SOAP Contracts in the North West

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 139 137
Rank change year-on-year +28 -2 -27
Contract jobs citing SOAP 22 17 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.82% 0.55% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.49% 2.97% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 41
10th Percentile £469 £394 £360
25th Percentile £489 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% -2.38% +12.90%
75th Percentile £694 £563 £625
90th Percentile £738 £575 £700
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +12.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West 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 490 572 1,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.19% 18.66% 25.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 450 757
10th Percentile £350 £350 £359
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +20.59%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £588
90th Percentile £750 £638 £650
England median daily rate £550 £557 £570
% change year-on-year -1.26% -2.28% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 33
10th Percentile £37.63 £37.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.77 £31.25
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -42.01% +118.75%
75th Percentile £72.03 £44.78 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £45.62 £80.30
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +11.70%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the North West

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the North West

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the North West

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the North West

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester +21 13 £595 +19.00% 5
Cheshire +5 7 £489 -11.09% 4
Merseyside - 1 - - 2
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (27.27%) Confluence
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) AWS
3 7 (31.82%) Apigee
3 7 (31.82%) Kong
4 4 (18.18%) Boomi
5 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) MongoDB
1 7 (31.82%) OLAP
1 7 (31.82%) OLTP
2 6 (27.27%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JMeter
2 2 (9.09%) Selenium
2 2 (9.09%) SoapUI
3 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.55%) Mercurial
3 1 (4.55%) Postman
3 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (31.82%) Banking
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Architect
2 7 (31.82%) AWS Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Integration Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Pega Architect
5 3 (13.64%) Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Solution Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) REST
1 9 (40.91%) Web Services
2 7 (31.82%) IBM Integration Bus
2 7 (31.82%) J2EE
2 7 (31.82%) Kafka
2 7 (31.82%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (27.27%) Apache Camel
3 6 (27.27%) Spring
3 6 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 6 (27.27%) Spring Integration
4 4 (18.18%) RAML
5 2 (9.09%) .NET
5 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
5 2 (9.09%) CSS
5 2 (9.09%) HTML
5 2 (9.09%) RESTful
5 2 (9.09%) XML
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.55%) Ajax
6 1 (4.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) DataPower
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) API Management
1 11 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 10 (45.45%) Enterprise Architecture
3 9 (40.91%) DevOps
4 8 (36.36%) OO
5 7 (31.82%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) CQRS
5 7 (31.82%) Event-Driven
5 7 (31.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 7 (31.82%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (31.82%) Microservices
5 7 (31.82%) OOA/OOD
5 7 (31.82%) Risk Management
5 7 (31.82%) SOA
5 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (27.27%) Technical Debt
6 6 (27.27%) TOGAF
7 4 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (18.18%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) C
2 3 (13.64%) C#
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
2 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.55%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) IBM
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle
1 7 (31.82%) TSYS
2 4 (18.18%) Pega
3 1 (4.55%) HP
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow