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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 161 174
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 -17
Permanent jobs citing XML 21 11 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.32% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.83% 2.19% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 47
10th Percentile £40,575 £45,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £42,188 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,200 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £60,375 £62,500
90th Percentile - £65,400 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%

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 549 503 897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.48% 14.74% 13.70%
Number of salaries quoted 423 372 690
10th Percentile £35,500 £38,850 £32,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £46,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,468 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +8.94% -4.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,850 £78,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -24 9 £80,000 +60.00% 2
Shropshire - 7 £45,000 - 4
Staffordshire +5 3 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £43,000 -
Brierley Hill - 1 £42,500 - 1
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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (19.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.76%) Boomi
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) iPaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.52%) Power BI
3 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) Cucumber
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 4 (19.05%) JMeter
2 4 (19.05%) Postman
2 4 (19.05%) Selenium
3 3 (14.29%) GitLab
3 3 (14.29%) SoapUI
3 3 (14.29%) Zephyr
4 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) Gradle
4 1 (4.76%) JUnit
4 1 (4.76%) Maven
4 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.76%) TestNG
4 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
1 6 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Electronics
3 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Managed Services Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) SAP Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) SAP Support
2 4 (19.05%) SAP Support Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Support Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Test Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Integration Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Systems Developer
4 2 (9.52%) VB.NET Developer
4 2 (9.52%) XML Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) JSON
2 4 (19.05%) Playwright
2 4 (19.05%) SOAP
3 3 (14.29%) ADO
3 3 (14.29%) CSS
3 3 (14.29%) HTML
4 2 (9.52%) .NET
4 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
4 2 (9.52%) REST
4 2 (9.52%) XSLT
5 1 (4.76%) React
5 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Client/Server
1 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (14.29%) SCADA
2 2 (9.52%) PMI
3 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
2 7 (33.33%) Agile
2 7 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 5 (23.81%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
4 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
4 5 (23.81%) Scrum
4 5 (23.81%) Validation
5 4 (19.05%) API Testing
5 4 (19.05%) BDD
5 4 (19.05%) Data Privacy
5 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
5 4 (19.05%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Supplier Management
5 4 (19.05%) Test Scripting
5 4 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) PHP
3 3 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (9.52%) VB.NET
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) Ruby
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) ISEB
3 3 (14.29%) ISTQB
4 2 (9.52%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) SAP
2 4 (19.05%) Ariba
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Pega
4 2 (9.52%) Databricks
5 1 (4.76%) HubSpot
5 1 (4.76%) Informatica
5 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow