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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 54 80
Rank change year-on-year -5 +26 +27
Contract jobs citing SOAP 8 24 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.27% 2.79% 2.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.76% 12.77% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 14
10th Percentile £462 £380 £436
25th Percentile £496 £395 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £479 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.99% -12.91% +17.65%
75th Percentile £553 £678 £613
90th Percentile £600 £700 £738
Scotland median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%

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 139 188 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.10% 21.84% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 122 271
10th Percentile £406 £380 £400
25th Percentile £450 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £523 £597 £538
90th Percentile £600 £700 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £463 £480
% change year-on-year +2.70% -3.65% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £53.75 £47.73
% change year-on-year +2.33% +12.61% +0.48%

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 22 July 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 (25.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) iPaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) GIS
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
1 1 (12.50%) MSTest
1 1 (12.50%) NUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) Ranorex
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) GCP Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Lead Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Lead Java Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) EDI
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) WebSockets
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
1 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) API Development
3 2 (25.00%) API Integration
3 2 (25.00%) API Management
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) System Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
1 2 (25.00%) Workday
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle