SOAP Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SOAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 95 195
Rank change year-on-year -34 +100 -46
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 44 63 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.82% 2.23% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.40% 13.29% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 40 24 36
10th Percentile £49,575 £45,525 £46,050
25th Percentile £57,188 £62,500 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.57%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,250 £71,875
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 468 474 1,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.76% 16.76% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 369 342 999
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -7.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SOAP
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SOAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SOAP

SOAP
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SOAP in the Thames Valley

SOAP
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Berkshire -29 24 £67,500 - 13
Buckinghamshire - 20 £60,000 - 7
SOAP
South East

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.27%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.27%) JBoss
1 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 8 (18.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 6 (13.64%) iPaaS
5 5 (11.36%) AWS
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) Boomi
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) MQTT
1 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.82%) OLTP
2 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.27%) Metadata
4 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) SoapUI
2 6 (13.64%) JIRA
2 6 (13.64%) Postman
2 6 (13.64%) Selenium
3 5 (11.36%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (11.36%) WebDriver
4 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.55%) Git
6 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.27%) JUnit
General
1 19 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Law
3 8 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 5 (11.36%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (54.55%) Developer
2 17 (38.64%) Senior
3 14 (31.82%) Oracle Developer
3 14 (31.82%) PL/SQL Developer
3 14 (31.82%) Senior Developer
3 14 (31.82%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 14 (31.82%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
3 14 (31.82%) Senior SQL Developer
3 14 (31.82%) SQL Developer
4 9 (20.45%) Architect
5 8 (18.18%) Applications Architect
5 8 (18.18%) Salesforce Developer
6 7 (15.91%) Integration Architect
7 5 (11.36%) Analyst
8 4 (9.09%) Test Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Lead
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Test Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Tester
10 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (56.82%) XML
2 23 (52.27%) REST
3 20 (45.45%) Middleware
4 19 (43.18%) HTML
5 13 (29.55%) .NET
6 10 (22.73%) JSON
7 9 (20.45%) Lightning Web Components
7 9 (20.45%) Visualforce
8 3 (6.82%) RESTful
9 2 (4.55%) JWT
9 2 (4.55%) Kafka
9 2 (4.55%) OAuth
9 2 (4.55%) OAuth2
9 2 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (4.55%) Web Services
9 2 (4.55%) XML Messaging
10 1 (2.27%) Apache Camel
10 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (2.27%) pytest
10 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.55%) AS400
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Life Science
3 2 (4.55%) LIMS
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (59.09%) Agile
3 20 (45.45%) Software Testing
4 18 (40.91%) Data Modelling
5 15 (34.09%) Translating Business Requirements
6 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
7 12 (27.27%) DevOps
8 10 (22.73%) ERP
9 9 (20.45%) CRM
9 9 (20.45%) Integration Patterns
10 8 (18.18%) Community of Practice
10 8 (18.18%) Computer Science
10 8 (18.18%) TDD
10 8 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
11 7 (15.91%) Application Security
11 7 (15.91%) End-to-End Testing
11 7 (15.91%) Technical Analysis
11 7 (15.91%) UML
12 6 (13.64%) Scrum
12 6 (13.64%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 32 (72.73%) SQL
2 25 (56.82%) Java
3 14 (31.82%) PL/SQL
4 13 (29.55%) Python
5 11 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 9 (20.45%) Apex Code
7 6 (13.64%) C#
8 1 (2.27%) Go
8 1 (2.27%) PHP
8 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (79.55%) Degree
2 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
3 8 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.36%) ISTQB
4 5 (11.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (4.55%) GxP
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Oracle
2 9 (20.45%) MuleSoft
2 9 (20.45%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.55%) Agilent
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) Dell
4 1 (2.27%) Epicor
4 1 (2.27%) IBM
4 1 (2.27%) IFS
4 1 (2.27%) Infor
4 1 (2.27%) Informatica
4 1 (2.27%) Jitterbit
4 1 (2.27%) SAP
4 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) SnapLogic
4 1 (2.27%) Software AG
4 1 (2.27%) Talend
4 1 (2.27%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.27%) Workday