Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 414 328
Rank change year-on-year +22 -86 +33
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 326 598 1,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.62% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.72% 2.87% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 237 471 738
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £41,047
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -17.20% +26.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £83,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,789 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.84% -8.33% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,771 20,870 32,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.82% 21.50% 30.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,597 15,647 19,781
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for SOAP in the UK

SOAP
Top 16 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 21 April 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
England +17 298 £60,000 +4.35% 262
UK excluding London +51 197 £51,789 -5.84% 162
Work from Home +17 121 £62,750 +9.13% 155
London +40 118 £75,000 +15.38% 146
South East +70 79 £65,000 +8.33% 46
North of England +28 44 £50,055 -8.99% 27
Midlands +41 32 £50,250 -12.61% 25
East of England +58 24 £47,500 - 12
North West -23 24 £50,055 -8.99% 18
Yorkshire +70 18 £56,000 +1.82% 8
East Midlands +54 16 £52,000 +4.00% 12
West Midlands +21 16 £42,500 -26.09% 12
Wales +47 7 £37,500 -9.09% 8
Scotland +99 6 £57,500 +21.05% 21
South West +92 5 - - 16
North East +47 2 £53,750 +13.16% 1

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 12 (3.68%) JBoss
1 12 (3.68%) Red Hat Fuse
2 9 (2.76%) Confluence
3 7 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (1.84%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.23%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.92%) CICS
6 3 (0.92%) Mule
6 3 (0.92%) OpenEdge
6 3 (0.92%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.61%) Appian
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.31%) Apache
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.31%) IIS
8 1 (0.31%) Mendix
8 1 (0.31%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.61%) Oracle Smart View
2 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (10.74%) NetSuite
2 12 (3.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (3.37%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.61%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.31%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.31%) Endur
6 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.31%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 91 (27.91%) Azure
2 56 (17.18%) AWS
3 36 (11.04%) Power Platform
4 35 (10.74%) Serverless
5 28 (8.59%) Dynamics 365
5 28 (8.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 23 (7.06%) Azure Logic Apps
7 20 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (4.91%) Boomi
8 16 (4.91%) GitHub
8 16 (4.91%) SaaS
9 13 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (3.37%) Power Automate
11 11 (3.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 9 (2.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.76%) PowerApps
13 8 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (2.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.60%) HTTP
2 10 (3.07%) FTP
3 5 (1.53%) SSL
3 5 (1.53%) VPN
4 4 (1.23%) Firewall
4 4 (1.23%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.23%) LAN
4 4 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.23%) WAN
5 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.31%) SSH
6 1 (0.31%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (19.33%) SQL Server
2 25 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (7.06%) Relational Database
4 18 (5.52%) MySQL
4 18 (5.52%) OLTP
4 18 (5.52%) Power BI
5 15 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.84%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.53%) DB2
9 4 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.23%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.92%) MariaDB
10 3 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.61%) IBM InfoSphere
11 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (0.61%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 60 (18.40%) Git
2 39 (11.96%) Jenkins
3 30 (9.20%) JIRA
4 25 (7.67%) JUnit
5 19 (5.83%) Postman
6 16 (4.91%) SoapUI
7 14 (4.29%) Selenium
7 14 (4.29%) Visual Studio
8 13 (3.99%) Maven
9 11 (3.37%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.45%) Mockito
10 8 (2.45%) PowerBuilder
10 8 (2.45%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.84%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.84%) DbUnit
11 6 (1.84%) jMock
11 6 (1.84%) Subversion
12 5 (1.53%) Eclipse
12 5 (1.53%) GitLab
13 4 (1.23%) WiX
General
1 122 (37.42%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.18%) Finance
3 47 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 29 (8.90%) Law
6 25 (7.67%) Marketing
7 16 (4.91%) Banking
8 8 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.45%) Retail
9 7 (2.15%) Advertising
