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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 179 148
Rank change year-on-year +22 -31 +62
Permanent jobs citing XML 14 35 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.40% 0.65% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.30% 4.16% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 32
10th Percentile £43,125 £37,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -25.44% +8.57%
75th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £63,250
90th Percentile £60,838 £60,000 £77,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

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 424 842 624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.20% 15.60% 18.06%
Number of salaries quoted 337 461 520
10th Percentile £32,350 £33,750 £36,150
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,850
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.80% -5.63%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +18 6 £50,000 +17.65% 1
Warwickshire +37 4 £55,000 -
Solihull -2 2 - -
Shropshire - 1 £65,000 - 1
Coventry - 1 £40,000 - 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 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 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
2 2 (14.29%) Serverless
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%) RFID
1 1 (7.14%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 2 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) MySQL
3 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 2 (14.29%) Tableau
4 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JMeter
2 2 (14.29%) JUnit
2 2 (14.29%) Mockito
2 2 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Automotive
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Applications Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Applications Support
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Development Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics NAV Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Intelligent Automation Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) JSON
2 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Camel
3 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 2 (14.29%) jQuery
3 2 (14.29%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
3 2 (14.29%) WireMock
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
4 1 (7.14%) Material Design
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) SAML
4 1 (7.14%) WPF
4 1 (7.14%) XSL
4 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) BDD
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Workflow
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
5 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (14.29%) Process Management
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Perl
4 3 (21.43%) C#
4 3 (21.43%) Java
5 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
6 1 (7.14%) C
6 1 (7.14%) C++
6 1 (7.14%) VB
6 1 (7.14%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) COBIT
2 1 (7.14%) ISO 9001
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kibana
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Blue Prism
3 1 (7.14%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle