SoapUI Contracts

SmartBear Software SoapUI
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SoapUI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SoapUI over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 619 587
Rank change year-on-year +80 -32 -71
Contract jobs citing SoapUI 48 70 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.93% 0.86% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 46 199
10th Percentile £325 £366 £350
25th Percentile £378 £406 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -2.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £600
90th Percentile - £588 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £450 £480
% change year-on-year -15.56% -6.25% +17.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £50.45
25th Percentile - - £51.88
Median hourly rate - - £54.25
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £54.25
% change year-on-year - - +28.02%

All Development Application Skills
UK

SoapUI is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,138 8,108 15,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 14.38% 17.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,443 5,719 11,114
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 227 202
10th Percentile £26.24 £44.86 £38.03
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +8.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

SoapUI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SoapUI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SoapUI over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SoapUI within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +67 41 £455 -9.10% 13
London +95 31 £500 -9.09% 5
Work from Home +110 20 £465 +6.48% 6
UK excluding London +27 8 £380 -15.56% 11
Midlands +26 3 £371 -
North of England +24 3 £413 -21.43% 2
East Midlands +12 3 £371 -
North West +10 3 £413 -25.00% 1
South East +6 2 £413 -1.79% 6

SoapUI
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 3 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.08%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.58%) Azure
2 4 (8.33%) AWS
2 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (8.33%) GitHub
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (4.17%) SaaS
4 1 (2.08%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.08%) Commercetools
4 1 (2.08%) GCP
4 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (72.92%) Postman
2 25 (52.08%) Selenium
3 17 (35.42%) Cucumber
4 15 (31.25%) Git
5 14 (29.17%) JUnit
5 14 (29.17%) REST Assured
5 14 (29.17%) WebDriver
6 13 (27.08%) TestNG
7 12 (25.00%) JMeter
8 11 (22.92%) Appium
8 11 (22.92%) Jenkins
8 11 (22.92%) JIRA
9 10 (20.83%) eggPlant
9 10 (20.83%) SOAtest
10 6 (12.50%) Cypress.io
11 4 (8.33%) Eclipse
11 4 (8.33%) GitLab
11 4 (8.33%) Maven
11 4 (8.33%) Zephyr
12 3 (6.25%) Gradle
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.25%) Banking
3 3 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Analyst
2 11 (22.92%) Business Analyst
2 11 (22.92%) Technical Analyst
2 11 (22.92%) Technical Business Analyst
2 11 (22.92%) Tester
3 8 (16.67%) Automation Tester
4 7 (14.58%) Test Analyst
5 6 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Consultant
7 3 (6.25%) Senior
7 3 (6.25%) Test Automation Consultant
7 3 (6.25%) Test Consultant
8 2 (4.17%) Automation Consultant
8 2 (4.17%) Lead
8 2 (4.17%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) QA Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) QA Test Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) QA Tester
8 2 (4.17%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (47.92%) SOAP
2 12 (25.00%) .NET
3 11 (22.92%) .NET Framework
4 9 (18.75%) XML
5 6 (12.50%) Web Services
6 5 (10.42%) Spring
7 3 (6.25%) HTML
7 3 (6.25%) JSON
7 3 (6.25%) Middleware
7 3 (6.25%) Node.js
7 3 (6.25%) REST
7 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
8 2 (4.17%) Chai
8 2 (4.17%) CSS
8 2 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (4.17%) JAXB
8 2 (4.17%) JAX-RS
8 2 (4.17%) Sass
8 2 (4.17%) Spring Batch
9 1 (2.08%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (68.75%) Agile
2 28 (58.33%) Test Automation
3 19 (39.58%) User Stories
4 18 (37.50%) BDD
4 18 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 15 (31.25%) DevOps
6 14 (29.17%) API Testing
6 14 (29.17%) Microservices
6 14 (29.17%) Scrum
6 14 (29.17%) Test Scripting
7 13 (27.08%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (27.08%) TDD
8 12 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
9 11 (22.92%) Continuous Deployment
9 11 (22.92%) E-Commerce
9 11 (22.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 11 (22.92%) Software Testing
9 11 (22.92%) Test Strategy
10 10 (20.83%) ATDD
11 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (45.83%) Java
2 15 (31.25%) C#
3 9 (18.75%) SQL
4 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.17%) C
5 2 (4.17%) Python
5 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.08%) Bash
6 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 19 (39.58%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) ISEB
3 3 (6.25%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) HP ALM
2 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.17%) Kibana
3 2 (4.17%) logstash
4 1 (2.08%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Oracle
2 6 (12.50%) HP
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow