XML
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring XML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited XML over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 302 291
Rank change year-on-year -77 -11 -60
Permanent jobs citing XML 370 981 1,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.96% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.02% 4.62% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 303 615 892
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £64,735
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -10.40% +13.07%
75th Percentile £78,125 £71,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +12.00%

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 9,208 21,249 29,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.84% 20.80% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,664 15,856 18,240
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,350 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the UK

XML
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing XML.

Salary trend for XML in the UK

XML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 May 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 -61 360 £57,500 -2.83% 1,063
UK excluding London -63 246 £52,500 -4.55% 974
Work from Home -22 148 £67,500 +12.50% 753
South East +23 130 £65,000 +8.33% 285
London -19 100 £70,000 - 216
North of England -23 45 £50,027 -4.71% 196
North West -37 31 £50,055 -1.85% 93
East of England +18 25 £47,500 +18.75% 144
South West +61 24 £37,000 -22.11% 117
Midlands -17 17 £54,344 -1.19% 179
Yorkshire +42 13 £37,500 -34.78% 82
West Midlands -1 11 £53,688 -0.12% 89
East Midlands +28 6 £55,000 -8.33% 78
Scotland -7 3 - - 38
Wales +40 2 £65,000 +30.00% 35
North East +41 1 £35,000 -31.71% 23

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (4.32%) IIS
2 12 (3.24%) Tomcat
3 9 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.62%) OpenEdge
5 5 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.35%) WordPress
6 4 (1.08%) Confluence
6 4 (1.08%) Mule
6 4 (1.08%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.81%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.54%) Apache
8 2 (0.54%) CMS
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle Service Bus
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.27%) Sitefinity
9 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (10.27%) NetSuite
2 16 (4.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (2.97%) JDE OneWorld
3 11 (2.97%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (2.43%) Magento
5 7 (1.89%) Q-Pulse
6 4 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.81%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle iRecruitment
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 111 (30.00%) Azure
2 46 (12.43%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (11.35%) Power Platform
4 40 (10.81%) Azure Service Bus
5 33 (8.92%) Power Automate
6 29 (7.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 29 (7.84%) SonarCloud
7 23 (6.22%) AWS
8 22 (5.95%) Boomi
8 22 (5.95%) PowerApps
8 22 (5.95%) SaaS
9 20 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 20 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (5.14%) GitHub
11 18 (4.86%) Serverless
12 17 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (2.97%) Azure Functions
14 9 (2.43%) Entra ID
14 9 (2.43%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.78%) SSL
2 12 (3.24%) FTP
3 11 (2.97%) Internet
4 9 (2.43%) DMARC
5 5 (1.35%) HTTP
6 3 (0.81%) RTP
6 3 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.54%) DNS
7 2 (0.54%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.54%) SSH
8 1 (0.27%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.27%) Multicast
8 1 (0.27%) SMTP
8 1 (0.27%) VPN
8 1 (0.27%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (29.46%) SQL Server
2 36 (9.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 33 (8.92%) Power BI
4 29 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
5 28 (7.57%) MySQL
6 21 (5.68%) Relational Database
7 15 (4.05%) OLTP
7 15 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.16%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.35%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.08%) Metadata
11 4 (1.08%) Tableau
12 3 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.81%) Parquet
13 2 (0.54%) DB2
13 2 (0.54%) Endeca
Development Applications
1 91 (24.59%) Git
2 54 (14.59%) Visual Studio
3 33 (8.92%) Octopus Deploy
4 32 (8.65%) Team Foundation Server
5 29 (7.84%) MSBuild
6 27 (7.30%) JIRA
7 14 (3.78%) MagicDraw
8 13 (3.51%) Jenkins
8 13 (3.51%) Postman
9 12 (3.24%) Selenium
10 8 (2.16%) JMeter
10 8 (2.16%) JUnit
10 8 (2.16%) SoapUI
11 7 (1.89%) ClearCase
11 7 (1.89%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (1.35%) Mockito
13 4 (1.08%) Grunt
13 4 (1.08%) gulp
13 4 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 124 (33.51%) Social Skills
2 36 (9.73%) Retail
3 35 (9.46%) Finance
4 28 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.30%) Marketing
6 17 (4.59%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.51%) Banking
8 10 (2.70%) Military
8 10 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.43%) Czech Language
9 9 (2.43%) Local Government
9 9 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.16%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.89%) Aviation
11 7 (1.89%) Front Office
12 6 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.35%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.35%) Spanish Language
13 5 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 175 (47.30%) Developer
2 86 (23.24%) Senior
3 65 (17.57%) Senior Developer
4 42 (11.35%) Architect
5 35 (9.46%) Analyst
6 33 (8.92%) Technical Architect
7 32 (8.65%) Lead
8 25 (6.76%) SQL Developer
9 24 (6.49%) Software Engineer
10 21 (5.68%) Software Developer
10 21 (5.68%) Support Analyst
11 20 (5.41%) .NET Developer
11 20 (5.41%) C# Developer
11 20 (5.41%) NetSuite Developer
12 18 (4.86%) Portal Developer
13 16 (4.32%) Oracle Developer
13 16 (4.32%) Senior Software Developer
14 15 (4.05%) Senior Oracle Developer
14 15 (4.05%) Software Team Leader
14 15 (4.05%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (49.46%) JSON
2 153 (41.35%) HTML
3 138 (37.30%) .NET
4 111 (30.00%) REST
5 101 (27.30%) CSS
6 97 (26.22%) SOAP
7 76 (20.54%) ASP.NET
8 75 (20.27%) Web Services
9 52 (14.05%) .NET Core
10 43 (11.62%) .NET Framework
11 36 (9.73%) Bootstrap
12 29 (7.84%) gRPC
13 26 (7.03%) React
14 25 (6.76%) AngularJS
14 25 (6.76%) Middleware
15 24 (6.49%) ASP.NET Web API
16 23 (6.22%) jQuery
17 20 (5.41%) Hibernate
18 18 (4.86%) Restlet
19 16 (4.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.22%) Mobile App
2 16 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (3.78%) Embedded Systems
3 14 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 12 (3.24%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.97%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.70%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.89%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.89%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.89%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.35%) Blog
12 3 (0.81%) BYOD
12 3 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.81%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.81%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.95%) Windows
2 20 (5.41%) Linux
3 13 (3.51%) Unix
4 6 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) AIX
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) CentOS
5 1 (0.27%) Debian
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
2 111 (30.00%) Agile
3 71 (19.19%) DevOps
4 61 (16.49%) Microservices
5 58 (15.68%) Data Modelling
6 55 (14.86%) Project Management
7 54 (14.59%) Migration
7 54 (14.59%) Software Engineering
8 48 (12.97%) API Integration
9 47 (12.70%) MVC
10 44 (11.89%) Performance Optimisation
11 43 (11.62%) User Experience
12 42 (11.35%) Workflow
13 41 (11.08%) Test Automation
13 41 (11.08%) UML
14 40 (10.81%) CRM
15 37 (10.00%) Code Quality
15 37 (10.00%) Software Testing
16 36 (9.73%) OO
17 35 (9.46%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 220 (59.46%) SQL
2 142 (38.38%) JavaScript
3 126 (34.05%) C#
4 48 (12.97%) Java
5 37 (10.00%) Python
6 28 (7.57%) PL/SQL
7 20 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 18 (4.86%) C
8 18 (4.86%) T-SQL
9 17 (4.59%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.78%) Ada
10 14 (3.78%) PHP
11 12 (3.24%) C++
11 12 (3.24%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.43%) VBA
13 6 (1.62%) VB.NET
14 5 (1.35%) SPARQL
14 5 (1.35%) XQuery
15 4 (1.08%) OpenEdge ABL
16 3 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (10.27%) BPSS Clearance
2 33 (8.92%) Degree
3 21 (5.68%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.24%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.35%) HNC
5 5 (1.35%) HND
5 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.54%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.38%) GDPR
2 18 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (3.78%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.24%) QA
5 2 (0.54%) Dublin Core
5 2 (0.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) PMO
6 1 (0.27%) SEPA
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (14.59%) Docker
2 11 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) KVM
3 1 (0.27%) Postfix
3 1 (0.27%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 18 (4.86%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (3.78%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.35%) Kibana
5 2 (0.54%) Control-M
5 2 (0.54%) Graylog
6 1 (0.27%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) HP UCMDB
6 1 (0.27%) Nagios
6 1 (0.27%) Nessus
Vendors
1 83 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 55 (14.86%) Oracle
3 14 (3.78%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.24%) Dell
4 12 (3.24%) MuleSoft
5 10 (2.70%) Adobe
6 9 (2.43%) New Relic
7 8 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.89%) Databricks
8 7 (1.89%) Splunk
8 7 (1.89%) Talend
9 6 (1.62%) Google
9 6 (1.62%) Trayport
10 5 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.35%) IBM
10 5 (1.35%) Screaming Frog
11 4 (1.08%) Informatica
12 3 (0.81%) Ahrefs
12 3 (0.81%) Progress
12 3 (0.81%) Solace