The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 153 147 173
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +26
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 1972 2095 1898
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 1.787% 1.743% 1.475%
As % of the Application Development category 4.447% 4.186% 3.675%
Number of salaries quoted 1643 1851 1641
Average salary £41,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.88% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-8.75% -
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
44340 50052 51642
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.19% 41.65% 40.13%
Number of salaries quoted 38570 44379 45779
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SOAP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

SOAP Jobs Demand Trend

SOAP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SOAP within the UK.

SOAP Salary Trend

SOAP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOAP over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 within the UK.

SOAP Salary Histogram

SOAP
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -11 1830 £41,125 -8.61% 222
London -35 738 £52,500 +5.00% 93
South East +41 395 £41,750 -7.22% 43
East of England +2 185 £37,500 -6.25% 9
North West +39 179 £32,500 - 35
City of London -42 158 £52,500 -4.54% 32
Yorkshire +25 108 £35,000 +7.69% 26
South West +22 104 £35,000 - 6
Berkshire +47 102 £42,500 -5.55% 3
Manchester +31 92 £35,000 +22.80% 20
West Midlands -19 83 £32,500 -13.33% 5
Surrey -17 82 £50,000 +11.11% 4
West Yorkshire +22 79 £34,000 -2.85% 17
Hampshire +10 76 £37,500 -22.68% 10
Leeds +25 67 £35,000 -2.77% 10
Cheshire +22 67 £30,000 -7.69% 9
Scotland -4 64 £40,500 +12.50% 5
Suffolk +20 53 £35,000 -12.50% 1
Hertfordshire -15 53 £35,000 -34.88%
Glasgow -3 51 £40,500 +12.50% 4
Cambridgeshire +3 48 £37,500 - 3
West Sussex +19 39 £42,000 +1.81% 3
Bristol +13 38 £40,000 -
Kent +17 36 £32,500 - 14
Cambridge +10 33 £40,000 +23.07% 2
Newbury +28 31 £40,000 -
East Midlands -31 31 £32,000 -20.00% 4
Basingstoke +1 29 £47,500 +102.12% 2
Birmingham -3 28 £40,000 -42.85%
Buckinghamshire -21 28 £38,500 +10.00% 5

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing SOAP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SOAP.

1 2304 (59.24%) Web Services
2 2074 (53.33%) XML
3 1776 (45.67%) Java
4 1625 (41.78%) JavaScript
5 1529 (39.32%) SQL
6 1482 (38.11%) .NET
7 1365 (35.10%) HTML
8 1343 (34.53%) CSS
9 1324 (34.04%) C#
10 1193 (30.68%) REST
11 1185 (30.47%) SQL Server
12 934 (24.02%) ASP.NET
13 905 (23.27%) MVC
14 891 (22.91%) Agile Software Development
15 869 (22.35%) jQuery
16 832 (21.39%) OO
17 769 (19.77%) Ajax
18 723 (18.59%) Linux
19 721 (18.54%) Spring
20 715 (18.39%) Microsoft
21 714 (18.36%) Oracle
22 653 (16.79%) TDD
23 652 (16.77%) JSON
24 624 (16.05%) MySQL
25 612 (15.74%) Windows
26 608 (15.63%) WCF
27 591 (15.20%) PHP
28 586 (15.07%) Finance
29 584 (15.02%) J2EE
30 583 (14.99%) Scrum

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing SOAP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SOAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2304 (59.24%) Web Services
2 2074 (53.33%) XML
3 1482 (38.11%) .NET
4 1365 (35.10%) HTML
5 1343 (34.53%) CSS
6 1193 (30.68%) REST
7 934 (24.02%) ASP.NET
8 869 (22.35%) jQuery
9 769 (19.77%) Ajax
10 721 (18.54%) Spring
11 652 (16.77%) JSON
12 608 (15.63%) WCF
13 584 (15.02%) J2EE
14 530 (13.63%) HTML5
15 514 (13.22%) RESTful
16 476 (12.24%) Hibernate
17 427 (10.98%) .NET Framework
18 398 (10.23%) XSLT
19 337 (8.665%) JSP
20 319 (8.203%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 374 (9.617%) Tomcat
2 363 (9.334%) Apache
3 243 (6.248%) IIS
4 159 (4.088%) WebLogic
5 147 (3.780%) CMS
6 118 (3.034%) SharePoint
7 117 (3.008%) ESB
8 80 (2.057%) Windows Azure
9 70 (1.800%) Amazon AWS
10 63 (1.620%) BizTalk Server
11 53 (1.363%) GlassFish
12 52 (1.337%) WebSphere Application Server
13 49 (1.260%) WordPress
13 49 (1.260%) Magento
14 41 (1.054%) Drupal
15 39 (1.003%) SharePoint Server
16 34 (0.874%) Umbraco
16 34 (0.874%) Force.com
17 24 (0.617%) Jetty
18 19 (0.489%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 308 (7.920%) MS Excel
2 171 (4.397%) Photoshop
3 37 (0.951%) MS Office
4 20 (0.514%) Fireworks
5 11 (0.283%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.206%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.180%) InfoPath
8 6 (0.154%) Mingle
9 5 (0.129%) Google Apps
9 5 (0.129%) MS PowerPoint
10 3 (0.077%) InDesign
11 2 (0.051%) MS Project
12 1 (0.026%) GIMP
Business Applications
1 34 (0.874%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.360%) Google Analytics
3 9 (0.231%) SAP LE
4 6 (0.154%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.129%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.103%) BusinessWorks
6 4 (0.103%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.077%) Tridion
8 2 (0.051%) Oracle CRM
8 2 (0.051%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
8 2 (0.051%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
9 1 (0.026%) Oracle BRM
9 1 (0.026%) Oracle iStore
9 1 (0.026%) Kiodex
9 1 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.026%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.026%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.026%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 1 (0.026%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 388 (9.977%) HTTP
2 344 (8.845%) Internet
3 188 (4.834%) TCP/IP
4 112 (2.880%) SSL
5 83 (2.134%) Firewall
6 57 (1.466%) DNS
7 56 (1.440%) LDAP
8 41 (1.054%) Intranet
9 40 (1.029%) SSH
10 38 (0.977%) FTP
11 36 (0.926%) SAN
12 34 (0.874%) NAS
13 28 (0.720%) VoIP
14 26 (0.669%) Extranet
15 24 (0.617%) VPN
16 23 (0.591%) HTTPS
16 23 (0.591%) SMTP
17 22 (0.566%) WAN
18 18 (0.463%) POP3
18 18 (0.463%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1185 (30.47%) SQL Server
2 624 (16.05%) MySQL
3 387 (9.951%) SQL Server 2008
4 244 (6.274%) SQL Server 2005
5 205 (5.271%) RDBMS
6 83 (2.134%) PostgreSQL
7 73 (1.877%) SQL Server 2012
8 62 (1.594%) Big Data
9 61 (1.569%) NoSQL
9 61 (1.569%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 59 (1.517%) DB2
11 53 (1.363%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 52 (1.337%) SQLite
13 47 (1.209%) MongoDB
14 46 (1.183%) Oracle 8/8i
14 46 (1.183%) Oracle 10g
15 45 (1.157%) Oracle 11g
16 40 (1.029%) Data Warehouse
17 37 (0.951%) Oracle Reports
18 36 (0.926%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 433 (11.13%) Subversion
2 325 (8.357%) Selenium
3 311 (7.997%) Visual Studio
4 301 (7.740%) Maven
5 291 (7.483%) Eclipse
6 247 (6.351%) JUnit
7 222 (5.708%) Team Foundation Server
8 206 (5.297%) Git (software)
9 196 (5.040%) Ant
10 151 (3.883%) JIRA
11 133 (3.420%) Jenkins
12 110 (2.828%) NUnit
13 100 (2.571%) TeamCity
14 95 (2.443%) Cucumber
15 94 (2.417%) CruiseControl
16 87 (2.237%) Hudson
17 80 (2.057%) FitNesse
18 79 (2.031%) WebDriver
19 75 (1.929%) SpecFlow
20 51 (1.311%) Mercurial
General
1 586 (15.07%) Finance
2 240 (6.171%) Banking
3 174 (4.474%) Telecoms
4 172 (4.423%) Games
5 168 (4.320%) Retail
6 98 (2.520%) Marketing
7 63 (1.620%) Back Office
8 53 (1.363%) Legal
9 50 (1.286%) Financial Institution
10 44 (1.131%) Front Office
11 40 (1.029%) Manufacturing
12 39 (1.003%) Billing
12 39 (1.003%) Investment Banking
13 35 (0.900%) Advertising
14 32 (0.823%) Publishing
15 27 (0.694%) Multimedia
16 23 (0.591%) Automotive
17 20 (0.514%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (0.463%) Retail Banking
19 13 (0.334%) Law
Job Titles
1 2665 (68.53%) Developer
2 743 (19.11%) Java Developer
3 594 (15.27%) .NET Developer
4 567 (14.58%) Senior Developer
5 370 (9.514%) Web Developer
6 309 (7.945%) Software Developer
7 286 (7.354%) C# Developer
8 238 (6.120%) PHP Developer
9 236 (6.068%) Analyst
10 233 (5.991%) Architect
11 218 (5.606%) Software Engineer
12 200 (5.143%) Senior Java Developer
13 195 (5.014%) C# .NET Developer
14 172 (4.423%) ASP.NET Developer
15 126 (3.240%) Senior .NET Developer
16 123 (3.163%) Team Leader
16 123 (3.163%) Java/J2EE Developer
17 112 (2.880%) Android Developer
18 106 (2.726%) Consultant
19 99 (2.546%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 302 (7.765%) Mobile App
2 295 (7.585%) Computer Science
3 210 (5.400%) Open Source
4 121 (3.111%) SaaS
5 88 (2.263%) Mobile Banking
6 85 (2.186%) Digital Media
7 84 (2.160%) Enterprise Software
8 77 (1.980%) iPhone
9 71 (1.826%) N-Tier
9 71 (1.826%) Management Information System
10 62 (1.594%) Web 2.0
11 61 (1.569%) Cloud Computing
12 58 (1.491%) Client/Server
13 54 (1.389%) Mathematics
14 41 (1.054%) Blackberry
15 40 (1.029%) DataPower
16 39 (1.003%) Data Integration
17 36 (0.926%) Social Media
17 36 (0.926%) iPad
18 33 (0.849%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 723 (18.59%) Linux
2 612 (15.74%) Windows
3 405 (10.41%) UNIX
4 312 (8.023%) Android
5 195 (5.014%) Apple iOS
6 90 (2.314%) Solaris
7 77 (1.980%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 35 (0.900%) Windows Server 2008
9 29 (0.746%) AIX
10 28 (0.720%) Mac OS X
11 26 (0.669%) Ubuntu
12 21 (0.540%) CentOS
13 20 (0.514%) Windows Server 2003
14 19 (0.489%) Windows XP
15 18 (0.463%) Oracle Linux
16 15 (0.386%) Windows Mobile
17 14 (0.360%) Windows 7
18 11 (0.283%) SUSE
19 10 (0.257%) Debian
19 10 (0.257%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 905 (23.27%) MVC
2 891 (22.91%) Agile Software Development
3 832 (21.39%) OO
4 653 (16.79%) TDD
5 583 (14.99%) Scrum
6 508 (13.06%) E-Commerce
7 460 (11.83%) Web Development
8 395 (10.16%) Unit Testing
9 347 (8.923%) SOA
10 284 (7.303%) OOP
11 273 (7.020%) Continuous Integration
12 269 (6.917%) UML
13 222 (5.708%) BDD
14 186 (4.783%) OOD
15 175 (4.500%) Multithreading
16 167 (4.294%) Automated Testing
17 153 (3.934%) Integration Testing
18 137 (3.523%) Software Engineering
19 136 (3.497%) CRM
20 131 (3.368%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1776 (45.67%) Java
2 1625 (41.78%) JavaScript
3 1529 (39.32%) SQL
4 1324 (34.04%) C#
5 591 (15.20%) PHP
6 295 (7.585%) T-SQL
7 259 (6.660%) C++
8 249 (6.403%) VB.NET
9 200 (5.143%) Python
10 164 (4.217%) Perl
11 147 (3.780%) PL/SQL
12 141 (3.626%) Ruby
13 135 (3.471%) PHP5
14 126 (3.240%) C
15 95 (2.443%) VB
16 86 (2.211%) XPath
17 81 (2.083%) Objective-C
18 74 (1.903%) Shell Script
19 65 (1.671%) Bash shell
20 56 (1.440%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 560 (14.40%) Degree
2 64 (1.646%) ISEB
3 49 (1.260%) Microsoft Certification
4 45 (1.157%) ISTQB
5 36 (0.926%) Security Cleared
6 24 (0.617%) SC Cleared
7 11 (0.283%) MCTS
8 10 (0.257%) CTC Cleared
9 9 (0.231%) CNA
9 9 (0.231%) Novell Certification
10 6 (0.154%) MCSE
10 6 (0.154%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.154%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.154%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.129%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (0.129%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.129%) CCNP
11 5 (0.129%) CCIP
12 4 (0.103%) HND
13 3 (0.077%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (8.100%) QA
2 41 (1.054%) SLA
3 21 (0.540%) ISO 9001
4 17 (0.437%) PCI DSS
4 17 (0.437%) WCAG
5 13 (0.334%) WAI
6 10 (0.257%) HL7
7 4 (0.103%) RosettaNet
7 4 (0.103%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.051%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.051%) TickIT
10 1 (0.026%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (0.437%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.334%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.283%) Varnish
3 11 (0.283%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 7 (0.180%) OpenSSO
4 7 (0.180%) Samba
5 5 (0.129%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.103%) Squid
7 1 (0.026%) Xen
7 1 (0.026%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.026%) vSphere
7 1 (0.026%) NFS
7 1 (0.026%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (1.671%) HP Quality Center
2 19 (0.489%) Puppet
3 10 (0.257%) Nagios
4 7 (0.180%) CA SiteMinder
5 6 (0.154%) ZABBIX
5 6 (0.154%) Vagrant
5 6 (0.154%) OpenView
6 5 (0.129%) Zenoss
7 4 (0.103%) MOM
8 3 (0.077%) Netcool
8 3 (0.077%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 3 (0.077%) Control-M
8 3 (0.077%) Tivoli
8 3 (0.077%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 3 (0.077%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (0.051%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.026%) Plesk
Vendors
1 715 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 714 (18.36%) Oracle
3 328 (8.434%) JBoss
4 132 (3.394%) Google
5 129 (3.317%) Zend
6 119 (3.060%) IBM
7 86 (2.211%) Salesforce.com
8 57 (1.466%) Adobe
9 46 (1.183%) Facebook
10 43 (1.106%) Sybase
11 40 (1.029%) Sun
12 38 (0.977%) BEA
13 36 (0.926%) SAP
14 33 (0.849%) Twitter
15 32 (0.823%) HP
16 31 (0.797%) Red Hat
17 29 (0.746%) Sitecore
18 26 (0.669%) VMware
19 24 (0.617%) Informatica
20 22 (0.566%) Apple
Leeds, West Yorkshire
You will be working on their existing bespoke software and devising ways to further enhance it. You will also be required to investigate and resolve software issues independently...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £60000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
You will be working on their existing bespoke software and devising ways to further enhance it. You will also be required to investigate and resolve software issues independently...
greywood
Salary: £60000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 24 May 2013
Luton, Bedfordshire
This is a fantastic opportunity for people to join a growing organisation that focuses on the progression of its employees, so if you are looking to further your...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Fantastic Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Senior DeveloperI am currently look for a senior Java Developer and a senior .net developer to work on my client site in Manchester.Java DeveloperStrong engineering, troubleshooting, analysing...
Salary: £37000 - £42000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
C# Developer (Junior / Graduate) - £25K-£35K - Tunbridge Wells - .NET 4.0/4.5 , C# , SQL... In this role the successful C# Developer would sit within an integration team...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Pension, Gym Membership, Health
Posted: 15 June 2013
Hook, Hampshire
Austin Fraser
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Great Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: Up to £48,000 per annum Plus Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Chester, North West
Mint
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Chester, North West
greywood
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Computer Futures
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
City of London
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + range of benefits
Posted: 10 June 2013
Berkshire
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £28000 per annum + Great Benefits!
Posted: 14 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Aldershot, Hampshire
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + 23 days holiday + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 16 June 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
Searchability.co.uk
Posted: 12 June 2013
Berkshire
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £22000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent benefits!
Posted: 17 June 2013
Kent
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Pension, Gym Membership, Health
Posted: 15 June 2013
Macclesfield, North West
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £17000 - £27000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 30-40k+ExBens
Posted: 13 June 2013
Luton, Bedfordshire
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Fantastic Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
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