2 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.36%) COBIT
System Software
1 27 (9.75%) Docker
2 20 (7.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 25 (9.03%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (8.30%) Terraform
4 14 (5.05%) Kibana
5 3 (1.08%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.72%) Ansible
6 2 (0.72%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 62 (22.38%) Oracle
2 44 (15.88%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.58%) ServiceNow
4 20 (7.22%) Okta
5 15 (5.42%) SAP
6 14 (5.05%) Dynatrace
6 14 (5.05%) Splunk
7 11 (3.97%) MuleSoft
8 9 (3.25%) Dell
9 7 (2.53%) IBM
9 7 (2.53%) Informatica
9 7 (2.53%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.53%) Workday
10 6 (2.17%) Talend
11 5 (1.81%) Cisco
11 5 (1.81%) Epicor
11 5 (1.81%) Infor
11 5 (1.81%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.81%) Software AG
11 5 (1.81%) TIBCO