SOAP Job Trends in Surrey

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring SOAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 83 84
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +59
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 21 18 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.28% 1.50% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.64% 5.44% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 20 12 6
10th Percentile £31,250 £43,000 -
25th Percentile £32,750 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £65,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +52.94% -39.29%
75th Percentile £48,750 £70,000 £59,688
90th Percentile £52,725 £73,750 £65,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 154 331 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 9.38% 27.54% 20.38%
Number of salaries quoted 135 201 173
10th Percentile £35,550 £40,000 £37,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in Surrey

SOAP
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SOAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SOAP

SOAP
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAP in Surrey over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SOAP in Surrey

SOAP
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 15 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
Staines - 9 £42,500 -
Camberley - 5 £42,500 -
Guildford -5 2 £38,750 -8.82% 3
SOAP
South East

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.76%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Broadband
1 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
1 1 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (90.48%) JIRA
1 19 (90.48%) Postman
1 19 (90.48%) SoapUI
1 19 (90.48%) Team Foundation Server
2 16 (76.19%) Selenium
2 16 (76.19%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (71.43%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Analyst
1 14 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Lead
2 6 (28.57%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Test Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Test Leader
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (90.48%) .NET
1 19 (90.48%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) OAuth
2 2 (9.52%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
3 1 (4.76%) LDAP
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) SAML
3 1 (4.76%) XML
3 1 (4.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.76%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Agile
2 19 (90.48%) API Testing
2 19 (90.48%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 19 (90.48%) Non-Functional Testing
2 19 (90.48%) Scrum
2 19 (90.48%) Software Testing
2 19 (90.48%) Test Management
3 16 (76.19%) Test Scripting
4 15 (71.43%) Mentoring
5 8 (38.10%) Logistics
6 1 (4.76%) Change Control
6 1 (4.76%) Data Integration
6 1 (4.76%) Data Transformation
6 1 (4.76%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (4.76%) ITIL
6 1 (4.76%) Programme Delivery
6 1 (4.76%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (4.76%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (4.76%) Sprint Retrospective
6 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) SQL
2 19 (90.48%) C#
2 19 (90.48%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (80.95%) Degree
2 16 (76.19%) ISTQB
2 16 (76.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NCSC
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle