Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SOAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOAP over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 434 355 366
Rank change year-on-year -79 +11 -99
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 556 928 1,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.94% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 3.12% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 439 647 926
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,875
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £68,823 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.45% +25.13% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,850 £93,300 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

SOAP 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 21,177 29,778 67,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.98% 30.23% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,813 18,285 29,893
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,535 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
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%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the UK

SOAP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SOAP in the UK

SOAP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAP over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SOAP in the UK

SOAP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 -54 478 £57,500 -17.20% 111
UK excluding London -65 367 £55,000 -8.33% 80
Work from Home -64 255 £57,500 -11.54% 70
London -33 169 £60,250 -24.69% 48
South East -51 106 £60,000 -7.69% 35
North of England +19 92 £51,250 -16.23% 15
North West +23 65 £55,000 -15.38% 7
Midlands -1 57 £57,500 -4.17% 8
Scotland -56 33 £47,500 -31.60% 7
West Midlands +9 31 £57,500 -4.17% 6
South West -13 31 £42,500 -25.44% 2
East of England -22 27 £47,500 -20.83% 10
Yorkshire +37 25 £47,500 -7.77% 7
East Midlands 0 25 £50,000 +21.21% 2
Wales +16 12 £41,250 -17.50% 4
Northern Ireland +8 9 £85,000 -
North East -5 2 £47,500 -32.14% 2

SOAP
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 52 (9.35%) CMS
2 44 (7.91%) IIS
3 28 (5.04%) Apache
4 19 (3.42%) JBoss
5 18 (3.24%) Red Hat Fuse
6 13 (2.34%) Confluence
7 11 (1.98%) SharePoint
8 10 (1.80%) EPiServer
9 7 (1.26%) Tomcat
10 6 (1.08%) OpenStack
10 6 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
11 5 (0.90%) nginx
11 5 (0.90%) NServiceBus
12 4 (0.72%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.72%) Drupal
13 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.18%) Mule
14 1 (0.18%) Oracle Service Bus
14 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (3.96%) Photoshop
2 11 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.36%) InDesign
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 33 (5.94%) SDL Web 8
2 14 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.98%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (1.08%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (1.08%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.54%) BusinessWorks
6 3 (0.54%) Shopify
7 2 (0.36%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.18%) HFM
8 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 137 (24.64%) Azure
2 108 (19.42%) AWS
3 78 (14.03%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (8.27%) SaaS
5 32 (5.76%) GitHub
6 16 (2.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 16 (2.88%) NuGet
7 15 (2.70%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.52%) PaaS
9 13 (2.34%) Serverless
10 9 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.44%) Boomi
12 7 (1.26%) GCP
12 7 (1.26%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.26%) IaaS
13 6 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.08%) Azure Service Fabric
13 6 (1.08%) Entra ID
14 5 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.50%) VPN
2 18 (3.24%) SSH
3 16 (2.88%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.34%) SNMP
5 11 (1.98%) BGP
5 11 (1.98%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (1.98%) MPLS
5 11 (1.98%) SSL
6 9 (1.62%) HTTP
7 8 (1.44%) Internet
8 5 (0.90%) Firewall
9 4 (0.72%) DNS
10 3 (0.54%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.54%) Broadband
10 3 (0.54%) DMZ
10 3 (0.54%) Modbus
10 3 (0.54%) NaaS
10 3 (0.54%) VLAN
10 3 (0.54%) Wireless
11 2 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (33.63%) SQL Server
2 74 (13.31%) MySQL
3 67 (12.05%) Relational Database
4 52 (9.35%) MongoDB
5 38 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (5.22%) NoSQL
7 19 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.52%) OLTP
8 14 (2.52%) RDBMS
9 13 (2.34%) Oracle Database
10 12 (2.16%) Power BI
11 11 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.98%) MariaDB
11 11 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (1.80%) MS Access
13 9 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.44%) Oracle Database 12c
15 7 (1.26%) Big Data
15 7 (1.26%) DynamoDB
16 6 (1.08%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 109 (19.60%) JIRA
2 108 (19.42%) Git
3 76 (13.67%) Visual Studio
4 39 (7.01%) Postman
5 37 (6.65%) GitLab
6 35 (6.29%) NUnit
6 35 (6.29%) TeamCity
7 33 (5.94%) Moq
7 33 (5.94%) SoapUI
8 30 (5.40%) Jenkins
9 28 (5.04%) Jasmine
9 28 (5.04%) Karma Test Runner
10 25 (4.50%) Oracle APEX
11 22 (3.96%) Eclipse
12 18 (3.24%) SpecFlow
13 16 (2.88%) git-flow
13 16 (2.88%) IntelliJ
13 16 (2.88%) Octopus Deploy
13 16 (2.88%) Sourcetree
14 15 (2.70%) Cucumber
General
1 115 (20.68%) Social Skills
2 78 (14.03%) Finance
3 54 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (9.71%) Marketing
4 39 (7.01%) Law
5 32 (5.76%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.42%) Telecoms
8 18 (3.24%) Retail
9 14 (2.52%) Legal
10 10 (1.80%) Banking
11 9 (1.62%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.08%) Police
13 5 (0.90%) Local Government
13 5 (0.90%) Publishing
14 4 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.72%) Welsh Language
15 3 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 1 (0.18%) Front Office
16 1 (0.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 328 (58.99%) Developer
2 123 (22.12%) Senior
3 70 (12.59%) Senior Developer
4 53 (9.53%) C# Developer
5 52 (9.35%) Full Stack Developer
6 45 (8.09%) Software Engineer
7 43 (7.73%) .NET Developer
8 42 (7.55%) Support Engineer
9 39 (7.01%) PHP Developer
10 36 (6.47%) Java Engineer
11 32 (5.76%) Architect
12 30 (5.40%) Java Developer
12 30 (5.40%) Java Software Engineer
13 26 (4.68%) Oracle Developer
14 23 (4.14%) Salesforce Developer
14 23 (4.14%) Senior Oracle Developer
15 22 (3.96%) Software Support Engineer
16 21 (3.78%) Consultant
16 21 (3.78%) Lead
17 19 (3.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 342 (61.51%) REST
2 296 (53.24%) Web Services
3 239 (42.99%) XML
4 223 (40.11%) .NET
5 164 (29.50%) JSON
6 163 (29.32%) HTML
7 160 (28.78%) RESTful
8 128 (23.02%) CSS
9 122 (21.94%) ASP.NET
10 102 (18.35%) AngularJS
11 72 (12.95%) .NET Framework
12 71 (12.77%) React
13 68 (12.23%) jQuery
13 68 (12.23%) Spring
14 48 (8.63%) Spring Boot
15 45 (8.09%) ASP.NET MVC
16 43 (7.73%) Ajax
17 38 (6.83%) Laravel
18 37 (6.65%) Hibernate
19 36 (6.47%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.47%) Enterprise Software
2 34 (6.12%) Legacy Code
3 33 (5.94%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (5.58%) Management Information System
5 27 (4.86%) CMDB
6 19 (3.42%) Algorithms
6 19 (3.42%) Virtual Team
7 16 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.70%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (2.52%) Cloud Native
9 14 (2.52%) Reference Data
10 12 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.98%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.26%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.08%) Mobile Payment
14 5 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
14 5 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (0.72%) Low-Code
16 3 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 87 (15.65%) Linux
2 34 (6.12%) Unix
3 31 (5.58%) Windows
4 26 (4.68%) AIX
5 11 (1.98%) CentOS
6 4 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.18%) VMS
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (44.24%) Agile
2 153 (27.52%) DevOps
3 138 (24.82%) Problem-Solving
4 111 (19.96%) Unit Testing
5 105 (18.88%) MVC
6 103 (18.53%) Software Engineering
7 98 (17.63%) OO
8 93 (16.73%) Computer Science
9 88 (15.83%) Scrum
10 87 (15.65%) Mentoring
11 84 (15.11%) Full Stack Development
12 72 (12.95%) SDLC
13 55 (9.89%) ERP
14 52 (9.35%) E-Commerce
15 51 (9.17%) OOP
16 50 (8.99%) User Acceptance Testing
17 48 (8.63%) CI/CD
18 44 (7.91%) Test Automation
19 42 (7.55%) Customer Requirements
20 40 (7.19%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 292 (52.52%) SQL
2 270 (48.56%) JavaScript
3 185 (33.27%) C#
4 156 (28.06%) Java
5 122 (21.94%) T-SQL
6 70 (12.59%) Python
6 70 (12.59%) VB.NET
7 53 (9.53%) PHP
8 51 (9.17%) VB
9 43 (7.73%) TypeScript
10 39 (7.01%) XPath
11 38 (6.83%) C
12 33 (5.94%) PL/SQL
13 28 (5.04%) Apex Code
13 28 (5.04%) VB6
14 27 (4.86%) C++
14 27 (4.86%) PowerShell
15 22 (3.96%) Perl
16 12 (2.16%) SOQL
17 9 (1.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 112 (20.14%) Degree
2 64 (11.51%) SC Cleared
2 64 (11.51%) Security Cleared
3 22 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.80%) GIAC
5 6 (1.08%) CISM
5 6 (1.08%) CISSP
5 6 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 6 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.08%) SANS
6 5 (0.90%) HNC
6 5 (0.90%) ISTQB
6 5 (0.90%) Postgraduate
7 3 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.54%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.54%) PMP
8 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.18%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.33%) QA
2 9 (1.62%) NIST
3 8 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.08%) COBIT
4 6 (1.08%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 5 (0.90%) GDPR
6 4 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.72%) GRC
6 4 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.72%) SLA
7 3 (0.54%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 58 (10.43%) Docker
2 4 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.72%) vSphere
3 2 (0.36%) Varnish
3 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (7.91%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.34%) WMI
3 11 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (1.62%) Ansible
5 8 (1.44%) Terraform
6 6 (1.08%) CloudHub
6 6 (1.08%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 5 (0.90%) Grafana
7 5 (0.90%) HP UCMDB
8 2 (0.36%) Kibana
8 2 (0.36%) Packer
8 2 (0.36%) Puppet
8 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Cast Iron
9 1 (0.18%) Control-M
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 114 (20.50%) Oracle
2 88 (15.83%) Microsoft
3 34 (6.12%) ServiceNow
4 32 (5.76%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.96%) Adobe
6 16 (2.88%) Cognizant
6 16 (2.88%) MuleSoft
7 13 (2.34%) Splunk
8 12 (2.16%) BMC
9 11 (1.98%) Cisco
9 11 (1.98%) Google
9 11 (1.98%) HP
9 11 (1.98%) Remedy
10 7 (1.26%) Databricks
10 7 (1.26%) Sybase
10 7 (1.26%) webMethods
11 6 (1.08%) Apttus
11 6 (1.08%) DocuSign
11 6 (1.08%) Guidewire
11 6 (1.08%) WSO2