SoapUI Job Trends

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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 643 598
Rank change year-on-year +56 -45 +116
Permanent jobs citing SoapUI 56 63 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.54% 1.12% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 50 48 81
10th Percentile £32,750 - £45,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £77,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.31% +28.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £51,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £59,250 - £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £90,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -52.78% +50.00% +17.07%

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 3,632 5,610 6,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.13% 10.25% 12.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,385 3,246 5,145
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% +4.55%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 +63 56 £47,500 -40.63% 10
UK excluding London +72 44 £42,500 -52.78% 10
Work from Home +108 43 £42,500 -33.85% 8
South East +34 39 £42,500 -52.78% 6
London +56 12 £50,000 - 2
South West - 2 - - 1
North West +35 1 £52,500 -36.36% 2
North of England +21 1 £52,500 -36.36% 2
East of England - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1

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 3 (5.36%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.93%) Azure
1 5 (8.93%) SaaS
2 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) FTP
1 1 (1.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.57%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.79%) MySQL
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (94.64%) Postman
2 42 (75.00%) Selenium
3 41 (73.21%) JIRA
4 35 (62.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 33 (58.93%) WebDriver
6 11 (19.64%) Cucumber
7 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
8 5 (8.93%) GitLab
9 4 (7.14%) LoadRunner
10 3 (5.36%) JMeter
11 2 (3.57%) Git
11 2 (3.57%) JUnit
11 2 (3.57%) REST Assured
11 2 (3.57%) TestNG
General
1 36 (64.29%) Finance
2 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Marketing
4 5 (8.93%) Games
5 3 (5.36%) Legal
6 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.79%) Electronics
7 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (39.29%) Analyst
1 22 (39.29%) Test Analyst
2 17 (30.36%) Lead
3 14 (25.00%) Senior
4 11 (19.64%) Senior Analyst
4 11 (19.64%) Senior Test Analyst
5 9 (16.07%) Test Leader
5 9 (16.07%) Tester
6 8 (14.29%) QA Engineer
7 7 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) QA Leader
9 3 (5.36%) Lead Test Analyst
10 2 (3.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 2 (3.57%) Test Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Test Specialist
11 1 (1.79%) QA Analyst
11 1 (1.79%) QA Test Analyst
11 1 (1.79%) QA Tester
11 1 (1.79%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (80.36%) SOAP
2 35 (62.50%) .NET
2 35 (62.50%) HTML
3 8 (14.29%) pytest
4 4 (7.14%) REST
5 3 (5.36%) Middleware
6 2 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.57%) XML
7 1 (1.79%) EDI
7 1 (1.79%) Kafka
7 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.79%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (82.14%) API Testing
2 43 (76.79%) Software Testing
3 41 (73.21%) Non-Functional Testing
4 39 (69.64%) Test Management
5 38 (67.86%) Agile
6 36 (64.29%) Scrum
7 35 (62.50%) Cross-Browser Testing
7 35 (62.50%) Test Scripting
8 32 (57.14%) Mentoring
9 20 (35.71%) Logistics
10 11 (19.64%) Test Automation
11 10 (17.86%) Validation
12 8 (14.29%) Data Validation
13 7 (12.50%) Functional Testing
13 7 (12.50%) Manual Testing
13 7 (12.50%) QA Automation
14 6 (10.71%) CI/CD
14 6 (10.71%) Fintech
15 5 (8.93%) Batch Processing
15 5 (8.93%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (91.07%) SQL
2 43 (76.79%) Java
3 37 (66.07%) C#
4 8 (14.29%) Python
5 6 (10.71%) Go
5 6 (10.71%) PHP
6 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 34 (60.71%) Degree
1 34 (60.71%) ISTQB
2 33 (58.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (30.36%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (7.14%) SAP
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle
2 2 (3.57%) Splunk
3 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft