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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 276 240
Rank change year-on-year -32 -36 -41
Permanent jobs citing XML 972 1,210 2,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 1.28% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.51% 4.38% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 612 898 1,663
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +14.04% +5.42%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £56,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.42% +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 21,541 27,618 70,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 29.18% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,014 17,838 29,844
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -30 790 £58,000 -7.20% 170
UK excluding London -6 687 £54,000 -4.42% 109
Work from Home -92 326 £60,000 -7.69% 89
London +26 263 £70,000 - 69
South East -48 196 £60,000 +9.09% 28
Scotland +6 141 £56,909 -18.05% 7
North of England -17 111 £52,500 -4.55% 20
Midlands +2 93 £55,000 -6.78% 24
South West +2 82 £47,500 -28.30% 16
West Midlands +1 76 £55,000 -8.33% 17
North West +6 71 £51,000 -7.27% 16
East of England -3 51 £40,000 - 14
Yorkshire -4 32 £57,500 +4.55% 3
East Midlands -19 16 £60,000 +13.21% 7
Wales +2 9 £50,000 +4.17% 4
North East -7 8 £51,250 -2.90% 1
Northern Ireland +7 4 £32,500 -

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 70 (7.20%) IIS
2 49 (5.04%) CMS
3 24 (2.47%) OpenStack
4 20 (2.06%) Apache
5 17 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.65%) Confluence
7 11 (1.13%) SAS
8 10 (1.03%) EPiServer
8 10 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (0.82%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.72%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.62%) Apache Spark
11 6 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
12 5 (0.51%) Drupal
12 5 (0.51%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.41%) ColdFusion
13 4 (0.41%) WordPress
14 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.31%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 27 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (2.37%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.41%) FrameMaker
5 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.10%) Notion
Business Applications
1 25 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 25 (2.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 19 (1.95%) SDL Web 8
3 14 (1.44%) Adobe Campaign
4 10 (1.03%) Shopify
5 8 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.51%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.51%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.41%) Magento
8 4 (0.41%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.31%) Sage 300 ERP
10 2 (0.21%) Adaptiv
10 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.21%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 250 (25.72%) Azure
2 134 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
3 118 (12.14%) AWS
4 60 (6.17%) Power Platform
5 56 (5.76%) SaaS
6 39 (4.01%) Serverless
7 34 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (2.26%) PaaS
10 20 (2.06%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.95%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.95%) NuGet
12 18 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (1.65%) PowerApps
14 15 (1.54%) GitHub
15 12 (1.23%) Azure AKS
16 11 (1.13%) IaaS
17 10 (1.03%) Amazon S3
17 10 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (7.00%) Kerberos
2 27 (2.78%) HTTP
3 26 (2.67%) TCP/IP
3 26 (2.67%) VPN
4 22 (2.26%) Internet
5 20 (2.06%) Firewall
5 20 (2.06%) SNMP
6 18 (1.85%) BGP
6 18 (1.85%) MPLS
6 18 (1.85%) SSL
7 16 (1.65%) SSH
8 14 (1.44%) DNS
9 11 (1.13%) Ethernet VPN
10 9 (0.93%) HTTPS
11 8 (0.82%) LAN
11 8 (0.82%) WAN
12 7 (0.72%) DHCP
12 7 (0.72%) DWDM
12 7 (0.72%) FTP
12 7 (0.72%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (26.54%) SQL Server
2 103 (10.60%) NoSQL
3 91 (9.36%) Relational Database
4 88 (9.05%) MySQL
5 73 (7.51%) Metadata
6 68 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (3.91%) MongoDB
7 38 (3.91%) Power BI
8 36 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
9 26 (2.67%) Data Vault
10 24 (2.47%) DynamoDB
11 21 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (2.06%) MS Access
13 16 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 15 (1.54%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.44%) OLTP
16 12 (1.23%) Data Lake
17 11 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
17 11 (1.13%) Tableau
18 10 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 231 (23.77%) Git
2 130 (13.37%) Visual Studio
3 128 (13.17%) Jenkins
4 92 (9.47%) JIRA
5 73 (7.51%) Bitbucket
6 65 (6.69%) Artifactory
7 34 (3.50%) NUnit
8 32 (3.29%) Eclipse
9 30 (3.09%) Octopus Deploy
10 28 (2.88%) Jasmine
10 28 (2.88%) Karma Test Runner
10 28 (2.88%) Moq
10 28 (2.88%) Postman
11 26 (2.67%) GitLab
12 24 (2.47%) TeamCity
13 22 (2.26%) SpecFlow
14 20 (2.06%) Sourcetree
14 20 (2.06%) Subversion
15 19 (1.95%) Oracle APEX
15 19 (1.95%) Selenium
General
1 247 (25.41%) Finance
2 201 (20.68%) Social Skills
3 144 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 134 (13.79%) Law
5 116 (11.93%) Marketing
6 84 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
7 83 (8.54%) Legal
8 66 (6.79%) Retail
9 51 (5.25%) Publishing
10 41 (4.22%) Aerospace
11 33 (3.40%) Banking
12 31 (3.19%) Public Sector
13 22 (2.26%) Military
14 21 (2.16%) Telecoms
