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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 234 201
Rank change year-on-year -19 -33 +114
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 8 52 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.076% 0.55% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.75% 3.25% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6 37 61
10th Percentile £42,875 £37,950 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -21.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,188 £57,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £74,375 £93,778 £91,934
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
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 1,063 1,601 1,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.12% 16.93% 25.31%
Number of salaries quoted 866 962 1,516
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,313 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +3.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 1 January 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 1 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
North West -2 4 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Yorkshire -17 4 £73,750 +34.09% 8
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 2 (25.00%) JBoss
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Boomi
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (12.50%) OCI
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Law
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) REST
2 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
3 3 (37.50%) XML
4 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (25.00%) Middleware
4 2 (25.00%) Spring
4 2 (25.00%) Struts
5 1 (12.50%) Ajax
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (12.50%) CSS
5 1 (12.50%) HTML5
5 1 (12.50%) jQuery
5 1 (12.50%) JSON
5 1 (12.50%) LDAP
5 1 (12.50%) OAuth
5 1 (12.50%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) DataPower
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) API Integration
1 3 (37.50%) MVC
2 2 (25.00%) AI
2 2 (25.00%) SDLC
2 2 (25.00%) SOA
2 2 (25.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (12.50%) API Development
3 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Fintech
3 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Secure Coding
3 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
1 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft
2 1 (12.50%) New Relic
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Talend