SmartBear Software SoapUI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SoapUI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 677 593 784
Rank change year-on-year -84 +191 -86
Permanent jobs citing SoapUI 42 45 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.01% 1.06% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 37 39 90
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £55,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £53,750 £90,639 £95,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £95,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £87,626 £70,000
% change year-on-year -57.20% +25.18% +21.74%

All Development Application Skills
UK

SoapUI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,175 4,248 9,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.78% 10.16% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,748 3,013 6,780
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,900 £81,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,001 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

SoapUI
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SoapUI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SoapUI job vacancy trend in the UK

SoapUI
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SoapUI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SoapUI

SoapUI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SoapUI over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SoapUI within the UK over the 6 months to 20 April 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
England -82 39 £42,000 -35.38% 2
Work from Home +18 31 £37,500 -42.31% 2
UK excluding London -79 31 £37,500 -57.20% 2
South East -30 21 £37,500 -58.33%
London -14 9 £53,000 -18.46%
South West -42 6 £35,000 -41.67% 2
Midlands - 2 £58,750 -
West Midlands - 2 £58,750 -
North West -26 1 £52,500 -26.32%
North of England -61 1 £52,500 -12.50%
Scotland - 1 £62,500 -

SoapUI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) SAP CX
2 1 (2.38%) Elite 3E
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (9.52%) AWS
4 3 (7.14%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.38%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (2.38%) GCP
5 1 (2.38%) GitHub
5 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.38%) SaaS
5 1 (2.38%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.76%) CockroachDB
2 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (97.62%) Postman
2 31 (73.81%) JIRA
3 28 (66.67%) Selenium
4 24 (57.14%) Team Foundation Server
5 19 (45.24%) WebDriver
6 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
7 7 (16.67%) Cucumber
7 7 (16.67%) JMeter
8 5 (11.90%) GitLab
9 4 (9.52%) LoadRunner
9 4 (9.52%) REST Assured
10 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
10 2 (4.76%) Git
10 2 (4.76%) JUnit
10 2 (4.76%) TestNG
10 2 (4.76%) TestRail
10 2 (4.76%) Zephyr
11 1 (2.38%) Appium
11 1 (2.38%) fastlane
11 1 (2.38%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (40.48%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Marketing
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Billing
5 1 (2.38%) Electronics
5 1 (2.38%) Games
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
5 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (45.24%) Analyst
2 18 (42.86%) Test Analyst
3 9 (21.43%) Lead
4 8 (19.05%) Senior
5 7 (16.67%) Tester
6 6 (14.29%) QA Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Test Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) QA Automation Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Test Leader
9 3 (7.14%) Lead Test Analyst
9 3 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
10 2 (4.76%) QA Analyst
10 2 (4.76%) QA Leader
10 2 (4.76%) QA Tester
10 2 (4.76%) Senior Test Analyst
10 2 (4.76%) Senior Test Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) Senior Tester
11 1 (2.38%) Automation Tester
11 1 (2.38%) Mobile Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (73.81%) SOAP
2 25 (59.52%) .NET
3 24 (57.14%) HTML
4 5 (11.90%) pytest
5 3 (7.14%) Playwright
5 3 (7.14%) REST
5 3 (7.14%) XML
6 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.76%) Middleware
7 1 (2.38%) Kafka
7 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.38%) IoT
3 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (2.38%) Android
2 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (83.33%) API Testing
2 32 (76.19%) Agile
2 32 (76.19%) Software Testing
3 30 (71.43%) Scrum
3 30 (71.43%) Test Management
4 26 (61.90%) Non-Functional Testing
5 24 (57.14%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 22 (52.38%) Test Scripting
7 17 (40.48%) Mentoring
8 14 (33.33%) Test Automation
9 13 (30.95%) Logistics
10 10 (23.81%) DevOps
11 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
12 6 (14.29%) Test Strategy
12 6 (14.29%) Validation
13 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (11.90%) Data Validation
13 5 (11.90%) Manual Testing
14 4 (9.52%) Defect Management
14 4 (9.52%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (83.33%) SQL
2 32 (76.19%) Java
3 27 (64.29%) C#
4 6 (14.29%) Python
5 3 (7.14%) Go
5 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.14%) PHP
6 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (47.62%) ISTQB
2 19 (45.24%) Degree
3 18 (42.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
5 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (38.10%) QA
2 4 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Oracle
2 3 (7.14%) SAP
3 2 (4.76%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) Aderant
4 1 (2.38%) Salesforce