SOAP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 262 224
Rank change year-on-year -36 -38 -8
Contract jobs citing SOAP 94 192 345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.84% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.83% 4.65% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 112 259
10th Percentile £386 £376 £363
25th Percentile £425 £428 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £600
90th Percentile £700 £731 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
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 median hourly rate - £55.69 £54.25
% change year-on-year - +2.65% +55.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 3,323 4,131 6,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.12% 19.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,175 3,067 4,314
10th Percentile £325 £350 £360
25th Percentile £406 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.73%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £692 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 89 137
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.22 £19.95
25th Percentile £43.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.47 £65.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.36% +19.82% +20.56%
75th Percentile £67.56 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £79.19 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -25.49% +23.81% +16.67%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the UK excluding London

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the UK excluding London

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the UK excluding London

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the UK excluding London

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East -27 26 £450 -12.20% 18
North of England +24 25 £595 +13.33% 20
North West +27 22 £595 +16.10% 11
Scotland +36 19 £625 +19.05% 6
Midlands -10 12 £531 -9.57% 6
East of England +10 8 £500 +38.89% 10
West Midlands -3 8 £531 -21.30% 5
East Midlands 0 4 £494 -1.25% 1
South West -2 4 £475 -31.08% 7
North East +11 2 £600 - 3
Yorkshire +3 1 - - 7
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (11.70%) Confluence
2 9 (9.57%) Apache
3 8 (8.51%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (6.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (4.26%) Appian
6 1 (1.06%) CMS
6 1 (1.06%) Drupal
6 1 (1.06%) Jadu
6 1 (1.06%) JBoss
6 1 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Temenos T24
2 5 (5.32%) NetSuite
3 2 (2.13%) Teamcenter
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.06%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (30.85%) Azure
2 26 (27.66%) AWS
3 14 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (13.83%) Boomi
5 8 (8.51%) Serverless
6 7 (7.45%) Apigee
6 7 (7.45%) Kong
7 6 (6.38%) AWS CodeBuild
7 6 (6.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 6 (6.38%) AWS CodePipeline
7 6 (6.38%) SaaS
8 5 (5.32%) IaaS
8 5 (5.32%) Power Platform
9 4 (4.26%) Azure Functions
9 4 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.26%) GCP
9 4 (4.26%) Unqork
10 3 (3.19%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (3.19%) PaaS
11 2 (2.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.51%) BGP
1 8 (8.51%) Ethernet VPN
1 8 (8.51%) MPLS
1 8 (8.51%) Radio Access Network
1 8 (8.51%) VPN
2 6 (6.38%) HTTP
3 5 (5.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.96%) MongoDB
2 13 (13.83%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.64%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.51%) OLAP
4 8 (8.51%) OLTP
4 8 (8.51%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.45%) Oracle OLAP
6 5 (5.32%) MySQL
6 5 (5.32%) Oracle Database
6 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.26%) Power BI
8 3 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (3.19%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.06%) Big Data
10 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.06%) DB2
10 1 (1.06%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (25.53%) JIRA
2 15 (15.96%) Git
3 9 (9.57%) GitLab
4 8 (8.51%) Robot Framework
4 8 (8.51%) TestRail
5 6 (6.38%) Bitbucket
5 6 (6.38%) Jenkins
5 6 (6.38%) Visual Studio
6 5 (5.32%) Artifactory
6 5 (5.32%) SoapUI
7 4 (4.26%) JMeter
7 4 (4.26%) Selenium
8 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.13%) Postman
8 2 (2.13%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (2.13%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.06%) Appium
9 1 (1.06%) Liquibase
9 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.02%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.64%) Finance
4 8 (8.51%) Back Office
4 8 (8.51%) Banking
4 8 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.13%) Marketing
6 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (38.30%) Architect
2 23 (24.47%) Developer
3 14 (14.89%) AWS Architect
4 11 (11.70%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (11.70%) Test Engineer
5 7 (7.45%) .NET Developer
5 7 (7.45%) Cloud Architect
5 7 (7.45%) Network Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Consultant
6 6 (6.38%) Integration Architect
6 6 (6.38%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Integration Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Appian Architect
8 4 (4.26%) AWS Solution Architect
8 4 (4.26%) Development Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Pega Architect
8 4 (4.26%) Software Development Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Test Development Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (60.64%) REST
2 26 (27.66%) Web Services
3 20 (21.28%) XML
4 19 (20.21%) RESTful
5 16 (17.02%) .NET
6 12 (12.77%) JSON
7 10 (10.64%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (9.57%) Kafka
8 9 (9.57%) Spring
9 8 (8.51%) CSS
9 8 (8.51%) NETCONF
9 8 (8.51%) RESTCONF
9 8 (8.51%) Spring Boot
9 8 (8.51%) YANG
10 7 (7.45%) Apache Camel
10 7 (7.45%) HTML
10 7 (7.45%) IBM Integration Bus
10 7 (7.45%) J2EE
11 6 (6.38%) .NET Framework
11 6 (6.38%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) DataPower
2 6 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.19%) CMDB
4 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.06%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.06%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.70%) Windows
2 8 (8.51%) Linux
3 4 (4.26%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.06%) Unix
5 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.36%) Agile
2 24 (25.53%) DevOps
3 21 (22.34%) Test Automation
4 20 (21.28%) API Management
4 20 (21.28%) CI/CD
5 18 (19.15%) Scrum
5 18 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (17.02%) Containerisation
7 15 (15.96%) Roadmaps
8 14 (14.89%) Design Patterns
8 14 (14.89%) Migration
9 13 (13.83%) ERP
10 12 (12.77%) Enterprise Architecture
11 11 (11.70%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (11.70%) Integration Patterns
11 11 (11.70%) Integration Testing
11 11 (11.70%) Service Management
12 10 (10.64%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (10.64%) Microservices
12 10 (10.64%) OO
Programming Languages
1 29 (30.85%) SQL
2 22 (23.40%) Java
3 18 (19.15%) C#
4 14 (14.89%) JavaScript
5 13 (13.83%) Python
6 7 (7.45%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.26%) C
7 4 (4.26%) C++
7 4 (4.26%) VB
7 4 (4.26%) VB6
8 3 (3.19%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.13%) Groovy
9 2 (2.13%) PHP
10 1 (1.06%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.06%) X++
Qualifications
1 11 (11.70%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.51%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.38%) Degree
4 4 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.06%) CISM
5 1 (1.06%) CISSP
5 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) QA
2 5 (5.32%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.13%) GDPR
4 2 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (13.83%) Docker
2 4 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.26%) VirtualBox
3 1 (1.06%) ACF2
3 1 (1.06%) IAG
3 1 (1.06%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
1 6 (6.38%) Terraform
2 3 (3.19%) Ansible
3 2 (2.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.06%) Anchore
4 1 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.06%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.06%) Kibana
4 1 (1.06%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (26.60%) Oracle
2 11 (11.70%) IBM
3 8 (8.51%) Pega
3 8 (8.51%) SAP
4 7 (7.45%) TSYS
5 6 (6.38%) Salesforce
5 6 (6.38%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.32%) Microsoft
7 4 (4.26%) Infragistics
7 4 (4.26%) OpenText
8 2 (2.13%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.06%) Ariba
9 1 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.06%) HP
9 1 (1.06%) Jitterbit
9 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) SnapLogic
9 1 (1.06%) Software AG
9 1 (1.06%) TIBCO