SOAP Job Trends in London

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring SOAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 264 351
Rank change year-on-year -24 +87 -62
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 115 121 167
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.56% 0.96% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.56% 3.70% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 88 81 116
10th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £71,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.92% +9.23% -18.75%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £92,525
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -17.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,230 3,267 5,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.85% 25.88% 24.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,231 2,412 4,706
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £67,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.13% +10.42% -11.11%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in London

SOAP
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SOAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SOAP

SOAP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAP in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SOAP in London

SOAP
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
West London -13 9 £32,500 -22.57% 3
Central London -9 8 £70,000 +7.69% 5
South London +5 4 - -
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (6.96%) Anypoint
1 8 (6.96%) JBoss
2 7 (6.09%) WebSphere
3 4 (3.48%) Moodle
3 4 (3.48%) Mule
3 4 (3.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.87%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 33 (28.70%) Azure
2 32 (27.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 31 (26.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 25 (21.74%) GitHub
5 18 (15.65%) Entra ID
5 18 (15.65%) Google Workspace
6 10 (8.70%) SaaS
7 9 (7.83%) Power Automate
7 9 (7.83%) Power Platform
7 9 (7.83%) PowerApps
8 6 (5.22%) AWS
9 5 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.48%) Serverless
11 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.61%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.65%) Broadband
2 3 (2.61%) AMQP
3 1 (0.87%) CTI
3 1 (0.87%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.87%) PBX
3 1 (0.87%) PSTN
3 1 (0.87%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.09%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.35%) Power BI
3 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (26.96%) Git
2 5 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.48%) Postman
3 4 (3.48%) SoapUI
4 3 (2.61%) JIRA
4 3 (2.61%) JUnit
4 3 (2.61%) Selenium
5 2 (1.74%) Maven
5 2 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.74%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.35%) Marketing
3 27 (23.48%) Finance
4 18 (15.65%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.35%) Law
9 1 (0.87%) Advertising
9 1 (0.87%) Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Billing
9 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.87%) Legal
9 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (64.35%) Developer
2 46 (40.00%) Senior
3 37 (32.17%) Salesforce Developer
4 27 (23.48%) Senior Developer
5 24 (20.87%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 22 (19.13%) Cloud Developer
7 18 (15.65%) Architect
8 11 (9.57%) Senior Architect
9 10 (8.70%) Lead
10 9 (7.83%) Lead Developer
11 7 (6.09%) Java Developer
12 6 (5.22%) IAM Developer
12 6 (5.22%) MuleSoft Developer
12 6 (5.22%) Systems Engineer
13 5 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 4 (3.48%) Consultant
14 4 (3.48%) Java Engineer
14 4 (3.48%) Lead Dynamics 365 Developer
14 4 (3.48%) Low-Code Developer
14 4 (3.48%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (93.04%) REST
2 40 (34.78%) Lightning Web Components
3 25 (21.74%) GraphQL
3 25 (21.74%) Middleware
4 23 (20.00%) OAuth
4 23 (20.00%) SAML
5 18 (15.65%) LDAP
5 18 (15.65%) OpenID
6 17 (14.78%) .NET
7 15 (13.04%) Spring
8 13 (11.30%) Visualforce
9 12 (10.43%) Web Services
10 10 (8.70%) Hibernate
10 10 (8.70%) XML
11 8 (6.96%) HTML
11 8 (6.96%) JSON
11 8 (6.96%) RESTful
12 5 (4.35%) CSS
12 5 (4.35%) JMS
12 5 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.09%) Product Ownership
2 18 (15.65%) Cyber Threat
2 18 (15.65%) Cyberattack
3 7 (6.09%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.09%) DataPower
4 4 (3.48%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.74%) CMDB
5 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.87%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.87%) IVR
6 1 (0.87%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Linux
1 2 (1.74%) Windows
1 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (51.30%) Agile
2 54 (46.96%) CI/CD
3 31 (26.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (24.35%) Roadmaps
5 27 (23.48%) Sprint Planning
6 26 (22.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (21.74%) DevOps
7 25 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (20.87%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (20.87%) Data Architecture
8 24 (20.87%) Mentoring
9 23 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (19.13%) Clean Code
10 22 (19.13%) Unit Testing
11 21 (18.26%) System Testing
12 20 (17.39%) Data Modelling
12 20 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
13 18 (15.65%) Change Control
13 18 (15.65%) Programme Delivery
13 18 (15.65%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 40 (34.78%) SQL
2 36 (31.30%) Apex Code
3 32 (27.83%) Java
4 28 (24.35%) SOQL
5 24 (20.87%) PowerShell
6 22 (19.13%) JavaScript
7 18 (15.65%) Bash
7 18 (15.65%) T-SQL
8 14 (12.17%) Python
9 7 (6.09%) SOSL
10 4 (3.48%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.74%) C#
12 1 (0.87%) Go
12 1 (0.87%) Perl
12 1 (0.87%) PHP
12 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.30%) Degree
1 13 (11.30%) SC Cleared
1 13 (11.30%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.48%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.74%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (0.87%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 20 (17.39%) NIST
2 18 (15.65%) NCSC
3 10 (8.70%) QA
4 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.87%) Ansible
Vendors
1 47 (40.87%) Salesforce
2 17 (14.78%) MuleSoft
3 9 (7.83%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.96%) Oracle
5 6 (5.22%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.48%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.61%) Splunk
8 2 (1.74%) Genesys
8 2 (1.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.87%) Aderant
9 1 (0.87%) Avaya
9 1 (0.87%) Cisco
9 1 (0.87%) New Relic
9 1 (0.87%) Pega