SOAP Job Trends in the North of England

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SOAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 274 296
Rank change year-on-year -37 +22 +1
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 24 28 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.34% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.33% 1.77% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 19 18 81
10th Percentile £67,250 £42,125 £36,500
25th Percentile £70,875 £46,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £55,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.43% +16.84% -22.36%
75th Percentile £75,625 £64,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,025 £72,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -14.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,810 1,586 3,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.06% 19.39% 18.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,506 831 2,997
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £34,237
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,025 £93,750 £79,235
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in the North of England

SOAP
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SOAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SOAP

SOAP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
North West +10 21 £73,500 +22.50% 8
Yorkshire -58 3 £65,750 +38.42% 4
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 9 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.33%) CICS
3 1 (4.17%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Magento
1 1 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) Azure
1 20 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (54.17%) GitHub
2 13 (54.17%) Power Platform
3 12 (50.00%) Boomi
3 12 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (16.67%) AWS
5 3 (12.50%) GCP
5 3 (12.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 3 (12.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) Power BI
2 12 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (8.33%) Db2
3 2 (8.33%) Hazelcast
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) JIRA
2 7 (29.17%) Git
3 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (12.50%) Eclipse
4 3 (12.50%) IntelliJ
5 1 (4.17%) GitLab
5 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (54.17%) Marketing
3 13 (54.17%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Games
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (91.67%) Developer
2 15 (62.50%) Senior
2 15 (62.50%) Senior Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Pega Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Salesforce Developer
4 2 (8.33%) C# Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (8.33%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Architect
5 1 (4.17%) ITSM Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (95.83%) REST
2 17 (70.83%) Middleware
3 12 (50.00%) EDI
3 12 (50.00%) JSON
3 12 (50.00%) XML
4 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 4 (16.67%) CSS
4 4 (16.67%) HTML
4 4 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (16.67%) Visualforce
5 3 (12.50%) CSS3
5 3 (12.50%) HTML5
5 3 (12.50%) J2EE
5 3 (12.50%) Kafka
5 3 (12.50%) React
5 3 (12.50%) RESTful
6 2 (8.33%) .NET
6 2 (8.33%) JMS
7 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
7 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 6 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
4 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) DevOps
2 16 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (62.50%) Release Management
4 14 (58.33%) API Integration
4 14 (58.33%) Roadmaps
5 13 (54.17%) CRM
5 13 (54.17%) Customer Service
5 13 (54.17%) ERP
6 12 (50.00%) B2B
6 12 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
6 12 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (50.00%) Customer Insight
6 12 (50.00%) Development Roadmap
6 12 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
7 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
8 8 (33.33%) Agile
9 7 (29.17%) Data Modelling
10 4 (16.67%) Scrum
10 4 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
11 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) Apex Code
2 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.67%) SOQL
2 4 (16.67%) SOSL
3 3 (12.50%) Java
3 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) TickIT
2 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (12.50%) Pega
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk
5 1 (4.17%) WooCommerce