SOAP Job Trends in England

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SOAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 347 399
Rank change year-on-year -78 +52 -51
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 262 295 496
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 0.79% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.39% 3.79% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 209 215 426
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -17.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £65,938
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -17.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,725 7,789 16,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.01% 20.88% 20.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,837 5,902 14,123
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,150 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.74% +10.25% -11.11%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in England

SOAP
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SOAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SOAP

SOAP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAP in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SOAP in England

SOAP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
London -10 112 £77,500 +3.33% 45
South East -52 77 £60,000 -7.69% 48
East of England -37 20 £50,000 +5.26% 20
North of England -84 19 £73,500 +44.83% 23
South West -40 18 £42,500 - 20
North West -29 14 £73,500 +58.83% 8
Midlands -60 10 £70,000 +39.30% 20
West Midlands -33 7 £70,000 +64.71% 7
Yorkshire -63 5 £65,750 +17.41% 10
East Midlands -68 3 - - 13
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 13 (4.96%) JBoss
2 12 (4.58%) Anypoint
2 12 (4.58%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.29%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.53%) Moodle
5 2 (0.76%) CICS
5 2 (0.76%) Confluence
5 2 (0.76%) IIS
5 2 (0.76%) Mule
6 1 (0.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) Mendix
6 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.38%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.76%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.38%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (6.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (4.96%) Shopify
3 10 (3.82%) Dynamics NAV
3 10 (3.82%) Magento
4 3 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.76%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.38%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 91 (34.73%) Azure
2 40 (15.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 39 (14.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 32 (12.21%) GitHub
5 28 (10.69%) AWS
5 28 (10.69%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (9.92%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (9.54%) Entra ID
7 25 (9.54%) Google Workspace
7 25 (9.54%) Power Platform
8 22 (8.40%) SaaS
9 19 (7.25%) Power Automate
10 14 (5.34%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (5.34%) Boomi
11 10 (3.82%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.44%) iPaaS
13 7 (2.67%) Serverless
14 6 (2.29%) GCP
15 5 (1.91%) Amazon S3
15 5 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.31%) Broadband
2 7 (2.67%) FTP
3 4 (1.53%) IP Telephony
3 4 (1.53%) PSTN
3 4 (1.53%) SSL
3 4 (1.53%) VoIP
4 3 (1.15%) AMQP
4 3 (1.15%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.76%) MQTT
5 2 (0.76%) PBX
5 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.38%) CTI
6 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.25%) Power BI
3 14 (5.34%) OLTP
4 13 (4.96%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (2.29%) MySQL
7 5 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.76%) DB2
9 2 (0.76%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.38%) Metadata
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 50 (19.08%) JIRA
2 46 (17.56%) Git
3 29 (11.07%) Postman
3 29 (11.07%) SoapUI
4 24 (9.16%) Team Foundation Server
5 22 (8.40%) Selenium
6 18 (6.87%) WebDriver
7 16 (6.11%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.91%) Maven
9 4 (1.53%) JUnit
10 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.15%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.15%) GitLab
10 3 (1.15%) IntelliJ
10 3 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.15%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
General
1 99 (37.79%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.37%) Finance
