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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 164 178
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -38
Permanent jobs citing XML 46 11 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.51% 0.34% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.77% 2.10% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 31 7 19
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -23.40%
75th Percentile £66,045 £56,438 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £62,225 £61,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -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 679 524 939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.54% 16.03% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 468 394 532
10th Percentile £38,500 £38,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £48,438 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £68,000
90th Percentile £92,840 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.74%

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

XML
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

XML
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for XML in the West Midlands

XML
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 October 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 -28 10 £63,076 +26.15% 11
Brierley Hill - 8 £48,500 -
Coventry - 8 £66,250 -
Shropshire -15 7 £45,000 -30.77% 3
Staffordshire - 7 - - 2
Warwickshire -18 6 £50,000 -17.01%
XML
England

XML
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 8 (17.39%) CMS
1 8 (17.39%) SharePoint
2 5 (10.87%) Confluence
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (21.74%) Power Platform
4 8 (17.39%) Azure Functions
4 8 (17.39%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (17.39%) Power Automate
4 8 (17.39%) Serverless
5 6 (13.04%) AWS
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.17%) Boomi
6 1 (2.17%) GCP
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub
6 1 (2.17%) Google App Engine
6 1 (2.17%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.17%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (32.61%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) Cucumber
2 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.04%) JMeter
2 6 (13.04%) Postman
2 6 (13.04%) Selenium
3 5 (10.87%) GitLab
3 5 (10.87%) JIRA
3 5 (10.87%) SoapUI
3 5 (10.87%) Zephyr
4 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.17%) Gradle
4 1 (2.17%) JUnit
4 1 (2.17%) Maven
4 1 (2.17%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.17%) TestNG
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.17%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (34.78%) Public Sector
2 15 (32.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (21.74%) Finance
4 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (17.39%) Publishing
5 7 (15.22%) Electronics
5 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
5 7 (15.22%) Telecoms
6 5 (10.87%) Manufacturing
7 3 (6.52%) General Ledger
8 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.35%) Legal
9 1 (2.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Lead
3 10 (21.74%) Senior
3 10 (21.74%) Test Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Author
4 8 (17.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Technical Author
5 7 (15.22%) Consultant
5 7 (15.22%) Lead Test Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) ERP Consultant
7 4 (8.70%) ERP Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Lead Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Lead Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Architect
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (39.13%) JSON
2 9 (19.57%) XSLT
3 8 (17.39%) SOAP
4 6 (13.04%) Playwright
5 5 (10.87%) ADO
6 3 (6.52%) Web Services
7 2 (4.35%) .NET
7 2 (4.35%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.35%) REST
8 1 (2.17%) ActiveX
8 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Management Information System
1 8 (17.39%) Taxonomies
2 7 (15.22%) Client/Server
2 7 (15.22%) SCADA
3 6 (13.04%) Virtual Team
4 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.35%) PMI
6 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.17%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) Agile
2 15 (32.61%) DevOps
3 13 (28.26%) Mentoring
3 13 (28.26%) Test Automation
4 12 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
5 11 (23.91%) Roadmaps
6 10 (21.74%) AI
6 10 (21.74%) Data Modelling
6 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (21.74%) Software Testing
7 9 (19.57%) CAD
7 9 (19.57%) Customer Requirements
7 9 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (19.57%) Validation
8 8 (17.39%) Change Data Capture
8 8 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (17.39%) Product Information Management
8 8 (17.39%) Technical Debt
8 8 (17.39%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) SQL
2 15 (32.61%) JavaScript
3 12 (26.09%) Java
4 8 (17.39%) C#
5 3 (6.52%) PL/SQL
5 3 (6.52%) Python
6 2 (4.35%) VB
6 2 (4.35%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.17%) Bash
7 1 (2.17%) Ruby
7 1 (2.17%) VB6
7 1 (2.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (47.83%) Degree
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (10.87%) ISEB
3 5 (10.87%) ISTQB
3 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) Accessibility
1 8 (17.39%) GDPR
1 8 (17.39%) WCAG
2 5 (10.87%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.39%) SAP
3 5 (10.87%) Pega
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle
5 2 (4.35%) Ariba
5 2 (4.35%) Databricks
5 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.17%) HubSpot
6 1 (2.17%) Informatica
6 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce