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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 169 146
Rank change year-on-year +11 -23 +65
Permanent jobs citing XML 11 46 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.34% 0.76% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.44% 5.12% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 7 28 48
10th Percentile £46,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £39,875 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -25.11% +11.90%
75th Percentile £56,438 £57,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £62,225 £62,500 £77,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £61,625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.64% +7.17%

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 450 898 671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.82% 14.81% 17.30%
Number of salaries quoted 338 534 553
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,434
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,938 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £78,500
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

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for XML 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +25 6 £50,000 -34.43% 7
Warwickshire +22 2 £60,250 +35.39% 2
Solihull -1 2 - -
Shropshire +5 1 £65,000 - 2
XML
England

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Appian
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) Figma
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
1 1 (9.09%) RFID
1 1 (9.09%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
4 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) JMeter
1 2 (18.18%) JUnit
1 2 (18.18%) Mockito
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Back Office
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Applications Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Applications Support
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Development Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Development Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Dynamics NAV Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Intelligent Automation Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) HTML
1 3 (27.27%) JSON
1 3 (27.27%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Camel
2 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 2 (18.18%) jQuery
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) WireMock
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (9.09%) SAML
3 1 (9.09%) SOAP
3 1 (9.09%) WPF
3 1 (9.09%) XSL
3 1 (9.09%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Incident Management
2 5 (45.45%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) BDD
3 3 (27.27%) Workflow
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Process Management
4 2 (18.18%) TDD
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) UX Design
5 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
5 1 (9.09%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Intelligent Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Inventory Management
5 1 (9.09%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Perl
3 3 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) C
5 1 (9.09%) C++
5 1 (9.09%) VB
5 1 (9.09%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) COBIT
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 9001
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kibana
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Blue Prism
3 1 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle