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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 130 212
Rank change year-on-year -15 +82 -68
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 34 62 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.56% 1.75% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.99% 13.81% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 32 21 21
10th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £59,375 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile - £75,000 -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -6.12%

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 568 449 1,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.38% 12.71% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 452 288 938
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,313 £72,188
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -28 18 £70,000 +1.82% 8
Buckinghamshire - 15 £65,000 - 5
Oxfordshire -16 1 £65,000 +30.00%
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 (2.94%) JBoss
1 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) iPaaS
4 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (44.12%) OLTP
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.94%) JUnit
General
1 11 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.88%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (64.71%) Developer
2 15 (44.12%) Oracle Developer
2 15 (44.12%) Senior
2 15 (44.12%) Senior Developer
2 15 (44.12%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 12 (35.29%) Architect
3 12 (35.29%) PL/SQL Developer
3 12 (35.29%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
3 12 (35.29%) Senior SQL Developer
3 12 (35.29%) SQL Developer
4 9 (26.47%) Integration Architect
5 8 (23.53%) Applications Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Backend Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Integration Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) ITSM Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Java Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) NetSuite Developer
8 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (76.47%) XML
2 19 (55.88%) REST
3 16 (47.06%) HTML
3 16 (47.06%) Middleware
4 11 (32.35%) JSON
5 6 (17.65%) OAuth
6 5 (14.71%) JWT
6 5 (14.71%) Kafka
6 5 (14.71%) OAuth2
6 5 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (11.76%) RESTful
7 4 (11.76%) XML Messaging
8 3 (8.82%) Spring
9 2 (5.88%) .NET
9 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
9 2 (5.88%) Java EE
9 2 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (5.88%) Spring MVC
9 2 (5.88%) Visualforce
10 1 (2.94%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 5 (14.71%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.88%) AS400
5 1 (2.94%) CMDB
5 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.94%) TM Forum
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (88.24%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (50.00%) Agile
3 15 (44.12%) Software Testing
4 14 (41.18%) Data Modelling
5 12 (35.29%) ERP
5 12 (35.29%) Integration Patterns
6 11 (32.35%) CRM
7 9 (26.47%) Translating Business Requirements
8 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
8 8 (23.53%) Computer Science
8 8 (23.53%) DevOps
8 8 (23.53%) TDD
9 6 (17.65%) Application Security
9 6 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (17.65%) Microservices
9 6 (17.65%) Technical Analysis
9 6 (17.65%) UML
10 5 (14.71%) Integration Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (76.47%) SQL
2 16 (47.06%) Java
3 15 (44.12%) PL/SQL
4 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.88%) Apex Code
5 2 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (73.53%) Degree
2 8 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (32.35%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow