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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 295 225
Rank change year-on-year +5 -70 -27
Permanent jobs citing XML 983 1,213 2,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.20% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.67% 3.97% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 624 903 1,725
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,650 £35,350
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £55,140
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +13.35% +0.25%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +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 21,062 30,550 63,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 30.15% 40.74%
Number of salaries quoted 15,764 18,827 29,914
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
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 9 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 9 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 +10 792 £60,000 -4.00% 179
UK excluding London +18 691 £55,000 - 103
Work from Home -61 336 £60,000 -4.00% 83
London +32 271 £70,000 -3.45% 87
South East -23 205 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Scotland +8 145 £56,318 -18.91% 5
North of England +13 109 £55,000 +2.33% 11
Midlands -2 88 £55,000 -4.35% 22
South West -4 77 £47,500 -26.92% 11
West Midlands +19 71 £53,750 -10.42% 17
North West +31 69 £51,000 -7.27% 7
East of England +19 52 £40,000 -5.88% 14
Yorkshire +28 32 £60,000 +14.29% 3
East Midlands -16 16 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Wales -3 9 £50,000 - 7
North East -1 8 £51,250 -2.90% 1
Northern Ireland +15 6 £32,500 - 3

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 72 (7.32%) IIS
2 43 (4.37%) CMS
3 28 (2.85%) OpenStack
4 21 (2.14%) Apache
5 19 (1.93%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.53%) Confluence
7 14 (1.42%) JBoss
8 13 (1.32%) Red Hat Fuse
9 11 (1.12%) SAS
10 10 (1.02%) EPiServer
11 9 (0.92%) Apache Spark
11 9 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.71%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.51%) Drupal
15 5 (0.51%) WebSphere
16 4 (0.41%) ColdFusion
16 4 (0.41%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.83%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.41%) FrameMaker
4 4 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.10%) Notion
6 1 (0.10%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (2.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.42%) SDL Web 8
4 13 (1.32%) Adobe Campaign
5 10 (1.02%) Shopify
6 7 (0.71%) Elite 3E
6 7 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
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%) Oracle Payables
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 Receivables
11 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.20%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 265 (26.96%) Azure
2 136 (13.84%) Azure DevOps
3 126 (12.82%) AWS
4 67 (6.82%) SaaS
5 60 (6.10%) Power Platform
6 47 (4.78%) Serverless
7 40 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (3.05%) PaaS
10 20 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (1.73%) IaaS
12 16 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (1.63%) Power Automate
13 15 (1.53%) GitHub
14 14 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 14 (1.42%) NuGet
14 14 (1.42%) PowerApps
15 13 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (1.22%) Azure AKS
16 12 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (6.92%) Kerberos
2 28 (2.85%) HTTP
2 28 (2.85%) VPN
3 26 (2.64%) TCP/IP
4 24 (2.44%) Internet
5 20 (2.03%) SNMP
5 20 (2.03%) SSL
6 18 (1.83%) BGP
6 18 (1.83%) Firewall
6 18 (1.83%) MPLS
7 15 (1.53%) SSH
8 14 (1.42%) DNS
9 11 (1.12%) Ethernet VPN
10 9 (0.92%) HTTPS
11 8 (0.81%) LAN
11 8 (0.81%) WAN
12 7 (0.71%) DHCP
12 7 (0.71%) FTP
12 7 (0.71%) IPsec
12 7 (0.71%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (26.35%) SQL Server
2 115 (11.70%) NoSQL
3 101 (10.27%) Relational Database
4 86 (8.75%) MySQL
5 75 (7.63%) Metadata
6 72 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (3.87%) MongoDB
8 37 (3.76%) Power BI
9 34 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (2.75%) Data Vault
11 24 (2.44%) DynamoDB
11 24 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (1.93%) MS Access
13 18 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 17 (1.73%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.42%) Data Lake
16 13 (1.32%) OLTP
17 11 (1.12%) Big Data
18 10 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
18 10 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 230 (23.40%) Git
2 132 (13.43%) Jenkins
3 125 (12.72%) Visual Studio
4 84 (8.55%) JIRA
5 73 (7.43%) Bitbucket
6 65 (6.61%) Artifactory
7 32 (3.26%) Eclipse
8 28 (2.85%) Jasmine
8 28 (2.85%) Karma Test Runner
8 28 (2.85%) NUnit
8 28 (2.85%) Postman
9 26 (2.64%) Octopus Deploy
10 25 (2.54%) GitLab
11 21 (2.14%) Subversion
12 20 (2.03%) Moq
12 20 (2.03%) Selenium
13 19 (1.93%) Oracle APEX
13 19 (1.93%) TeamCity
14 18 (1.83%) SoapUI
15 16 (1.63%) CMake
General
1 245 (24.92%) Finance
2 196 (19.94%) Social Skills
3 145 (14.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 138 (14.04%) Law
5 107 (10.89%) Marketing
6 90 (9.16%) Legal
7 74 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
8 63 (6.41%) Retail
9 52 (5.29%) Publishing
10 50 (5.09%) Public Sector
11 39 (3.97%) Aerospace
12 30 (3.05%) Banking
13 23 (2.34%) Military
14 21 (2.14%) Telecoms
15 20 (2.03%) Electronics
16 18 (1.83%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
20 7 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 419 (42.62%) Developer
2 236 (24.01%) Senior
3 178 (18.11%) Software Engineer
4 133 (13.53%) Lead
5 90 (9.16%) Senior Developer
6 80 (8.14%) Lead Software Engineer
7 77 (7.83%) Senior Software Engineer
8 63 (6.41%) Analyst
9 62 (6.31%) C# Developer
10 61 (6.21%) Java Engineer
10 61 (6.21%) Java Software Engineer
11 57 (5.80%) .NET Developer
12 54 (5.49%) Java Developer
13 53 (5.39%) Architect
14 49 (4.98%) Software Developer
15 47 (4.78%) Consultant
15 47 (4.78%) Full Stack Developer
16 44 (4.48%) Full Stack Engineer
16 44 (4.48%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 26 (2.64%) Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 560 (56.97%) JSON
2 439 (44.66%) Web Services
3 333 (33.88%) HTML
4 317 (32.25%) .NET
5 284 (28.89%) REST
6 238 (24.21%) SOAP
7 218 (22.18%) CSS
8 174 (17.70%) AngularJS
9 163 (16.58%) RESTful
10 155 (15.77%) ASP.NET
11 116 (11.80%) Spring
12 111 (11.29%) .NET Framework
13 94 (9.56%) LDAP
14 81 (8.24%) React
15 73 (7.43%) .NET Core
15 73 (7.43%) jQuery
16 69 (7.02%) OpenID
16 69 (7.02%) SAML
17 68 (6.92%) Node.js
18 65 (6.61%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 136 (13.84%) Management Information System
2 68 (6.92%) Enterprise Cloud
3 66 (6.71%) Reference Data
4 65 (6.61%) Algorithms
5 46 (4.68%) Onboarding
6 43 (4.37%) Product Ownership
7 35 (3.56%) CMDB
8 34 (3.46%) Data Structures
9 30 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
10 26 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (2.14%) Mobile App
13 18 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.53%) Legacy Code
14 15 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
15 13 (1.32%) NHS
16 11 (1.12%) EPoS
17 9 (0.92%) Clustering
17 9 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 139 (14.14%) Linux
2 93 (9.46%) Windows
3 47 (4.78%) Unix
4 11 (1.12%) CentOS
5 9 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.51%) Android
6 5 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.31%) AIX
7 3 (0.31%) VMS
7 3 (0.31%) zOS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (40.49%) Agile
2 268 (27.26%) DevOps
3 202 (20.55%) Software Engineering
4 192 (19.53%) CI/CD
5 175 (17.80%) SDLC
6 166 (16.89%) Test Automation
7 165 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (14.24%) OO
8 140 (14.24%) Scrum
9 139 (14.14%) Mentoring
10 129 (13.12%) Roadmaps
11 123 (12.51%) Full Stack Development
12 122 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 109 (11.09%) Community of Practice
13 109 (11.09%) MVC
13 109 (11.09%) Operational Stability
14 105 (10.68%) Data Modelling
15 98 (9.97%) Computer Science
16 92 (9.36%) Unit Testing
17 91 (9.26%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 492 (50.05%) SQL
2 353 (35.91%) JavaScript
3 292 (29.70%) C#
4 192 (19.53%) Java
5 167 (16.99%) Python
6 142 (14.45%) T-SQL
7 74 (7.53%) Go
7 74 (7.53%) PowerShell
8 72 (7.32%) VB.NET
9 70 (7.12%) VB
10 65 (6.61%) Prolog
10 65 (6.61%) SPARQL
11 56 (5.70%) TypeScript
12 46 (4.68%) PHP
13 45 (4.58%) XPath
14 43 (4.37%) PL/SQL
15 38 (3.87%) C++
16 28 (2.85%) VB6
17 27 (2.75%) C
17 27 (2.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 151 (15.36%) Degree
2 118 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 88 (8.95%) SC Cleared
4 54 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.15%) HNC
6 25 (2.54%) HND
7 18 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.42%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (0.71%) CCNA
11 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.71%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.71%) Microsoft 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 (10.89%) QA
2 22 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.53%) GDPR
4 13 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.02%) CDISC
6 6 (0.61%) NCSC
7 4 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.41%) SLA
8 3 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
8 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.20%) HL7
9 2 (0.20%) SEPA
10 1 (0.10%) COREP
10 1 (0.10%) IFRS
10 1 (0.10%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.10%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.10%) ITGC
10 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 74 (7.53%) Active Directory
2 72 (7.32%) Docker
3 27 (2.75%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.41%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.31%) RACF
6 3 (0.31%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.20%) vSphere
8 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 85 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 61 (6.21%) Ansible
3 42 (4.27%) Terraform
4 16 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.32%) WMI
6 12 (1.22%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.12%) Puppet
8 7 (0.71%) Control-M
9 6 (0.61%) CloudHub
9 6 (0.61%) HP UCMDB
10 4 (0.41%) Grafana
10 4 (0.41%) vRealize
11 3 (0.31%) Kibana
11 3 (0.31%) MAINVIEW
12 2 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.20%) Foglight
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
13 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Identity Management
13 1 (0.10%) Plesk
Vendors
1 195 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 112 (11.39%) Oracle
3 61 (6.21%) ServiceNow
4 36 (3.66%) Adobe
5 33 (3.36%) BMC
6 31 (3.15%) HP
7 29 (2.95%) Remedy
8 28 (2.85%) WSO2
9 27 (2.75%) Salesforce
10 23 (2.34%) Cisco
10 23 (2.34%) Google
11 20 (2.03%) SAP
12 14 (1.42%) Cognizant
13 13 (1.32%) Atlassian
13 13 (1.32%) Splunk
13 13 (1.32%) Sybase
14 10 (1.02%) Databricks
14 10 (1.02%) VMware
15 9 (0.92%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.81%) ESRI