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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 401 325
Rank change year-on-year +37 -76 +11
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 265 303 420
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.63% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.23% 2.91% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 212 203 361
10th Percentile £34,325 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,625 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -15.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,313 £71,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,375 £93,772 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.81% -15.83% -7.69%

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 6,259 10,404 12,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.84% 21.61% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,819 6,107 10,094
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,663
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +68 105 £77,500 +40.91% 83
South East +24 92 £60,000 +9.09% 78
Midlands +5 27 £72,500 +70.59% 19
West Midlands +23 21 £72,500 +70.59% 2
East of England +24 14 £48,750 -22.00% 30
South West +17 10 £42,500 - 31
North of England -36 8 £52,500 +22.09% 38
East Midlands -26 6 £60,250 +19.31% 17
North West -9 4 £50,000 +17.65% 21
Yorkshire -24 4 £73,750 +34.09% 12
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 12 (4.53%) JBoss
2 11 (4.15%) WebSphere
3 7 (2.64%) Anypoint
4 6 (2.26%) IIS
5 4 (1.51%) Confluence
5 4 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.75%) Mendix
6 2 (0.75%) Moodle
7 1 (0.38%) Appian
7 1 (0.38%) CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.13%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (10.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (4.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (4.15%) Shopify
4 5 (1.89%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (1.89%) Magento
5 3 (1.13%) NetSuite
5 3 (1.13%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 83 (31.32%) Azure
2 34 (12.83%) Power Automate
3 32 (12.08%) Power Platform
4 30 (11.32%) Dynamics 365
5 27 (10.19%) PowerApps
6 24 (9.06%) Azure Logic Apps
7 23 (8.68%) SaaS
8 16 (6.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 15 (5.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 13 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (4.53%) AWS
11 12 (4.53%) Entra ID
11 12 (4.53%) Google Workspace
12 9 (3.40%) iPaaS
13 8 (3.02%) Boomi
13 8 (3.02%) GitHub
14 6 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (1.89%) Workato
16 4 (1.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.53%) Broadband
2 11 (4.15%) FTP
3 5 (1.89%) IP Telephony
3 5 (1.89%) PSTN
3 5 (1.89%) VoIP
4 3 (1.13%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.13%) MQTT
4 3 (1.13%) PBX
4 3 (1.13%) PuTTY
4 3 (1.13%) SSL
4 3 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.75%) AMQP
6 1 (0.38%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.58%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.06%) Power BI
3 18 (6.79%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.91%) MySQL
5 10 (3.77%) OLTP
6 6 (2.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.13%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.75%) Metadata
10 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 52 (19.62%) JIRA
2 44 (16.60%) SoapUI
3 43 (16.23%) Postman
4 40 (15.09%) Selenium
5 38 (14.34%) Git
6 35 (13.21%) Team Foundation Server
7 32 (12.08%) WebDriver
8 20 (7.55%) Visual Studio
9 12 (4.53%) Jenkins
10 8 (3.02%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.51%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (1.51%) Maven
11 4 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.13%) JUnit
13 2 (0.75%) GitLab
14 1 (0.38%) Appium
14 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.38%) Mockito
14 1 (0.38%) TestNG
General
1 104 (39.25%) Social Skills
2 85 (32.08%) Finance
3 32 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.30%) Law
5 19 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (4.15%) Marketing
8 10 (3.77%) Legal
9 8 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.89%) Back Office
10 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.51%) Automotive
11 4 (1.51%) Retail
12 3 (1.13%) Banking
12 3 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.38%) Billing
14 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 99 (37.36%) Developer
2 81 (30.57%) Senior
3 39 (14.72%) Analyst
4 30 (11.32%) Lead
5 29 (10.94%) Support Engineer
6 27 (10.19%) Applications Support
6 27 (10.19%) Senior Developer
7 22 (8.30%) Test Analyst
8 21 (7.92%) Architect
9 19 (7.17%) Salesforce Developer
10 17 (6.42%) Senior Applications Support
11 16 (6.04%) Applications Engineer
11 16 (6.04%) Applications Support Engineer
11 16 (6.04%) Senior Applications Engineer
11 16 (6.04%) Senior Support Engineer
12 15 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (5.66%) ServiceNow Developer
13 13 (4.91%) Development Engineer
13 13 (4.91%) Development Support Engineer
14 11 (4.15%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (76.60%) REST
2 66 (24.91%) HTML
3 59 (22.26%) .NET
4 53 (20.00%) Web Services
5 48 (18.11%) Middleware
6 44 (16.60%) XML
7 35 (13.21%) OAuth
8 30 (11.32%) SAML
9 29 (10.94%) JSON
10 25 (9.43%) Lightning Web Components
11 23 (8.68%) GraphQL
12 18 (6.79%) Spring
13 16 (6.04%) Visualforce
14 15 (5.66%) OpenID
15 14 (5.28%) Hibernate
15 14 (5.28%) LDAP
16 13 (4.91%) JMS
17 12 (4.53%) CSS
18 11 (4.15%) BAPI
18 11 (4.15%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.79%) Low-Code
2 15 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.28%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.53%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (4.53%) Cyberattack
6 11 (4.15%) Cloud Native
6 11 (4.15%) DataPower
7 7 (2.64%) CMDB
8 6 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.89%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.89%) IVR
10 4 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.51%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.51%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.13%) Life Science
11 3 (1.13%) LIMS
11 3 (1.13%) NHS
11 3 (1.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.28%) Linux
2 7 (2.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (46.79%) Agile
2 70 (26.42%) Scrum
3 68 (25.66%) Mentoring
4 62 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (23.02%) CI/CD
6 52 (19.62%) CRM
7 47 (17.74%) Software Testing
8 41 (15.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (13.96%) API Testing
9 37 (13.96%) Roadmaps
9 37 (13.96%) Test Management
10 36 (13.58%) Non-Functional Testing
11 35 (13.21%) Cross-Browser Testing
11 35 (13.21%) DevOps
12 34 (12.83%) API Management
13 33 (12.45%) Test Scripting
14 32 (12.08%) ITIL
15 31 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (11.70%) Migration
16 29 (10.94%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 150 (56.60%) SQL
2 89 (33.58%) Java
3 61 (23.02%) C#
4 50 (18.87%) JavaScript
5 33 (12.45%) PowerShell
6 30 (11.32%) Python
7 25 (9.43%) Apex Code
8 22 (8.30%) T-SQL
9 14 (5.28%) Bash
9 14 (5.28%) PL/SQL
10 10 (3.77%) PHP
10 10 (3.77%) SOQL
11 7 (2.64%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.26%) Go
13 4 (1.51%) ABAP
14 3 (1.13%) SOSL
15 2 (0.75%) DataWeave
15 2 (0.75%) Groovy
16 1 (0.38%) ActionScript 2.0
16 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 68 (25.66%) Degree
2 34 (12.83%) Security Cleared
3 32 (12.08%) ISTQB
3 32 (12.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 15 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.66%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.51%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.38%) OCA
7 1 (0.38%) OCP
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.30%) QA
2 13 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.53%) NCSC
3 12 (4.53%) NIST
4 8 (3.02%) GDPR
5 3 (1.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (1.13%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.13%) GxP
6 2 (0.75%) PSD2
6 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (4.53%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.77%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 50 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 40 (15.09%) Salesforce
3 37 (13.96%) Oracle
4 23 (8.68%) ServiceNow
5 22 (8.30%) MuleSoft
6 20 (7.55%) SAP
7 16 (6.04%) IBM
8 6 (2.26%) Software AG
8 6 (2.26%) Talend
8 6 (2.26%) Workday
9 5 (1.89%) Avaya
9 5 (1.89%) Dell
9 5 (1.89%) Epicor
9 5 (1.89%) Genesys
9 5 (1.89%) IFS
9 5 (1.89%) Infor
9 5 (1.89%) Informatica
9 5 (1.89%) Jitterbit
9 5 (1.89%) SnapLogic
9 5 (1.89%) WooCommerce