SOAP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SOAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 336 334
Rank change year-on-year +47 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 260 222 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.68% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.24% 3.37% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 121 129 303
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,500 £36,254
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £71,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -17.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,170 6,579 10,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.75% 20.17% 22.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,188 3,764 8,824
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,843
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +7.64% -8.89%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOAP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SOAP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SOAP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SOAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SOAP

SOAP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for SOAP in the UK excluding London

SOAP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Scotland +82 119 £46,500 -33.57% 4
South East +1 84 £60,000 +9.09% 39
Midlands -14 21 £62,500 +47.06% 9
West Midlands +15 16 £65,000 +52.94% 8
East of England +19 15 £50,000 -14.89% 9
South West -6 14 £42,500 - 4
North of England -43 6 £69,500 +63.53% 15
East Midlands -35 5 £62,500 +23.76% 1
Yorkshire -38 5 £74,000 +5.52% 4
North West -17 1 £52,500 +23.53% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (2.31%) IIS
2 4 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.77%) Confluence
3 2 (0.77%) JBoss
3 2 (0.77%) Mendix
3 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (7.31%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (3.46%) Shopify
3 8 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (3.08%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (3.08%) Magento
4 7 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (2.69%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.77%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 120 (46.15%) Azure
2 61 (23.46%) Entra ID
3 46 (17.69%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (15.77%) GitHub
5 40 (15.38%) Google Workspace
6 35 (13.46%) AWS
7 22 (8.46%) GitHub Copilot
7 22 (8.46%) SaaS
8 20 (7.69%) OCI
9 19 (7.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 17 (6.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 14 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (4.62%) Salesforce Einstein
13 11 (4.23%) Boomi
14 9 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (2.69%) Power Automate
16 6 (2.31%) Power Platform
17 5 (1.92%) Amazon S3
17 5 (1.92%) iPaaS
18 4 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 70 (26.92%) Broadband
2 8 (3.08%) FTP
3 3 (1.15%) MQTT
3 3 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.77%) SSL
5 1 (0.38%) HTTP
5 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.38%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.77%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.00%) OLTP
3 10 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.69%) MySQL
5 5 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.54%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.15%) Power BI
8 2 (0.77%) Metadata
8 2 (0.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 52 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 45 (17.31%) JIRA
3 33 (12.69%) SoapUI
4 32 (12.31%) Postman
5 30 (11.54%) GitLab
6 28 (10.77%) Selenium
6 28 (10.77%) SonarQube
7 26 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
8 23 (8.85%) WebDriver
9 19 (7.31%) Oracle Forms
10 12 (4.62%) Git
11 4 (1.54%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (1.54%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.77%) JUnit
13 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.38%) LoadRunner
13 1 (0.38%) Maven
13 1 (0.38%) Mockito
13 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 126 (48.46%) Social Skills
2 82 (31.54%) Finance
3 63 (24.23%) Games
4 42 (16.15%) Organisational Skills
5 38 (14.62%) Marketing
6 35 (13.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (5.38%) Law
9 13 (5.00%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.08%) Back Office
11 7 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.77%) Banking
13 2 (0.77%) Retail
14 1 (0.38%) Legal
14 1 (0.38%) Local Government
14 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 96 (36.92%) Senior
2 64 (24.62%) Developer
3 42 (16.15%) Architect
4 30 (11.54%) Analyst
5 28 (10.77%) Applications Engineer
6 27 (10.38%) Senior Developer
7 26 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
8 21 (8.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 19 (7.31%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 18 (6.92%) Applications Support
11 17 (6.54%) IAM Developer
11 17 (6.54%) Test Analyst
12 14 (5.38%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 14 (5.38%) Technical Architect
13 13 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
13 13 (5.00%) PL/SQL Developer
13 13 (5.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 13 (5.00%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
13 13 (5.00%) Senior SQL Developer
13 13 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (73.85%) REST
2 59 (22.69%) Lightning Web Components
3 54 (20.77%) SAML
4 52 (20.00%) OAuth
4 52 (20.00%) XML
5 51 (19.62%) HTML
6 43 (16.54%) GraphQL
7 42 (16.15%) OpenID
8 41 (15.77%) LDAP
9 38 (14.62%) .NET
9 38 (14.62%) JSON
10 36 (13.85%) Visualforce
11 35 (13.46%) Middleware
12 28 (10.77%) Web Services
13 24 (9.23%) RESTful
14 8 (3.08%) JMS
15 7 (2.69%) BAPI
15 7 (2.69%) IBM Integration Bus
16 6 (2.31%) CSS
17 5 (1.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 62 (23.85%) Product Ownership
2 42 (16.15%) Cyber Threat
2 42 (16.15%) Cyberattack
3 29 (11.15%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (8.08%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.23%) Low-Code
6 8 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.15%) Life Science
9 3 (1.15%) LIMS
9 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.15%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.77%) DataPower
11 1 (0.38%) CMDB
11 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.38%) Freedom of Information
11 1 (0.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.23%) Linux
2 6 (2.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (52.31%) Agile
2 105 (40.38%) Mentoring
3 97 (37.31%) CI/CD
4 86 (33.08%) DevOps
5 80 (30.77%) Roadmaps
6 62 (23.85%) Identity Access Management
7 61 (23.46%) Scrum
8 58 (22.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (18.46%) Asset Management
9 48 (18.46%) Coaching
10 47 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (18.08%) Test Automation
11 45 (17.31%) Data Modelling
12 44 (16.92%) Event-Driven
13 43 (16.54%) Observability
14 42 (16.15%) Cybersecurity
14 42 (16.15%) Programme Delivery
14 42 (16.15%) Software Testing
15 40 (15.38%) ERP
15 40 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 125 (48.08%) SQL
2 74 (28.46%) Java
3 62 (23.85%) PowerShell
4 59 (22.69%) Apex Code
5 54 (20.77%) Python
6 50 (19.23%) T-SQL
7 44 (16.92%) Bash
8 40 (15.38%) C#
9 36 (13.85%) PL/SQL
10 35 (13.46%) JavaScript
11 29 (11.15%) SOQL
12 28 (10.77%) SOSL
13 25 (9.62%) Shell Script
14 8 (3.08%) PHP
15 4 (1.54%) Go
16 2 (0.77%) Delphi
16 2 (0.77%) VB
16 2 (0.77%) VB6
17 1 (0.38%) ActionScript 2.0
17 1 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 61 (23.46%) Degree
2 27 (10.38%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.85%) ISTQB
3 23 (8.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 14 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) OCA
7 1 (0.38%) OCP
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.15%) NCSC
1 42 (16.15%) NIST
2 20 (7.69%) QA
3 11 (4.23%) GDPR
4 7 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.31%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (1.15%) GxP
7 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (22.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.77%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) Squid
Systems Management
1 26 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (7.31%) Terraform
3 4 (1.54%) Control-M
4 2 (0.77%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 69 (26.54%) Salesforce
2 52 (20.00%) Oracle
3 38 (14.62%) Microsoft
4 28 (10.77%) Splunk
5 23 (8.85%) MuleSoft
6 22 (8.46%) ServiceNow
7 19 (7.31%) Okta
8 13 (5.00%) SAP
9 8 (3.08%) ConnectWise
9 8 (3.08%) IBM
9 8 (3.08%) WooCommerce
9 8 (3.08%) Workday
10 5 (1.92%) Informatica
10 5 (1.92%) Pega
11 4 (1.54%) HubSpot
12 3 (1.15%) Agilent
13 2 (0.77%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.77%) IFS
13 2 (0.77%) Software AG
13 2 (0.77%) Talend