SOAP Contracts in Birmingham

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring SOAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOAP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 61 64
Rank change year-on-year +18 +3 +26
Contract jobs citing SOAP 7 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.34% 0.78% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.24% 5.00% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 9
10th Percentile £450 £355 £638
25th Percentile £451 £441 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £531 £688
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% -22.73% +30.95%
75th Percentile £527 £614 £731
90th Percentile £541 £625 -
West Midlands median daily rate £455 £563 £675
% change year-on-year -19.11% -16.67% +64.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

SOAP falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 85 120 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.28% 15.52% 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 87 123
10th Percentile £380 £223 £330
25th Percentile £425 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £700
90th Percentile £700 £700 -
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.23% - -

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in Birmingham

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in Birmingham

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in Birmingham

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (28.57%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (14.29%) DbUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) jMock
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Mockito
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) SAP Developer
3 2 (28.57%) ABAP Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) SAP Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) REST
2 4 (57.14%) IDoc
2 4 (57.14%) RESTful
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) BAPI
4 2 (28.57%) EDI
4 2 (28.57%) J2EE
4 2 (28.57%) JDBC
4 2 (28.57%) SAP Smart Forms
4 2 (28.57%) Spring
4 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 2 (28.57%) XSLT
5 1 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
5 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 1 (14.29%) JPA
5 1 (14.29%) React
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Batch
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 3 (42.86%) OO
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) API Development
2 2 (28.57%) API Management
2 2 (28.57%) B2B
2 2 (28.57%) BPMN
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) ERP
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Implementation
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) ABAP
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) COBOL
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Groovy
4 1 (14.29%) PHP
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 1 (14.29%) Jaspersoft