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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 380 287
Rank change year-on-year -138 -93 -28
Permanent jobs citing XML 270 339 819
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.69% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 3.89% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 183 251 536
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% -6.40%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,780 £83,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.50% -9.09% -4.35%

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 10,419 8,722 16,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.24% 17.68% 19.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,720 5,725 12,373
10th Percentile £41,225 £38,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,888 £105,000
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 29 July 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 17 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 29 July 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 -142 238 £58,000 +5.45% 94
UK excluding London -99 191 £57,750 +15.50% 57
Work from Home -56 118 £55,000 -12.35% 47
South East -55 77 £60,000 -4.00% 17
London -78 53 £57,750 -17.50% 48
North of England -32 34 £73,500 +46.84% 10
Midlands -25 29 £51,250 -14.58% 12
South West -56 29 £31,500 -14.86% 10
North West -13 22 £71,750 +30.45% 4
West Midlands -18 22 £47,500 -24.00% 8
East of England -54 12 £52,500 +10.53% 4
Yorkshire -26 10 £76,919 +56.98% 6
East Midlands -27 7 £55,000 +9.45% 4
Wales - 7 £55,000 -
Scotland +9 2 £72,500 +45.00% 4
North East -52 2 £67,500 +92.86%
Northern Ireland - 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 14 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.70%) Confluence
4 8 (2.96%) Apache
5 6 (2.22%) CMS
6 4 (1.48%) SAS
7 3 (1.11%) JBoss
8 2 (0.74%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.85%) CorelDRAW
4 4 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.07%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (1.48%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.11%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.74%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.74%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.37%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (30.37%) Azure
2 40 (14.81%) AWS
3 38 (14.07%) Power Platform
4 21 (7.78%) Dynamics 365
4 21 (7.78%) SaaS
5 18 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (5.93%) Boomi
7 14 (5.19%) GitHub
8 11 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (3.33%) Apigee
10 9 (3.33%) Serverless
11 8 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.59%) GCP
13 6 (2.22%) Azure Event Grid
13 6 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.22%) Kong
13 6 (2.22%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.81%) Firewall
2 9 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.59%) DNS
4 6 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (2.22%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.85%) Intranet
6 3 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.11%) SSL
7 1 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.37%) HTTP
7 1 (0.37%) Multicast
7 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.93%) SQL Server
2 31 (11.48%) Power BI
3 28 (10.37%) Relational Database
4 24 (8.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 17 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.81%) Metadata
6 13 (4.81%) RDBMS
7 12 (4.44%) MySQL
7 12 (4.44%) OLTP
8 9 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.59%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (2.59%) GIS
9 7 (2.59%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.85%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.11%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle BI EE
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.74%) Spotfire
12 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (12.22%) JIRA
2 18 (6.67%) Git
3 16 (5.93%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.56%) GitLab
5 12 (4.44%) Selenium
6 9 (3.33%) JMeter
6 9 (3.33%) JUnit
7 7 (2.59%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.59%) ERwin
7 7 (2.59%) Moq
8 6 (2.22%) Postman
8 6 (2.22%) WebDriver
9 5 (1.85%) Maven
9 5 (1.85%) Mockito
9 5 (1.85%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.48%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.11%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.11%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.74%) Bower
General
1 96 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 84 (31.11%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (24.81%) Finance
4 27 (10.00%) Retail
5 26 (9.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.81%) Marketing
8 11 (4.07%) Electronics
8 11 (4.07%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.70%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.33%) Aerospace
10 9 (3.33%) Banking