3 37 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.60%) Marketing
5 29 (11.07%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (8.78%) Law
7 20 (7.63%) Public Sector
8 18 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (4.20%) Retail
10 9 (3.44%) Back Office
11 6 (2.29%) Legal
12 4 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.15%) Banking
14 2 (0.76%) Games
14 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.38%) Advertising
15 1 (0.38%) Billing
15 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 130 (49.62%) Developer
2 90 (34.35%) Senior
3 54 (20.61%) Senior Developer
4 43 (16.41%) Salesforce Developer
5 32 (12.21%) Analyst
5 32 (12.21%) Architect
6 22 (8.40%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 18 (6.87%) Cloud Developer
8 17 (6.49%) Test Analyst
9 16 (6.11%) Lead
9 16 (6.11%) SQL Developer
10 15 (5.73%) PL/SQL Developer
11 14 (5.34%) Oracle Developer
11 14 (5.34%) Senior Architect
11 14 (5.34%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 14 (5.34%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
11 14 (5.34%) Senior SQL Developer
12 12 (4.58%) Integration Engineer
13 9 (3.44%) IAM Developer
13 9 (3.44%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (81.30%) REST
2 74 (28.24%) Middleware
3 63 (24.05%) XML
4 59 (22.52%) HTML
5 58 (22.14%) .NET
6 49 (18.70%) Lightning Web Components
7 48 (18.32%) JSON
8 46 (17.56%) OAuth
9 36 (13.74%) Web Services
10 35 (13.36%) GraphQL
11 33 (12.60%) SAML
12 29 (11.07%) Visualforce
13 27 (10.31%) OpenID
14 25 (9.54%) LDAP
15 20 (7.63%) Spring
16 15 (5.73%) Hibernate
16 15 (5.73%) RESTful
17 14 (5.34%) CSS
18 13 (4.96%) OAuth2
19 10 (3.82%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.12%) Product Ownership
2 25 (9.54%) Cyber Threat
2 25 (9.54%) Cyberattack
3 19 (7.25%) Low-Code
4 14 (5.34%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.58%) DataPower
6 9 (3.44%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.05%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.91%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.53%) IVR
12 3 (1.15%) CMDB
12 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.15%) NHS
13 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.76%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.05%) Linux
2 3 (1.15%) Unix
3 2 (0.76%) Windows
3 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (45.04%) Agile
2 89 (33.97%) CI/CD
3 72 (27.48%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (26.34%) DevOps
5 55 (20.99%) Mentoring
6 52 (19.85%) Roadmaps
7 48 (18.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (16.79%) Scrum
9 42 (16.03%) Data Modelling
10 41 (15.65%) CRM
10 41 (15.65%) Software Testing
11 38 (14.50%) ERP
12 36 (13.74%) API Integration
13 33 (12.60%) Integration Patterns
13 33 (12.60%) Translating Business Requirements
14 30 (11.45%) Cybersecurity
14 30 (11.45%) Identity Access Management
15 29 (11.07%) Sprint Planning
16 28 (10.69%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 145 (55.34%) SQL
2 92 (35.11%) Java
3 52 (19.85%) JavaScript
4 49 (18.70%) Apex Code
5 43 (16.41%) Python
6 37 (14.12%) T-SQL
7 33 (12.60%) C#
7 33 (12.60%) PowerShell
8 27 (10.31%) SOQL
9 26 (9.92%) Bash
10 20 (7.63%) PL/SQL
11 8 (3.05%) SOSL
12 7 (2.67%) DataWeave
13 3 (1.15%) Go
13 3 (1.15%) PHP
13 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.76%) Delphi
14 2 (0.76%) Perl
14 2 (0.76%) VB
14 2 (0.76%) VB6
Qualifications
1 76 (29.01%) Degree
2 35 (13.36%) Security Cleared
3 29 (11.07%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (6.87%) ISTQB
5 18 (6.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.38%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.38%) OCA
8 1 (0.38%) OCP
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 27 (10.31%) NIST
2 26 (9.92%) QA
3 25 (9.54%) NCSC
4 9 (3.44%) TickIT
5 5 (1.91%) GDPR
6 3 (1.15%) SLA
7 2 (0.76%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.76%) GxP
8 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (10.31%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 64 (24.43%) Salesforce
2 40 (15.27%) Microsoft
3 38 (14.50%) MuleSoft
4 34 (12.98%) Oracle
5 26 (9.92%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.58%) SAP
7 10 (3.82%) Pega
7 10 (3.82%) WooCommerce
8 9 (3.44%) ConnectWise
9 8 (3.05%) Splunk
10 6 (2.29%) IBM
11 5 (1.91%) Genesys
12 4 (1.53%) Avaya
12 4 (1.53%) Cisco
12 4 (1.53%) IFS
13 3 (1.15%) Infor
13 3 (1.15%) Jitterbit
13 3 (1.15%) Palo Alto
13 3 (1.15%) TIBCO
13 3 (1.15%) Workday