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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 325 292
Rank change year-on-year -146 -33 +2
Permanent jobs citing XML 252 393 965
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.90% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.80% 4.51% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 155 327 620
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,336 £93,761 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.19% -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 8,997 8,711 20,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 19.84% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,619 6,304 15,761
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 15 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 11 May 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 -148 215 £65,500 +13.91% 80
UK excluding London -115 166 £66,250 +26.19% 58
Work from Home -21 110 £62,500 -7.41% 45
South East -65 60 £67,500 - 25
London -83 53 £70,000 +7.69% 28
North of England -67 36 £73,500 +46.92% 16
East of England -7 32 £55,000 +15.79% 3
Midlands -35 24 £54,000 -0.63% 7
North West -21 22 £73,500 +46.84% 11
Yorkshire -53 14 £73,420 +95.79% 5
East Midlands -24 13 £54,000 -1.82% 2
West Midlands -27 11 £61,500 +27.87% 5
Scotland -1 8 £72,500 +52.45% 3
South West -68 5 £31,500 -14.86% 4
Wales -28 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 17 (6.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.38%) JBoss
2 6 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.19%) Confluence
3 3 (1.19%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.79%) Apache
4 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.40%) CICS
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.40%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.79%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.40%) Magento
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 77 (30.56%) Azure
2 47 (18.65%) AWS
2 47 (18.65%) Power Platform
3 22 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (8.33%) SaaS
5 20 (7.94%) GitHub
6 17 (6.75%) Boomi
7 16 (6.35%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (5.95%) Entra ID
9 14 (5.56%) Serverless
10 9 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.57%) Apigee
10 9 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (3.17%) OCI
12 7 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (2.78%) GCP
13 6 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.38%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.38%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.97%) Firewall
2 6 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.59%) DNS
3 4 (1.59%) SSL
4 3 (1.19%) AMQP
5 2 (0.79%) FTP
5 2 (0.79%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.79%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.40%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.40%) HTTP
6 1 (0.40%) Modbus
6 1 (0.40%) Multicast
6 1 (0.40%) Network Security
6 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (17.06%) Power BI
2 35 (13.89%) SQL Server
3 30 (11.90%) Relational Database
4 24 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 23 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (6.75%) OLTP
7 15 (5.95%) Metadata
8 12 (4.76%) MySQL
8 12 (4.76%) RDBMS
9 10 (3.97%) Oracle Database
10 7 (2.78%) GIS
11 3 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.19%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (1.19%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.79%) Oracle BI EE
12 2 (0.79%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (11.51%) JIRA
2 20 (7.94%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.37%) Git
3 11 (4.37%) GitLab
4 10 (3.97%) Selenium
5 7 (2.78%) ERwin
5 7 (2.78%) JUnit
5 7 (2.78%) Moq
5 7 (2.78%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (2.38%) JMeter
6 6 (2.38%) Maven
7 5 (1.98%) Postman
7 5 (1.98%) SpecFlow
7 5 (1.98%) WebDriver
8 4 (1.59%) Mockito
8 4 (1.59%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.19%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 89 (35.32%) Social Skills
2 73 (28.97%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (22.62%) Finance
4 17 (6.75%) Retail
5 15 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.56%) Marketing
7 10 (3.97%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.97%) German Language
7 10 (3.97%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.57%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.17%) Electronics
9 8 (3.17%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.78%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.78%) Automotive
10 7 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.38%) Banking
11 6 (2.38%) Law
12 5 (1.98%) Front Office
13 3 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 86 (34.13%) Developer
2 56 (22.22%) Senior
3 35 (13.89%) Senior Developer
4 26 (10.32%) Consultant
5 23 (9.13%) Architect
6 22 (8.73%) Analyst
7 17 (6.75%) Oracle Developer
7 17 (6.75%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 17 (6.75%) SQL Developer
8 16 (6.35%) PL/SQL Developer
8 16 (6.35%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
8 16 (6.35%) Senior SQL Developer
9 15 (5.95%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
10 12 (4.76%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.76%) Lead
11 11 (4.37%) Applications Architect
11 11 (4.37%) C# Developer
12 10 (3.97%) Integration Architect
13 8 (3.17%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (63.49%) JSON
2 75 (29.76%) SOAP
3 73 (28.97%) REST
4 57 (22.62%) HTML
5 29 (11.51%) Middleware
6 28 (11.11%) .NET
7 26 (10.32%) Web Services
8 22 (8.73%) Regular Expression
9 18 (7.14%) RESTful
10 17 (6.75%) EDI
10 17 (6.75%) Spring
11 16 (6.35%) XSLT
12 15 (5.95%) Spring Boot
13 14 (5.56%) CSS
14 12 (4.76%) OAuth
15 11 (4.37%) Node.js
15 11 (4.37%) WinForms
16 10 (3.97%) FIX Protocol
16 10 (3.97%) Hibernate
16 10 (3.97%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.06%) Onboarding
2 24 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 23 (9.13%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (5.95%) Cloud Native
6 13 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (5.16%) Product Ownership
7 12 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (4.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (2.78%) Acoustics
11 7 (2.78%) e-Learning
11 7 (2.78%) Operational Technology
11 7 (2.78%) SCADA
12 3 (1.19%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.19%) NHS
12 3 (1.19%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.32%) Unix
2 21 (8.33%) Linux
3 14 (5.56%) Windows
4 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) Debian
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (26.59%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (24.21%) Agile
3 45 (17.86%) Data Modelling
4 42 (16.67%) DevOps
5 40 (15.87%) CI/CD
6 39 (15.48%) Business Intelligence
6 39 (15.48%) ERP
7 34 (13.49%) AI
8 31 (12.30%) API Integration
9 29 (11.51%) CRM
9 29 (11.51%) Migration
10 28 (11.11%) Roadmaps
10 28 (11.11%) Software Testing
10 28 (11.11%) Test Automation
11 27 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
12 25 (9.92%) Customer Service
12 25 (9.92%) Decision-Making
13 24 (9.52%) SDLC
14 23 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.13%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 135 (53.57%) SQL
2 84 (33.33%) Python
3 56 (22.22%) Java
4 42 (16.67%) C#
5 39 (15.48%) JavaScript
6 25 (9.92%) PL/SQL
7 16 (6.35%) Shell Script
8 13 (5.16%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.37%) C++
9 11 (4.37%) Delphi
10 10 (3.97%) T-SQL
11 8 (3.17%) Perl
11 8 (3.17%) XAML
12 7 (2.78%) TypeScript
12 7 (2.78%) VB
13 4 (1.59%) ActionScript
13 4 (1.59%) ActionScript 2.0
13 4 (1.59%) Bash
13 4 (1.59%) VBA
14 3 (1.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 67 (26.59%) Degree
2 27 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.37%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.98%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.59%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CISSP
9 1 (0.40%) GIAC
9 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.40%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.10%) QA
2 12 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.76%) TickIT
3 8 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.19%) HL7
5 3 (1.19%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.19%) SLA
6 2 (0.79%) EMIR
6 2 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (9.52%) Docker
2 19 (7.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.59%) vSphere
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 19 (7.54%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.37%) Terraform
3 7 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.59%) Kibana
5 3 (1.19%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.79%) Ansible
7 1 (0.40%) QRadar
Vendors
1 61 (24.21%) Oracle
2 35 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.97%) Palo Alto
3 10 (3.97%) SAP
4 9 (3.57%) Databricks
5 8 (3.17%) Splunk
6 7 (2.78%) Okta
6 7 (2.78%) Sparx
7 6 (2.38%) Cisco
7 6 (2.38%) F5
7 6 (2.38%) Juniper
7 6 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.98%) Ariba
8 5 (1.98%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.59%) IBM
9 4 (1.59%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.59%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.59%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.59%) VMware
10 2 (0.79%) Dell