SOAP Contracts in the North of England

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring SOAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOAP over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 172 179
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 -32
Contract jobs citing SOAP 28 30 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.55% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.05% 2.85% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 62
10th Percentile £481 £396 £326
25th Percentile £489 £492 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £684 £569 £605
90th Percentile £735 £585 £685
England median daily rate £545 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +0.93% -1.82% +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

SOAP falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 918 1,052 1,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.95% 19.33% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 819 1,183
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +2.44% +14.40%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 6 35
10th Percentile £13.87 £37.77 £14.25
25th Percentile £37.63 £39.89 £31.75
Median hourly rate £46.18 £54.34 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.02% -16.40% +132.14%
75th Percentile £70.81 £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £72.70 £66.88 £79.60
England median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +21 24 £595 +10.70% 12
North East - 3 £550 -
Yorkshire +3 1 - - 6
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (21.43%) Confluence
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) AWS
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Apigee
2 7 (25.00%) Kong
3 6 (21.43%) Boomi
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) IaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Miro
6 1 (3.57%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (25.00%) OLAP
1 7 (25.00%) OLTP
2 6 (21.43%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) JMeter
2 2 (7.14%) Selenium
2 2 (7.14%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Gradle
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) Liquibase
3 1 (3.57%) Mercurial
3 1 (3.57%) Postman
3 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.57%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Architect
2 8 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (25.00%) AWS Architect
4 6 (21.43%) Integration Architect
5 4 (14.29%) Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Pega Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Solution Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.57%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) SailPoint Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) REST
2 10 (35.71%) Web Services
3 7 (25.00%) IBM Integration Bus
3 7 (25.00%) J2EE
3 7 (25.00%) Kafka
3 7 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (25.00%) Spring
3 7 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (21.43%) Apache Camel
4 6 (21.43%) RAML
4 6 (21.43%) Spring Integration
5 4 (14.29%) RESTful
6 3 (10.71%) HTML
6 3 (10.71%) JSON
6 3 (10.71%) XML
7 2 (7.14%) .NET
7 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
7 2 (7.14%) CSS
7 2 (7.14%) jQuery
7 2 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) DataPower
2 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) CMDB
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) API Management
1 13 (46.43%) Enterprise Architecture
2 12 (42.86%) Design Patterns
3 10 (35.71%) Agile
3 10 (35.71%) DevOps
4 8 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 8 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 8 (28.57%) OO
4 8 (28.57%) SOA
5 7 (25.00%) CQRS
5 7 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (25.00%) Microservices
5 7 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
5 7 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 6 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
6 6 (21.43%) Technical Debt
6 6 (21.43%) TOGAF
7 5 (17.86%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Java
2 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.71%) C
3 3 (10.71%) C#
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Accessibility
1 5 (17.86%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) ACF2
3 1 (3.57%) IAG
3 1 (3.57%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.57%) Anchore
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (3.57%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.57%) Kibana
2 1 (3.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) IBM
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle
1 7 (25.00%) TSYS
2 4 (14.29%) Pega
3 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.57%) HP
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud