SOAP Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring SOAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOAP 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.48% - 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% - 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £725 £500 -
% change year-on-year +45.00% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 60 49 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 28.85% 30.25% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 28 13
10th Percentile £357 £300 £415
25th Percentile £396 £340 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £580 £475 £550
90th Percentile £637 £529 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £478 £423 £503
% change year-on-year +13.14% -16.05% -8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £42.48 - £15.51
25th Percentile £44.33 - £15.52
Median hourly rate £48.60 - £40.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.38%
75th Percentile £52.83 - £73.81
90th Percentile £54.64 - £86.53
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £37.50 - £40.75
% change year-on-year - - +4.49%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

SOAP job vacancy trend in Cambridge

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing SOAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing SOAP

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing SOAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing SOAP

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Virgin Media