SOAP Contracts in the South East

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 159 143
Rank change year-on-year -17 -16 0
Contract jobs citing SOAP 24 56 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.42% 0.99% 1.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.18% 5.74% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 30 99
10th Percentile £375 £370 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -10.87% +13.75%
75th Percentile £475 £614 £650
90th Percentile £678 £788 £655
England median daily rate £545 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +0.93% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £55.69 £54.25
% change year-on-year - +2.65% +13.61%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 755 975 1,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.12% 17.22% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 686 999
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £406 £414 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £522 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -0.62% +15.77%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 40 42
10th Percentile £35.00 £50.00 £27.80
25th Percentile £56.61 £55.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.75 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +48.65% -7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.30 £67.94
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 South East

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the South East

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the South East

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the South East over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the South East

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the South East

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Thames Valley -11 12 £400 -11.11% 15
Berkshire -32 9 £400 -11.11% 13
Hampshire -16 7 £725 +19.34% 6
Surrey +16 4 £450 +5.88% 8
Buckinghamshire +28 2 £413 +17.86% 2
Kent - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £350 -
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (29.17%) Apache
2 6 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (16.67%) Confluence
4 1 (4.17%) Drupal
4 1 (4.17%) Jadu
4 1 (4.17%) JBoss
4 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
1 4 (16.67%) Boomi
2 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) BGP
1 6 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 6 (25.00%) MPLS
1 6 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (25.00%) VPN
2 4 (16.67%) HTTP
2 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.33%) MySQL
3 2 (8.33%) Power BI
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) JIRA
2 6 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (25.00%) GitLab
2 6 (25.00%) Robot Framework
2 6 (25.00%) TestRail
3 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
4 4 (16.67%) Artifactory
4 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.17%) JUnit
5 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
5 1 (4.17%) NWDI
5 1 (4.17%) NWDS
5 1 (4.17%) Postman
5 1 (4.17%) Selenium
5 1 (4.17%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Test Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Development Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Integration Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Test Development Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.17%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) PHP Developer
6 1 (4.17%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (70.83%) REST
2 6 (25.00%) NETCONF
2 6 (25.00%) RESTCONF
2 6 (25.00%) RESTful
2 6 (25.00%) YANG
3 5 (20.83%) XML
4 4 (16.67%) Web Services
5 2 (8.33%) .NET
5 2 (8.33%) .NET Framework
5 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.33%) CSS
5 2 (8.33%) HTML
5 2 (8.33%) Node.js
6 1 (4.17%) Apache Camel
6 1 (4.17%) JSP
6 1 (4.17%) LAMP
6 1 (4.17%) LDAP
6 1 (4.17%) Spring
6 1 (4.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Agile
2 13 (54.17%) Scrum
3 11 (45.83%) Test Automation
4 7 (29.17%) Unit Testing
4 7 (29.17%) Workflow
5 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 6 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 6 (25.00%) Regression Testing
5 6 (25.00%) Security Testing
6 5 (20.83%) ERP
6 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) API Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (16.67%) DevOps
7 4 (16.67%) SDET
7 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) SQL
2 10 (41.67%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) C++
3 4 (16.67%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) PHP
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
6 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CISM
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 4 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (16.67%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.17%) Dell
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow