SOAP Contracts in England

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 287 276
Rank change year-on-year -51 -11 -38
Contract jobs citing SOAP 206 428 718
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.90% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.69% 3.95% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 296 520
10th Percentile £406 £394 £385
25th Percentile £455 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £643
90th Percentile £699 £731 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £54.11 £50.45
25th Percentile - £54.47 £51.88
Median hourly rate - £55.69 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year - +2.65% +55.56%
75th Percentile - £57.53 £61.25
90th Percentile - £58.26 £65.45
UK median hourly rate - £55.69 £54.25
% change year-on-year - +2.65% +55.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,671 10,826 18,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.77% 22.68% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,416 8,064 14,174
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 131 200
10th Percentile £22.53 £30.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.22% +11.94%
75th Percentile £66.94 £75.00 £67.63
90th Percentile £74.95 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in England

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAP in England.

Daily rate trend for SOAP in England

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in England

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOAP in England.

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in England

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -13 118 £550 +0.92% 36
North of England +24 25 £595 +13.33% 21
South East -23 25 £450 -12.20% 23
North West +20 22 £595 +16.10% 15
Midlands -6 12 £531 -5.76% 14
East of England +10 9 £500 +27.39% 12
West Midlands -3 8 £531 -21.30% 8
East Midlands -2 4 £494 -1.25% 6
South West -2 4 £475 -30.66% 5
North East - 2 £600 - 1
Yorkshire +10 1 - - 5
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (7.28%) Confluence
2 13 (6.31%) Apache
3 11 (5.34%) Anypoint
4 9 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (3.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (2.91%) SharePoint
7 5 (2.43%) Appian
7 5 (2.43%) Mule
7 5 (2.43%) Mule ESB
8 4 (1.94%) WebLogic
8 4 (1.94%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.97%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.97%) Jadu
10 1 (0.49%) CMS
10 1 (0.49%) Drupal
10 1 (0.49%) JBoss
10 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (4.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.40%) NetSuite
1 7 (3.40%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.46%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.97%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.49%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (30.10%) Azure
2 44 (21.36%) AWS
3 25 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.68%) GitHub
5 19 (9.22%) GCP
6 17 (8.25%) Serverless
7 16 (7.77%) Apigee
8 15 (7.28%) Boomi
9 14 (6.80%) SaaS
10 10 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (4.37%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.40%) Azure API Management
12 7 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (3.40%) Kong
12 7 (3.40%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.91%) PaaS
14 5 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (2.43%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.43%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.85%) HTTP
1 10 (4.85%) SSH
2 9 (4.37%) BGP
2 9 (4.37%) Ethernet VPN
2 9 (4.37%) MPLS
2 9 (4.37%) VPN
3 8 (3.88%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (2.43%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.97%) Internet
6 1 (0.49%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.48%) SQL Server
2 33 (16.02%) MySQL
3 23 (11.17%) NoSQL
4 19 (9.22%) MongoDB
4 19 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (8.74%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (4.85%) Relational Database
7 9 (4.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (3.88%) OLAP
8 8 (3.88%) OLTP
8 8 (3.88%) Power BI
9 7 (3.40%) Oracle OLAP
10 3 (1.46%) Big Data
10 3 (1.46%) DB2
10 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.97%) GIS
11 2 (0.97%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (21.84%) JIRA
2 35 (16.99%) Git
3 20 (9.71%) Jenkins
4 17 (8.25%) SoapUI
5 15 (7.28%) Postman
6 14 (6.80%) GitLab
6 14 (6.80%) JUnit
7 12 (5.83%) Cucumber
8 11 (5.34%) Selenium
9 9 (4.37%) Robot Framework
9 9 (4.37%) TestRail
10 8 (3.88%) TeamCity
11 7 (3.40%) Visual Studio
12 6 (2.91%) Bitbucket
12 6 (2.91%) JMeter
13 5 (2.43%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.94%) SonarQube
15 3 (1.46%) HP UFT
15 3 (1.46%) Katalon Studio
15 3 (1.46%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (20.39%) Finance
2 41 (19.90%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.19%) Banking
5 11 (5.34%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.40%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.91%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.91%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.91%) Retail
8 4 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Front Office
9 3 (1.46%) Marketing
10 2 (0.97%) Arabic Language
10 2 (0.97%) French Language
10 2 (0.97%) German Language
10 2 (0.97%) Japanese Language
10 2 (0.97%) Korean Language
10 2 (0.97%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 74 (35.92%) Developer
2 46 (22.33%) Architect
3 17 (8.25%) Software Engineer
3 17 (8.25%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (6.31%) Analyst
5 12 (5.83%) Consultant
5 12 (5.83%) Java Developer
5 12 (5.83%) Senior
6 11 (5.34%) MuleSoft Developer
7 10 (4.85%) Business Analyst
7 10 (4.85%) SailPoint Engineer
8 9 (4.37%) Lead
8 9 (4.37%) Technical Analyst
8 9 (4.37%) Technical Business Analyst
9 8 (3.88%) Integration Developer
9 8 (3.88%) SailPoint Architect
9 8 (3.88%) SailPoint Developer
9 8 (3.88%) ServiceNow Developer
10 7 (3.40%) AWS Architect
10 7 (3.40%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (49.51%) REST
2 84 (40.78%) XML
3 77 (37.38%) Web Services
4 52 (25.24%) JSON
5 43 (20.87%) RESTful
6 40 (19.42%) HTML
7 35 (16.99%) Spring
8 29 (14.08%) LDAP
9 28 (13.59%) JSP
9 28 (13.59%) SailPoint
10 27 (13.11%) Servlets
11 26 (12.62%) SPML
12 21 (10.19%) .NET
13 19 (9.22%) Spring Boot
14 17 (8.25%) J2EE
14 17 (8.25%) JDBC
15 16 (7.77%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (7.28%) AngularJS
17 14 (6.80%) Kafka
17 14 (6.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.22%) Onboarding
2 14 (6.80%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.85%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.37%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.88%) Mainframe
5 8 (3.88%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.40%) DataPower
7 6 (2.91%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.91%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.46%) CMDB
9 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.97%) Wiki
11 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.49%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.14%) Linux
2 15 (7.28%) Unix
3 14 (6.80%) Windows
4 4 (1.94%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.49%) Android
6 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (35.92%) Agile
2 54 (26.21%) DevOps
3 41 (19.90%) Scrum
4 40 (19.42%) API Management
5 37 (17.96%) Microservices
6 35 (16.99%) CI/CD
7 33 (16.02%) Test Automation
8 32 (15.53%) TDD
9 31 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (13.59%) Software Engineering
11 26 (12.62%) Unit Testing
12 25 (12.14%) RBAC
13 24 (11.65%) BDD
14 23 (11.17%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (10.68%) Integration Patterns
16 21 (10.19%) SOA
17 19 (9.22%) Acceptance Criteria
18 18 (8.74%) Migration
18 18 (8.74%) OO
18 18 (8.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 86 (41.75%) SQL
2 71 (34.47%) Java
3 51 (24.76%) JavaScript
4 30 (14.56%) Python
5 25 (12.14%) C#
6 13 (6.31%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.40%) Perl
8 6 (2.91%) Bicep
9 5 (2.43%) Apex Code
9 5 (2.43%) Groovy
10 4 (1.94%) C
10 4 (1.94%) C++
11 3 (1.46%) PHP
11 3 (1.46%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.97%) XPath
13 1 (0.49%) ABAP
13 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.49%) Ruby
13 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.49%) X++
Qualifications
1 16 (7.77%) Degree
2 15 (7.28%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.43%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.97%) CISSP
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.49%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.22%) QA
2 7 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.46%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.97%) GDPR
4 2 (0.97%) HL7
5 1 (0.49%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (15.05%) Docker
2 29 (14.08%) Active Directory
3 26 (12.62%) IAG
4 25 (12.14%) ACF2
4 25 (12.14%) RACF
5 4 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.94%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 19 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.80%) Terraform
3 9 (4.37%) Ansible
4 8 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.43%) CloudHub
6 4 (1.94%) PingFederate
7 3 (1.46%) TIBCO Hawk
8 2 (0.97%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.49%) Anchore
9 1 (0.49%) Control-M
9 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.49%) Kibana
9 1 (0.49%) Packer
9 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 52 (25.24%) Oracle
2 35 (16.99%) ServiceNow
3 26 (12.62%) Microsoft
4 23 (11.17%) Salesforce
5 20 (9.71%) IBM
6 18 (8.74%) SAP
6 18 (8.74%) Sybase
7 12 (5.83%) Google
7 12 (5.83%) MuleSoft
8 9 (4.37%) CyberArk
8 9 (4.37%) Pega
9 8 (3.88%) BeyondTrust
10 7 (3.40%) TSYS
11 6 (2.91%) WSO2
12 5 (2.43%) OpenText
13 4 (1.94%) Ping Identity
13 4 (1.94%) TIBCO
14 3 (1.46%) Micro Focus
15 2 (0.97%) ESRI
15 2 (0.97%) Novell