SOAP Contracts in the South East

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 162 140
Rank change year-on-year -6 -22 +2
Contract jobs citing SOAP 32 64 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.58% 1.10% 1.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.38% 6.08% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 36 99
10th Percentile £391 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £533 £596 £628
90th Percentile £564 £621 £675
England median daily rate £550 £526 £550
% change year-on-year +4.56% -4.36% +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 £51.88
% change year-on-year - +7.34% +130.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East 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 730 1,052 1,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.21% 18.05% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 749 1,028
10th Percentile £313 £363 £354
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £667 £725 £673
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 41
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.13 £54.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% +4.05%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.72 £67.80
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -6 21 £500 - 7
Berkshire -20 20 £500 - 6
Surrey +16 7 £450 -10.00% 3
Hampshire -9 3 £525 +5.00% 7
Oxfordshire - 1 £350 -
Kent - 1 - -
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 13 (40.63%) Apache
2 11 (34.38%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (12.50%) Confluence
3 4 (12.50%) OpenStack
4 1 (3.13%) Drupal
4 1 (3.13%) Jadu
4 1 (3.13%) JBoss
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Serverless
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (12.50%) AWS
4 3 (9.38%) Azure API Management
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Functions
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.13%) PaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) BGP
1 11 (34.38%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (34.38%) MPLS
1 11 (34.38%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (34.38%) VPN
2 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (43.75%) NoSQL
3 11 (34.38%) MongoDB
4 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
5 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (6.25%) MySQL
8 1 (3.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
8 1 (3.13%) Power BI
8 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (53.13%) JIRA
2 11 (34.38%) GitLab
2 11 (34.38%) Robot Framework
2 11 (34.38%) TestRail
3 10 (31.25%) Git
4 8 (25.00%) Jenkins
5 4 (12.50%) Artifactory
5 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket
5 4 (12.50%) JUnit
5 4 (12.50%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.13%) JMeter
6 1 (3.13%) NWDI
6 1 (3.13%) NWDS
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (3.13%) Selenium
6 1 (3.13%) SoapUI
6 1 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
1 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Finance
2 1 (3.13%) Marketing
2 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Developer
1 10 (31.25%) Network Engineer
1 10 (31.25%) Test Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Development Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 4 (12.50%) Software Development Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Test Development Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Integration Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Tester
5 1 (3.13%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.13%) Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (75.00%) REST
2 11 (34.38%) NETCONF
2 11 (34.38%) RESTCONF
2 11 (34.38%) XML
2 11 (34.38%) YANG
3 10 (31.25%) RESTful
4 7 (21.88%) .NET
4 7 (21.88%) Web Services
5 6 (18.75%) JSON
6 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 4 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (12.50%) Node.js
6 4 (12.50%) OAuth
6 4 (12.50%) Spring
6 4 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 3 (9.38%) ARM Templates
7 3 (9.38%) J2EE
7 3 (9.38%) OpenID
8 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
8 2 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows
3 4 (12.50%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) Agile
2 21 (65.63%) Scrum
3 17 (53.13%) Test Automation
4 15 (46.88%) Workflow
5 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 14 (43.75%) Security Testing
6 12 (37.50%) Unit Testing
7 11 (34.38%) Containerisation
7 11 (34.38%) Integration Testing
7 11 (34.38%) Performance Testing
7 11 (34.38%) Regression Testing
8 9 (28.13%) DevOps
9 5 (15.63%) OO
9 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (15.63%) TDD
10 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 4 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (12.50%) Manual Testing
10 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 4 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) SQL
2 15 (46.88%) Python
3 8 (25.00%) C#
4 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
5 5 (15.63%) Java
6 4 (12.50%) C++
6 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 2 (6.25%) PHP
8 1 (3.13%) Groovy
8 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Docker
2 4 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (12.50%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Ansible
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) SAP