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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 423 341 368
Rank change year-on-year -82 +27 -103
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 588 1,029 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.99% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.79% 3.29% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 458 699 949
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £44,047
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,447 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +26.27% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,625 £94,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +5.00%

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 21,080 31,272 63,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.38% 30.13% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 15,747 19,246 30,345
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -49 502 £57,500 -17.20% 111
UK excluding London -46 399 £55,000 -8.33% 68
Work from Home -45 277 £57,500 -8.00% 54
London -45 170 £65,000 -18.75% 45
South East -45 118 £60,000 -7.69% 24
North of England +36 99 £55,000 -10.10% 18
North West +33 67 £56,250 -11.76% 9
Midlands +26 60 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Scotland -67 37 £47,500 -18.96% 7
West Midlands +20 33 £57,500 -4.17% 7
South West -25 33 £45,000 -18.18% 3
Yorkshire +36 30 £53,750 +2.38% 6
East of England -15 28 £47,500 -20.83% 5
East Midlands +3 26 £50,000 +21.21% 3
Wales +13 13 £41,250 -17.50% 2
Northern Ireland +14 11 £85,000 - 1
North East -3 2 £47,500 -32.14% 3

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 46 (7.82%) CMS
1 46 (7.82%) IIS
2 37 (6.29%) JBoss
2 37 (6.29%) Red Hat Fuse
3 28 (4.76%) Apache
4 15 (2.55%) SharePoint
5 13 (2.21%) Confluence
6 10 (1.70%) EPiServer
7 8 (1.36%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.36%) Tomcat
8 6 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.85%) nginx
9 5 (0.85%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.68%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.68%) Drupal
11 1 (0.17%) Mule
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle Service Bus
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (3.40%) Photoshop
2 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.34%) InDesign
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 27 (4.59%) SDL Web 8
2 16 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (2.55%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (1.36%) Elite 3E
5 7 (1.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.85%) BusinessWorks
7 4 (0.68%) Shopify
8 3 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.17%) HFM
10 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
10 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 145 (24.66%) Azure
2 116 (19.73%) AWS
3 83 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (10.03%) SaaS
5 37 (6.29%) GitHub
6 18 (3.06%) Power Platform
7 16 (2.72%) PaaS
7 16 (2.72%) Serverless
8 14 (2.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 14 (2.38%) NuGet
9 12 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (1.36%) Boomi
10 8 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.36%) IaaS
11 7 (1.19%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.19%) Google Analytics
12 6 (1.02%) Azure Service Fabric
12 6 (1.02%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.59%) VPN
2 17 (2.89%) SSH
3 16 (2.72%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.21%) SNMP
4 13 (2.21%) SSL
5 11 (1.87%) BGP
5 11 (1.87%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (1.87%) MPLS
6 8 (1.36%) HTTP
6 8 (1.36%) Internet
7 5 (0.85%) Firewall
8 4 (0.68%) DNS
9 3 (0.51%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.51%) Broadband
9 3 (0.51%) DMZ
9 3 (0.51%) Modbus
9 3 (0.51%) NaaS
9 3 (0.51%) VLAN
9 3 (0.51%) Wireless
10 2 (0.34%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (32.31%) SQL Server
2 77 (13.10%) MySQL
3 71 (12.07%) Relational Database
4 51 (8.67%) MongoDB
5 43 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 22 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.38%) RDBMS
9 13 (2.21%) MariaDB
9 13 (2.21%) OLTP
9 13 (2.21%) Oracle Database
10 12 (2.04%) Power BI
10 12 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.70%) MS Access
13 9 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.36%) Oracle Database 12c
15 7 (1.19%) Big Data
15 7 (1.19%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.85%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 108 (18.37%) JIRA
2 102 (17.35%) Git
3 77 (13.10%) Visual Studio
4 45 (7.65%) Postman
5 40 (6.80%) SoapUI
6 39 (6.63%) Jenkins
7 32 (5.44%) GitLab
7 32 (5.44%) IntelliJ
8 29 (4.93%) NUnit
9 28 (4.76%) Jasmine
9 28 (4.76%) Karma Test Runner
9 28 (4.76%) TeamCity
10 27 (4.59%) Moq
11 26 (4.42%) Oracle APEX
12 22 (3.74%) Eclipse
13 20 (3.40%) Cucumber
14 19 (3.23%) Selenium
15 16 (2.72%) JUnit
15 16 (2.72%) SpecFlow
16 14 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 118 (20.07%) Social Skills
2 79 (13.44%) Finance
3 55 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 49 (8.33%) Marketing
6 39 (6.63%) Law
7 21 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.23%) Telecoms
9 18 (3.06%) Retail
10 16 (2.72%) Legal
11 9 (1.53%) Banking
11 9 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.02%) Police
12 6 (1.02%) Publishing
13 5 (0.85%) Local Government
14 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.68%) Welsh Language
15 1 (0.17%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 333 (56.63%) Developer
2 140 (23.81%) Senior
3 70 (11.90%) Senior Developer
4 62 (10.54%) Software Engineer
5 52 (8.84%) Java Engineer
6 51 (8.67%) C# Developer
7 47 (7.99%) .NET Developer
8 46 (7.82%) Full Stack Developer
8 46 (7.82%) Java Software Engineer
9 42 (7.14%) Support Engineer
10 40 (6.80%) PHP Developer
11 38 (6.46%) Architect
12 32 (5.44%) Java Developer
12 32 (5.44%) Senior Java Engineer
13 29 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
14 28 (4.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 26 (4.42%) Oracle Developer
16 23 (3.91%) Senior Oracle Developer
17 22 (3.74%) Salesforce Developer
17 22 (3.74%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (62.76%) REST
2 319 (54.25%) Web Services
3 258 (43.88%) XML
4 224 (38.10%) .NET
5 187 (31.80%) JSON
5 187 (31.80%) RESTful
6 161 (27.38%) HTML
7 124 (21.09%) CSS
8 121 (20.58%) AngularJS
9 118 (20.07%) ASP.NET
10 86 (14.63%) Spring
11 74 (12.59%) React
12 67 (11.39%) .NET Framework
13 66 (11.22%) jQuery
14 53 (9.01%) Hibernate
15 49 (8.33%) Spring Boot
16 44 (7.48%) Ajax
17 40 (6.80%) ASP.NET MVC
18 39 (6.63%) JPA
18 39 (6.63%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.78%) Enterprise Software
1 34 (5.78%) Management Information System
2 33 (5.61%) Greenfield Project
3 29 (4.93%) CMDB
4 28 (4.76%) Legacy Code
5 22 (3.74%) Virtual Team
6 18 (3.06%) Algorithms
6 18 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 14 (2.38%) Product Ownership
8 14 (2.38%) Reference Data
9 12 (2.04%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
11 6 (1.02%) Mobile Payment
12 5 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
14 3 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 85 (14.46%) Linux
2 33 (5.61%) Unix
3 28 (4.76%) Windows
4 26 (4.42%) AIX
5 11 (1.87%) CentOS
6 5 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (46.43%) Agile
2 165 (28.06%) DevOps
3 155 (26.36%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (20.75%) Software Engineering
5 110 (18.71%) Unit Testing
6 102 (17.35%) MVC
7 101 (17.18%) Mentoring
8 98 (16.67%) OO
9 93 (15.82%) Scrum
10 91 (15.48%) Computer Science
11 79 (13.44%) Full Stack Development
12 75 (12.76%) SDLC
13 59 (10.03%) User Experience
14 56 (9.52%) CI/CD
15 54 (9.18%) ERP
16 51 (8.67%) OOP
16 51 (8.67%) User Acceptance Testing
17 49 (8.33%) Test Automation
18 48 (8.16%) Customer Requirements
19 46 (7.82%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 292 (49.66%) SQL
2 285 (48.47%) JavaScript
3 185 (31.46%) C#
4 181 (30.78%) Java
5 119 (20.24%) T-SQL
6 73 (12.41%) Python
6 73 (12.41%) VB.NET
7 55 (9.35%) PHP
8 51 (8.67%) VB
9 44 (7.48%) TypeScript
10 38 (6.46%) PL/SQL
11 37 (6.29%) C
11 37 (6.29%) XPath
12 30 (5.10%) PowerShell
13 28 (4.76%) VB6
14 27 (4.59%) Apex Code
15 26 (4.42%) C++
16 23 (3.91%) Perl
17 12 (2.04%) SOQL
18 9 (1.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 113 (19.22%) Degree
2 92 (15.65%) SC Cleared
2 92 (15.65%) Security Cleared
3 23 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.70%) GIAC
5 8 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (1.02%) CISM
6 6 (1.02%) CISSP
6 6 (1.02%) HNC
6 6 (1.02%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.02%) SANS
7 5 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 5 (0.85%) Postgraduate
8 3 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.51%) PMP
9 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.17%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (10.71%) QA
2 9 (1.53%) NIST
3 8 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.02%) COBIT
4 6 (1.02%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 5 (0.85%) GDPR
5 5 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.68%) GRC
6 4 (0.68%) HL7
7 3 (0.51%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.51%) SLA
8 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 64 (10.88%) Docker
2 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.68%) vSphere
3 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) Varnish
3 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (8.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.38%) Ansible
3 13 (2.21%) WMI
4 10 (1.70%) Terraform
5 9 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.19%) HP UCMDB
7 6 (1.02%) CloudHub
7 6 (1.02%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 5 (0.85%) Grafana
9 3 (0.51%) Consul
10 2 (0.34%) Kibana
10 2 (0.34%) Packer
10 2 (0.34%) Puppet
10 2 (0.34%) WebSphere Cast Iron
11 1 (0.17%) Control-M
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle Identity Management
11 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 118 (20.07%) Oracle
2 94 (15.99%) Microsoft
3 41 (6.97%) ServiceNow
4 31 (5.27%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.40%) Adobe
6 16 (2.72%) BMC
6 16 (2.72%) MuleSoft
7 15 (2.55%) HP
7 15 (2.55%) Remedy
8 14 (2.38%) Cognizant
9 13 (2.21%) Google
9 13 (2.21%) Splunk
10 11 (1.87%) Cisco
11 8 (1.36%) WSO2
12 7 (1.19%) Sybase
12 7 (1.19%) webMethods
13 6 (1.02%) Apttus
13 6 (1.02%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.02%) Guidewire
13 6 (1.02%) Zuora