SOAP Contract Job Trends in Central London

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring SOAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 105 125
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 +19
Contract jobs citing SOAP 21 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.00% 0.63% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.48% 2.49% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 9
10th Percentile £418 £456 £415
25th Percentile £444 £478 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -13.47% +20.10%
75th Percentile £613 £678 £640
90th Percentile £660 £1,050 £760
London median daily rate £538 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £46.00 - £57.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 469 523 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.31% 25.29% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 329 397
10th Percentile £363 £409 £403
25th Percentile £451 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £26.90 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.75 £37.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% -20.17%
75th Percentile £53.61 £41.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £57.28 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -13.89% +13.68% -26.92%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in Central London

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SOAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SOAP

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in Central London over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in Central London

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SOAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SOAP

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
City of London +2 19 £513 -4.21% 13
SOAP
London

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.76%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) OCI
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.76%) Azure App Service
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.76%) Azure WebJobs
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) HTTPS
1 2 (9.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.76%) Metadata
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) Redis
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 3 (14.29%) Git
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
1 3 (14.29%) JUnit
1 3 (14.29%) Mockito
1 3 (14.29%) REST Assured
1 3 (14.29%) SoapUI
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Maven
2 2 (9.52%) Postman
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) jMock
3 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.76%) Subversion
3 1 (4.76%) Xcode
3 1 (4.76%) XCTest
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Billing
4 1 (4.76%) Military
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
2 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Integration Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (4.76%) Senior
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Salesforce Developer
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) webMethods Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (90.48%) REST
2 6 (28.57%) CSS
2 6 (28.57%) HTML
3 5 (23.81%) XML
4 4 (19.05%) JSON
5 3 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (14.29%) OAuth
5 3 (14.29%) Spring
5 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 3 (14.29%) Visualforce
5 3 (14.29%) Web Services
6 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
6 2 (9.52%) jQuery
6 2 (9.52%) Kafka
7 1 (4.76%) Bootstrap
7 1 (4.76%) CSS3
7 1 (4.76%) Gherkin
7 1 (4.76%) HTML5
7 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (4.76%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (4.76%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (19.05%) ITSM
5 3 (14.29%) API Development
5 3 (14.29%) API Management
5 3 (14.29%) BDD
5 3 (14.29%) ERP
5 3 (14.29%) Workflow
6 2 (9.52%) API Integration
6 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
6 2 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 2 (9.52%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (9.52%) SDLC
6 2 (9.52%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
2 5 (23.81%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) Apex Code
4 3 (14.29%) Groovy
5 2 (9.52%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
1 2 (9.52%) WCAG
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 3 (14.29%) Axway
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 2 (9.52%) Workday
4 1 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk
4 1 (4.76%) webMethods