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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 156 126
Rank change year-on-year +1 -30 +69
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 35 45 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.92% 1.02% 1.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.00% 5.34% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 22 25 42
10th Percentile £34,100 £43,258 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +1.96% +6.25%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 - £77,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -1.87% -6.96%

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 350 842 990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.19% 19.17% 28.41%
Number of salaries quoted 216 499 676
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £42,798
25th Percentile £44,688 £45,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,125 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 20 October 2025.

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 20 October 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
Berkshire -19 32 £57,500 -11.54% 10
Oxfordshire - 3 £52,500 -
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 5 (14.29%) JBoss
1 5 (14.29%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (8.57%) Confluence
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.86%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (17.14%) Amazon S3
2 6 (17.14%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 5 (14.29%) Route 53
3 5 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (5.71%) OCI
5 1 (2.86%) Azure
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.86%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) MQTT
1 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (22.86%) Relational Database
3 7 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (17.14%) OLTP
5 5 (14.29%) DynamoDB
6 2 (5.71%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Jenkins
1 12 (34.29%) JUnit
2 11 (31.43%) Git
3 10 (28.57%) JIRA
3 10 (28.57%) Postman
3 10 (28.57%) Selenium
3 10 (28.57%) SoapUI
4 7 (20.00%) Maven
4 7 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 6 (17.14%) Mockito
5 6 (17.14%) SonarQube
6 5 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (14.29%) DbUnit
6 5 (14.29%) jMock
7 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 11 (31.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Developer
2 12 (34.29%) Java Developer
2 12 (34.29%) Senior
3 8 (22.86%) Senior Developer
4 7 (20.00%) Analyst
5 6 (17.14%) Oracle Developer
5 6 (17.14%) PL/SQL Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior SQL Developer
5 6 (17.14%) SQL Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Lead
6 5 (14.29%) Lead Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (11.43%) Senior Test Analyst
7 4 (11.43%) Test Analyst
8 3 (8.57%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) QA Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) REST
2 13 (37.14%) HTML
3 12 (34.29%) Spring
3 12 (34.29%) Spring Boot
3 12 (34.29%) Web Services
4 10 (28.57%) RESTful
4 10 (28.57%) XML
5 7 (20.00%) .NET
5 7 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 7 (20.00%) Bootstrap
5 7 (20.00%) JPA
6 6 (17.14%) Hibernate
6 6 (17.14%) Spring Batch
6 6 (17.14%) Spring Integration
7 5 (14.29%) Apache Camel
7 5 (14.29%) J2EE
7 5 (14.29%) Middleware
7 5 (14.29%) PowerMock
8 4 (11.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.57%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.86%) Life Science
4 1 (2.86%) LIMS
4 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Agile
2 20 (57.14%) Scrum
3 13 (37.14%) Software Testing
4 12 (34.29%) Microservices
4 12 (34.29%) TDD
5 10 (28.57%) BDD
5 10 (28.57%) Kanban
6 7 (20.00%) API Testing
6 7 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 7 (20.00%) DevOps
6 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.00%) Test Management
6 7 (20.00%) Test Scripting
7 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
7 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
8 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (14.29%) Open Source
9 3 (8.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) SQL
2 22 (62.86%) Java
3 7 (20.00%) C#
3 7 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (11.43%) Python
5 3 (8.57%) Go
5 3 (8.57%) PHP
6 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Degree
2 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
2 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
3 7 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 7 (20.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
1 5 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) GxP
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Ansible
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Grafana
2 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Oracle
2 5 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.57%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.86%) Agilent
5 1 (2.86%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow