XML Job Trends in the West Midlands

XML
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring XML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 185 141
Rank change year-on-year +21 -44 +60
Permanent jobs citing XML 14 29 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.66% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.39% 4.08% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 27
10th Percentile £37,750 £36,050 £30,950
25th Percentile £42,813 £38,750 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -26.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £63,250
90th Percentile £60,088 £54,250 £72,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.96% +0.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 413 710 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.94% 16.10% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 356 387 488
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,734 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +5.99% -3.13%
75th Percentile £68,813 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year - -2.26% -1.48%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing XML relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

XML job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing XML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing XML

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for XML in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Birmingham +4 7 £50,000 +17.65% 3
Warwickshire +26 4 £55,000 -
Coventry - 2 £40,000 -
Shropshire - 1 £65,000 - 4
XML
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (7.14%) Appian
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.14%) Figma
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
3 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Ethernet
1 1 (7.14%) FTP
1 1 (7.14%) RFID
1 1 (7.14%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) MySQL
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (14.29%) Tableau
4 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Automotive
3 1 (7.14%) Back Office
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Applications Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Applications Support
3 3 (21.43%) QA Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Development Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Development Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics NAV Developer
5 1 (7.14%) EDI Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Intelligent Automation Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) EDI
3 1 (7.14%) EDIFACT
3 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) Material Design
3 1 (7.14%) OAuth
3 1 (7.14%) SAML
3 1 (7.14%) WPF
3 1 (7.14%) XSL
3 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) BDD
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Exploratory Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) Data Mapping
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
5 2 (14.29%) Logistics
5 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Perl
4 3 (21.43%) C#
5 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
6 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
6 1 (7.14%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (7.14%) C
6 1 (7.14%) C++
6 1 (7.14%) Java
6 1 (7.14%) VB
6 1 (7.14%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (21.43%) ISTQB
2 3 (21.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) COBIT
2 1 (7.14%) ISO 9001
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Blue Prism
2 1 (7.14%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle