XML
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for XML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited XML over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 294 229
Rank change year-on-year -1 -65 -30
Permanent jobs citing XML 978 1,198 2,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.21% 1.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.64% 4.00% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 616 891 1,688
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £64,470 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% +13.11% +3.64%
75th Percentile £71,563 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £92,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +13.00% +5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,098 29,970 65,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.14% 30.20% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,750 18,475 29,852
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,653 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

XML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the UK

XML
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing XML.

Salary trend for XML in the UK

XML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XML over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for XML in the UK

XML
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
England 0 788 £59,175 -5.32% 176
UK excluding London +7 695 £55,000 -2.65% 104
Work from Home -65 330 £60,000 -6.93% 97
London +35 262 £70,000 - 80
South East -20 204 £60,000 +9.09% 30
Scotland +10 145 £56,318 -18.91% 3
North of England +11 109 £53,750 -2.27% 14
Midlands +4 90 £55,000 -4.35% 22
South West +7 81 £47,500 -26.92% 14
West Midlands +26 73 £53,750 -10.42% 17
North West +16 68 £51,000 -7.27% 7
East of England +8 51 £40,000 -3.03% 16
Yorkshire +15 33 £57,500 +9.52% 5
East Midlands -11 16 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Wales +8 9 £50,000 - 7
North East 0 8 £51,250 -2.90% 2
Northern Ireland +9 6 £32,500 - 1

XML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 71 (7.26%) IIS
2 44 (4.50%) CMS
3 28 (2.86%) OpenStack
4 21 (2.15%) Apache
5 19 (1.94%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.53%) Confluence
7 13 (1.33%) JBoss
7 13 (1.33%) Red Hat Fuse
8 11 (1.12%) SAS
9 10 (1.02%) EPiServer
10 9 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
11 8 (0.82%) Apache Spark
11 8 (0.82%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.72%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
14 5 (0.51%) Drupal
14 5 (0.51%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.41%) ColdFusion
15 4 (0.41%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.94%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.41%) FrameMaker
5 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.10%) Notion
7 1 (0.10%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 27 (2.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.53%) SDL Web 8
4 13 (1.33%) Adobe Campaign
5 10 (1.02%) Shopify
6 7 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.61%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.51%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.51%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.41%) Magento
10 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.31%) Sage 300 ERP
11 2 (0.20%) Infor LN
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.20%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 263 (26.89%) Azure
2 137 (14.01%) Azure DevOps
3 125 (12.78%) AWS
4 62 (6.34%) Power Platform
5 60 (6.13%) SaaS
6 46 (4.70%) Serverless
7 40 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
9 26 (2.66%) PaaS
10 19 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (1.94%) Power Automate
11 18 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 15 (1.53%) NuGet
12 15 (1.53%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.43%) GitHub
13 14 (1.43%) IaaS
14 12 (1.23%) Azure AKS
14 12 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 68 (6.95%) Kerberos
2 27 (2.76%) HTTP
2 27 (2.76%) VPN
3 26 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 22 (2.25%) Internet
5 20 (2.04%) Firewall
5 20 (2.04%) SNMP
6 19 (1.94%) SSL
7 18 (1.84%) BGP
7 18 (1.84%) MPLS
8 15 (1.53%) SSH
9 14 (1.43%) DNS
10 11 (1.12%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (0.92%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.82%) LAN
12 8 (0.82%) WAN
13 7 (0.72%) DHCP
13 7 (0.72%) DWDM
13 7 (0.72%) FTP
13 7 (0.72%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (26.28%) SQL Server
2 113 (11.55%) NoSQL
3 99 (10.12%) Relational Database
4 86 (8.79%) MySQL
5 75 (7.67%) Metadata
6 72 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
7 39 (3.99%) Power BI
8 38 (3.89%) MongoDB
9 34 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (2.76%) Data Vault
11 24 (2.45%) DynamoDB
11 24 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (1.94%) MS Access
13 16 (1.64%) Oracle Database
13 16 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 14 (1.43%) Data Lake
15 13 (1.33%) OLTP
16 10 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
16 10 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 231 (23.62%) Git
2 134 (13.70%) Jenkins
3 126 (12.88%) Visual Studio
4 87 (8.90%) JIRA
5 73 (7.46%) Bitbucket
6 65 (6.65%) Artifactory
7 32 (3.27%) Eclipse
8 29 (2.97%) NUnit
9 28 (2.86%) Jasmine
9 28 (2.86%) Karma Test Runner
9 28 (2.86%) Postman
10 26 (2.66%) GitLab
10 26 (2.66%) Octopus Deploy
11 22 (2.25%) Moq
12 21 (2.15%) Subversion
13 20 (2.04%) TeamCity
14 19 (1.94%) Oracle APEX
14 19 (1.94%) Selenium
15 17 (1.74%) SoapUI
15 17 (1.74%) SpecFlow
General
1 246 (25.15%) Finance
2 198 (20.25%) Social Skills
3 145 (14.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 136 (13.91%) Law
5 109 (11.15%) Marketing
6 86 (8.79%) Legal
7 75 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
8 65 (6.65%) Retail
9 51 (5.21%) Publishing
10 50 (5.11%) Public Sector
11 41 (4.19%) Aerospace
12 30 (3.07%) Banking
13 23 (2.35%) Military
14 21 (2.15%) Telecoms
15 20 (2.04%) Electronics
16 18 (1.84%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
19 7 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 421 (43.05%) Developer
2 236 (24.13%) Senior
3 177 (18.10%) Software Engineer
4 132 (13.50%) Lead
5 92 (9.41%) Senior Developer
6 80 (8.18%) Lead Software Engineer
7 77 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 66 (6.75%) C# Developer
9 61 (6.24%) Java Engineer
9 61 (6.24%) Java Software Engineer
10 60 (6.13%) Analyst
11 57 (5.83%) .NET Developer
12 53 (5.42%) Java Developer
13 51 (5.21%) Architect
13 51 (5.21%) Software Developer
14 48 (4.91%) Consultant
15 47 (4.81%) Full Stack Developer
16 44 (4.50%) Full Stack Engineer
16 44 (4.50%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 26 (2.66%) Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 553 (56.54%) JSON
2 435 (44.48%) Web Services
3 337 (34.46%) HTML
4 319 (32.62%) .NET
5 279 (28.53%) REST
6 236 (24.13%) SOAP
7 221 (22.60%) CSS
8 172 (17.59%) AngularJS
9 163 (16.67%) RESTful
10 157 (16.05%) ASP.NET
11 117 (11.96%) Spring
12 112 (11.45%) .NET Framework
13 93 (9.51%) LDAP
14 82 (8.38%) React
15 77 (7.87%) jQuery
16 71 (7.26%) .NET Core
17 69 (7.06%) OpenID
17 69 (7.06%) SAML
18 67 (6.85%) Node.js
19 65 (6.65%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 133 (13.60%) Management Information System
2 68 (6.95%) Enterprise Cloud
3 66 (6.75%) Reference Data
4 65 (6.65%) Algorithms
5 46 (4.70%) Onboarding
6 43 (4.40%) Product Ownership
7 34 (3.48%) CMDB
7 34 (3.48%) Data Structures
8 30 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (2.25%) Mobile App
12 19 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
14 16 (1.64%) Legacy Code
15 13 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.33%) NHS
16 11 (1.12%) EPoS
17 9 (0.92%) Data Centre
17 9 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 140 (14.31%) Linux
2 95 (9.71%) Windows
3 48 (4.91%) Unix
4 11 (1.12%) CentOS
5 9 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.61%) Android
7 5 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.31%) AIX
8 3 (0.31%) VMS
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.20%) zOS
10 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (41.21%) Agile
2 272 (27.81%) DevOps
3 201 (20.55%) Software Engineering
4 192 (19.63%) CI/CD
5 174 (17.79%) SDLC
6 168 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
7 165 (16.87%) Test Automation
8 142 (14.52%) Scrum
9 141 (14.42%) Mentoring
10 140 (14.31%) OO
11 128 (13.09%) Roadmaps
12 125 (12.78%) Full Stack Development
13 119 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 111 (11.35%) MVC
15 109 (11.15%) Community of Practice
15 109 (11.15%) Operational Stability
16 103 (10.53%) Data Modelling
17 100 (10.22%) Computer Science
18 94 (9.61%) Unit Testing
19 92 (9.41%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 489 (50.00%) SQL
2 355 (36.30%) JavaScript
3 293 (29.96%) C#
4 194 (19.84%) Java
5 167 (17.08%) Python
6 145 (14.83%) T-SQL
7 74 (7.57%) Go
7 74 (7.57%) VB.NET
8 71 (7.26%) PowerShell
9 69 (7.06%) VB
10 65 (6.65%) Prolog
10 65 (6.65%) SPARQL
11 56 (5.73%) TypeScript
12 46 (4.70%) PHP
12 46 (4.70%) XPath
13 42 (4.29%) PL/SQL
14 38 (3.89%) C++
15 28 (2.86%) VB6
16 27 (2.76%) C
17 26 (2.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 152 (15.54%) Degree
2 115 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 86 (8.79%) SC Cleared
4 55 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.07%) HNC
6 25 (2.56%) HND
7 19 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.82%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (0.72%) CCNA
11 7 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (0.61%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.51%) MCAD
13 5 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (10.94%) QA
2 22 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.53%) GDPR
4 13 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.02%) CDISC
6 6 (0.61%) NCSC
7 5 (0.51%) SLA
8 4 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
9 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.20%) SEPA
11 1 (0.10%) COREP
11 1 (0.10%) HL7
11 1 (0.10%) IFRS
11 1 (0.10%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.10%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.10%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.10%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.10%) ITGC
11 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 74 (7.57%) Active Directory
2 71 (7.26%) Docker
3 27 (2.76%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.41%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.20%) Firmware
6 2 (0.20%) RACF
6 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (8.90%) Kubernetes
2 61 (6.24%) Ansible
3 42 (4.29%) Terraform
4 16 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.33%) WMI
6 12 (1.23%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.12%) Puppet
8 6 (0.61%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.61%) Control-M
9 5 (0.51%) HP UCMDB
10 4 (0.41%) Grafana
10 4 (0.41%) vRealize
11 3 (0.31%) Kibana
12 2 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.20%) Foglight
12 2 (0.20%) MAINVIEW
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Identity Management
13 1 (0.10%) SCCM
13 1 (0.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 193 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 111 (11.35%) Oracle
3 61 (6.24%) ServiceNow
4 37 (3.78%) Adobe
5 30 (3.07%) BMC
6 29 (2.97%) HP
7 28 (2.86%) WSO2
8 27 (2.76%) Remedy
9 26 (2.66%) Salesforce
10 23 (2.35%) Cisco
10 23 (2.35%) Google
11 20 (2.04%) SAP
12 15 (1.53%) Cognizant
13 13 (1.33%) Splunk
13 13 (1.33%) Sybase
14 12 (1.23%) Atlassian
15 10 (1.02%) Databricks
15 10 (1.02%) VMware
16 9 (0.92%) MuleSoft
17 8 (0.82%) ESRI