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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 160 137
Rank change year-on-year +9 -23 +54
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 46 37 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.19% 0.76% 1.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.83% 4.31% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 17 21 48
10th Percentile - £41,263 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile - - £77,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -1.87% -2.97%

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 389 859 1,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.06% 17.74% 28.35%
Number of salaries quoted 234 572 789
10th Percentile £36,975 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £56,525 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.15% -5.79% +4.35%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -1 43 £70,000 +7.69% 20
Oxfordshire - 3 £52,500 - 3
SOAP
South East

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (15.22%) JBoss
1 7 (15.22%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (6.52%) Confluence
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.17%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) AWS
2 14 (30.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 7 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (15.22%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (15.22%) Amazon SQS
3 7 (15.22%) Serverless
4 6 (13.04%) Amazon S3
4 6 (13.04%) AWS KMS
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (10.87%) Route 53
6 2 (4.35%) OCI
7 1 (2.17%) Azure
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.17%) iPaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (17.39%) Relational Database
3 7 (15.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (15.22%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (10.87%) DynamoDB
4 5 (10.87%) OLTP
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (32.61%) Jenkins
1 15 (32.61%) JUnit
2 14 (30.43%) Git
3 8 (17.39%) JIRA
3 8 (17.39%) Maven
4 7 (15.22%) Mockito
4 7 (15.22%) SonarQube
5 6 (13.04%) DbUnit
5 6 (13.04%) jMock
5 6 (13.04%) Postman
5 6 (13.04%) Selenium
5 6 (13.04%) SoapUI
6 5 (10.87%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (10.87%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (10.87%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
General
1 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Law
2 14 (30.43%) Marketing
2 14 (30.43%) Public Sector
3 8 (17.39%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Developer
2 15 (32.61%) Java Developer
3 14 (30.43%) Architect
3 14 (30.43%) Enterprise Architect
3 14 (30.43%) Salesforce Architect
4 11 (23.91%) Senior
5 7 (15.22%) Analyst
5 7 (15.22%) Senior Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Lead
6 5 (10.87%) Lead Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Lead Java Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Oracle Developer
6 5 (10.87%) PL/SQL Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior SQL Developer
6 5 (10.87%) SQL Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Test Analyst
7 4 (8.70%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (67.39%) REST
2 18 (39.13%) Middleware
3 15 (32.61%) Spring
3 15 (32.61%) Web Services
4 14 (30.43%) Lightning Web Components
4 14 (30.43%) Spring Boot
5 13 (28.26%) RESTful
6 10 (21.74%) HTML
7 9 (19.57%) XML
8 8 (17.39%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (17.39%) JPA
9 7 (15.22%) AngularJS
9 7 (15.22%) Apache Camel
9 7 (15.22%) Bootstrap
9 7 (15.22%) Hibernate
9 7 (15.22%) J2EE
10 6 (13.04%) PowerMock
10 6 (13.04%) Spring Batch
10 6 (13.04%) Spring Integration
11 5 (10.87%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.87%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.52%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (78.26%) Agile
2 29 (63.04%) Microservices
3 23 (50.00%) DevOps
4 21 (45.65%) Scrum
5 16 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (32.61%) CI/CD
6 15 (32.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (32.61%) TDD
7 14 (30.43%) Business Strategy
7 14 (30.43%) Computer Science
7 14 (30.43%) Data Management
7 14 (30.43%) Data Privacy
7 14 (30.43%) Design Patterns
7 14 (30.43%) Enterprise Architecture
7 14 (30.43%) Master Data Management
7 14 (30.43%) Release Management
7 14 (30.43%) Software Delivery
7 14 (30.43%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (30.43%) Thought Leadership
7 14 (30.43%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) Java
1 21 (45.65%) SQL
2 14 (30.43%) Apex Code
3 6 (13.04%) PL/SQL
4 5 (10.87%) C#
5 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Go
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) PHP
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (52.17%) Degree
2 14 (30.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (30.43%) Master's Degree
3 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) ISTQB
4 5 (10.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (30.43%) Data Quality
2 7 (15.22%) SLA
3 2 (4.35%) QA
4 1 (2.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (30.43%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Ansible
1 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Grafana
2 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (34.78%) Salesforce
2 14 (30.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 8 (17.39%) Oracle
4 5 (10.87%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.52%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.17%) HubSpot
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow