SOAP Contracts in Scotland

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 94 144 131
Rank change year-on-year +50 -13 -12
Contract jobs citing SOAP 21 20 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.98% 0.75% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.90% 3.11% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 25
10th Percentile - £425 £332
25th Percentile £380 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £659 - £538
90th Percentile £694 £560 £603
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 429 643 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.02% 24.06% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 473 574
10th Percentile £325 £400 £394
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £491
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -0.61% +15.41%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £654 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £36.85
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.33
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +12.38% +18.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £60.00
90th Percentile - £66.71 £69.55
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in Scotland

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in Scotland

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in Scotland

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in Scotland

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +29 16 £427 -18.76% 4
Perthshire - 2 £525 -
Glasgow +16 1 £650 - 1
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) AWS CodeBuild
2 6 (28.57%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 6 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
2 6 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) IaaS
4 3 (14.29%) SaaS
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Functions
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 2 (9.52%) PaaS
5 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.52%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle Database
2 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.52%) Power BI
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) Visual Studio
3 3 (14.29%) Selenium
4 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.76%) Appium
General
1 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
3 8 (38.10%) Back Office
3 8 (38.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Architect
2 7 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 5 (23.81%) Cloud Architect
3 5 (23.81%) Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Test Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) AWS Solution Architect
5 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.52%) .NET Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Consultant
6 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow Consultant
7 1 (4.76%) Angular Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Automation Tester
7 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
7 1 (4.76%) ITSM Consultant
7 1 (4.76%) Java Automation Tester
7 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (90.48%) REST
2 7 (33.33%) .NET
3 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
4 4 (19.05%) Playwright
4 4 (19.05%) WinForms
4 4 (19.05%) WPF
5 3 (14.29%) Spring
6 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
6 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
6 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
6 2 (9.52%) CSS
6 2 (9.52%) Entity Framework
6 2 (9.52%) jQuery
6 2 (9.52%) OAuth
6 2 (9.52%) OAuth2
6 2 (9.52%) OpenID
6 2 (9.52%) RESTful
6 2 (9.52%) WCF
6 2 (9.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.52%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Migration
2 8 (38.10%) API Management
2 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
2 8 (38.10%) Roadmaps
2 8 (38.10%) Service Management
2 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (38.10%) Storage Management
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) DevOps
3 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (23.81%) Security Architecture
4 5 (23.81%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) API Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (19.05%) Data Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) SDLC
5 4 (19.05%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Java
2 9 (42.86%) SQL
3 6 (28.57%) C#
4 4 (19.05%) VB
4 4 (19.05%) VB6
5 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.52%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Oracle
2 4 (19.05%) Infragistics
3 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow