SOAP Contracts in the East of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for SOAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOAP over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 110 133
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 -36
Contract jobs citing SOAP 6 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.31% 0.44% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.11% 3.36% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 9
10th Percentile £316 £291 £363
25th Percentile £322 £325 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £355 £575
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% -38.26% +9.52%
75th Percentile £569 £426 £608
90th Percentile £603 £500 £713
England median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.90% -2.82% +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

SOAP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 285 268 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 14.96% 13.18% 15.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 161 261
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £363 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 21 23
10th Percentile - - £47.90
25th Percentile - £21.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £66.25 £74.50 £76.93
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +31.31% +8.79%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the East of England

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 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the East of England

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the East of England

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 4 May 2024. 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
Bedfordshire - 3 £350 - 1
Norfolk +3 1 £500 +40.85% 2
Hertfordshire -3 1 £625 - 1
Suffolk - 1 £325 -
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 1 (16.67%) Appian
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
1 1 (16.67%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Appian Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 3 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (16.67%) LINQ
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (16.67%) BDD
2 1 (16.67%) Business Process Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
2 1 (16.67%) Document Management
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) OOP
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Product Backlog
2 1 (16.67%) Story Points
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) OpenText
1 1 (16.67%) Pega