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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 140 108
Rank change year-on-year +2 -32 +45
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 12 19 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.54% 0.55% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.86% 3.66% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 11
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,175 -
25th Percentile £45,750 £47,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,125 £78,438 £61,625
90th Percentile £74,600 £103,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +1.63%

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 247 519 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.08% 14.97% 22.94%
Number of salaries quoted 138 291 323
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

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
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Salary histogram for SOAP in the East Midlands

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 30 October 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
Leicestershire +17 6 £35,000 -32.69%
Northamptonshire +17 4 £60,250 +33.89%
Nottinghamshire +5 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 2 (16.67%) JBoss
1 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) PaaS
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) IaaS
4 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JUnit
2 4 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (25.00%) Maven
4 2 (16.67%) Appium
4 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 2 (16.67%) Gradle
4 2 (16.67%) JIRA
4 2 (16.67%) JMeter
4 2 (16.67%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
4 2 (16.67%) Selenium
4 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (16.67%) TestNG
5 1 (8.33%) Mockito
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Applications Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 2 (16.67%) IT Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Data Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Applications Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (25.00%) Spring
2 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) Spring MVC
3 2 (16.67%) YAML
4 1 (8.33%) CSS
4 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
4 1 (8.33%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) J2EE
4 1 (8.33%) Jest
4 1 (8.33%) JPA
4 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js
4 1 (8.33%) React
4 1 (8.33%) Redux
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) API Development
3 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) BDD
4 2 (16.67%) Change Control
4 2 (16.67%) CRM
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) MVC
4 2 (16.67%) OOP
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) Groovy
4 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
5 1 (8.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Salesforce
2 4 (33.33%) Databricks
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle