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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 287 225
Rank change year-on-year -95 -62 +25
Permanent jobs citing XML 292 646 824
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.96% 1.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.02% 4.74% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 189 401 592
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,775
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £77,510
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.80%

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 7,256 13,623 14,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.85% 20.24% 26.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,163 8,180 11,625
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +0.77%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,289
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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 -113 253 £55,000 -4.35% 181
UK excluding London -62 191 £55,000 - 108
Work from Home -10 131 £55,000 -15.38% 140
London -6 97 £70,000 +7.69% 89
South East -55 75 £55,000 -15.38% 33
East of England +38 50 £55,000 -12.00% 16
Midlands +25 20 £50,000 -3.85% 19
North of England -39 20 £45,000 -5.32% 27
Scotland +12 19 £50,000 +8.04% 7
West Midlands +34 15 £50,000 +17.65% 5
North West -9 8 £52,500 - 20
South West -14 8 £67,500 - 7
North East +13 6 £45,000 -6.74%
Yorkshire -16 6 £43,250 +73.00% 7
East Midlands -3 5 £47,500 -13.64% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 6 (2.05%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.37%) Confluence
3 4 (1.37%) IIS
4 3 (1.03%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) FileNet
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (3.42%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (4.79%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (4.11%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (2.40%) Shopify
4 6 (2.05%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.03%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.68%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.68%) Q-Pulse
7 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 77 (26.37%) Azure
2 56 (19.18%) AWS
3 45 (15.41%) GitHub
4 36 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (10.62%) SaaS
6 24 (8.22%) Serverless
7 23 (7.88%) Power Platform
8 21 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (7.19%) Power Automate
9 17 (5.82%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (5.48%) Entra ID
11 15 (5.14%) Boomi
12 14 (4.79%) OCI
13 12 (4.11%) iPaaS
14 10 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.08%) PowerApps
16 8 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.42%) FTP
2 3 (1.03%) Asterisk PBX
2 3 (1.03%) HTTP
2 3 (1.03%) Multicast
3 2 (0.68%) RFID
3 2 (0.68%) SSL
4 1 (0.34%) DMARC
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.34%) Modbus
4 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (20.55%) SQL Server
2 44 (15.07%) Relational Database
3 25 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.51%) RDBMS
5 17 (5.82%) Power BI
6 14 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (4.79%) MySQL
7 11 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.42%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.40%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (2.40%) GIS
10 6 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.71%) OLTP
12 4 (1.37%) Metadata
13 3 (1.03%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.03%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.03%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.03%) Tableau
14 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 42 (14.38%) Jenkins
2 28 (9.59%) Git
3 22 (7.53%) JIRA
4 21 (7.19%) JMeter
4 21 (7.19%) JUnit
4 21 (7.19%) Mockito
5 14 (4.79%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (3.42%) Visual Studio
7 8 (2.74%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (2.40%) Postman
9 6 (2.05%) Axure RP
9 6 (2.05%) MSBuild
9 6 (2.05%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (2.05%) PowerBuilder
10 5 (1.71%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.37%) Selenium
12 3 (1.03%) NUnit
12 3 (1.03%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (1.03%) Subversion
General
1 81 (27.74%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.73%) Finance
3 40 (13.70%) Law
4 36 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 19 (6.51%) Retail
7 16 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.45%) Back Office
9 11 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.74%) Front Office
10 8 (2.74%) Legal
10 8 (2.74%) Marketing
11 7 (2.40%) German Language
11 7 (2.40%) Health Technology
12 6 (2.05%) Advertising
13 5 (1.71%) Automotive
14 4 (1.37%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.37%) Banking
14 4 (1.37%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.03%) Billing
Job Titles
1 114 (39.04%) Developer
2 47 (16.10%) Senior
3 24 (8.22%) Analyst
4 21 (7.19%) Java Developer
5 20 (6.85%) Consultant
5 20 (6.85%) Senior Developer
6 19 (6.51%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (6.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 17 (5.82%) SQL Developer
9 15 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (5.14%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 14 (4.79%) Applications Engineer
10 14 (4.79%) Data Engineer
10 14 (4.79%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.45%) Applications Support
11 13 (4.45%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 12 (4.11%) Integration Engineer
12 12 (4.11%) Lead
12 12 (4.11%) ServiceNow Developer
12 12 (4.11%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (68.15%) JSON
2 111 (38.01%) HTML
3 98 (33.56%) REST
4 60 (20.55%) SOAP
5 59 (20.21%) Web Services
6 52 (17.81%) CSS
7 30 (10.27%) .NET
8 26 (8.90%) jQuery
9 25 (8.56%) RESTful
10 23 (7.88%) Spring
11 21 (7.19%) ActiveMQ
11 21 (7.19%) Apache Camel
11 21 (7.19%) Hibernate
11 21 (7.19%) Spring Boot
11 21 (7.19%) WireMock
12 18 (6.16%) Regular Expression
13 15 (5.14%) ASP.NET
14 9 (3.08%) XSLT
15 8 (2.74%) FHIR
15 8 (2.74%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.93%) Onboarding
2 27 (9.25%) Cloud Native
3 21 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (6.16%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (4.45%) Low-Code
6 13 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (4.11%) NHS
8 9 (3.08%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.05%) BYOD
10 5 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.37%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.37%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.37%) W3C
12 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.68%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.22%) Unix
2 15 (5.14%) Linux
3 4 (1.37%) Windows
4 3 (1.03%) Debian
4 3 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (38.70%) Agile
2 83 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (22.60%) DevOps
4 60 (20.55%) CI/CD
5 46 (15.75%) Test Automation
6 40 (13.70%) Microservices
7 38 (13.01%) SDLC
8 37 (12.67%) API Integration
8 37 (12.67%) ERP
9 36 (12.33%) ETL
9 36 (12.33%) Mentoring
9 36 (12.33%) Workflow
10 35 (11.99%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (11.64%) AI
12 31 (10.62%) Computer Science
13 29 (9.93%) Data Integration
14 28 (9.59%) LLM
15 27 (9.25%) Problem Management
16 26 (8.90%) BDD
16 26 (8.90%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 151 (51.71%) SQL
2 106 (36.30%) JavaScript
3 99 (33.90%) Python
4 58 (19.86%) C#
4 58 (19.86%) Java
5 42 (14.38%) Shell Script
6 28 (9.59%) PL/SQL
7 17 (5.82%) C
8 11 (3.77%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.42%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.08%) VBA
11 6 (2.05%) C++
11 6 (2.05%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.71%) Perl
13 4 (1.37%) ActionScript
13 4 (1.37%) ActionScript 3.0
13 4 (1.37%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.03%) Bash
14 3 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 66 (22.60%) Degree
2 29 (9.93%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.42%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.74%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.03%) ISEB
8 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.68%) HNC
9 2 (0.68%) HND
9 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.68%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PhD
10 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.82%) Data Quality
1 17 (5.82%) GDPR
2 13 (4.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.11%) ISO 9001
4 10 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.42%) QA
5 8 (2.74%) HL7
6 2 (0.68%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) DICOM
7 1 (0.34%) EMIR
System Software
1 45 (15.41%) Docker
2 15 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (13.36%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.19%) Kibana
2 21 (7.19%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (6.51%) Terraform
4 3 (1.03%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 56 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 44 (15.07%) Oracle
3 27 (9.25%) ServiceNow
4 21 (7.19%) Dynatrace
4 21 (7.19%) Splunk
5 14 (4.79%) Okta
6 11 (3.77%) MuleSoft
6 11 (3.77%) SAP
7 8 (2.74%) Informatica
8 7 (2.40%) Cisco
8 7 (2.40%) Dell
8 7 (2.40%) IBM
8 7 (2.40%) OpenAI
8 7 (2.40%) SnapLogic
8 7 (2.40%) Workday
9 6 (2.05%) Talend
9 6 (2.05%) Trayport
10 5 (1.71%) Infor
10 5 (1.71%) Software AG
10 5 (1.71%) TIBCO