Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SOAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOAP over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 361 375
Rank change year-on-year -84 +14 -113
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 548 878 1,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.94% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.51% 3.22% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 433 613 913
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £55,140
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +22.42% +0.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £92,040 £88,126
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% +10.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

SOAP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,805 27,260 70,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.38% 29.04% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 16,126 17,774 30,060
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SOAP in the UK

SOAP
Top 17 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 6 June 2024. 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 -93 476 £56,000 -17.04% 110
UK excluding London -88 365 £54,000 -10.00% 77
Work from Home -70 252 £57,500 -8.00% 61
London -46 164 £60,000 -25.00% 34
South East -57 107 £57,500 -11.54% 24
North of England -7 91 £50,000 -18.27% 18
North West +8 67 £50,000 -23.08% 11
Midlands -3 55 £57,500 -4.17% 16
South West -30 32 £42,500 -29.17% 4
West Midlands -20 31 £57,500 -4.17% 6
East of England -40 31 £47,500 -20.83% 6
Scotland -69 30 £47,500 -31.60% 9
East Midlands -19 23 £50,000 +21.21% 10
Yorkshire +19 21 £47,500 -7.77% 6
Wales +15 12 £41,250 -17.50% 1
Northern Ireland +2 7 £85,000 -
North East -15 3 £47,500 -32.14% 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 57 (10.40%) CMS
2 41 (7.48%) IIS
3 28 (5.11%) Apache
4 15 (2.74%) Confluence
5 10 (1.82%) EPiServer
6 8 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.28%) JBoss
8 6 (1.09%) OpenStack
8 6 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (1.09%) Red Hat Fuse
9 5 (0.91%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.91%) nginx
9 5 (0.91%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.91%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.73%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.73%) Drupal
11 3 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.55%) WildFly
12 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 25 (4.56%) Photoshop
2 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.36%) InDesign
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 37 (6.75%) SDL Web 8
2 11 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.91%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.36%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.36%) Shopify
7 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.36%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.18%) HFM
8 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 140 (25.55%) Azure
2 109 (19.89%) AWS
3 80 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (7.85%) SaaS
5 34 (6.20%) GitHub
6 19 (3.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 19 (3.47%) NuGet
7 15 (2.74%) PaaS
8 13 (2.37%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.37%) Serverless
9 9 (1.64%) GCP
10 8 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.46%) IaaS
11 7 (1.28%) Boomi
11 7 (1.28%) Google Analytics
12 6 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.09%) Azure Service Fabric
12 6 (1.09%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.74%) VPN
2 18 (3.28%) SSH
3 16 (2.92%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.37%) SNMP
5 12 (2.19%) SSL
6 11 (2.01%) BGP
6 11 (2.01%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (2.01%) MPLS
7 9 (1.64%) HTTP
8 8 (1.46%) Internet
9 5 (0.91%) Firewall
10 4 (0.73%) DNS
11 3 (0.55%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.55%) Broadband
11 3 (0.55%) DMZ
11 3 (0.55%) Modbus
11 3 (0.55%) NaaS
11 3 (0.55%) VLAN
11 3 (0.55%) Wireless
12 2 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (33.94%) SQL Server
2 76 (13.87%) MySQL
3 63 (11.50%) Relational Database
4 53 (9.67%) MongoDB
5 38 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (5.47%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.74%) OLTP
7 15 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (2.37%) Oracle Database
9 11 (2.01%) MS Access
9 11 (2.01%) Power BI
9 11 (2.01%) RDBMS
10 10 (1.82%) MariaDB
11 9 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.64%) Oracle Database 12c
11 9 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.28%) Big Data
12 7 (1.28%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.28%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 117 (21.35%) Git
2 111 (20.26%) JIRA
3 81 (14.78%) Visual Studio
4 39 (7.12%) GitLab
4 39 (7.12%) NUnit
4 39 (7.12%) TeamCity
5 38 (6.93%) Postman
6 37 (6.75%) Moq
7 30 (5.47%) Jenkins
7 30 (5.47%) SoapUI
8 28 (5.11%) Jasmine
8 28 (5.11%) Karma Test Runner
9 25 (4.56%) Oracle APEX
10 23 (4.20%) Eclipse
11 21 (3.83%) SpecFlow
12 19 (3.47%) git-flow
12 19 (3.47%) Octopus Deploy
12 19 (3.47%) Sourcetree
13 14 (2.55%) JUnit
14 13 (2.37%) Cucumber
General
1 120 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 76 (13.87%) Finance
3 56 (10.22%) Marketing
4 54 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.57%) Law
