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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 79 111
Rank change year-on-year -20 +32 +2
Contract jobs citing SOAP 16 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.77% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.87% 0.65% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £533 - £316
25th Percentile £638 - £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.53%
75th Percentile £800 - £559
90th Percentile £800 - £599
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%

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 233 154 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.16% 16.31% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 109 151
10th Percentile £413 £321 £313
25th Percentile £463 £415 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £498
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -1.51% -6.13%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £575
90th Percentile £738 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 23
10th Percentile £30.92 £64.63 £23.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £65.63 £41.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.34 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +75.20% -33.85%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.27 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.29 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 9 April 2026.

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 9 April 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
Hertfordshire - 15 £713 - 4
Cambridgeshire - 1 £725 - 1
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 1 (6.25%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (50.00%) SAP HCM
2 7 (43.75%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) SuccessFactors
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (18.75%) SaaS
4 2 (12.50%) OCI
4 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) Boomi
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Law
4 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Billing
5 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Consultant
2 7 (43.75%) SAP Consultant
2 7 (43.75%) SAP HCM Consultant
3 6 (37.50%) Functional Consultant
4 5 (31.25%) SAP Functional Consultant
5 3 (18.75%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 2 (12.50%) Senior
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Functional Consultant
6 2 (12.50%) Senior SAP Consultant
6 2 (12.50%) Senior SAP HCM Consultant
7 1 (6.25%) Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Lead
7 1 (6.25%) Oracle Financials Consultant
7 1 (6.25%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
7 1 (6.25%) Procurement Consultant
7 1 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) Web Services
2 8 (50.00%) REST
2 8 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Replication
2 3 (18.75%) Low-Code
3 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Requirements Workshops
2 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 8 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 8 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 7 (43.75%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (43.75%) Time Management
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (18.75%) API Design
6 3 (18.75%) ETL
6 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
8 1 (6.25%) Acceptance Criteria
8 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) ABAP
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) SAP
2 5 (31.25%) Computacenter
3 3 (18.75%) MuleSoft
3 3 (18.75%) Salesforce
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) Pega
4 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.25%) Informatica
5 1 (6.25%) Jitterbit
5 1 (6.25%) Virgin Media
5 1 (6.25%) Workday