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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 158 163
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -22
Permanent jobs citing XML 38 11 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.44% 0.33% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.70% 2.14% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 25 7 38
10th Percentile £41,750 £46,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +12.36% -24.26%
75th Percentile £66,450 £56,438 £59,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £62,225 £70,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -4.13%

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 667 515 927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.68% 15.37% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 500 380 629
10th Percentile £38,675 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,985 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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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 5 September 2026.

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 5 September 2026. 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 -27 10 £71,538 +43.08% 13
Shropshire -18 7 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Staffordshire - 7 - -
Brierley Hill - 5 £48,500 - 1
Warwickshire -10 4 £52,500 -12.86% 1
Coventry - 4 £66,250 -
Worcestershire - 1 £43,000 -
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 6 (15.79%) Confluence
2 5 (13.16%) CMS
3 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.53%) Azure Functions
4 4 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (10.53%) Power Automate
4 4 (10.53%) Serverless
5 2 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.63%) Boomi
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.26%) Power BI
4 1 (2.63%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) Git
2 6 (15.79%) Cucumber
2 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.79%) JIRA
2 6 (15.79%) JMeter
2 6 (15.79%) Postman
2 6 (15.79%) Selenium
3 5 (13.16%) GitLab
3 5 (13.16%) SoapUI
3 5 (13.16%) Zephyr
4 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.63%) Gradle
4 1 (2.63%) JUnit
4 1 (2.63%) Maven
4 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.63%) TestNG
4 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (28.95%) Public Sector
3 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (18.42%) Electronics
4 7 (18.42%) Finance
4 7 (18.42%) Telecoms
5 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
6 5 (13.16%) Publishing
7 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
8 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (5.26%) Legal
9 1 (2.63%) Banking
9 1 (2.63%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Developer
2 10 (26.32%) Test Engineer
3 9 (23.68%) Lead
4 8 (21.05%) Consultant
5 7 (18.42%) Lead Test Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) Author
6 5 (13.16%) Senior
6 5 (13.16%) Technical Author
7 4 (10.53%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (10.53%) ERP Consultant
7 4 (10.53%) Managed Services Consultant
7 4 (10.53%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (10.53%) SAP Support
7 4 (10.53%) SAP Support Consultant
7 4 (10.53%) Support Consultant
8 3 (7.89%) ERP Developer
8 3 (7.89%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) Lead Developer
9 2 (5.26%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
9 2 (5.26%) XML Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (36.84%) JSON
2 6 (15.79%) Playwright
2 6 (15.79%) SOAP
2 6 (15.79%) XSLT
3 5 (13.16%) ADO
4 2 (5.26%) .NET
4 2 (5.26%) GraphQL
4 2 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (2.63%) CSS
5 1 (2.63%) HTML
5 1 (2.63%) React
5 1 (2.63%) RESTful
5 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Client/Server
1 7 (18.42%) SCADA
2 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.53%) Taxonomies
2 4 (10.53%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.26%) PMI
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Test Automation
2 13 (34.21%) Agile
3 11 (28.95%) Customer Requirements
3 11 (28.95%) DevOps
4 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
5 9 (23.68%) Mentoring
5 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (23.68%) Roadmaps
5 9 (23.68%) Software Testing
5 9 (23.68%) Validation
6 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (21.05%) Decision-Making
6 8 (21.05%) Test Scripting
7 7 (18.42%) Code Quality
7 7 (18.42%) Load Testing
7 7 (18.42%) Process Improvement
7 7 (18.42%) Regression Testing
7 7 (18.42%) Scrum
7 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (18.42%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) SQL
2 11 (28.95%) Java
2 11 (28.95%) JavaScript
3 4 (10.53%) C#
4 3 (7.89%) Python
5 2 (5.26%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.63%) Bash
6 1 (2.63%) PHP
6 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.63%) Ruby
6 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (47.37%) Degree
2 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) ISEB
3 5 (13.16%) ISTQB
4 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) QA
2 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.53%) GDPR
2 4 (10.53%) WCAG
3 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) SAP
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.16%) Pega
4 4 (10.53%) Ariba
5 2 (5.26%) Databricks
6 1 (2.63%) HubSpot
6 1 (2.63%) Informatica
6 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle
6 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow