SOAP Contract Job Trends in England

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SOAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 241 333
Rank change year-on-year -36 +92 -46
Contract jobs citing SOAP 383 274 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 1.12% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.68% 4.96% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 186 145
10th Percentile £394 £375 £406
25th Percentile £450 £428 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% -8.64% +1.85%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £619
90th Percentile £750 £694 £699
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £45.05 - -
25th Percentile £51.13 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.25 - -
90th Percentile £83.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,184 5,528 7,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.19% 22.55% 20.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,400 3,838 5,503
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £745 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £536
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 105 248
10th Percentile £31.18 £31.07 £22.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%
75th Percentile £73.34 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.22 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £49.50
% change year-on-year +10.40% +18.94% -23.85%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in England

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SOAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SOAP

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in England

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SOAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SOAP

SOAP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SOAP in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SOAP in England

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London +25 219 £625 +19.05% 37
South East -62 57 £550 +10.00% 17
Midlands -49 41 £450 -5.26% 7
West Midlands -48 33 £450 -5.26% 3
North of England -82 33 £397 -16.45% 10
South West -21 18 £550 -4.35% 4
North West -53 17 £384 -18.30% 7
Yorkshire -45 11 £460 -8.00% 3
East Midlands -20 6 £455 +12.76% 4
East of England -25 5 £525 -4.55% 4
North East -30 5 £375 -23.08%
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 20 (5.22%) Confluence
2 10 (2.61%) Apache
2 10 (2.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.35%) WebLogic
4 8 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.83%) CICS
6 5 (1.31%) IIS
6 5 (1.31%) JBoss
6 5 (1.31%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.04%) Appian
8 3 (0.78%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.52%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.52%) CMS
9 2 (0.52%) Mule
9 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.26%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.09%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.04%) Maximo
4 3 (0.78%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.52%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.52%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.52%) ProductWriter
5 2 (0.52%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.52%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.26%) Magento
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.26%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.26%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 127 (33.16%) Azure
2 116 (30.29%) AWS
3 54 (14.10%) GCP
4 36 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (7.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 28 (7.31%) Amazon S3
6 24 (6.27%) PaaS
7 23 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (6.01%) OCI
8 22 (5.74%) Serverless
9 21 (5.48%) SaaS
10 19 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
10 19 (4.96%) Entra ID
11 18 (4.70%) AWS KMS
11 18 (4.70%) GitHub
11 18 (4.70%) Route 53
12 15 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (3.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.35%) FTP
2 8 (2.09%) HTTP
3 2 (0.52%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.52%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.26%) 5G
4 1 (0.26%) Internet
4 1 (0.26%) Intranet
4 1 (0.26%) Modbus
4 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.26%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.62%) DynamoDB
2 26 (6.79%) Relational Database
3 25 (6.53%) SQL Server
4 23 (6.01%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (4.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (2.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 9 (2.35%) Db2
9 8 (2.09%) Metadata
10 6 (1.57%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (1.57%) Power BI
11 4 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.52%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 58 (15.14%) Git
2 45 (11.75%) Jenkins
3 40 (10.44%) JIRA
4 29 (7.57%) JUnit
5 28 (7.31%) Postman
6 25 (6.53%) Mockito
7 23 (6.01%) Maven
8 22 (5.74%) GitLab
9 19 (4.96%) SonarQube
10 18 (4.70%) SoapUI
11 14 (3.66%) DbUnit
12 13 (3.39%) jMock
13 11 (2.87%) Bitbucket Server
14 10 (2.61%) Cucumber
15 7 (1.83%) Selenium
15 7 (1.83%) Visual Studio
16 6 (1.57%) Ant
16 6 (1.57%) Eclipse
16 6 (1.57%) REST Assured
16 6 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 127 (33.16%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (15.40%) Public Sector
4 45 (11.75%) Finance
5 20 (5.22%) Banking
5 20 (5.22%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.09%) Billing
8 6 (1.57%) Marketing
8 6 (1.57%) Retail
9 5 (1.31%) Law
9 5 (1.31%) Legal
10 3 (0.78%) Automotive
10 3 (0.78%) Games
10 3 (0.78%) Military
10 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Aviation
11 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Local Government
11 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (36.03%) Developer
2 123 (32.11%) Architect
3 38 (9.92%) Senior
4 37 (9.66%) ServiceNow Architect
5 32 (8.36%) CyberArk Architect
6 28 (7.31%) Lead
7 26 (6.79%) ServiceNow Developer
8 24 (6.27%) Java Developer
9 23 (6.01%) Senior Developer
10 21 (5.48%) Analyst
11 20 (5.22%) Consultant
12 19 (4.96%) Salesforce Developer
12 19 (4.96%) Technical Architect
13 17 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.39%) Business Analyst
15 11 (2.87%) Azure Developer
16 10 (2.61%) Integration Specialist
16 10 (2.61%) Technical Consultant
17 9 (2.35%) Lead Architect
17 9 (2.35%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (88.25%) REST
2 98 (25.59%) Web Services
3 89 (23.24%) XML
4 88 (22.98%) JSON
5 49 (12.79%) OAuth
6 45 (11.75%) Middleware
7 41 (10.70%) LDAP
8 35 (9.14%) AngularJS
9 32 (8.36%) RESTful
9 32 (8.36%) Spring Boot
10 31 (8.09%) Spring
11 28 (7.31%) .NET
12 27 (7.05%) CSS
12 27 (7.05%) HTML
13 26 (6.79%) Lightning Web Components
14 23 (6.01%) Oracle Fusion
15 21 (5.48%) Hibernate
15 21 (5.48%) JPA
15 21 (5.48%) XSLT
16 20 (5.22%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.05%) CMDB
2 44 (11.49%) Enterprise Software
3 37 (9.66%) Security Posture
4 32 (8.36%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.92%) Low-Code
7 14 (3.66%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.61%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.09%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.83%) DataPower
11 7 (1.83%) Mainframe
11 7 (1.83%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.57%) N-Tier
12 6 (1.57%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.57%) Online Banking
13 5 (1.31%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.31%) Digital Wallet
13 5 (1.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.79%) Linux
2 7 (1.83%) zOS
3 6 (1.57%) Unix
3 6 (1.57%) Windows
4 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.26%) Android
5 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (37.60%) Agile
2 129 (33.68%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (27.68%) DevOps
4 100 (26.11%) ITSM
5 97 (25.33%) Integration Patterns
6 92 (24.02%) CI/CD
7 84 (21.93%) Technical Leadership
8 72 (18.80%) Data Modelling
9 68 (17.75%) Scrum
10 67 (17.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 56 (14.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 52 (13.58%) Workflow
13 50 (13.05%) ERP
14 49 (12.79%) Microservices
15 47 (12.27%) ITIL
15 47 (12.27%) Migration
15 47 (12.27%) Translating Business Requirements
16 45 (11.75%) Roadmaps
17 43 (11.23%) Performance Tuning
18 42 (10.97%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 102 (26.63%) SQL
2 86 (22.45%) JavaScript
3 82 (21.41%) Java
4 67 (17.49%) Python
5 51 (13.32%) PowerShell
6 25 (6.53%) Apex Code
7 24 (6.27%) C#
8 15 (3.92%) SOQL
9 10 (2.61%) SOSL
10 9 (2.35%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (2.35%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.83%) Bash
11 7 (1.83%) Groovy
11 7 (1.83%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.57%) JCL
12 6 (1.57%) VB
12 6 (1.57%) VB6
12 6 (1.57%) VBA
12 6 (1.57%) XPath
13 5 (1.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (35.25%) Security Cleared
2 115 (30.03%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.27%) Degree
4 17 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.61%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.83%) CISM
8 7 (1.83%) CISSP
9 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.78%) CCNP
10 3 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.52%) PMP
12 1 (0.26%) OCA
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.26%) RHCE
12 1 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.48%) QA
2 16 (4.18%) GDPR
3 13 (3.39%) GRC
4 12 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.57%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.31%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.31%) PSD2
8 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.04%) NCSC
9 3 (0.78%) HL7
9 3 (0.78%) IFRS
9 3 (0.78%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.78%) PMO
10 2 (0.52%) NIST
10 2 (0.52%) SEPA
10 2 (0.52%) SLA
11 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 39 (10.18%) Active Directory
2 31 (8.09%) Docker
3 11 (2.87%) Postfix
4 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.26%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 18 (4.70%) Grafana
2 10 (2.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.83%) Ansible
4 5 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.78%) Terraform
6 2 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.52%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.26%) Argo
7 1 (0.26%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.26%) SELinux
7 1 (0.26%) systemd
Vendors
1 105 (27.42%) ServiceNow
2 70 (18.28%) Oracle
3 38 (9.92%) Microsoft
4 35 (9.14%) Salesforce
5 32 (8.36%) BeyondTrust
5 32 (8.36%) Centrify
5 32 (8.36%) CyberArk
6 24 (6.27%) SAP
7 20 (5.22%) Workday
8 18 (4.70%) MuleSoft
9 17 (4.44%) Jaspersoft
10 14 (3.66%) Atlassian
11 9 (2.35%) Pega
12 8 (2.09%) Guidewire
12 8 (2.09%) IBM
12 8 (2.09%) OutSystems
13 7 (1.83%) webMethods
14 6 (1.57%) Dell
15 5 (1.31%) Google
16 3 (0.78%) Splunk
75 SOAP jobs in England