SOAP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring SOAP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 89 109
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 +7
Contract jobs citing SOAP 19 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.46% 0.53% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.22% 3.04% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 2
10th Percentile £463 £465 £420
25th Percentile £491 £488 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% +9.29% -15.28%
75th Percentile £575 £541 £477
90th Percentile - £546 £485
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% +2.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 206 263 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.87% 17.41% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 103 143
10th Percentile £353 £298 £363
25th Percentile £434 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -17.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £603 £531 £625
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 57 7
10th Percentile £40.75 - £18.80
25th Percentile £43.00 - £38.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £43.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.51% -28.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £67.00 - £74.65
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.63% +4.88% -4.13%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the East of England

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SOAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SOAP

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the East of England

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SOAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SOAP

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. 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
Hertfordshire - 9 £550 - 3
Norfolk -6 7 £545 +9.00% 2
Bedfordshire -7 3 £500 - 2
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (26.32%) Apache
1 5 (26.32%) IIS
1 5 (26.32%) WebSphere
2 2 (10.53%) Anypoint
2 2 (10.53%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Maximo
2 1 (5.26%) SAP MDG
2 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) IaaS
1 3 (15.79%) PaaS
1 3 (15.79%) SaaS
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (26.32%) DB2
3 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
3 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (15.79%) RDBMS
3 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (10.53%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Consultant
2 5 (26.32%) Maximo Consultant
3 3 (15.79%) Data Integration Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Data Migration Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Integration Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) SSIS Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Workday Developer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Maximo Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (73.68%) REST
2 9 (47.37%) Web Services
2 9 (47.37%) XML
3 4 (21.05%) EDI
3 4 (21.05%) JSON
4 3 (15.79%) XSLT
5 2 (10.53%) JWT
5 2 (10.53%) Kafka
5 2 (10.53%) MUnit
5 2 (10.53%) OAuth
5 2 (10.53%) RESTful
6 1 (5.26%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.26%) Life Science
1 1 (5.26%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
1 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) ITSM
4 5 (26.32%) CAFM
4 5 (26.32%) Data Integration
4 5 (26.32%) E-Commerce
4 5 (26.32%) Facilities Management
4 5 (26.32%) Migration
4 5 (26.32%) OO
4 5 (26.32%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (26.32%) Service Design
4 5 (26.32%) Service Management
4 5 (26.32%) System Testing
4 5 (26.32%) Validation
4 5 (26.32%) Workflow
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) API Development
5 4 (21.05%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (21.05%) OOP
5 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
2 11 (57.89%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (5.26%) GxP
3 1 (5.26%) HL7
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) IBM
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Workday
3 3 (15.79%) Informatica
4 2 (10.53%) MuleSoft
4 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow