Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SOAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOAP over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 294 331 278
Rank change year-on-year +37 -53 -53
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 564 1,391 1,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.11% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.94% 3.41% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 420 830 1,126
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

SOAP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,303 40,800 50,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.43% 32.42% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,215 24,814 31,989
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,995 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £104,991 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the UK

SOAP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOAP.

Salary trend for SOAP in the UK

SOAP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAP over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for SOAP in the UK

SOAP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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
England +33 484 £67,500 +3.85% 152
UK excluding London +44 351 £55,000 -4.35% 103
Work from Home -5 284 £60,000 -3.23% 88
London +68 205 £81,397 +1.75% 68
South East +75 118 £53,500 -10.83% 21
North of England +88 89 £57,500 +4.55% 32
North West +108 48 £60,000 +4.35% 22
Midlands +74 40 £52,500 -12.50% 15
Yorkshire +47 39 £56,250 +7.14% 7
Scotland +61 34 £47,500 -16.67% 14
South West +2 30 £60,250 +18.14% 7
West Midlands +67 24 £50,000 -16.67% 12
Northern Ireland +42 17 £68,750 +51.10% 5
East Midlands +44 16 £53,500 -2.73% 3
Wales +14 13 £70,000 +27.27% 1
East of England +82 12 £35,000 -22.22% 10
North East +43 2 £55,000 -28.34% 3

