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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 202 180
Rank change year-on-year +12 -22 +74
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 29 44 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.37% 0.66% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.63% 4.06% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 23 28 32
10th Percentile £32,125 £33,750 £35,350
25th Percentile £48,125 £38,750 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £42,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +70.59% -19.81% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £53,438 £58,750
90th Percentile - £57,775 £61,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.81% -15.83% -7.69%

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 626 1,085 968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.03% 16.24% 19.39%
Number of salaries quoted 518 603 857
10th Percentile £32,125 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,318 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,275 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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
West Midlands +34 23 £72,500 +70.59% 89
East Midlands -26 6 £60,250 +19.31% 75
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 4 (13.79%) IIS
2 1 (3.45%) Appian
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) JBoss
2 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (44.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) SaaS
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) PaaS
3 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Broadband
1 1 (3.45%) FTP
1 1 (3.45%) PuTTY
1 1 (3.45%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (3.45%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (10.34%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) JUnit
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Maven
3 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.45%) Appium
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) Gradle
4 1 (3.45%) JMeter
4 1 (3.45%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (3.45%) LoadRunner
4 1 (3.45%) Mockito
4 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.45%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
4 1 (3.45%) TestNG
General
1 23 (79.31%) Social Skills
2 17 (58.62%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Local Government
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Developer
2 13 (44.83%) SAP Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Integration Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Integration Specialist
4 5 (17.24%) ABAP Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Support Specialist
5 4 (13.79%) Technical Specialist
5 4 (13.79%) Technical Support
5 4 (13.79%) Technical Support Specialist
6 3 (10.34%) Senior
7 2 (6.90%) Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Java Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead
7 2 (6.90%) Oracle Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Oracle Data Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (96.55%) REST
2 15 (51.72%) OAuth
2 15 (51.72%) SAML
3 14 (48.28%) Middleware
4 13 (44.83%) BAPI
4 13 (44.83%) IBM Integration Bus
4 13 (44.83%) JMS
5 4 (13.79%) LAMP
6 3 (10.34%) JSON
6 3 (10.34%) Spring
6 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
7 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
7 2 (6.90%) HTML
7 2 (6.90%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (6.90%) Web Services
7 2 (6.90%) XML
8 1 (3.45%) CSS
8 1 (3.45%) EDI
8 1 (3.45%) J2EE
8 1 (3.45%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (13.79%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Migration
2 13 (44.83%) API Management
2 13 (44.83%) Event-Driven
2 13 (44.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 13 (44.83%) High Availability
3 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
4 5 (17.24%) Agile
4 5 (17.24%) Customer Experience
4 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (13.79%) Case Management
5 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (13.79%) CRM
5 4 (13.79%) Proactive Management
5 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.79%) Process Improvement
6 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.34%) Data Migration
6 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
6 3 (10.34%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) ABAP
3 5 (17.24%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) PHP
5 2 (6.90%) Bash
5 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.90%) Python
6 1 (3.45%) ActionScript
6 1 (3.45%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (3.45%) Groovy
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) NCSC
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) IBM
1 13 (44.83%) SAP
2 8 (27.59%) Oracle
3 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.79%) HubSpot
4 4 (13.79%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft