SOAP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 216 248
Rank change year-on-year -16 +32 -46
Contract jobs citing SOAP 116 281 477
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 1.12% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.20% 4.43% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 203 338
10th Percentile £450 £390 £400
25th Percentile £475 £445 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £620 £625
90th Percentile £679 £731 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £534
% change year-on-year +4.76% -1.64% +14.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £56.25 £68.08
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £68.17
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% +137.10%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £55.69 £49.54
% change year-on-year - +12.40% +41.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,628 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.03% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

SOAP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOAP trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOAP.

SOAP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SOAP over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

SOAP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOAP.

SOAP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.17%) Anypoint
1 6 (5.17%) Confluence
1 6 (5.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (4.31%) Mule
2 5 (4.31%) Mule ESB
3 4 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.45%) WebSphere
4 3 (2.59%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.72%) CMS
6 1 (0.86%) Apache
6 1 (0.86%) JBoss
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.72%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 33 (28.45%) Azure
2 25 (21.55%) AWS
3 22 (18.97%) GitHub
4 16 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (8.62%) Serverless
6 8 (6.90%) Apigee
7 7 (6.03%) SaaS
8 6 (5.17%) Azure API Management
8 6 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (5.17%) GCP
9 5 (4.31%) WhatsApp
10 4 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (3.45%) Kong
10 4 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.45%) PaaS
10 4 (3.45%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.45%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.45%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.59%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.03%) HTTP
2 5 (4.31%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.59%) WinSCP
4 2 (1.72%) Internet
5 1 (0.86%) Firewall
5 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.41%) SQL Server
2 25 (21.55%) MySQL
3 16 (13.79%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (9.48%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.90%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (5.17%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.45%) OLAP
7 4 (3.45%) OLTP
7 4 (3.45%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (3.45%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (3.45%) Power BI
8 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.72%) DB2
9 2 (1.72%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.86%) Informix
10 1 (0.86%) Ingres
10 1 (0.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 31 (26.72%) Git
2 22 (18.97%) JIRA
3 14 (12.07%) Jenkins
4 12 (10.34%) Selenium
5 11 (9.48%) SoapUI
6 7 (6.03%) GitLab
6 7 (6.03%) JMeter
7 6 (5.17%) Visual Studio
8 5 (4.31%) Postman
9 4 (3.45%) Artifactory
9 4 (3.45%) Cucumber
9 4 (3.45%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.59%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.59%) HP UFT
10 3 (2.59%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (1.72%) Gradle
11 2 (1.72%) JUnit
11 2 (1.72%) Maven
11 2 (1.72%) TestNG
General
1 32 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.69%) Finance
3 13 (11.21%) Banking
4 10 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.76%) Financial Institution
5 9 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.45%) Retail
8 3 (2.59%) Back Office
8 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.72%) Arabic Language
9 2 (1.72%) French Language
9 2 (1.72%) German Language
9 2 (1.72%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.72%) Korean Language
9 2 (1.72%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (34.48%) Developer
2 22 (18.97%) Architect
3 12 (10.34%) Software Engineer
4 10 (8.62%) Lead
4 10 (8.62%) Senior
5 9 (7.76%) SailPoint Developer
6 8 (6.90%) Pega Architect
7 7 (6.03%) AWS Architect
7 7 (6.03%) SailPoint Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Consultant
8 6 (5.17%) MuleSoft Developer
8 6 (5.17%) ServiceNow Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Technical Leader
9 5 (4.31%) Salesforce Developer
9 5 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.45%) Integration Developer
10 4 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
11 3 (2.59%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (2.59%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (54.31%) REST
2 48 (41.38%) XML
3 42 (36.21%) Web Services
4 29 (25.00%) JSON
5 24 (20.69%) HTML
6 20 (17.24%) RESTful
7 18 (15.52%) JDBC
7 18 (15.52%) SailPoint
7 18 (15.52%) Servlets
8 17 (14.66%) JSP
8 17 (14.66%) LDAP
8 17 (14.66%) SPML
9 16 (13.79%) Spring
10 14 (12.07%) .NET
10 14 (12.07%) Spring Boot
11 11 (9.48%) Swagger
12 10 (8.62%) Node.js
12 10 (8.62%) OAuth
13 9 (7.76%) jQuery
13 9 (7.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.79%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.45%) DataPower
4 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.59%) CMDB
4 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.59%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.72%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.86%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.86%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.76%) Linux
1 9 (7.76%) Windows
2 5 (4.31%) Unix
3 3 (2.59%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.45%) Agile
2 27 (23.28%) DevOps
3 22 (18.97%) API Management
3 22 (18.97%) CI/CD
4 20 (17.24%) Test Automation
5 17 (14.66%) Microservices
6 16 (13.79%) Design Patterns
6 16 (13.79%) RBAC
6 16 (13.79%) Software Engineering
7 13 (11.21%) SOA
8 12 (10.34%) Identity Access Management
8 12 (10.34%) OO
8 12 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
8 12 (10.34%) Unit Testing
9 11 (9.48%) SDLC
10 10 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (8.62%) Scrum
11 9 (7.76%) Migration
11 9 (7.76%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (42.24%) SQL
2 39 (33.62%) Java
3 30 (25.86%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.93%) C#
4 15 (12.93%) Python
5 7 (6.03%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.45%) Apex Code
6 4 (3.45%) Bicep
7 3 (2.59%) C++
7 3 (2.59%) Go
7 3 (2.59%) Ruby
8 2 (1.72%) C
8 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.72%) VB
8 2 (1.72%) VB6
8 2 (1.72%) XPath
9 1 (0.86%) Groovy
9 1 (0.86%) Solidity
9 1 (0.86%) SOQL
9 1 (0.86%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.90%) Degree
1 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
1 8 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.72%) ISEB
3 2 (1.72%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.86%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.48%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
System Software
1 17 (14.66%) Active Directory
1 17 (14.66%) IAG
2 16 (13.79%) ACF2
2 16 (13.79%) RACF
3 12 (10.34%) Docker
4 3 (2.59%) vCloud
4 3 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.59%) VirtualBox
4 3 (2.59%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.62%) Terraform
3 5 (4.31%) Ansible
3 5 (4.31%) CloudHub
3 5 (4.31%) PingFederate
4 4 (3.45%) HP ALM
4 4 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.59%) Autotask
5 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.59%) Puppet
6 2 (1.72%) Grafana
6 2 (1.72%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.86%) Control-M
Vendors
1 44 (37.93%) Oracle
2 24 (20.69%) ServiceNow
3 16 (13.79%) Sybase
4 15 (12.93%) Salesforce
5 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
6 11 (9.48%) IBM
7 8 (6.90%) Pega
8 7 (6.03%) SAP
9 6 (5.17%) MuleSoft
10 5 (4.31%) BMC
10 5 (4.31%) HP
10 5 (4.31%) Ping Identity
11 4 (3.45%) Google
11 4 (3.45%) TSYS
12 3 (2.59%) Arista
12 3 (2.59%) Micro Focus
12 3 (2.59%) Remedy
12 3 (2.59%) Snow
12 3 (2.59%) TOWER Software
12 3 (2.59%) VMware