SOAP Job Trends in the East Midlands

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SOAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 106 108
Rank change year-on-year -21 +2 +28
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 6 25 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% 1.08% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 6.61% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2 16 10
10th Percentile £56,975 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £57,688 £39,375 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £50,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% -4.72% -3.64%
75th Percentile £62,688 £54,438 £61,813
90th Percentile £63,325 £62,500 £71,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,500 £60,250
% change year-on-year +18.81% -16.18% -7.31%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

SOAP falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 207 378 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.10% 16.37% 22.47%
Number of salaries quoted 155 221 320
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,750 £73,750 £80,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOAP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

SOAP job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SOAP
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SOAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SOAP

SOAP
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 December 2025. 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
Northamptonshire +5 2 £60,250 +33.89% 2
Nottinghamshire - 2 - - 2
Leicestershire -10 1 - - 3
Derbyshire - 1 - - 2
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Google Workspace
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Appium
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Gradle
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Mockito
3 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) TestNG
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IAM Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE
3 1 (16.67%) JPA
3 1 (16.67%) LDAP
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth
3 1 (16.67%) OpenID
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) SAML
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Cyberattack
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) API Development
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle