Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (Jabber)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring XMPP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited XMPP over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 716 875 935
Rank change year-on-year +159 +60 +218
Permanent jobs citing XMPP 5 16 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.015% 0.019%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.052% 0.074% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 18
10th Percentile £26,800 £42,000 £58,250
25th Percentile £28,000 £47,063 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -24.14% +69.29%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,250 £106,250
90th Percentile £62,000 £73,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -40.00% -25.00% +55.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XMPP 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 9,599 21,619 27,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.16% 20.43% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,838 16,035 17,782
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,613
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,212 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

XMPP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XMPP in the UK

XMPP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for XMPP in the UK

XMPP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XMPP over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Salary histogram for XMPP in the UK

XMPP
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XMPP within the UK over the 6 months to 5 June 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 +143 5 £35,000 -36.36% 23
UK excluding London +188 4 £31,500 -40.00% 18
South East - 3 £28,000 - 4
London +89 1 £65,000 +13.04% 6
East of England - 1 £55,000 - 7

XMPP
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) WebEx
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) DMVPN
3 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) H.323
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) Multicast
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) VSAN
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Lead Cisco Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Systems Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Project Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Project Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Debian
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCDP
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) VMware