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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 318 276
Rank change year-on-year -153 -42 +14
Permanent jobs citing XML 255 402 998
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.94% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.92% 4.78% 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 155 338 630
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,734 £93,758 £86,938
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 8,731 8,418 20,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.67% 19.60% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,377 6,348 15,703
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,500
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 4 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 4 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 -163 217 £64,585 +12.32% 85
UK excluding London -119 168 £62,500 +19.05% 61
Work from Home -44 110 £58,750 -12.96% 48
South East -90 56 £65,000 -3.70% 23
London -66 54 £70,000 +7.69% 32
East of England -3 38 £55,000 +15.79% 3
North of England -77 36 £73,500 +47.00% 18
Midlands -39 24 £54,000 +0.58% 7
North West -40 22 £73,500 +46.84% 11
Yorkshire -61 14 £73,420 +95.79% 7
East Midlands -44 13 £54,000 -1.82% 3
West Midlands -17 11 £61,500 +44.71% 4
Scotland -18 9 £72,500 +52.45% 3
South West -68 4 £31,500 -12.50% 7
Wales -31 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.35%) JBoss
2 6 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.18%) Confluence
3 3 (1.18%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.78%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) CICS
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) SAS
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.75%) 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 (3.14%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Magento
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 76 (29.80%) Azure
2 46 (18.04%) AWS
2 46 (18.04%) Power Platform
3 23 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (8.24%) GitHub
5 20 (7.84%) SaaS
6 16 (6.27%) Boomi
6 16 (6.27%) Entra ID
7 14 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (5.10%) Serverless
9 9 (3.53%) Apigee
9 9 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.53%) OCI
10 8 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.35%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.35%) GCP
11 6 (2.35%) Kong
11 6 (2.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.92%) Firewall
2 6 (2.35%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.57%) DNS
3 4 (1.57%) SSL
4 3 (1.18%) AMQP
4 3 (1.18%) FTP
5 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.78%) 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 43 (16.86%) Power BI
2 35 (13.73%) SQL Server
3 29 (11.37%) Relational Database
4 24 (9.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (6.27%) Metadata
7 15 (5.88%) OLTP
8 13 (5.10%) MySQL
9 11 (4.31%) RDBMS
10 10 (3.92%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.75%) 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 (0.78%) Big Data
13 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.78%) Oracle BI EE
13 2 (0.78%) Oracle ODI
13 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (11.76%) JIRA
2 20 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.31%) Git
3 11 (4.31%) GitLab
4 10 (3.92%) Selenium
5 8 (3.14%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (2.75%) ERwin
6 7 (2.75%) Moq
7 6 (2.35%) JUnit
7 6 (2.35%) Maven
7 6 (2.35%) Postman
8 5 (1.96%) JMeter
8 5 (1.96%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.96%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.57%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.18%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.18%) Mockito
10 3 (1.18%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 92 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 73 (28.63%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (22.75%) Finance
4 17 (6.67%) Retail
5 14 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (5.49%) Marketing
6 12 (4.71%) German Language
7 11 (4.31%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.53%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.14%) Electronics
9 8 (3.14%) Law
9 8 (3.14%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.75%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.75%) Automotive
11 6 (2.35%) Banking
11 6 (2.35%) Front Office
11 6 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (33.33%) Developer
2 55 (21.57%) Senior
3 33 (12.94%) Senior Developer
4 26 (10.20%) Consultant
5 23 (9.02%) Analyst
5 23 (9.02%) Architect
6 16 (6.27%) SQL Developer
7 15 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
7 15 (5.88%) PL/SQL Developer
7 15 (5.88%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 15 (5.88%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
7 15 (5.88%) Senior SQL Developer
8 14 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 13 (5.10%) Applications Engineer
10 12 (4.71%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.31%) Applications Architect
11 11 (4.31%) C# Developer
11 11 (4.31%) Lead
12 10 (3.92%) Integration Architect
13 9 (3.53%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (64.71%) JSON
2 75 (29.41%) SOAP
3 72 (28.24%) REST
4 59 (23.14%) HTML
5 28 (10.98%) Middleware
6 26 (10.20%) .NET
6 26 (10.20%) Regular Expression
7 25 (9.80%) Web Services
8 19 (7.45%) RESTful
9 17 (6.67%) EDI
9 17 (6.67%) XSLT
10 16 (6.27%) Spring
11 14 (5.49%) CSS
11 14 (5.49%) Spring Boot
12 12 (4.71%) OAuth
13 11 (4.31%) WinForms
14 10 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (3.92%) Node.js
15 9 (3.53%) Hibernate
15 9 (3.53%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.04%) Onboarding
2 27 (10.59%) Linux Command Line
3 24 (9.41%) Data Structures
4 19 (7.45%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (6.27%) Cloud Native
6 12 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (4.71%) Product Ownership
7 11 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.53%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.75%) Acoustics
9 7 (2.75%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.75%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.75%) SCADA
10 4 (1.57%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.18%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.76%) Unix
2 19 (7.45%) Linux
3 11 (4.31%) 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 66 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (23.92%) Agile
3 45 (17.65%) Data Modelling
4 42 (16.47%) DevOps
5 39 (15.29%) Business Intelligence
5 39 (15.29%) CI/CD
5 39 (15.29%) ERP
6 37 (14.51%) AI
7 32 (12.55%) API Integration
8 31 (12.16%) Migration
9 30 (11.76%) Test Automation
10 28 (10.98%) CRM
10 28 (10.98%) Roadmaps
11 27 (10.59%) Collaborative Working
12 26 (10.20%) Decision-Making
12 26 (10.20%) Software Testing
13 25 (9.80%) Data Analysis
14 24 (9.41%) Customer Service
15 22 (8.63%) LLM
15 22 (8.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 134 (52.55%) SQL
2 87 (34.12%) Python
3 56 (21.96%) Java
4 41 (16.08%) C#
5 38 (14.90%) JavaScript
6 24 (9.41%) PL/SQL
7 16 (6.27%) Shell Script
8 12 (4.71%) C++
8 12 (4.71%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.31%) Delphi
10 10 (3.92%) T-SQL
11 8 (3.14%) Perl
11 8 (3.14%) XAML
12 7 (2.75%) TypeScript
12 7 (2.75%) VB
13 5 (1.96%) VBA
14 4 (1.57%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.57%) ActionScript 2.0
14 4 (1.57%) Bash
15 3 (1.18%) VC++
Qualifications
1 67 (26.27%) Degree
2 27 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.31%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.96%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.96%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.78%) 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 34 (13.33%) QA
2 13 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.71%) TickIT
4 8 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.18%) EMIR
6 3 (1.18%) HL7
6 3 (1.18%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.18%) SLA
7 2 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (8.63%) Docker
2 20 (7.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.57%) vSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 18 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.71%) Terraform
3 8 (3.14%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.18%) HP Fortify
4 3 (1.18%) Kibana
5 2 (0.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 60 (23.53%) Oracle
2 35 (13.73%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.92%) Palo Alto
4 9 (3.53%) Databricks
4 9 (3.53%) SAP
5 8 (3.14%) Okta
6 7 (2.75%) Sparx
7 6 (2.35%) Cisco
7 6 (2.35%) F5
7 6 (2.35%) Juniper
7 6 (2.35%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.35%) Splunk
8 5 (1.96%) Ariba
9 4 (1.57%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.57%) IBM
9 4 (1.57%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.57%) VMware
10 3 (1.18%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.78%) Freshdesk