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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 232 338
Rank change year-on-year -34 +106 -51
Contract jobs citing SOAP 376 260 206
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 1.09% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.69% 4.82% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 175 144
10th Percentile £394 £389 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -4.91% +1.85%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £619
90th Percentile £750 £700 £699
UK median daily rate £550 £521 £550
% change year-on-year +5.57% -5.27% +4.76%

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 8,009 5,390 7,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.51% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,292 3,735 5,418
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £636 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 106 242
10th Percentile £30.98 £31.28 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.81 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £79.10 £81.01 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 3 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
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 3 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 +8 213 £625 +19.05% 44
South East -49 57 £550 +10.00% 24
Midlands -39 41 £450 -5.26% 10
North of England -79 34 £400 -18.70% 10
West Midlands -46 33 £450 -5.26% 6
South West -21 20 £550 -4.35% 6
North West -48 18 £394 -24.42% 9
Yorkshire -53 11 £460 -8.00% 1
East Midlands -24 6 £455 +1.79% 4
North East -26 5 £375 -23.08%
East of England -35 4 £550 - 3
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 (4.79%) Confluence
2 10 (2.66%) Apache
2 10 (2.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.13%) WebLogic
4 7 (1.86%) CICS
5 5 (1.33%) JBoss
5 5 (1.33%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.06%) Appian
6 4 (1.06%) IIS
7 3 (0.80%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.80%) Mule
7 3 (0.80%) Oracle Service Bus
8 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.53%) CMS
8 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.27%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (3.99%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.06%) Maximo
3 4 (1.06%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.80%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.53%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.53%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.53%) ProductWriter
5 2 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.27%) Magento
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.27%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.27%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 121 (32.18%) Azure
2 114 (30.32%) AWS
3 53 (14.10%) GCP
4 34 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 28 (7.45%) Amazon S3
5 28 (7.45%) OCI
5 28 (7.45%) PaaS
6 23 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (5.85%) Serverless
8 19 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
8 19 (5.05%) Entra ID
9 18 (4.79%) AWS KMS
9 18 (4.79%) Route 53
10 16 (4.26%) GitHub
10 16 (4.26%) SaaS
11 15 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.13%) FTP
2 6 (1.60%) HTTP
3 2 (0.53%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.27%) 5G
4 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.27%) Modbus
4 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.27%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.78%) DynamoDB
2 23 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (6.12%) Relational Database
2 23 (6.12%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (2.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (2.39%) DB2
7 8 (2.13%) Metadata
8 6 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (1.60%) Power BI
9 5 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.33%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.80%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.53%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 56 (14.89%) Git
2 41 (10.90%) Jenkins
3 35 (9.31%) JIRA
4 33 (8.78%) Postman
5 29 (7.71%) JUnit
6 25 (6.65%) Mockito
7 23 (6.12%) Maven
8 22 (5.85%) GitLab
9 20 (5.32%) SoapUI
10 19 (5.05%) SonarQube
11 14 (3.72%) DbUnit
12 13 (3.46%) jMock
13 11 (2.93%) Bitbucket Server
14 10 (2.66%) Cucumber
15 7 (1.86%) Selenium
15 7 (1.86%) Visual Studio
16 6 (1.60%) REST Assured
16 6 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
17 4 (1.06%) Ant
17 4 (1.06%) Eclipse
General
1 133 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.76%) Public Sector
3 60 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (11.17%) Finance
5 19 (5.05%) Banking
5 19 (5.05%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.13%) Billing
8 5 (1.33%) Law
8 5 (1.33%) Legal
8 5 (1.33%) Marketing
8 5 (1.33%) Retail
9 3 (0.80%) Automotive
9 3 (0.80%) Games
9 3 (0.80%) Military
9 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.53%) Aviation
10 2 (0.53%) Local Government
10 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 127 (33.78%) Developer
2 121 (32.18%) Architect
3 36 (9.57%) ServiceNow Architect
4 34 (9.04%) CyberArk Architect
