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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 332 272
Rank change year-on-year +120 -60 +9
Contract jobs citing SOAP 395 194 352
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 0.62% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.82% 2.86% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 107 209
10th Percentile £351 £312 £338
25th Percentile £408 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £656
90th Percentile £688 £680 £745
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £47.53 - £44.21
25th Percentile £49.81 - £45.88
Median hourly rate £54.25 £36.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.69% -24.21% -
75th Percentile £59.31 - £62.50
90th Percentile £61.98 - £90.95
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £36.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +50.69% -24.21% -

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 6,787 6,781 8,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.80% 21.77% 22.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,590 4,326 6,483
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £733 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 100 179
10th Percentile £30.08 £26.48 £37.29
25th Percentile £42.50 £45.51 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £73.78 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £63.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.29% +15.91% -15.38%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 +95 181 £500 -4.76% 128
South East +4 58 £500 +11.11% 120
Midlands +2 47 £440 -7.37% 16
North of England -14 41 £437 -16.76% 22
West Midlands -15 31 £451 -5.00% 12
North West -8 29 £431 -7.31% 15
East of England +12 28 £550 +10.00% 32
South West +15 19 £475 - 18
East Midlands - 16 £420 - 2
Yorkshire -24 10 £493 -1.50% 7
North East -9 2 £488 -12.56%
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 29 (7.34%) Confluence
2 18 (4.56%) JBoss
2 18 (4.56%) WebLogic
3 15 (3.80%) Apache
4 12 (3.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (3.04%) WebSphere
5 9 (2.28%) Tomcat
6 8 (2.03%) Anypoint
6 8 (2.03%) IIS
7 7 (1.77%) nginx
8 6 (1.52%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (1.27%) Mule
9 5 (1.27%) SugarCRM
10 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.76%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.76%) Oracle Service Bus
10 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.51%) CICS
11 2 (0.51%) Documentum
12 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Autodesk Inventor
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (3.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (2.53%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (2.03%) Maximo
4 6 (1.52%) SAP HCM
4 6 (1.52%) SAP Payroll
5 5 (1.27%) Aladdin
5 5 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.76%) BusinessWorks
6 3 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.51%) Kondor
7 2 (0.51%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.51%) Primavera
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.25%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 103 (26.08%) Azure
2 70 (17.72%) AWS
3 47 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (5.57%) OCI
5 21 (5.32%) Azure Service Bus
6 20 (5.06%) PaaS
6 20 (5.06%) SaaS
7 19 (4.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 16 (4.05%) Boomi
9 15 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (3.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 14 (3.54%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (3.54%) Serverless
11 13 (3.29%) Power Automate
12 11 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (2.78%) GCP
12 11 (2.78%) GitHub
13 10 (2.53%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.53%) AtomSphere
14 9 (2.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.82%) HTTPS
1 23 (5.82%) SSL
2 16 (4.05%) HTTP
3 4 (1.01%) FTP
3 4 (1.01%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.76%) DNS
4 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.76%) VPN
5 2 (0.51%) AMQP
5 2 (0.51%) BGP
5 2 (0.51%) DHCP
5 2 (0.51%) DSL
5 2 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.51%) MPLS
6 1 (0.25%) Firewall
6 1 (0.25%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.10%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.09%) Relational Database
3 18 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (3.80%) DB2
6 13 (3.29%) Oracle Database
7 12 (3.04%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (2.03%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 7 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (1.77%) MySQL
12 6 (1.52%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.52%) Redis
13 5 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.76%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.76%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 95 (24.05%) JIRA
2 71 (17.97%) Git
3 59 (14.94%) Jenkins
4 41 (10.38%) JUnit
5 26 (6.58%) Selenium
6 25 (6.33%) Maven
7 23 (5.82%) Postman
7 23 (5.82%) SoapUI
8 18 (4.56%) SonarQube
9 16 (4.05%) Cucumber
10 14 (3.54%) Mockito
11 13 (3.29%) Eclipse
11 13 (3.29%) REST Assured
12 8 (2.03%) IntelliJ
13 7 (1.77%) GitLab
13 7 (1.77%) Gradle
13 7 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.77%) Zephyr
14 6 (1.52%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.52%) XCTest
General
1 149 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 72 (18.23%) Finance
3 60 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (14.18%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.32%) Marketing
6 15 (3.80%) Banking