6 20 (3.65%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.65%) Retail
7 19 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 18 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.37%) Legal
10 10 (1.82%) Banking
11 9 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.09%) Police
13 5 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.91%) Publishing
14 4 (0.73%) Local Government
14 4 (0.73%) Welsh Language
15 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.55%) Wearables
16 1 (0.18%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 331 (60.40%) Developer
2 112 (20.44%) Senior
3 73 (13.32%) Senior Developer
4 56 (10.22%) C# Developer
4 56 (10.22%) Full Stack Developer
5 42 (7.66%) Support Engineer
6 41 (7.48%) .NET Developer
7 38 (6.93%) PHP Developer
8 35 (6.39%) Architect
9 31 (5.66%) Java Developer
10 30 (5.47%) Software Engineer
11 26 (4.74%) Java Engineer
11 26 (4.74%) Oracle Developer
12 23 (4.20%) Salesforce Developer
12 23 (4.20%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 22 (4.01%) Software Support Engineer
14 21 (3.83%) Lead
15 20 (3.65%) Consultant
15 20 (3.65%) Software Developer
16 19 (3.47%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (60.22%) REST
2 290 (52.92%) Web Services
3 230 (41.97%) XML
4 226 (41.24%) .NET
5 172 (31.39%) HTML
6 153 (27.92%) JSON
7 151 (27.55%) RESTful
8 138 (25.18%) CSS
9 125 (22.81%) ASP.NET
10 90 (16.42%) AngularJS
11 75 (13.69%) .NET Framework
12 73 (13.32%) React
13 70 (12.77%) jQuery
14 62 (11.31%) Spring
15 53 (9.67%) Spring Boot
16 47 (8.58%) ASP.NET MVC
17 43 (7.85%) Ajax
18 40 (7.30%) Entity Framework
19 38 (6.93%) Laravel
20 37 (6.75%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.93%) Legacy Code
2 36 (6.57%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (6.39%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (5.66%) Management Information System
5 26 (4.74%) CMDB
6 18 (3.28%) Virtual Team
7 17 (3.10%) Product Ownership
8 16 (2.92%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (2.01%) Cloud Native
11 11 (2.01%) Data Structures
11 11 (2.01%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.28%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.09%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.09%) Mobile Payment
14 5 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
14 5 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
15 3 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 90 (16.42%) Linux
2 35 (6.39%) Unix
3 32 (5.84%) Windows
4 27 (4.93%) AIX
5 11 (2.01%) CentOS
6 4 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.18%) VMS
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (43.25%) Agile
2 157 (28.65%) DevOps
3 135 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
4 115 (20.99%) Unit Testing
5 107 (19.53%) MVC
6 104 (18.98%) OO
7 99 (18.07%) Computer Science
8 88 (16.06%) Full Stack Development
8 88 (16.06%) Scrum
8 88 (16.06%) Software Engineering
9 83 (15.15%) Mentoring
10 70 (12.77%) SDLC
11 56 (10.22%) E-Commerce
12 55 (10.04%) ERP
13 54 (9.85%) OOP
14 51 (9.31%) CI/CD
15 48 (8.76%) User Acceptance Testing
16 43 (7.85%) Architectural Design
16 43 (7.85%) Architectural Patterns
16 43 (7.85%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 288 (52.55%) SQL
2 274 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 186 (33.94%) C#
4 143 (26.09%) Java
5 125 (22.81%) T-SQL
6 71 (12.96%) Python
7 68 (12.41%) VB.NET
8 52 (9.49%) PHP
9 51 (9.31%) VB
10 44 (8.03%) TypeScript
11 42 (7.66%) XPath
12 38 (6.93%) C
13 32 (5.84%) PL/SQL
14 28 (5.11%) Apex Code
14 28 (5.11%) VB6
15 27 (4.93%) C++
16 24 (4.38%) PowerShell
17 21 (3.83%) Perl
18 12 (2.19%) SOQL
19 7 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 115 (20.99%) Degree
2 49 (8.94%) SC Cleared
2 49 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.82%) GIAC
5 7 (1.28%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.09%) CISM
6 6 (1.09%) CISSP
6 6 (1.09%) SANS
7 5 (0.91%) HNC
7 5 (0.91%) Postgraduate
8 4 (0.73%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.55%) PMP
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.31%) QA
2 9 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.64%) NIST
3 6 (1.09%) COBIT
3 6 (1.09%) Web Application Security Consortium
4 5 (0.91%) GDPR
5 4 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.73%) GRC
5 4 (0.73%) SLA
6 3 (0.55%) HL7
6 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 55 (10.04%) Docker
2 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.73%) vSphere
3 2 (0.36%) Varnish
3 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (7.66%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (2.37%) WMI
4 9 (1.64%) Ansible
5 7 (1.28%) Terraform
6 6 (1.09%) CloudHub
6 6 (1.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 5 (0.91%) Grafana
8 4 (0.73%) HP UCMDB
9 2 (0.36%) Kibana
9 2 (0.36%) Packer
9 2 (0.36%) Puppet
9 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Cast Iron
10 1 (0.18%) Control-M
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 109 (19.89%) Oracle
2 86 (15.69%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.02%) Salesforce
4 32 (5.84%) ServiceNow
5 25 (4.56%) Adobe
6 19 (3.47%) Cognizant
7 16 (2.92%) MuleSoft
8 13 (2.37%) Splunk
9 12 (2.19%) Google
10 11 (2.01%) Cisco
11 10 (1.82%) BMC
12 9 (1.64%) HP
12 9 (1.64%) Remedy
13 8 (1.46%) Sybase
13 8 (1.46%) webMethods
14 6 (1.09%) Apttus
14 6 (1.09%) Atlassian
14 6 (1.09%) Guidewire
14 6 (1.09%) SAP
14 6 (1.09%) WSO2