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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 144 118
Rank change year-on-year -5 -26 +47
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 32 53 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.88% 1.22% 1.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.79% 6.02% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 27 29 49
10th Percentile £40,850 £45,253 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £61,250 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 - £78,100
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

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 327 880 876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.04% 20.32% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 226 521 610
10th Percentile £34,375 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,125 £85,000 £92,625
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 20 November 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 November 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 23 £57,500 -11.54% 10
Buckinghamshire - 6 £60,000 - 1
Oxfordshire - 3 £52,500 - 9
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 3 (9.38%) JBoss
1 3 (9.38%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) Anypoint
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (3.13%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 4 (12.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (9.38%) Azure
4 3 (9.38%) Serverless
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.25%) AWS KMS
5 2 (6.25%) iPaaS
5 2 (6.25%) Route 53
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Boomi
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.13%) SaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) MQTT
1 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (15.63%) OLTP
2 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Postman
1 11 (34.38%) Selenium
1 11 (34.38%) SoapUI
2 9 (28.13%) JIRA
3 7 (21.88%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (21.88%) WebDriver
4 6 (18.75%) Git
4 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
5 5 (15.63%) JUnit
6 4 (12.50%) Cucumber
7 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (6.25%) DbUnit
7 2 (6.25%) jMock
7 2 (6.25%) Maven
7 2 (6.25%) Mockito
7 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 9 (28.13%) Public Sector
4 5 (15.63%) Law
5 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Legal
7 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) Senior
3 5 (15.63%) Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Java Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Oracle Developer
3 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Senior Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Senior SQL Developer
3 5 (15.63%) SQL Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Tester
5 3 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) QA Automation Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (40.63%) REST
2 12 (37.50%) HTML
3 11 (34.38%) .NET
4 8 (25.00%) Middleware
4 8 (25.00%) XML
5 6 (18.75%) RESTful
5 6 (18.75%) Web Services
6 5 (15.63%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (15.63%) Spring
6 5 (15.63%) Spring Boot
6 5 (15.63%) Visualforce
7 4 (12.50%) pytest
8 3 (9.38%) Apache Camel
8 3 (9.38%) J2EE
8 3 (9.38%) JSON
9 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
9 2 (6.25%) Bootstrap
9 2 (6.25%) PowerMock
9 2 (6.25%) Spring Batch
9 2 (6.25%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (6.25%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) LIMS
4 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) Scrum
3 12 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.00%) DevOps
6 7 (21.88%) API Testing
6 7 (21.88%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
6 7 (21.88%) Non-Functional Testing
6 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
6 7 (21.88%) Test Management
6 7 (21.88%) Test Scripting
7 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 6 (18.75%) Microservices
8 5 (15.63%) BDD
8 5 (15.63%) Kanban
8 5 (15.63%) TDD
9 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 4 (12.50%) ERP
9 4 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) SQL
2 21 (65.63%) Java
3 11 (34.38%) Python
4 8 (25.00%) C#
5 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
6 5 (15.63%) Apex Code
6 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL
7 4 (12.50%) Go
7 4 (12.50%) PHP
8 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
9 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (53.13%) Degree
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) ISTQB
3 7 (21.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 3 (9.38%) SLA
3 2 (6.25%) GDPR
4 1 (3.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (3.13%) GxP
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle
1 7 (21.88%) Salesforce
2 5 (15.63%) MuleSoft
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.13%) Agilent
5 1 (3.13%) Dell
5 1 (3.13%) Epicor
5 1 (3.13%) HubSpot
5 1 (3.13%) IFS
5 1 (3.13%) Infor
5 1 (3.13%) Informatica
5 1 (3.13%) Jitterbit
5 1 (3.13%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) SnapLogic
5 1 (3.13%) Software AG
5 1 (3.13%) Talend
5 1 (3.13%) TIBCO
5 1 (3.13%) Workday