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 102 (18.09%) JBoss
2 98 (17.38%) Red Hat Fuse
3 18 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.19%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.01%) Confluence
5 15 (2.66%) IIS
5 15 (2.66%) Tomcat
6 10 (1.77%) OpenStack
7 9 (1.60%) WebSphere Application Server
8 6 (1.06%) Apache
8 6 (1.06%) IBM HTTP Server
8 6 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.89%) CMS
10 4 (0.71%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (0.71%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 4 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.35%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 44 (7.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (3.55%) Elite 3E
3 14 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (1.95%) BusinessWorks
5 8 (1.42%) NetSuite
6 6 (1.06%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.89%) Shopify
8 4 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.53%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.35%) SAP CX
10 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
10 2 (0.35%) Siebel CRM
11 1 (0.18%) BigMachines
11 1 (0.18%) Magento
11 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
11 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 126 (22.34%) Azure
2 109 (19.33%) SaaS
3 94 (16.67%) AWS
4 44 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (7.27%) GitHub
6 24 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 24 (4.26%) Serverless
7 16 (2.84%) Azure Service Fabric
7 16 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (2.48%) PowerApps
9 12 (2.13%) GCP
10 11 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.95%) PaaS
11 10 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (1.60%) Azure Functions
12 9 (1.60%) IaaS
13 8 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (1.06%) Oracle CX
14 6 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.79%) SSL
2 26 (4.61%) VPN
3 19 (3.37%) HTTP
4 9 (1.60%) FTP
5 3 (0.53%) Network Security
6 2 (0.35%) AMQP
6 2 (0.35%) Firewall
6 2 (0.35%) Internet
7 1 (0.18%) DNS
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (25.35%) SQL Server
2 66 (11.70%) Relational Database
3 64 (11.35%) MySQL
4 40 (7.09%) Oracle Database
5 31 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (4.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (2.48%) Power BI
9 13 (2.30%) MariaDB
10 11 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.95%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.95%) OLTP
11 10 (1.77%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (1.42%) Oracle Database 12c
14 6 (1.06%) Big Data
14 6 (1.06%) EDRMS
14 6 (1.06%) Redis
15 5 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 91 (16.13%) IntelliJ
2 70 (12.41%) Git
3 63 (11.17%) JIRA
4 58 (10.28%) Jenkins
5 36 (6.38%) Selenium
5 36 (6.38%) SoapUI
6 32 (5.67%) Cucumber
6 32 (5.67%) JUnit
7 30 (5.32%) Postman
8 27 (4.79%) Oracle APEX
9 25 (4.43%) Maven
10 22 (3.90%) Bitbucket
11 17 (3.01%) JMeter
12 16 (2.84%) Visual Studio
13 13 (2.30%) Bitbucket Server
13 13 (2.30%) Serenity BDD
13 13 (2.30%) SonarQube
14 9 (1.60%) Gradle
14 9 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (1.42%) Mocha
General
1 131 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 127 (22.52%) Public Sector
3 90 (15.96%) Finance
4 40 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.32%) Banking
6 29 (5.14%) Legal
7 19 (3.37%) Local Government
8 15 (2.66%) Law
9 14 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (2.13%) Marketing
10 12 (2.13%) Retail
11 9 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.42%) Games
13 5 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Automotive
14 4 (0.71%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.71%) Publishing
14 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.53%) Back Office
15 3 (0.53%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 248 (43.97%) Developer
2 203 (35.99%) Senior
3 98 (17.38%) Software Engineer
4 87 (15.43%) Senior Developer
5 73 (12.94%) Senior Software Engineer
6 68 (12.06%) Architect
6 68 (12.06%) Java Engineer
7 67 (11.88%) Java Software Engineer
7 67 (11.88%) Senior Java Engineer
8 66 (11.70%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 63 (11.17%) Java Developer
10 48 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
11 38 (6.74%) Consultant
12 37 (6.56%) Oracle Developer
13 36 (6.38%) Senior Java Developer
14 32 (5.67%) .NET Developer
15 28 (4.96%) Senior Consultant
15 28 (4.96%) Senior Oracle Developer
15 28 (4.96%) Technical Consultant
16 26 (4.61%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (70.04%) REST
2 297 (52.66%) Web Services
3 257 (45.57%) XML
4 216 (38.30%) JSON
5 158 (28.01%) HTML
6 147 (26.06%) Spring
7 146 (25.89%) RESTful
8 126 (22.34%) AngularJS
9 116 (20.57%) CSS
10 115 (20.39%) Hibernate
11 101 (17.91%) .NET
12 92 (16.31%) JPA
13 91 (16.13%) XSD
14 75 (13.30%) Java EE
15 43 (7.62%) jQuery
16 39 (6.91%) ASP.NET
17 36 (6.38%) .NET Framework
18 34 (6.03%) Node.js
18 34 (6.03%) Spring Boot
19 31 (5.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.69%) Enterprise Software
2 30 (5.32%) CMDB
2 30 (5.32%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.66%) Virtual Team
6 13 (2.30%) Reinsurance
7 12 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.89%) Client/Server
11 5 (0.89%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.71%) Clustering
13 3 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (0.53%) Replication
14 2 (0.35%) Algorithms
14 2 (0.35%) Cloud Native
14 2 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.43%) Linux
2 15 (2.66%) Windows
3 14 (2.48%) Unix
4 13 (2.30%) Android
5 5 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (59.93%) Agile
2 198 (35.11%) Problem-Solving
3 155 (27.48%) Software Engineering
4 136 (24.11%) DevOps
5 126 (22.34%) Mentoring
6 104 (18.44%) User Experience
7 101 (17.91%) UX Design
8 100 (17.73%) Scrum
9 96 (17.02%) Collaborative Working
10 95 (16.84%) Front End Development
11 87 (15.43%) Actionable Insight
11 87 (15.43%) Data Design
12 77 (13.65%) Microservices
13 72 (12.77%) Project Delivery
14 71 (12.59%) MVC
15 68 (12.06%) Thought Leadership
16 67 (11.88%) Technical Architecture
17 63 (11.17%) Presales
18 53 (9.40%) TDD
18 53 (9.40%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 237 (42.02%) JavaScript
2 229 (40.60%) Java
3 224 (39.72%) SQL
4 101 (17.91%) C#
5 73 (12.94%) PL/SQL
6 45 (7.98%) Python
7 39 (6.91%) PHP
8 37 (6.56%) T-SQL
9 30 (5.32%) Perl
10 21 (3.72%) PowerShell
11 19 (3.37%) Ruby
12 14 (2.48%) TypeScript
12 14 (2.48%) VB.NET
13 12 (2.13%) Apex Code
14 7 (1.24%) C
14 7 (1.24%) VB
14 7 (1.24%) XAML
15 6 (1.06%) C++
15 6 (1.06%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.89%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 169 (29.96%) Security Cleared
2 166 (29.43%) SC Cleared
3 89 (15.78%) Degree
4 17 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (1.24%) ISTQB
7 5 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.89%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.89%) ISEB
8 4 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.35%) OCP
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.18%) HNC
10 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.79%) QA
2 10 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.35%) GAMP
5 2 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.18%) HL7
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.18%) SLA
6 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (7.09%) Docker
2 5 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.89%) FreeRADIUS
3 4 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.53%) Firmware
5 2 (0.35%) ACF2
5 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.35%) IAG
5 2 (0.35%) Postfix
5 2 (0.35%) RACF
6 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.43%) HP UCMDB
3 13 (2.30%) Ansible
4 8 (1.42%) Terraform
5 5 (0.89%) Grafana
5 5 (0.89%) Kibana
5 5 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.71%) Data Guard
6 4 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.53%) Consul
8 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.35%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.18%) FlexNet
9 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 110 (19.50%) Oracle
2 76 (13.48%) Microsoft
3 63 (11.17%) ServiceNow
4 49 (8.69%) HP
5 44 (7.80%) BMC
5 44 (7.80%) Remedy
6 20 (3.55%) Salesforce
7 18 (3.19%) Informatica
8 14 (2.48%) SAP
9 13 (2.30%) TIBCO
10 10 (1.77%) Workday
10 10 (1.77%) WSO2
11 9 (1.60%) Google
11 9 (1.60%) IBM
11 9 (1.60%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.42%) Splunk
13 7 (1.24%) Databricks
13 7 (1.24%) Dynatrace
14 6 (1.06%) SnapLogic
15 4 (0.71%) Software AG