10 9 (3.33%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.59%) Automotive
11 7 (2.59%) Health Technology
12 6 (2.22%) Law
13 5 (1.85%) Legal
13 5 (1.85%) Publishing
14 4 (1.48%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 79 (29.26%) Developer
2 47 (17.41%) Senior
3 46 (17.04%) Analyst
4 31 (11.48%) Senior Developer
5 29 (10.74%) Consultant
6 25 (9.26%) Architect
7 24 (8.89%) Support Analyst
8 21 (7.78%) Software Engineer
9 20 (7.41%) Lead
10 17 (6.30%) .NET Developer
11 15 (5.56%) Web Developer
12 14 (5.19%) SQL Developer
13 12 (4.44%) Oracle Developer
13 12 (4.44%) Senior Oracle Developer
14 11 (4.07%) Applications Engineer
14 11 (4.07%) Senior SQL Developer
15 10 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
15 10 (3.70%) Full-Stack Web Developer
15 10 (3.70%) Software Analyst
15 10 (3.70%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (57.78%) JSON
2 65 (24.07%) HTML
3 60 (22.22%) REST
4 57 (21.11%) .NET
5 56 (20.74%) SOAP
6 39 (14.44%) CSS
7 31 (11.48%) .NET Framework
8 29 (10.74%) Middleware
9 27 (10.00%) Web Services
10 17 (6.30%) EDI
10 17 (6.30%) Entity Framework
11 16 (5.93%) ASP.NET
11 16 (5.93%) RESTful
11 16 (5.93%) XSLT
12 13 (4.81%) ASP.NET MVC
12 13 (4.81%) Node.js
13 12 (4.44%) React
14 11 (4.07%) AngularJS
14 11 (4.07%) Kafka
14 11 (4.07%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.52%) Data Structures
2 22 (8.15%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.33%) Robotics
7 8 (2.96%) NHS
7 8 (2.96%) SCADA
8 7 (2.59%) Acoustics
8 7 (2.59%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.85%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.85%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 41 (15.19%) Linux
2 39 (14.44%) Windows
3 20 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.22%) Unix
6 3 (1.11%) Android
6 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) Debian
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (27.78%) Agile
3 43 (15.93%) Data Modelling
4 42 (15.56%) DevOps
5 35 (12.96%) CI/CD
6 32 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (11.85%) Roadmaps
7 31 (11.48%) Software Engineering
7 31 (11.48%) Validation
8 30 (11.11%) ERP
9 29 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (9.63%) CRM
10 26 (9.63%) Customer Service
10 26 (9.63%) Project Delivery
11 25 (9.26%) Collaborative Working
12 24 (8.89%) Computer Science
12 24 (8.89%) Integration Patterns
12 24 (8.89%) Software Testing
13 23 (8.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 156 (57.78%) SQL
2 75 (27.78%) Python
3 69 (25.56%) JavaScript
4 62 (22.96%) C#
5 41 (15.19%) Java
6 24 (8.89%) C++
7 15 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.44%) PL/SQL
8 12 (4.44%) Shell Script
8 12 (4.44%) T-SQL
9 11 (4.07%) PHP
10 8 (2.96%) XAML
11 6 (2.22%) VB
11 6 (2.22%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.85%) Bash
12 5 (1.85%) Perl
12 5 (1.85%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.11%) Delphi
13 3 (1.11%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.11%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 70 (25.93%) Degree
2 24 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.96%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.85%) HNC
5 5 (1.85%) HND
5 5 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.85%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.48%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.48%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.11%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.11%) ISEB
8 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.37%) CISSP
9 1 (0.37%) GIAC
9 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.37%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.63%) QA
2 14 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.44%) TickIT
4 10 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.59%) HL7
6 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.48%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.11%) CDISC
8 3 (1.11%) SLA
9 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.74%) WCAG
10 1 (0.37%) EMIR
10 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (9.26%) Docker
2 12 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.59%) vSphere
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 13 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.85%) Kibana
3 4 (1.48%) Terraform
4 3 (1.11%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.37%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.37%) QRadar
Vendors
1 70 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 39 (14.44%) Oracle
3 13 (4.81%) Databricks
4 12 (4.44%) Google
4 12 (4.44%) IBM
5 11 (4.07%) IBM Sterling
5 11 (4.07%) SAP
6 10 (3.70%) Palo Alto
6 10 (3.70%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.33%) Splunk
8 7 (2.59%) Sparx
8 7 (2.59%) VMware
9 6 (2.22%) Cisco
9 6 (2.22%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.22%) F5
9 6 (2.22%) Juniper
10 4 (1.48%) Ariba
10 4 (1.48%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.48%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.11%) Pega