10 6 (1.84%) Legal
11 4 (1.23%) Back Office
11 4 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.92%) Military
13 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.61%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 127 (38.96%) Developer
2 47 (14.42%) Architect
3 43 (13.19%) Lead
4 32 (9.82%) Analyst
5 31 (9.51%) Senior
6 30 (9.20%) Consultant
7 28 (8.59%) Java Developer
7 28 (8.59%) Technical Consultant
8 27 (8.28%) Senior Developer
9 25 (7.67%) Salesforce Architect
10 24 (7.36%) NetSuite Consultant
11 21 (6.44%) Enterprise Architect
12 20 (6.13%) Oracle Developer
12 20 (6.13%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 18 (5.52%) SQL Developer
14 17 (5.21%) Software Engineer
15 16 (4.91%) Support Analyst
16 14 (4.29%) PL/SQL Developer
16 14 (4.29%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
16 14 (4.29%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (67.18%) REST
2 123 (37.73%) XML
3 117 (35.89%) Web Services
4 100 (30.67%) HTML
5 67 (20.55%) JSON
6 62 (19.02%) RESTful
7 61 (18.71%) .NET
8 39 (11.96%) Middleware
9 35 (10.74%) CSS
10 34 (10.43%) Lightning Web Components
11 28 (8.59%) Spring
12 24 (7.36%) Restlet
13 23 (7.06%) Hibernate
14 21 (6.44%) J2EE
15 19 (5.83%) jQuery
16 17 (5.21%) AngularJS
16 17 (5.21%) OAuth
16 17 (5.21%) React
17 15 (4.60%) Spring Boot
18 14 (4.29%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.51%) Legacy Systems
2 26 (7.98%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.68%) CMDB
6 9 (2.76%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.45%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.45%) Reinsurance
8 6 (1.84%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.23%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.23%) Wiki
11 3 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.92%) Mainframe
11 3 (0.92%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.61%) EPoS
12 2 (0.61%) N-Tier
12 2 (0.61%) PKI
12 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.83%) Windows
2 13 (3.99%) Linux
3 10 (3.07%) Unix
4 6 (1.84%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.53%) Android
6 4 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.23%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.92%) zOS
8 1 (0.31%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) Debian
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (38.04%) Agile
2 114 (34.97%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (27.30%) DevOps
4 69 (21.17%) Data Modelling
5 66 (20.25%) CI/CD
6 65 (19.94%) Microservices
7 59 (18.10%) Migration
8 54 (16.56%) API Integration
9 43 (13.19%) Data Migration
10 42 (12.88%) Scrum
11 39 (11.96%) Data Management
12 34 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (10.12%) SDLC
13 33 (10.12%) Technical Leadership
14 32 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (9.51%) Computer Science
15 31 (9.51%) Design Patterns
15 31 (9.51%) Information Security
16 30 (9.20%) CRM
16 30 (9.20%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 153 (46.93%) SQL
2 114 (34.97%) JavaScript
3 67 (20.55%) C#
4 62 (19.02%) Java
5 34 (10.43%) Apex Code
6 27 (8.28%) Python
7 25 (7.67%) PL/SQL
8 23 (7.06%) T-SQL
9 19 (5.83%) PowerShell
10 16 (4.91%) TypeScript
11 11 (3.37%) Bash
12 6 (1.84%) Groovy
12 6 (1.84%) PHP
12 6 (1.84%) XAML
13 5 (1.53%) C
13 5 (1.53%) Go
14 4 (1.23%) C++
14 4 (1.23%) Jython
14 4 (1.23%) Perl
14 4 (1.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 50 (15.34%) Degree
2 31 (9.51%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (7.67%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.06%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.61%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.83%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.52%) QA
4 14 (4.29%) SLA
5 6 (1.84%) GDPR
6 4 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.92%) PMO
8 2 (0.61%) NIST
8 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (11.04%) Docker
2 5 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.61%) Postfix
4 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 34 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.68%) Ansible
3 4 (1.23%) Graylog
3 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.23%) Terraform
4 3 (0.92%) Argo
4 3 (0.92%) CA Endevor
4 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.61%) Kibana
5 2 (0.61%) MAINVIEW
5 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.31%) Grafana
6 1 (0.31%) HP UCMDB
6 1 (0.31%) logstash
6 1 (0.31%) Marathon
Vendors
1 72 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 50 (15.34%) Salesforce
3 49 (15.03%) Oracle
4 27 (8.28%) ServiceNow
5 21 (6.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 16 (4.91%) Dell
7 12 (3.68%) IBM
8 10 (3.07%) Databricks
8 10 (3.07%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.15%) Splunk
10 6 (1.84%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.84%) Informatica
10 6 (1.84%) SAP
11 5 (1.53%) VMware
12 3 (0.92%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.92%) BMC
12 3 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.92%) Google
12 3 (0.92%) Progress
12 3 (0.92%) Solace