15 20 (2.06%) Electronics
16 19 (1.95%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.82%) Investment Banking
18 8 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 428 (44.03%) Developer
2 227 (23.35%) Senior
3 165 (16.98%) Software Engineer
4 135 (13.89%) Lead
5 100 (10.29%) Senior Developer
6 80 (8.23%) Lead Software Engineer
7 71 (7.30%) C# Developer
8 64 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 59 (6.07%) Analyst
10 53 (5.45%) .NET Developer
10 53 (5.45%) Architect
11 52 (5.35%) Consultant
12 51 (5.25%) Software Developer
13 50 (5.14%) Full Stack Developer
14 49 (5.04%) Java Engineer
14 49 (5.04%) Java Software Engineer
15 48 (4.94%) Java Developer
16 44 (4.53%) Full Stack Engineer
17 43 (4.42%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 26 (2.67%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (54.84%) JSON
2 430 (44.24%) Web Services
3 345 (35.49%) HTML
4 320 (32.92%) .NET
5 260 (26.75%) REST
6 230 (23.66%) SOAP
7 229 (23.56%) CSS
8 160 (16.46%) ASP.NET
9 159 (16.36%) RESTful
10 156 (16.05%) AngularJS
11 117 (12.04%) .NET Framework
12 99 (10.19%) Spring
13 93 (9.57%) LDAP
14 90 (9.26%) React
15 84 (8.64%) jQuery
16 69 (7.10%) .NET Core
16 69 (7.10%) OpenID
16 69 (7.10%) SAML
16 69 (7.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 65 (6.69%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 131 (13.48%) Management Information System
2 68 (7.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 67 (6.89%) Reference Data
4 65 (6.69%) Algorithms
5 45 (4.63%) Onboarding
6 43 (4.42%) Product Ownership
7 34 (3.50%) CMDB
7 34 (3.50%) Data Structures
8 25 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
8 25 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (2.26%) Mobile App
11 20 (2.06%) Legacy Code
12 18 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.34%) NHS
14 12 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.13%) EPoS
16 9 (0.93%) Data Centre
17 8 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 141 (14.51%) Linux
2 91 (9.36%) Windows
3 51 (5.25%) Unix
4 11 (1.13%) CentOS
5 7 (0.72%) Android
5 7 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.41%) AIX
7 4 (0.41%) VMS
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (40.12%) Agile
2 269 (27.67%) DevOps
3 192 (19.75%) CI/CD
4 189 (19.44%) Software Engineering
5 174 (17.90%) SDLC
6 169 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 159 (16.36%) Test Automation
8 141 (14.51%) OO
9 138 (14.20%) Scrum
10 134 (13.79%) Mentoring
11 127 (13.07%) Roadmaps
12 126 (12.96%) Full Stack Development
13 120 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 117 (12.04%) MVC
15 110 (11.32%) Computer Science
16 108 (11.11%) Community of Practice
16 108 (11.11%) Operational Stability
17 104 (10.70%) Data Modelling
18 102 (10.49%) Unit Testing
19 96 (9.88%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 494 (50.82%) SQL
2 359 (36.93%) JavaScript
3 292 (30.04%) C#
4 183 (18.83%) Java
5 161 (16.56%) Python
6 147 (15.12%) T-SQL
7 78 (8.02%) VB.NET
8 74 (7.61%) Go
9 67 (6.89%) PowerShell
9 67 (6.89%) VB
10 65 (6.69%) Prolog
10 65 (6.69%) SPARQL
11 56 (5.76%) TypeScript
12 47 (4.84%) PHP
12 47 (4.84%) PL/SQL
12 47 (4.84%) XPath
13 37 (3.81%) C++
14 28 (2.88%) VB6
15 27 (2.78%) C
16 26 (2.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 162 (16.67%) Degree
2 95 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 67 (6.89%) SC Cleared
4 62 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.09%) HNC
6 25 (2.57%) HND
7 16 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (0.72%) CCNA
12 7 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.62%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.51%) ISEB
14 5 (0.51%) MCAD
14 5 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (11.11%) QA
2 24 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.54%) GDPR
4 10 (1.03%) CDISC
5 6 (0.62%) NCSC
6 5 (0.51%) SLA
7 4 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
8 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.21%) SEPA
10 1 (0.10%) HL7
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 (7.61%) Active Directory
2 65 (6.69%) Docker
3 22 (2.26%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.41%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.21%) Firmware
6 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.21%) vSphere
7 1 (0.10%) RACF
7 1 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 83 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 55 (5.66%) Ansible
3 37 (3.81%) Terraform
4 18 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.34%) WMI
6 12 (1.23%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.13%) Puppet
8 6 (0.62%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.62%) Control-M
9 4 (0.41%) Grafana
9 4 (0.41%) HP UCMDB
9 4 (0.41%) vRealize
10 3 (0.31%) Kibana
11 2 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.21%) Foglight
12 1 (0.10%) MAINVIEW
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle Identity Management
12 1 (0.10%) Plesk
Vendors
1 189 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 115 (11.83%) Oracle
3 60 (6.17%) ServiceNow
4 44 (4.53%) Adobe
5 28 (2.88%) HP
5 28 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 27 (2.78%) BMC
7 25 (2.57%) Google
7 25 (2.57%) Remedy
8 24 (2.47%) WSO2
9 23 (2.37%) Cisco
10 19 (1.95%) Cognizant
10 19 (1.95%) SAP
11 15 (1.54%) Sybase
12 13 (1.34%) Splunk
13 10 (1.03%) Atlassian
13 10 (1.03%) VMware
14 8 (0.82%) Databricks
14 8 (0.82%) ESRI
14 8 (0.82%) MuleSoft