Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WSDL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WSDL over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 694 904 943
Rank change year-on-year +210 +39 +274
Permanent jobs citing WSDL 8 3 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.003% 0.026%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.084% 0.014% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 22
10th Percentile £44,250 £46,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £53,125 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -3.57% +1.82%
75th Percentile £59,375 £78,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £59,750 £82,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WSDL 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 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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%

WSDL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WSDL in the UK

WSDL
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WSDL in the UK

WSDL
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSDL within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
UK excluding London - 5 £60,000 - 4
England +172 4 £55,000 -18.52% 4
Scotland - 4 - - 4
London +105 3 £50,000 -25.93% 4
Work from Home +121 1 £60,000 -29.41% 6
North of England - 1 £60,000 -
North West - 1 £60,000 -

WSDL
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 4 (50.00%) Camunda
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (25.00%) CICS
2 2 (25.00%) Confluence
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
3 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (50.00%) Law
2 4 (50.00%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) REST
2 4 (50.00%) JDBC
2 4 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 4 (50.00%) SOAP
2 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (50.00%) Swagger
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
3 3 (37.50%) JSON
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) XML
4 2 (25.00%) XSD
5 1 (12.50%) .NET
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 1 (12.50%) XML Messaging
5 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) ETL
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Community of Practice
3 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Operational Stability
3 4 (50.00%) SDLC
3 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 4 (50.00%) Workflow
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) SOA
5 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) COBOL
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 4 (50.00%) Splunk
3 2 (25.00%) IBM