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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 418 340
Rank change year-on-year +25 -78 +19
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 331 592 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.60% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.91% 2.81% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 232 462 710
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £40,992
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £69,135
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -16.83% +25.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,125 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.05% -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 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £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 £87,500 £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 1 May 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 1 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
England +16 302 £60,000 +4.35% 283
UK excluding London +46 199 £51,125 -7.05% 232
Work from Home +57 121 £62,500 +8.70% 162
London +60 120 £75,000 +15.38% 106
South East +66 75 £67,500 +12.50% 65
North of England +33 46 £50,055 -8.99% 60
Midlands +54 32 £50,500 -12.17% 41
East of England +57 28 £47,500 - 21
North West -12 23 £50,055 -11.01% 40
Yorkshire +68 22 £56,000 +4.19% 18
East Midlands +41 17 £52,000 +4.00% 19
West Midlands +32 15 £46,250 -19.57% 20
Wales +40 7 £37,500 -9.09% 13
Scotland +102 6 £57,500 +21.05% 17
South West +78 5 - - 16
North East +49 1 £37,500 -21.05% 2

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 13 (3.93%) Confluence
2 12 (3.63%) JBoss
2 12 (3.63%) Red Hat Fuse
3 10 (3.02%) Tomcat
4 9 (2.72%) SharePoint
5 7 (2.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.51%) IIS
7 4 (1.21%) CICS
7 4 (1.21%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.91%) Mule
8 3 (0.91%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.91%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.60%) Appian
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.30%) CMS
10 1 (0.30%) Mendix
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.30%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle Smart View
2 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (9.67%) NetSuite
2 14 (4.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (3.32%) JDE OneWorld
4 5 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.30%) Endur
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.30%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 94 (28.40%) Azure
2 56 (16.92%) AWS
3 39 (11.78%) Serverless
4 38 (11.48%) Power Platform
5 29 (8.76%) Dynamics 365
5 29 (8.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 23 (6.95%) Azure Logic Apps
7 21 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (6.04%) GitHub
9 17 (5.14%) Power Automate
10 16 (4.83%) Boomi
10 16 (4.83%) SaaS
11 13 (3.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 12 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (3.32%) PowerApps
14 10 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (2.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.14%) HTTP
2 10 (3.02%) FTP
3 8 (2.42%) SSL
4 5 (1.51%) VPN
5 4 (1.21%) DMARC
5 4 (1.21%) Firewall
5 4 (1.21%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.21%) LAN
5 4 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.21%) WAN
6 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.30%) SSH
7 1 (0.30%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (21.15%) SQL Server
2 28 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (6.95%) Relational Database
4 20 (6.04%) Power BI
5 18 (5.44%) MySQL
6 16 (4.83%) OLTP
6 16 (4.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (4.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.81%) DB2
9 5 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.51%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.21%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.91%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.91%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.60%) IBM InfoSphere
12 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database 12c
12 2 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 60 (18.13%) Git
2 40 (12.08%) Jenkins
3 37 (11.18%) JIRA
4 24 (7.25%) JUnit
5 19 (5.74%) Postman
6 16 (4.83%) SoapUI
7 14 (4.23%) Selenium
8 12 (3.63%) Maven
8 12 (3.63%) Visual Studio
9 11 (3.32%) Cucumber
10 10 (3.02%) PowerBuilder
11 8 (2.42%) Bitbucket
12 7 (2.11%) Mockito
12 7 (2.11%) SonarQube
13 6 (1.81%) Subversion
14 5 (1.51%) DbUnit
14 5 (1.51%) Eclipse
14 5 (1.51%) GitLab
14 5 (1.51%) jMock
15 4 (1.21%) WiX
General
1 123 (37.16%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.22%) Finance
3 49 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 28 (8.46%) Law
6 26 (7.85%) Marketing
7 14 (4.23%) Banking
8 8 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.42%) Retail
9 6 (1.81%) Advertising
9 6 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.51%) Legal
10 5 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.21%) Czech Language
11 4 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.91%) Back Office
12 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.91%) Military
13 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 128 (38.67%) Developer
2 48 (14.50%) Architect
3 45 (13.60%) Lead
4 32 (9.67%) Senior
5 31 (9.37%) Analyst
6 28 (8.46%) Consultant
6 28 (8.46%) Senior Developer
7 27 (8.16%) Java Developer
8 25 (7.55%) Salesforce Architect
8 25 (7.55%) Technical Consultant
9 21 (6.34%) Enterprise Architect
9 21 (6.34%) NetSuite Consultant
10 18 (5.44%) Oracle Developer
10 18 (5.44%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 17 (5.14%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.83%) SQL Developer
13 14 (4.23%) Support Analyst
14 13 (3.93%) Integration Analyst
14 13 (3.93%) ServiceNow Developer
15 12 (3.63%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (69.18%) REST
2 122 (36.86%) XML
3 121 (36.56%) Web Services
4 93 (28.10%) HTML
5 73 (22.05%) JSON
6 60 (18.13%) .NET
7 59 (17.82%) RESTful
8 42 (12.69%) Middleware
9 36 (10.88%) Lightning Web Components
10 34 (10.27%) CSS
11 26 (7.85%) Spring
12 22 (6.65%) Hibernate
13 21 (6.34%) J2EE
13 21 (6.34%) Restlet
14 19 (5.74%) jQuery
15 18 (5.44%) OAuth
15 18 (5.44%) React
16 17 (5.14%) AngularJS
17 15 (4.53%) GraphQL
17 15 (4.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.37%) Enterprise Software
2 27 (8.16%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.14%) CMDB
5 15 (4.53%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.02%) Reinsurance
7 9 (2.72%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.42%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.42%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.51%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.21%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.21%) Wiki
12 3 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.91%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.60%) IBM Mainframe
13 2 (0.60%) PKI
13 2 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.65%) Windows
2 17 (5.14%) Linux
3 14 (4.23%) Unix
4 5 (1.51%) Android
4 5 (1.51%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.21%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.21%) zOS
6 1 (0.30%) CentOS
6 1 (0.30%) Debian
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (39.27%) Agile
2 116 (35.05%) Problem-Solving
3 95 (28.70%) DevOps
4 71 (21.45%) CI/CD
5 68 (20.54%) Data Modelling
6 66 (19.94%) Microservices
7 57 (17.22%) API Integration
8 55 (16.62%) Migration
9 43 (12.99%) Scrum
10 39 (11.78%) Data Management
11 38 (11.48%) CRM
11 38 (11.48%) Data Migration
12 36 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (10.57%) SDLC
13 35 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (9.97%) Computer Science
14 33 (9.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (9.67%) Information Security
16 31 (9.37%) Design Patterns
17 30 (9.06%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 155 (46.83%) SQL
2 120 (36.25%) JavaScript
3 67 (20.24%) C#
4 64 (19.34%) Java
5 36 (10.88%) Apex Code
6 26 (7.85%) Python
7 24 (7.25%) PowerShell
8 23 (6.95%) PL/SQL
9 22 (6.65%) T-SQL
10 16 (4.83%) TypeScript
11 12 (3.63%) Bash
12 6 (1.81%) Groovy
12 6 (1.81%) PHP
13 5 (1.51%) C
13 5 (1.51%) Go
13 5 (1.51%) XAML
14 4 (1.21%) C++
14 4 (1.21%) COBOL
14 4 (1.21%) Jython
14 4 (1.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (16.01%) Degree
2 30 (9.06%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (7.55%) Master's Degree
4 25 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.21%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.91%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.60%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.04%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.44%) QA
4 14 (4.23%) SLA
5 8 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.81%) GDPR
7 4 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.91%) PMO
8 3 (0.91%) WCAG
9 2 (0.60%) NIST
9 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (10.88%) Docker
2 9 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Postfix
4 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 34 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.63%) Ansible
3 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.21%) CA Endevor
4 4 (1.21%) Graylog
5 3 (0.91%) Argo
5 3 (0.91%) Terraform
6 2 (0.60%) MAINVIEW
6 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.30%) HP UCMDB
7 1 (0.30%) Kibana
7 1 (0.30%) Marathon
Vendors
1 77 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 53 (16.01%) Salesforce
3 51 (15.41%) Oracle
4 33 (9.97%) ServiceNow
5 21 (6.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 16 (4.83%) Dell
7 13 (3.93%) IBM
8 11 (3.32%) Databricks
8 11 (3.32%) MuleSoft
9 8 (2.42%) Splunk
10 7 (2.11%) SAP
11 6 (1.81%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.81%) Informatica
12 5 (1.51%) VMware
13 3 (0.91%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.91%) BMC
13 3 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.91%) Google
13 3 (0.91%) Progress
13 3 (0.91%) Solace