XML Schema Definition (XSD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring XSD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited XSD over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 743 632 994
Rank change year-on-year -111 +362 +13
Permanent jobs citing XSD 23 98 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.18% 0.065%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.71% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 23 7 56
10th Percentile - £51,500 £43,162
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £81,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £91,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XSD 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 13,294 13,874 39,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.17% 26.19% 32.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,952 10,831 24,077
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,052 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,351 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £106,289 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +9.52%

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 8 December 2024.

Salary histogram for XSD in the UK

XSD
Top 7 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 8 December 2024. 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 -96 23 £50,000 -9.09% 9
London -7 20 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Work from Home +2 3 £95,000 +28.81% 3
UK excluding London -146 3 £67,500 - 4
South West -2 2 £73,750 - 1
North of England -54 1 £49,965 -
North West -55 1 £49,965 -

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 16 (69.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) AMQP
1 2 (8.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (69.57%) Oracle Reports
1 16 (69.57%) SQL Server
1 16 (69.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
2 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (69.57%) SoapUI
1 16 (69.57%) Team Foundation Server
1 16 (69.57%) Visual Studio
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
3 2 (8.70%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Ant
4 1 (4.35%) ClearCase
4 1 (4.35%) Rational DOORS
General
1 20 (86.96%) Social Skills
2 16 (69.57%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Consultant
1 16 (69.57%) Technical Consultant
2 3 (13.04%) Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Business Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Technical Business Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) XML Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (100.00%) XML
2 16 (69.57%) .NET
2 16 (69.57%) .NET Framework
2 16 (69.57%) JSON
2 16 (69.57%) REST
2 16 (69.57%) SOAP
2 16 (69.57%) Web Services
2 16 (69.57%) WSDL
2 16 (69.57%) XML Messaging
3 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) PropTech
2 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (69.57%) Analytics
2 16 (69.57%) API Testing
2 16 (69.57%) Document Management
2 16 (69.57%) ETL
2 16 (69.57%) Front End Development
2 16 (69.57%) Software Testing
2 16 (69.57%) Test Automation
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
3 3 (13.04%) Data Mapping
3 3 (13.04%) Migration
3 3 (13.04%) Security Testing
3 3 (13.04%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
4 2 (8.70%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (8.70%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (8.70%) Event-Driven
4 2 (8.70%) Microservices
5 1 (4.35%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) C#
1 17 (73.91%) SQL
2 16 (69.57%) T-SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) Python
5 1 (4.35%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) HNC
2 1 (4.35%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Ansible
1 2 (8.70%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Atlassian