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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 107 124
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 +21
Contract jobs citing SOAP 52 17 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.11% 0.88% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.40% 3.27% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 14 4
10th Percentile £450 £359 £505
25th Percentile £503 £385 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +7.14% -23.64%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £738
90th Percentile £643 £709 £1,120
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £45.05 - -
25th Percentile £51.13 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.25 - -
90th Percentile £83.75 - -
London median hourly rate £56.25 - -

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 619 520 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.14% 26.89% 25.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 360 390
10th Percentile £419 £387 £415
25th Percentile £486 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £711
90th Percentile £763 £775 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £25.35 £52.83 £27.67
25th Percentile £33.64 £55.99 £31.07
Median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +62.34% -25.24%
75th Percentile £69.38 £76.25 £41.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £83.75 £41.45
London median hourly rate £44.75 £51.97 £42.50
% change year-on-year -13.89% +22.28% -32.00%

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 26 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SOAP in Central London over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SOAP in Central London

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 26 September 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 +11 38 £525 -19.23% 18
West End of London - 4 £520 - 2
City of Westminster - 2 - - 2
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 6 (11.54%) Confluence
2 3 (5.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.85%) Apache
3 2 (3.85%) IIS
4 1 (1.92%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.92%) CICS
4 1 (1.92%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.92%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.92%) Magento
2 1 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.15%) AWS
2 9 (17.31%) Azure
3 5 (9.62%) SaaS
4 4 (7.69%) GCP
4 4 (7.69%) GitHub
4 4 (7.69%) Serverless
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.85%) AtomSphere
6 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.85%) Boomi
6 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.92%) PaaS
7 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) FTP
2 3 (5.77%) HTTP
3 2 (3.85%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.85%) Internet
3 2 (3.85%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (9.62%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.77%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.85%) Power BI
3 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.92%) Big Data
4 1 (1.92%) Db2
4 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.92%) Metadata
4 1 (1.92%) MySQL
4 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.92%) Parquet
4 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) JIRA
2 8 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.54%) Git
4 5 (9.62%) Postman
4 5 (9.62%) SonarQube
5 4 (7.69%) eggPlant
5 4 (7.69%) JUnit
5 4 (7.69%) Mockito
6 3 (5.77%) GitLab
6 3 (5.77%) SoapUI
7 2 (3.85%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.85%) JMeter
7 2 (3.85%) LoadRunner
7 2 (3.85%) Maven
7 2 (3.85%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.92%) HP UFT
8 1 (1.92%) Rational Functional Tester
8 1 (1.92%) SilkTest
General
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (21.15%) Finance
4 10 (19.23%) Telecoms
5 8 (15.38%) Banking
6 6 (11.54%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.85%) Law
7 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Legal
8 1 (1.92%) Marketing
8 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (40.38%) Developer
2 17 (32.69%) Architect
3 9 (17.31%) ServiceNow Architect
4 5 (9.62%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Lead
4 5 (9.62%) ServiceNow Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Integration Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Salesforce Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior
6 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Integration Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Junior
7 2 (3.85%) Lead Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Technical Product Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Tester
7 2 (3.85%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (82.69%) REST
2 16 (30.77%) XML
3 14 (26.92%) JSON
3 14 (26.92%) Web Services
4 10 (19.23%) .NET
5 9 (17.31%) Middleware
6 7 (13.46%) HTML
7 6 (11.54%) Kafka
8 5 (9.62%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (9.62%) Spring
8 5 (9.62%) Spring Boot
8 5 (9.62%) XSLT
9 4 (7.69%) AngularJS
9 4 (7.69%) CSS
10 3 (5.77%) Ajax
10 3 (5.77%) GraphQL
10 3 (5.77%) OAuth
10 3 (5.77%) RESTful
10 3 (5.77%) SAML
10 3 (5.77%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) CMDB
2 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.77%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.85%) LIMS
5 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.92%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.92%) DataPower
6 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.92%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Linux
1 5 (9.62%) Unix
2 1 (1.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Roadmaps
2 18 (34.62%) Agile
3 17 (32.69%) CI/CD
4 15 (28.85%) DevOps
4 15 (28.85%) Integration Patterns
4 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (25.00%) ITSM
5 13 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 12 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (21.15%) Data Modelling
7 11 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (19.23%) Microservices
8 10 (19.23%) Scrum
8 10 (19.23%) Technology Roadmap
9 9 (17.31%) Test Automation
10 8 (15.38%) Code Quality
10 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (15.38%) Customer Service
10 8 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (15.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) JavaScript
2 14 (26.92%) SQL
3 11 (21.15%) Java
3 11 (21.15%) Python
4 8 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (3.85%) ActionScript
5 2 (3.85%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (3.85%) Apex Code
5 2 (3.85%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.85%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.92%) DataWeave
6 1 (1.92%) Groovy
6 1 (1.92%) JCL
6 1 (1.92%) Korn
6 1 (1.92%) PHP
6 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.92%) SOQL
6 1 (1.92%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.54%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.85%) PMP
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) CISM
5 1 (1.92%) CISSP
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) ISEB
5 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 4 (7.69%) GRC
2 3 (5.77%) QA
3 2 (3.85%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (3.85%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) GMP
3 2 (3.85%) GxP
3 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.92%) NCSC
4 1 (1.92%) PSD2
4 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.92%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) HP Fortify
1 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.85%) Grafana
2 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.92%) Control-M
3 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 13 (25.00%) Oracle
3 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 8 (15.38%) Salesforce
4 7 (13.46%) SAP
5 4 (7.69%) MuleSoft
6 3 (5.77%) Google
6 3 (5.77%) IBM
6 3 (5.77%) Workday
7 2 (3.85%) Axway
7 2 (3.85%) Planview
7 2 (3.85%) Sitecore
7 2 (3.85%) Software AG
7 2 (3.85%) UiPath
7 2 (3.85%) webMethods
8 1 (1.92%) Adobe
8 1 (1.92%) Calypso
8 1 (1.92%) FIS
8 1 (1.92%) Murex
8 1 (1.92%) Temenos