6 15 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.54%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.27%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.27%) Military
11 4 (1.01%) Billing
11 4 (1.01%) Law
11 4 (1.01%) Retail
12 3 (0.76%) Automotive
13 2 (0.51%) Back Office
13 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 170 (43.04%) Developer
2 61 (15.44%) Architect
3 37 (9.37%) Senior
4 34 (8.61%) Consultant
4 34 (8.61%) Lead
5 29 (7.34%) ServiceNow Developer
6 23 (5.82%) Java Developer
7 21 (5.32%) Analyst
8 20 (5.06%) ServiceNow Architect
9 19 (4.81%) Salesforce Developer
10 18 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (4.56%) Tester
11 17 (4.30%) Technical Leader
12 15 (3.80%) Integration Developer
13 14 (3.54%) Salesforce Architect
14 13 (3.29%) Integration Specialist
15 11 (2.78%) Senior Architect
15 11 (2.78%) webMethods Developer
16 10 (2.53%) Senior Developer
17 9 (2.28%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (75.44%) REST
2 114 (28.86%) Web Services
3 103 (26.08%) XML
4 87 (22.03%) JSON
5 59 (14.94%) HTML
6 47 (11.90%) Spring
7 45 (11.39%) RESTful
8 44 (11.14%) AngularJS
9 42 (10.63%) Middleware
10 41 (10.38%) OAuth
11 35 (8.86%) Spring Boot
12 33 (8.35%) .NET
12 33 (8.35%) Lightning Web Components
13 29 (7.34%) CSS
14 28 (7.09%) HTML5
15 23 (5.82%) Hibernate
15 23 (5.82%) Visualforce
16 22 (5.57%) JMS
17 21 (5.32%) OAuth2
18 20 (5.06%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.86%) CMDB
2 27 (6.84%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.03%) Replication
7 7 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.52%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.27%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.27%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.27%) SCADA
9 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.01%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.01%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.11%) Linux
2 35 (8.86%) Unix
3 22 (5.57%) Windows
4 11 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.51%) CentOS
6 1 (0.25%) VMS
6 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (54.68%) Agile
2 151 (38.23%) DevOps
3 131 (33.16%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (28.35%) Scrum
5 106 (26.84%) CI/CD
6 73 (18.48%) Microservices
7 68 (17.22%) ITSM
8 67 (16.96%) Test Automation
9 57 (14.43%) Integration Patterns
10 55 (13.92%) Data Modelling
11 49 (12.41%) Mentoring
12 42 (10.63%) Deployment Automation
13 41 (10.38%) Workflow
14 39 (9.87%) Requirements Gathering
15 38 (9.62%) TDD
16 37 (9.37%) Analytics
17 36 (9.11%) API Integration
18 34 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
18 34 (8.61%) Migration
19 33 (8.35%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 121 (30.63%) JavaScript
2 110 (27.85%) SQL
3 109 (27.59%) Java
4 43 (10.89%) Python
5 34 (8.61%) C#
6 33 (8.35%) Apex Code
7 22 (5.57%) Groovy
7 22 (5.57%) PL/SQL
8 16 (4.05%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.04%) ABAP
10 11 (2.78%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.28%) Scala
12 8 (2.03%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.77%) DataWeave
14 6 (1.52%) PHP
15 5 (1.27%) Bicep
15 5 (1.27%) COBOL
16 4 (1.01%) XPath
17 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 118 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 92 (23.29%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.85%) Degree
4 21 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.28%) ISTQB
7 8 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.51%) CISM
9 2 (0.51%) CISSP
9 2 (0.51%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) ISEB
10 1 (0.25%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.25%) OCP
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.14%) QA
2 19 (4.81%) GDPR
3 13 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.01%) GRC
6 2 (0.51%) Basel III
6 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.51%) MiFID
6 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.51%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) FISMA
7 1 (0.25%) GxP
7 1 (0.25%) HL7
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.25%) PSD2
7 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (12.41%) Docker
2 6 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.01%) Postfix
4 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.25%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.25%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.25%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (5.82%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (4.30%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.54%) Terraform
4 8 (2.03%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.03%) Puppet
5 7 (1.77%) Grafana
6 6 (1.52%) Ansible
6 6 (1.52%) CloudHub
7 3 (0.76%) TIBCO Hawk
8 2 (0.51%) Rsyslog
8 2 (0.51%) SCOM
9 1 (0.25%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.25%) Cilium
9 1 (0.25%) Control-M
9 1 (0.25%) HP Operations Orchestration
9 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 79 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 70 (17.72%) Oracle
3 52 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 50 (12.66%) Salesforce
5 38 (9.62%) SAP
6 22 (5.57%) webMethods
7 20 (5.06%) IBM
8 19 (4.81%) MuleSoft
9 15 (3.80%) HP
10 13 (3.29%) BMC
10 13 (3.29%) Ivanti
10 13 (3.29%) Remedy
11 11 (2.78%) Pega
12 10 (2.53%) Axway
13 8 (2.03%) Blue Prism
13 8 (2.03%) Splunk
14 7 (1.77%) CA Agile Central
14 7 (1.77%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.77%) Software AG
14 7 (1.77%) Workday
297 SOAP jobs in England