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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 83 116
Rank change year-on-year +12 +33 +7
Contract jobs citing SOAP 28 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.94% 0.46% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.14% 3.08% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 2
10th Percentile £463 - £492
25th Percentile £500 - £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.48% -6.02%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £526
90th Percentile £725 £530 £533
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

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 276 195 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.07% 14.92% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 99 136
10th Percentile £363 £290 £311
25th Percentile £419 £311 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £624 £491 £600
90th Percentile £715 £600 £681
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 14 11
10th Percentile £40.75 £26.00 £15.52
25th Percentile £43.00 £62.50 £45.06
Median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +17.12% -14.62%
75th Percentile £65.06 - £61.88
90th Percentile £75.63 £67.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

SOAP job vacancy trend 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 8 November 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 8 November 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 - 17 £550 - 21
Norfolk -14 7 £545 +6.34%
Bedfordshire - 3 £500 -
Cambridgeshire -3 1 £725 +45.00% 5
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (17.86%) Apache
1 5 (17.86%) IIS
1 5 (17.86%) WebSphere
2 2 (7.14%) Anypoint
2 2 (7.14%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (21.43%) SAP HCM
1 6 (21.43%) SAP Payroll
2 5 (17.86%) Maximo
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (3.57%) SAP MDG
3 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) SuccessFactors
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) SaaS
3 3 (10.71%) IaaS
3 3 (10.71%) PaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Azure
4 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.57%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.57%) OCI
5 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (17.86%) DB2
3 3 (10.71%) Data Lake
3 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.71%) RDBMS
3 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.14%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Law
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Consultant
2 6 (21.43%) SAP Consultant
3 5 (17.86%) Functional Consultant
3 5 (17.86%) Maximo Consultant
3 5 (17.86%) SAP HCM Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
4 4 (14.29%) SAP Functional Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Leader
5 3 (10.71%) Data Integration Specialist
5 3 (10.71%) Data Migration Specialist
5 3 (10.71%) Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Integration Specialist
5 3 (10.71%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (10.71%) SSIS Specialist
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Functional Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Senior SAP Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Senior SAP HCM Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (60.71%) REST
2 16 (57.14%) XML
3 15 (53.57%) Web Services
4 5 (17.86%) JSON
5 4 (14.29%) EDI
6 3 (10.71%) RESTful
6 3 (10.71%) XSLT
7 2 (7.14%) JWT
7 2 (7.14%) Kafka
7 2 (7.14%) MUnit
7 2 (7.14%) OAuth
8 1 (3.57%) .NET
8 1 (3.57%) IDoc
8 1 (3.57%) Middleware
8 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (3.57%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Replication
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) Life Science
3 1 (3.57%) LIMS
3 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
1 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 11 (39.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 9 (32.14%) DevOps
4 8 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 6 (21.43%) ITSM
5 6 (21.43%) Process Improvement
5 6 (21.43%) Requirements Workshops
5 6 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (21.43%) Time Management
5 6 (21.43%) Validation
5 6 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (17.86%) CAFM
6 5 (17.86%) Data Integration
6 5 (17.86%) ETL
6 5 (17.86%) Facilities Management
6 5 (17.86%) Migration
6 5 (17.86%) Service Design
6 5 (17.86%) Service Management
6 5 (17.86%) System Testing
6 5 (17.86%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (39.29%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) ABAP
3 6 (21.43%) Python
4 5 (17.86%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) DataWeave
6 1 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) QA
2 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (3.57%) GxP
3 1 (3.57%) HL7
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) SAP
2 5 (17.86%) Computacenter
2 5 (17.86%) IBM
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) Workday
4 3 (10.71%) Informatica
4 3 (10.71%) MuleSoft
4 3 (10.71%) Salesforce
5 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle
6 1 (3.57%) Pega
6 1 (3.57%) Virgin Media