SOAP Contracts in the Midlands

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 116 151
Rank change year-on-year -8 +35 -24
Contract jobs citing SOAP 11 44 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.41% 1.32% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.84% 7.56% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 31 36
10th Percentile £406 - £380
25th Percentile £474 £500 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £540 £459
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% +17.65% +26.62%
75th Percentile £628 £700 £538
90th Percentile £653 £731 £574
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands 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 388 582 899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.42% 17.46% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 452 690
10th Percentile £278 £313 £360
25th Percentile £361 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £622 £588 £550
90th Percentile £723 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 9
10th Percentile £10.90 - £16.65
25th Percentile £14.16 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.08%
75th Percentile £39.98 - £45.00
90th Percentile £56.25 - £46.67
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +9.89%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the Midlands

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the Midlands

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the Midlands

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
West Midlands 0 7 £581 -13.89% 6
East Midlands +7 4 £494 -1.25% 2
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (36.36%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Boomi
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) iPaaS
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (9.09%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) OLAP
2 1 (9.09%) OLTP
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) JMeter
1 2 (18.18%) SoapUI
1 2 (18.18%) Zephyr
2 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Integration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Integration Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Functional Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) XML
2 7 (63.64%) REST
3 6 (54.55%) JSON
4 3 (27.27%) WSDL
4 3 (27.27%) XSD
4 3 (27.27%) XSLT
5 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 2 (18.18%) Web Services
6 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
6 1 (9.09%) gRPC
6 1 (9.09%) JMS
6 1 (9.09%) Kafka
6 1 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (9.09%) RAML
6 1 (9.09%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Integration Patterns
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) CRM
3 4 (36.36%) ERP
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) API Design
5 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Data Management
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Data Transformation
5 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Functional Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Apex Code
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) Groovy
2 1 (9.09%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Salesforce
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Jitterbit
3 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) SnapLogic
3 1 (9.09%) Software AG
3 1 (9.09%) Talend
3 1 (9.09%) TIBCO