XML Schema Definition (XSD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for XSD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited XSD over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 868 882 1152
Rank change year-on-year +14 +270 -340
Permanent jobs citing XSD 39 78 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.078% 0.048%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 26 24 50
10th Percentile £46,250 - £38,637
25th Percentile £49,063 £57,000 £51,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -4.86%
75th Percentile £63,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,125 £97,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +31.11% -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XSD 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 21,106 30,136 66,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.28% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 15,745 18,594 29,821
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,939 £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%

XSD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XSD in the UK

XSD
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for XSD in the UK

XSD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XSD over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for XSD in the UK

XSD
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XSD within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +51 34 £62,500 - 4
UK excluding London -31 23 £60,000 +1.69% 1
London +112 15 £62,500 -16.11% 4
Work from Home +45 14 £60,000 +1.69% 2
Midlands -1 8 £60,000 +1.69%
West Midlands +17 7 £60,000 -
South West -3 7 £47,500 - 1
North of England +44 3 - -
North West +2 2 - -
Scotland -70 2 - -
Yorkshire +81 1 - -
Northern Ireland +19 1 - -
Wales +5 1 - -
East Midlands -16 1 - -
South East -22 1 - -

XSD
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 12 (30.77%) JBoss
1 12 (30.77%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (12.82%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (5.13%) CMS
3 2 (5.13%) IIS
3 2 (5.13%) Liferay
3 2 (5.13%) Magnolia
3 2 (5.13%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) Azure
2 15 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.26%) SaaS
4 2 (5.13%) npm
4 2 (5.13%) PaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Boomi
5 1 (2.56%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.56%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.13%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (5.13%) DB2
3 2 (5.13%) DTS
3 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (30.77%) IntelliJ
2 11 (28.21%) Visual Studio
3 8 (20.51%) Git
4 3 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (5.13%) Bower
5 2 (5.13%) gulp
5 2 (5.13%) Moq
5 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 13 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 11 (28.21%) Finance
4 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (20.51%) Legal
5 6 (15.38%) Publishing
6 5 (12.82%) Law
7 2 (5.13%) Retail
8 1 (2.56%) Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Developer
2 20 (51.28%) Senior
3 15 (38.46%) .NET Developer
4 12 (30.77%) Java Engineer
4 12 (30.77%) Java Software Engineer
4 12 (30.77%) Senior Java Engineer
4 12 (30.77%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 12 (30.77%) Senior Software Engineer
4 12 (30.77%) Software Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) .NET Software Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Senior .NET Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Senior .NET Software Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Senior Software Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Software Developer
6 5 (12.82%) BizTalk Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Consultant
7 3 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) Development Manager
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (100.00%) XML
2 31 (79.49%) Web Services
3 25 (64.10%) .NET
3 25 (64.10%) REST
4 24 (61.54%) JSON
5 20 (51.28%) AngularJS
6 19 (48.72%) SOAP
7 14 (35.90%) RESTful
8 13 (33.33%) ASP.NET
9 12 (30.77%) Hibernate
9 12 (30.77%) Java EE
9 12 (30.77%) JPA
9 12 (30.77%) Spring
10 11 (28.21%) .NET Framework
10 11 (28.21%) XSLT
11 8 (20.51%) CSS
11 8 (20.51%) HTML
11 8 (20.51%) WPF
12 7 (17.95%) WCF
13 6 (15.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.56%) Derivative
3 1 (2.56%) Equities
3 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.56%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (66.67%) Agile
2 19 (48.72%) DevOps
2 19 (48.72%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (38.46%) Unit Testing
4 14 (35.90%) Software Engineering
5 13 (33.33%) Front End Development
6 12 (30.77%) Actionable Insight
6 12 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (30.77%) Data Design
6 12 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 12 (30.77%) User Experience
6 12 (30.77%) UX Design
7 10 (25.64%) Event-Driven
7 10 (25.64%) Test Automation
8 9 (23.08%) Microservices
9 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
9 8 (20.51%) MVC
9 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
10 7 (17.95%) B2B
11 6 (15.38%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) SQL
2 20 (51.28%) C#
3 14 (35.90%) Java
4 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
4 8 (20.51%) TypeScript
5 5 (12.82%) T-SQL
6 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
6 4 (10.26%) Python
7 3 (7.69%) XPath
8 2 (5.13%) C
8 2 (5.13%) Go
8 2 (5.13%) Kotlin
8 2 (5.13%) PHP
8 2 (5.13%) VB
8 2 (5.13%) XAML
9 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 12 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) COREP
2 1 (2.56%) IFRS
2 1 (2.56%) IFRS 17
2 1 (2.56%) IFRS 9
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) MuleSoft
2 2 (5.13%) OpenText
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle
2 2 (5.13%) Pega
2 2 (5.13%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.56%) IBM
3 1 (2.56%) Salesforce