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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 284 257
Rank change year-on-year -140 -27 +10
Permanent jobs citing XML 264 491 924
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 1.05% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.41% 4.77% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 150 351 587
10th Percentile £41,225 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,813 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,625 £90,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 7,731 10,294 18,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.03% 22.02% 23.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,671 6,544 14,598
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,829
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,225 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +10.38% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -149 214 £57,500 -4.17% 234
UK excluding London -116 165 £55,000 - 217
Work from Home -25 120 £57,500 -14.81% 61
London -42 76 £71,000 +9.23% 36
South East -88 58 £60,000 -7.69% 77
East of England +23 40 £55,000 - 23
North of England -64 24 £55,000 +15.79% 47
Scotland +1 20 £52,500 +10.39% 10
Midlands -44 19 £43,750 -16.67% 31
East Midlands -45 12 £50,750 -7.73% 14
North West -35 11 £55,000 +14.58% 31
Yorkshire -49 9 £62,500 +47.06% 12
West Midlands -6 7 £40,000 -5.88% 16
North East - 4 £45,000 - 4
South West -38 3 £72,500 +7.41% 26
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 9 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.89%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.89%) JBoss
4 3 (1.14%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.76%) Confluence
5 2 (0.76%) IIS
5 2 (0.76%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.76%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) CICS
6 1 (0.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) FileNet
Applications
1 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.38%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.38%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (6.44%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.65%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.89%) Shopify
4 3 (1.14%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.76%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.38%) Magento
6 1 (0.38%) Q-Pulse
6 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (27.27%) Azure
2 51 (19.32%) AWS
3 46 (17.42%) Power Platform
4 26 (9.85%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (9.85%) Entra ID
4 26 (9.85%) GitHub
5 18 (6.82%) OCI
5 18 (6.82%) Power Automate
6 17 (6.44%) Serverless
7 15 (5.68%) Boomi
8 14 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (5.30%) SaaS
9 12 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (3.79%) iPaaS
12 9 (3.41%) PowerApps
13 7 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.27%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.65%) FTP
2 3 (1.14%) AMQP
2 3 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (1.14%) Firewall
2 3 (1.14%) HTTP
3 2 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.76%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) Modbus
4 1 (0.38%) SSL
4 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.29%) SQL Server
2 39 (14.77%) Power BI
3 35 (13.26%) Relational Database
4 22 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (5.30%) MySQL
5 14 (5.30%) OLTP
6 12 (4.55%) RDBMS
7 9 (3.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.03%) Metadata
9 5 (1.89%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.89%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.52%) Tableau
11 3 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.14%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.14%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.14%) GIS
12 2 (0.76%) DTS
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (12.88%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.44%) Oracle Forms
3 16 (6.06%) Git
4 15 (5.68%) JIRA
5 13 (4.92%) Selenium
6 11 (4.17%) JUnit
7 10 (3.79%) JMeter
8 8 (3.03%) Mockito
8 8 (3.03%) Postman
8 8 (3.03%) SpecFlow
9 7 (2.65%) GitLab
9 7 (2.65%) PowerBuilder
10 6 (2.27%) Axure RP
11 5 (1.89%) Maven
11 5 (1.89%) WebDriver
12 4 (1.52%) ERwin
13 3 (1.14%) NUnit
13 3 (1.14%) SoapUI
13 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.76%) Ranorex
General
1 78 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.59%) Finance
3 46 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.71%) Law
5 15 (5.68%) German Language
5 15 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.41%) Retail
7 8 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.03%) Legal
8 6 (2.27%) Banking
8 6 (2.27%) Front Office
8 6 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.52%) Advertising
9 4 (1.52%) Marketing
9 4 (1.52%) Publishing
10 3 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 101 (38.26%) Developer
2 54 (20.45%) Senior
3 24 (9.09%) Analyst
3 24 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 21 (7.95%) SQL Developer
5 19 (7.20%) Java Developer
6 17 (6.44%) Applications Engineer
6 17 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (6.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 14 (5.30%) Oracle Developer
7 14 (5.30%) PL/SQL Developer
7 14 (5.30%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 14 (5.30%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
7 14 (5.30%) Senior SQL Developer
8 11 (4.17%) Consultant
9 10 (3.79%) C# Developer
9 10 (3.79%) Data Analyst
9 10 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (3.79%) Lead
9 10 (3.79%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (67.80%) JSON
2 83 (31.44%) HTML
3 77 (29.17%) REST
4 65 (24.62%) SOAP
5 40 (15.15%) Web Services
6 29 (10.98%) Regular Expression
7 24 (9.09%) RESTful
8 23 (8.71%) .NET
8 23 (8.71%) CSS
9 22 (8.33%) Spring
10 18 (6.82%) Spring Boot
11 14 (5.30%) Hibernate
12 12 (4.55%) XSLT
13 10 (3.79%) jQuery
13 10 (3.79%) WinForms
14 9 (3.41%) Node.js
14 9 (3.41%) Playwright
14 9 (3.41%) React
15 8 (3.03%) Apache Camel
15 8 (3.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 50 (18.94%) Onboarding
2 31 (11.74%) Linux Command Line
3 21 (7.95%) Cloud Native
4 20 (7.58%) Data Structures
4 20 (7.58%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.30%) Low-Code
5 14 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.89%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.14%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.14%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.14%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.14%) SCADA
10 3 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 2 (0.76%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 39 (14.77%) Unix
2 13 (4.92%) Linux
3 7 (2.65%) Windows
4 1 (0.38%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (31.44%) Agile
2 59 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 44 (16.67%) AI
5 42 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (15.53%) ERP
7 38 (14.39%) DevOps
8 37 (14.02%) Test Automation
9 35 (13.26%) SDLC
10 34 (12.88%) Data Modelling
11 33 (12.50%) Migration
12 32 (12.12%) Data Analysis
12 32 (12.12%) LLM
13 29 (10.98%) Software Testing
14 28 (10.61%) API Integration
15 27 (10.23%) Mentoring
16 26 (9.85%) Data Governance
17 25 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 23 (8.71%) Translating Business Requirements
18 23 (8.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 144 (54.55%) SQL
2 100 (37.88%) Python
3 66 (25.00%) Java
4 53 (20.08%) JavaScript
5 47 (17.80%) C#
6 39 (14.77%) PL/SQL
7 31 (11.74%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.68%) T-SQL
9 12 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 11 (4.17%) VBA
11 10 (3.79%) Delphi
12 9 (3.41%) VB.NET
13 7 (2.65%) ActionScript
13 7 (2.65%) C++
14 6 (2.27%) C
15 5 (1.89%) TypeScript
16 4 (1.52%) ActionScript 2.0
16 4 (1.52%) Perl
17 3 (1.14%) VB
17 3 (1.14%) VC++
Qualifications
1 68 (25.76%) Degree
2 25 (9.47%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.03%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.14%) ISEB
5 3 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.76%) HNC
6 2 (0.76%) HND
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.76%) PMP
7 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.23%) QA
2 17 (6.44%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.30%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.65%) GDPR
6 3 (1.14%) EMIR
6 3 (1.14%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.76%) HL7
7 2 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (10.23%) Docker
2 25 (9.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.33%) Terraform
3 18 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (3.03%) Kibana
5 3 (1.14%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.76%) Ansible
6 2 (0.76%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 73 (27.65%) Oracle
2 37 (14.02%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.44%) Okta
4 14 (5.30%) SAP
5 9 (3.41%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.41%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.03%) Dell
6 8 (3.03%) Splunk
7 7 (2.65%) IBM
8 6 (2.27%) Databricks
8 6 (2.27%) IFS
8 6 (2.27%) Informatica
8 6 (2.27%) Intapp
8 6 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.27%) SnapLogic
8 6 (2.27%) Talend
8 6 (2.27%) Workday
9 5 (1.89%) Epicor
9 5 (1.89%) Infor
9 5 (1.89%) Jitterbit