SOAP Contracts in Edinburgh

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring SOAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOAP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 61 104
Rank change year-on-year +1 +43 -10
Contract jobs citing SOAP 7 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.12% 1.35% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.90% 6.04% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 6
10th Percentile £456 £630 £463
25th Percentile £491 £650 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.96% +28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £569 £700 -
90th Percentile £600 - £588
Scotland median daily rate £505 £663 £525
% change year-on-year -23.77% +26.19% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 143 182 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.88% 22.33% 29.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 121 319
10th Percentile £400 £363 £406
25th Percentile £417 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -1.54% -2.50%
75th Percentile £529 £619 £538
90th Percentile £600 £700 £613
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in Edinburgh

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAP in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for SOAP in Edinburgh

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in Edinburgh

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOAP in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in Edinburgh

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) GIS
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) MSTest
1 1 (14.29%) NUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
1 1 (14.29%) Ranorex
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) GCP Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) EDI
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) WebSockets
3 1 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
1 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) API Development
2 2 (28.57%) API Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Workday
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft