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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 225 351
Rank change year-on-year -49 +126 -70
Contract jobs citing SOAP 373 281 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.13% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.55% 5.03% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 192 140
10th Percentile £394 £371 £406
25th Percentile £450 £427 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £517 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.81% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £619
90th Percentile £750 £680 £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 1
10th Percentile £45.05 - -
25th Percentile £51.13 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £36.00
75th Percentile £76.25 - -
90th Percentile £83.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £36.00
% change year-on-year - - -35.35%

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 8,202 5,586 7,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.08% 22.52% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,407 3,877 5,488
10th Percentile £363 £358 £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 £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 111 260
10th Percentile £30.50 £32.31 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +25.63% -23.46%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -23.08%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +21 211 £608 +15.71% 40
South East -46 57 £550 +10.00% 22
Midlands -41 41 £450 -3.23% 7
West Midlands -41 33 £450 -5.26% 4
North of England -86 30 £394 -18.18% 9
South West -22 18 £550 -4.35% 5
North West -62 14 £368 -22.63% 6
Yorkshire -54 11 £460 -8.00% 2
East Midlands -21 6 £455 +26.39% 3
East of England -31 5 £525 -4.55% 6
North East -32 5 £375 -23.08% 1
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 18 (4.83%) Confluence
2 10 (2.68%) Apache
3 9 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.41%) WebLogic
4 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.88%) CICS
5 7 (1.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.34%) IIS
7 4 (1.07%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.07%) Appian
7 4 (1.07%) JBoss
7 4 (1.07%) Mule
7 4 (1.07%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.54%) CMS
8 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.27%) HCL Domino
9 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (2.68%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.07%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.07%) Maximo
4 3 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.80%) Remedy AR System
4 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.54%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.54%) ProductWriter
5 2 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.54%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 118 (31.64%) Azure
2 105 (28.15%) AWS
3 43 (11.53%) GCP
4 36 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 28 (7.51%) Amazon S3
6 23 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (5.90%) SaaS
7 22 (5.90%) Serverless
8 21 (5.63%) PaaS
9 19 (5.09%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (5.09%) Entra ID
10 18 (4.83%) AWS KMS
10 18 (4.83%) GitHub
10 18 (4.83%) OCI
10 18 (4.83%) Route 53
11 15 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (3.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.41%) FTP
2 8 (2.14%) HTTP
3 2 (0.54%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.54%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.27%) 5G
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) Intranet
4 1 (0.27%) Modbus
4 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.27%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.85%) DynamoDB
2 28 (7.51%) SQL Server
3 27 (7.24%) Relational Database
4 23 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (4.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (2.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 9 (2.41%) Db2
8 8 (2.14%) Metadata
9 6 (1.61%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.61%) Power BI
10 4 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 57 (15.28%) Git
2 45 (12.06%) Jenkins
3 37 (9.92%) JIRA
4 28 (7.51%) JUnit
5 25 (6.70%) Mockito
6 23 (6.17%) Postman
7 22 (5.90%) GitLab
7 22 (5.90%) Maven
8 19 (5.09%) SonarQube
9 17 (4.56%) SoapUI
10 14 (3.75%) DbUnit
11 13 (3.49%) jMock
12 11 (2.95%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (2.68%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.88%) Ant
14 7 (1.88%) Eclipse
14 7 (1.88%) Selenium
14 7 (1.88%) Visual Studio
15 6 (1.61%) REST Assured
15 6 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 115 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 60 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (15.82%) Public Sector
4 47 (12.60%) Finance
5 21 (5.63%) Telecoms
6 19 (5.09%) Banking
7 8 (2.14%) Billing
7 8 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.61%) Marketing
8 6 (1.61%) Retail
9 5 (1.34%) Law
9 5 (1.34%) Legal
10 3 (0.80%) Automotive
10 3 (0.80%) Games
10 3 (0.80%) Military
10 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Aviation
11 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Local Government
11 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (38.34%) Developer
2 114 (30.56%) Architect
3 41 (10.99%) Senior
4 37 (9.92%) ServiceNow Architect
5 26 (6.97%) Lead
5 26 (6.97%) Senior Developer
6 25 (6.70%) ServiceNow Developer
7 23 (6.17%) Java Developer
8 22 (5.90%) CyberArk Architect
9 21 (5.63%) Consultant
10 20 (5.36%) Salesforce Developer
11 19 (5.09%) Technical Architect
12 18 (4.83%) Analyst
12 18 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.95%) Azure Developer
13 11 (2.95%) Technical Consultant
14 10 (2.68%) Business Analyst
14 10 (2.68%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 9 (2.41%) Lead Architect
16 8 (2.14%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (87.94%) REST
2 99 (26.54%) Web Services
3 86 (23.06%) XML
4 83 (22.25%) JSON
5 48 (12.87%) Middleware
6 46 (12.33%) OAuth
7 34 (9.12%) AngularJS
8 31 (8.31%) LDAP
8 31 (8.31%) RESTful
8 31 (8.31%) Spring Boot
9 30 (8.04%) Spring
10 29 (7.77%) .NET
11 27 (7.24%) HTML
11 27 (7.24%) Lightning Web Components
12 26 (6.97%) CSS
13 21 (5.63%) Hibernate
13 21 (5.63%) JPA
14 20 (5.36%) JWT
14 20 (5.36%) Spring Batch
14 20 (5.36%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 51 (13.67%) CMDB
2 34 (9.12%) Enterprise Software
3 32 (8.58%) Product Ownership
4 27 (7.24%) Security Posture
5 18 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (4.02%) Low-Code
7 13 (3.49%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.68%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.41%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.88%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.88%) DataPower
10 7 (1.88%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.61%) N-Tier
11 6 (1.61%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.61%) Online Banking
11 6 (1.61%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.34%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.07%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.70%) Linux
2 7 (1.88%) zOS
3 6 (1.61%) Windows
4 5 (1.34%) Unix
5 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (39.14%) Agile
2 121 (32.44%) Problem-Solving
3 107 (28.69%) DevOps
4 95 (25.47%) CI/CD
5 91 (24.40%) ITSM
6 84 (22.52%) Integration Patterns
7 75 (20.11%) Technical Leadership
8 74 (19.84%) Data Modelling
9 67 (17.96%) Scrum
10 66 (17.69%) Stakeholder Management
11 55 (14.75%) Workflow
12 48 (12.87%) Migration
13 47 (12.60%) ITIL
13 47 (12.60%) Microservices
13 47 (12.60%) Translating Business Requirements
14 46 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 45 (12.06%) ERP
16 44 (11.80%) Roadmaps
17 43 (11.53%) Performance Tuning
18 42 (11.26%) AI
Programming Languages
1 104 (27.88%) SQL
2 86 (23.06%) JavaScript
3 84 (22.52%) Java
4 57 (15.28%) Python
5 41 (10.99%) PowerShell
6 26 (6.97%) Apex Code
7 24 (6.43%) C#
8 16 (4.29%) SOQL
9 11 (2.95%) SOSL
10 9 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (2.41%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.14%) Groovy
12 7 (1.88%) Bash
12 7 (1.88%) XPath
13 6 (1.61%) JCL
13 6 (1.61%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.61%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.61%) VB
13 6 (1.61%) VB6
13 6 (1.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 128 (34.32%) Security Cleared
2 107 (28.69%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.17%) Degree
4 19 (5.09%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.68%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.88%) CISM
8 7 (1.88%) CISSP
9 6 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.80%) CCNP
10 3 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.54%) PMP
12 1 (0.27%) OCA
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.27%) RHCA
12 1 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.90%) QA
2 16 (4.29%) GDPR
3 14 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.49%) GRC
5 7 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.61%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.07%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.07%) ISO 8583
7 4 (1.07%) NCSC
8 3 (0.80%) HL7
8 3 (0.80%) IFRS
8 3 (0.80%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.80%) PMO
8 3 (0.80%) PSD2
9 2 (0.54%) NIST
9 2 (0.54%) SEPA
9 2 (0.54%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (8.31%) Docker
2 29 (7.77%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.95%) Postfix
4 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.27%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 18 (4.83%) Grafana
2 10 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.88%) Ansible
4 5 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.80%) Terraform
6 2 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.54%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.27%) Argo
7 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.27%) Puppet
7 1 (0.27%) SELinux
7 1 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 105 (28.15%) ServiceNow
2 67 (17.96%) Oracle
3 40 (10.72%) Salesforce
4 38 (10.19%) Microsoft
5 25 (6.70%) SAP
6 22 (5.90%) BeyondTrust
6 22 (5.90%) Centrify
6 22 (5.90%) CyberArk
7 20 (5.36%) MuleSoft
7 20 (5.36%) Workday
8 17 (4.56%) Jaspersoft
9 14 (3.75%) Atlassian
10 9 (2.41%) IBM
10 9 (2.41%) Pega
11 8 (2.14%) Guidewire
11 8 (2.14%) OutSystems
12 7 (1.88%) webMethods
13 6 (1.61%) Dell
14 5 (1.34%) Google
15 3 (0.80%) Splunk
81 SOAP jobs in England