5 33 (8.78%) Senior
6 28 (7.45%) Lead
7 24 (6.38%) Java Developer
8 22 (5.85%) ServiceNow Developer
9 21 (5.59%) Analyst
10 20 (5.32%) Senior Developer
11 19 (5.05%) Consultant
12 18 (4.79%) Technical Architect
13 16 (4.26%) Salesforce Developer
14 15 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.46%) Business Analyst
16 12 (3.19%) Automation Engineer
16 12 (3.19%) Integration Specialist
17 11 (2.93%) Azure Developer
18 10 (2.66%) Cloud Specialist
18 10 (2.66%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (87.50%) REST
2 99 (26.33%) Web Services
3 84 (22.34%) XML
4 83 (22.07%) JSON
5 51 (13.56%) OAuth
6 43 (11.44%) LDAP
7 40 (10.64%) Middleware
8 34 (9.04%) AngularJS
9 33 (8.78%) RESTful
10 31 (8.24%) Spring
10 31 (8.24%) Spring Boot
11 29 (7.71%) Oracle Fusion
12 26 (6.91%) CSS
13 25 (6.65%) .NET
14 24 (6.38%) HTML
15 22 (5.85%) Lightning Web Components
16 21 (5.59%) Hibernate
16 21 (5.59%) JPA
16 21 (5.59%) JWT
17 20 (5.32%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.23%) CMDB
2 44 (11.70%) Enterprise Software
3 39 (10.37%) Security Posture
4 32 (8.51%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.72%) Low-Code
6 14 (3.72%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.66%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.39%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.86%) DataPower
9 7 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.86%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.60%) N-Tier
10 6 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.60%) Online Banking
11 5 (1.33%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.33%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.33%) Digital Wallet
12 4 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.12%) Linux
2 7 (1.86%) zOS
3 5 (1.33%) Windows
4 4 (1.06%) Unix
5 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (37.23%) Agile
2 127 (33.78%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (27.13%) DevOps
4 98 (26.06%) ITSM
5 92 (24.47%) Integration Patterns
6 81 (21.54%) CI/CD
7 80 (21.28%) Technical Leadership
8 65 (17.29%) Data Modelling
9 63 (16.76%) Scrum
10 58 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 55 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 49 (13.03%) ERP
13 47 (12.50%) ITIL
14 45 (11.97%) Microservices
14 45 (11.97%) Translating Business Requirements
14 45 (11.97%) Workflow
15 44 (11.70%) Roadmaps
16 43 (11.44%) Task Automation
17 41 (10.90%) Performance Tuning
17 41 (10.90%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 100 (26.60%) SQL
2 86 (22.87%) JavaScript
3 81 (21.54%) Java
4 65 (17.29%) Python
5 54 (14.36%) PowerShell
6 23 (6.12%) C#
7 21 (5.59%) Apex Code
8 12 (3.19%) SOQL
9 9 (2.39%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (2.13%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.86%) Bash
11 7 (1.86%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.86%) SOSL
12 6 (1.60%) Groovy
12 6 (1.60%) JCL
12 6 (1.60%) PHP
12 6 (1.60%) VB
12 6 (1.60%) VB6
12 6 (1.60%) VBA
13 5 (1.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 138 (36.70%) Security Cleared
2 122 (32.45%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.65%) Degree
4 16 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.99%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.86%) CISM
8 7 (1.86%) CISSP
9 6 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.06%) CCNP
10 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.53%) 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 20 (5.32%) QA
2 16 (4.26%) GDPR
3 11 (2.93%) GRC
4 8 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.60%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.33%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.33%) PSD2
8 4 (1.06%) NCSC
9 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.80%) HL7
9 3 (0.80%) IFRS
9 3 (0.80%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.53%) NIST
10 2 (0.53%) PMO
10 2 (0.53%) SEPA
10 2 (0.53%) SLA
11 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 41 (10.90%) Active Directory
2 30 (7.98%) Docker
3 11 (2.93%) Postfix
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.27%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 18 (4.79%) Grafana
2 10 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (2.39%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.86%) Ansible
5 5 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.80%) Terraform
7 2 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.53%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.27%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.27%) Control-M
8 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.27%) Puppet
8 1 (0.27%) SELinux
8 1 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 99 (26.33%) ServiceNow
2 71 (18.88%) Oracle
3 37 (9.84%) Microsoft
4 34 (9.04%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (9.04%) Centrify
4 34 (9.04%) CyberArk
5 29 (7.71%) Salesforce
6 23 (6.12%) SAP
7 17 (4.52%) Jaspersoft
7 17 (4.52%) MuleSoft
7 17 (4.52%) Workday
8 14 (3.72%) Atlassian
9 9 (2.39%) Pega
10 8 (2.13%) Guidewire
10 8 (2.13%) OutSystems
11 7 (1.86%) IBM
12 5 (1.33%) Dell
12 5 (1.33%) webMethods
13 3 (0.80%) InterSystems
14 2 (0.53%) TIBCO