SOAP Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SOAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SOAP over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 444 366
Rank change year-on-year +46 -78 -36
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 182 356 488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.48% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.40% 2.44% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 110 302 323
10th Percentile £38,625 £36,525 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,125 £71,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £63,000 £57,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -15.56% +22.73%

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 5,357 14,578 15,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.60% 19.55% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,285 10,484 8,797
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,250 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the UK excluding London

SOAP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SOAP in the UK excluding London

SOAP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 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
South East +60 80 £67,500 +12.50% 345
Midlands +64 34 £72,500 +26.09% 266
North of England -1 34 £50,402 +0.80% 264
East of England +43 23 £47,500 - 196
West Midlands +49 22 £72,500 +26.09% 142
Yorkshire +57 18 £49,125 +3.42% 106
North West -39 16 £51,277 -6.77% 126
East Midlands +34 12 £71,750 +43.50% 105
Scotland +96 8 £73,500 +54.74% 61
South West +77 2 - - 149
Wales +37 2 £75,000 +81.82% 44
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (7.69%) JBoss
1 14 (7.69%) Red Hat Fuse
2 13 (7.14%) Confluence
3 10 (5.49%) IIS
4 9 (4.95%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle Service Bus
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.10%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.55%) CMS
6 1 (0.55%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.55%) Mendix
6 1 (0.55%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (5.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.10%) Oracle Smart View
2 2 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.30%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.65%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.55%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (23.63%) AWS
2 33 (18.13%) Azure
3 24 (13.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 20 (10.99%) Serverless
5 14 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (6.59%) Amazon S3
7 12 (6.59%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (6.04%) AWS KMS
9 10 (5.49%) Power Automate
9 10 (5.49%) Route 53
10 9 (4.95%) Entra ID
10 9 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.95%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (4.40%) GitHub
11 8 (4.40%) PaaS
12 6 (3.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.04%) SSL
2 10 (5.49%) FTP
3 9 (4.95%) DMARC
4 2 (1.10%) HTTP
4 2 (1.10%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (20.33%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 22 (12.09%) Relational Database
4 15 (8.24%) OLTP
5 13 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (6.04%) DynamoDB
6 11 (6.04%) MySQL
7 3 (1.65%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.65%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.10%) DB2
8 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.10%) Endeca
8 2 (1.10%) IBM InfoSphere
8 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.55%) Power BI
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (21.98%) Jenkins
2 39 (21.43%) Git
3 32 (17.58%) JUnit
4 22 (12.09%) JIRA
5 17 (9.34%) Maven
6 12 (6.59%) Mockito
6 12 (6.59%) SonarQube
7 11 (6.04%) DbUnit
7 11 (6.04%) jMock
7 11 (6.04%) Selenium
8 10 (5.49%) Bitbucket Server
9 9 (4.95%) SoapUI
10 8 (4.40%) Cucumber
11 7 (3.85%) Postman
12 4 (2.20%) Appium
12 4 (2.20%) GitLab
12 4 (2.20%) Katalon Studio
13 3 (1.65%) JMeter
13 3 (1.65%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.65%) TestNG
General
1 65 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.93%) Public Sector
3 28 (15.38%) Law
4 26 (14.29%) Marketing
5 22 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (9.34%) Finance
7 11 (6.04%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (4.95%) Czech Language
8 9 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.65%) Legal
9 3 (1.65%) Military
10 2 (1.10%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.10%) Local Government
10 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.55%) Back Office
11 1 (0.55%) Electronics
11 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (42.31%) Developer
2 31 (17.03%) Java Developer
3 27 (14.84%) Architect
4 26 (14.29%) Senior
5 25 (13.74%) Salesforce Architect
6 21 (11.54%) Enterprise Architect
6 21 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 18 (9.89%) Lead
8 17 (9.34%) Analyst
9 15 (8.24%) Oracle Developer
9 15 (8.24%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 14 (7.69%) PL/SQL Developer
10 14 (7.69%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
10 14 (7.69%) Senior SQL Developer
10 14 (7.69%) SQL Developer
11 13 (7.14%) Applications Support
12 11 (6.04%) Software Engineer
12 11 (6.04%) Support Analyst
13 9 (4.95%) Administrator
13 9 (4.95%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (69.23%) REST
2 62 (34.07%) XML
3 58 (31.87%) Web Services
4 39 (21.43%) RESTful
5 38 (20.88%) HTML
6 36 (19.78%) JSON
7 30 (16.48%) Middleware
7 30 (16.48%) Spring
8 29 (15.93%) Spring Boot
9 26 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
10 22 (12.09%) AngularJS
11 16 (8.79%) .NET
11 16 (8.79%) J2EE
12 14 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (7.69%) Apache Camel
12 14 (7.69%) Bootstrap
12 14 (7.69%) Hibernate
12 14 (7.69%) OAuth
13 13 (7.14%) JPA
14 11 (6.04%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.88%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (10.99%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (4.95%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.95%) CMDB
6 6 (3.30%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.20%) PKI
9 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.65%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.10%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.29%) Linux
2 12 (6.59%) Windows
3 11 (6.04%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) CentOS
4 1 (0.55%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (51.10%) Agile
2 69 (37.91%) DevOps
3 53 (29.12%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (27.47%) Microservices
5 43 (23.63%) Scrum
6 38 (20.88%) CI/CD
7 32 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (16.48%) Data Privacy
9 29 (15.93%) BDD
9 29 (15.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (15.93%) Data Modelling
10 28 (15.38%) TDD
10 28 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
11 27 (14.84%) Thought Leadership
12 26 (14.29%) E-Commerce
12 26 (14.29%) Kanban
13 24 (13.19%) Migration
14 23 (12.64%) Design Patterns
15 22 (12.09%) Business Strategy
15 22 (12.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 81 (44.51%) SQL
2 65 (35.71%) Java
3 45 (24.73%) JavaScript
4 26 (14.29%) Apex Code
5 18 (9.89%) PL/SQL
6 16 (8.79%) C#
7 13 (7.14%) Python
8 12 (6.59%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.95%) VBA
10 5 (2.75%) PHP
11 4 (2.20%) Go
11 4 (2.20%) Groovy
11 4 (2.20%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.10%) Bash
13 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.55%) VB
13 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.55%) VB6
Qualifications
1 38 (20.88%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.68%) Degree
3 33 (18.13%) SC Cleared
4 22 (12.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (11.54%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.10%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.10%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.79%) SLA
3 12 (6.59%) QA
4 9 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.20%) GDPR
6 3 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.10%) NIST
8 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (18.68%) Docker
2 9 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.20%) Postfix
4 2 (1.10%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (10.44%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.24%) Ansible
3 13 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (4.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.30%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.75%) Terraform
7 4 (2.20%) Grafana
7 4 (2.20%) Graylog
8 2 (1.10%) Argo
8 2 (1.10%) Kibana
9 1 (0.55%) Marathon
Vendors
1 41 (22.53%) Oracle
2 31 (17.03%) Salesforce
3 26 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 21 (11.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 14 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 11 (6.04%) Atlassian
7 10 (5.49%) SAP
8 8 (4.40%) IBM
9 6 (3.30%) Splunk
10 5 (2.75%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (2.20%) Databricks
12 3 (1.65%) Google
13 2 (1.10%) Curam
13 2 (1.10%) ForgeRock
13 2 (1.10%) MuleSoft
13 2 (1.10%) New Relic
14 1 (0.55%) CyberSource
14 1 (0.55%) Dell
14 1 (0.55%) Spotify
14 1 (0.55%) VMware