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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 159 109
Rank change year-on-year +30 -50 +39
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 13 16 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.56% 0.40% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.35% 2.64% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 15
10th Percentile £35,000 £47,100 £35,500
25th Percentile £51,125 £48,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £56,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% +31.76% -1.90%
75th Percentile £73,813 £69,063 £50,000
90th Percentile £79,550 £101,000 £60,300
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

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 243 605 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.47% 15.20% 22.76%
Number of salaries quoted 147 343 333
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -15.25% +12.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £72,500
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

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +39 8 £35,000 -31.71% 1
Northamptonshire +16 4 £60,250 - 5
Derbyshire - 1 £82,500 - 1
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (15.38%) JBoss
1 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.69%) Mendix
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) IaaS
3 4 (30.77%) PaaS
4 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JUnit
2 4 (30.77%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 3 (23.08%) Maven
4 2 (15.38%) Appium
4 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
4 2 (15.38%) Gradle
4 2 (15.38%) JMeter
4 2 (15.38%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (15.38%) REST Assured
4 2 (15.38%) Selenium
4 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (15.38%) TestNG
5 1 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Applications Support
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) IT Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Applications Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) QA Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) REST
2 4 (30.77%) YAML
3 3 (23.08%) Spring
3 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
4 2 (15.38%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) Spring MVC
5 1 (7.69%) CSS
5 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 1 (7.69%) HTML
5 1 (7.69%) J2EE
5 1 (7.69%) Jest
5 1 (7.69%) JPA
5 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (7.69%) Node.js
5 1 (7.69%) React
5 1 (7.69%) Redux
5 1 (7.69%) RESTful
5 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Application Security
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) CRM
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) API Development
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) API Testing
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) MVC
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) Groovy
4 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
5 1 (7.69%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Marathon
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Salesforce
2 6 (46.15%) Databricks
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle