SOAP Job Trends in the Midlands

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 188 253
Rank change year-on-year -56 +65 -62
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 45 46 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 0.82% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.96% 5.93% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 17 36 11
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,832 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,500 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +39.42% +9.47%
75th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,500 - £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,137 776 1,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.22% 13.76% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 801 541 853
10th Percentile £38,000 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £77,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.74%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SOAP
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SOAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SOAP

SOAP
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for SOAP in the Midlands

SOAP
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 October 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 Midlands -34 31 £55,000 -24.14% 34
East Midlands -31 14 £41,250 -31.54% 6
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 5 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (17.78%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) Boomi
2 9 (20.00%) iPaaS
2 9 (20.00%) Workato
3 8 (17.78%) Lucidchart
3 8 (17.78%) SaaS
4 5 (11.11%) AWS
4 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Functions
5 3 (6.67%) OCI
5 3 (6.67%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 3 (6.67%) Serverless
6 2 (4.44%) GitHub
6 2 (4.44%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.22%) GCP
7 1 (2.22%) Google App Engine
7 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.22%) MySQL
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 6 (13.33%) JMeter
2 6 (13.33%) Postman
2 6 (13.33%) SoapUI
2 6 (13.33%) Zephyr
3 5 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 5 (11.11%) GitLab
3 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.11%) Selenium
4 1 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (22.22%) Law
3 10 (22.22%) Legal
4 9 (20.00%) Finance
5 6 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Developer
2 10 (22.22%) Analyst
2 10 (22.22%) Architect
3 9 (20.00%) SAP Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (17.78%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 8 (17.78%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 8 (17.78%) 2nd Line Support
4 8 (17.78%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 8 (17.78%) Support Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Junior
6 5 (11.11%) Junior Architect
6 5 (11.11%) Junior Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Senior
7 3 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (82.22%) REST
2 10 (22.22%) XML
3 9 (20.00%) JDBC
3 9 (20.00%) JSON
3 9 (20.00%) Node.js
3 9 (20.00%) OAuth
3 9 (20.00%) SAP Fiori
3 9 (20.00%) SAPUI5
4 5 (11.11%) ADO
4 5 (11.11%) Playwright
5 4 (8.89%) .NET
5 4 (8.89%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 3 (6.67%) EDI
6 3 (6.67%) Entity Framework
7 2 (4.44%) CSS
7 2 (4.44%) HTML
8 1 (2.22%) ActiveX
8 1 (2.22%) RESTful
8 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) CMDB
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (40.00%) Analytics
2 18 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 17 (37.78%) Agile
3 17 (37.78%) Event-Driven
3 17 (37.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 15 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (28.89%) Migration
5 13 (28.89%) Unit Testing
6 12 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (24.44%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (22.22%) DevOps
8 10 (22.22%) ITIL
8 10 (22.22%) ITSM
8 10 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (22.22%) Runbook
8 10 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
9 9 (20.00%) User Experience
9 9 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) Java
2 13 (28.89%) SQL
3 12 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.00%) ABAP
5 4 (8.89%) C#
6 3 (6.67%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.22%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.22%) Bash
7 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.22%) Python
7 1 (2.22%) Ruby
7 1 (2.22%) VB
7 1 (2.22%) VB6
7 1 (2.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) ISEB
2 5 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.67%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (51.11%) SAP
2 19 (42.22%) ServiceNow
3 10 (22.22%) Salesforce
4 9 (20.00%) iManage
4 9 (20.00%) MuleSoft
5 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
6 5 (11.11%) Pega
7 4 (8.89%) Oracle
8 1 (2.22%) HubSpot
8 1 (2.22%) Informatica