XML Schema Definition (XSD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for XSD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited XSD over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 631 1008 1023
Rank change year-on-year +377 +15 -352
Permanent jobs citing XSD 102 82 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.065% 0.059%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8 57 51
10th Percentile £51,750 £43,162 £44,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +10.34%
75th Percentile £78,125 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,125 £87,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +56.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XSD is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,303 40,800 50,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.43% 32.42% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,215 24,814 31,989
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,995 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £104,991 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

XSD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XSD in the UK

XSD
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for XSD in the UK

XSD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XSD over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for XSD in the UK

XSD
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XSD within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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
UK excluding London +280 80 - - 1
England +316 64 £55,000 -21.43% 4
North of England - 22 - -
London +260 15 £55,000 -31.25% 4
Scotland +72 14 - - 1
North West - 14 - -
Northern Ireland - 12 - -
Work from Home +223 11 £65,000 -7.14% 4
South East +148 11 - -
Yorkshire - 8 - -
Midlands +125 7 - -
East Midlands +57 7 - -
Wales +19 7 - -
South West - 7 - -

XSD
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 87 (85.29%) JBoss
1 87 (85.29%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.96%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.98%) IIS
4 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.98%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.98%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.98%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.84%) Azure
2 4 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (3.92%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (1.96%) Snowflake
4 1 (0.98%) AWS
4 1 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (0.98%) Azure Service Fabric
4 1 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.98%) GCP
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.98%) PaaS
4 1 (0.98%) PowerApps
4 1 (0.98%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.94%) Power BI
3 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.98%) Big Data
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 87 (85.29%) IntelliJ
2 3 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.94%) Maven
2 3 (2.94%) Subversion
2 3 (2.94%) Trac
3 1 (0.98%) JIRA
General
1 88 (86.27%) Public Sector
2 7 (6.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.92%) Finance
4 2 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.98%) Banking
5 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.98%) Law
Job Titles
1 90 (88.24%) Senior
2 65 (63.73%) Java Engineer
2 65 (63.73%) Java Software Engineer
2 65 (63.73%) Senior Java Engineer
2 65 (63.73%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 65 (63.73%) Senior Software Engineer
2 65 (63.73%) Software Engineer
3 29 (28.43%) Developer
4 22 (21.57%) Java Developer
4 22 (21.57%) Senior Developer
4 22 (21.57%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (3.92%) .NET Developer
6 3 (2.94%) Analyst
6 3 (2.94%) Lead
6 3 (2.94%) Technical Leader
7 2 (1.96%) Architect
7 2 (1.96%) Business Analyst
7 2 (1.96%) Consultant
7 2 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (1.96%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (100.00%) XML
2 96 (94.12%) JSON
2 96 (94.12%) REST
3 91 (89.22%) SOAP
3 91 (89.22%) Web Services
4 90 (88.24%) Spring
5 88 (86.27%) AngularJS
6 87 (85.29%) Hibernate
6 87 (85.29%) JPA
7 77 (75.49%) Java EE
8 53 (51.96%) RESTful
9 8 (7.84%) .NET
10 5 (4.90%) XSLT
11 4 (3.92%) Ajax
12 3 (2.94%) ASP.NET
12 3 (2.94%) JAXB
12 3 (2.94%) JAX-WS
12 3 (2.94%) Middleware
12 3 (2.94%) React
12 3 (2.94%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (1.96%) Low-Code
3 1 (0.98%) Derivative
3 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.98%) Equities
3 1 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (0.98%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.98%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (89.22%) Agile
2 90 (88.24%) Actionable Insight
3 89 (87.25%) Mentoring
4 88 (86.27%) Collaborative Working
5 87 (85.29%) Data Design
5 87 (85.29%) Front End Development
5 87 (85.29%) Software Engineering
5 87 (85.29%) User Experience
5 87 (85.29%) UX Design
6 69 (67.65%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (24.51%) SOA
8 7 (6.86%) DevOps
9 5 (4.90%) Microservices
10 4 (3.92%) Business Analysis
10 4 (3.92%) Event-Driven
10 4 (3.92%) Test Automation
10 4 (3.92%) Unit Testing
11 3 (2.94%) Business Intelligence
11 3 (2.94%) ERP
11 3 (2.94%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 94 (92.16%) Java
2 12 (11.76%) SQL
3 6 (5.88%) C#
3 6 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.90%) XPath
5 3 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.94%) XQuery
6 2 (1.96%) Python
6 2 (1.96%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.98%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 90 (88.24%) SC Cleared
1 90 (88.24%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.98%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.98%) COREP
1 1 (0.98%) IFRS
1 1 (0.98%) IFRS 17
1 1 (0.98%) IFRS 9
Vendors
1 5 (4.90%) Oracle
2 3 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.98%) IBM
3 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.98%) TIBCO