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

 6 months to
24 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 336 265
Rank change year-on-year +114 -71 +7
Contract jobs citing SOAP 397 182 345
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.31% 0.58% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.80% 2.69% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 94 200
10th Percentile £350 £311 £336
25th Percentile £400 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £589 £575 £657
90th Percentile £688 £646 £744
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -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 6,844 6,774 8,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.62% 21.76% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,605 4,306 6,274
10th Percentile £350 £360 £373
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £669 £675
90th Percentile £737 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 107 181
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -13.73%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +86 192 £500 -4.76% 35
South East 0 55 £496 +10.28% 41
Midlands +3 45 £440 -3.30% 12
North of England -17 39 £400 +2.56% 12
West Midlands -2 28 £463 +1.65% 9
North West -6 28 £390 - 9
East of England +11 26 £550 +10.00% 10
South West +23 19 £475 +6.15% 9
East Midlands - 17 £413 - 2
Yorkshire -26 9 £435 -13.00% 2
North East -9 2 £488 -17.37% 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 29 (7.30%) Confluence
2 19 (4.79%) WebLogic
3 17 (4.28%) JBoss
4 12 (3.02%) Apache
4 12 (3.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 10 (2.52%) WebSphere
6 8 (2.02%) Tomcat
7 7 (1.76%) Anypoint
7 7 (1.76%) nginx
8 6 (1.51%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (1.26%) IIS
9 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (1.26%) SharePoint
9 5 (1.26%) SugarCRM
10 4 (1.01%) Mule
11 3 (0.76%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.50%) CICS
12 2 (0.50%) Documentum
13 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.25%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (3.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (2.77%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (2.02%) SAP HCM
4 7 (1.76%) SAP Payroll
5 5 (1.26%) Aladdin
5 5 (1.26%) BusinessWorks
5 5 (1.26%) Maximo
6 4 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.76%) Oracle 11i
7 3 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.50%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.50%) Primavera
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 103 (25.94%) Azure
2 68 (17.13%) AWS
3 48 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (6.05%) OCI
5 22 (5.54%) PaaS
6 21 (5.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 21 (5.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 19 (4.79%) SaaS
8 17 (4.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 16 (4.03%) GitHub
10 15 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
10 15 (3.78%) Boomi
10 15 (3.78%) Serverless
11 14 (3.53%) Power Automate
12 11 (2.77%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.77%) GCP
12 11 (2.77%) SuccessFactors
13 10 (2.52%) AtomSphere
14 9 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.54%) HTTPS
2 21 (5.29%) SSL
3 18 (4.53%) HTTP
4 4 (1.01%) DNS
4 4 (1.01%) FTP
4 4 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.01%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.76%) DHCP
5 3 (0.76%) VPN
6 2 (0.50%) AMQP
6 2 (0.50%) BGP
6 2 (0.50%) DSL
6 2 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.50%) MPLS
7 1 (0.25%) Firewall
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.56%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.05%) Relational Database
3 15 (3.78%) MongoDB
3 15 (3.78%) Oracle Database
4 13 (3.27%) DB2
4 13 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.02%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (2.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 10 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.52%) MySQL
8 7 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.26%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.26%) Redis
10 4 (1.01%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.76%) Oracle Database 10g
11 3 (0.76%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 90 (22.67%) JIRA
2 64 (16.12%) Git
3 47 (11.84%) Jenkins
4 36 (9.07%) JUnit
5 24 (6.05%) Postman
5 24 (6.05%) Selenium
6 22 (5.54%) SoapUI
7 19 (4.79%) Maven
8 16 (4.03%) Cucumber
9 13 (3.27%) Eclipse
9 13 (3.27%) SonarQube
10 12 (3.02%) REST Assured
11 10 (2.52%) Mockito
12 8 (2.02%) IntelliJ
13 7 (1.76%) Gradle
13 7 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (1.51%) GitLab
15 5 (1.26%) Bitbucket
15 5 (1.26%) XCTest
15 5 (1.26%) Zephyr
General
1 155 (39.04%) Social Skills
2 77 (19.40%) Finance
3 66 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (13.10%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.79%) Marketing
6 18 (4.53%) Banking
7 15 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.78%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.51%) Law
11 5 (1.26%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (1.26%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.26%) Military
12 4 (1.01%) Billing
13 3 (0.76%) Automotive
13 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.50%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 175 (44.08%) Developer
2 66 (16.62%) Architect
3 35 (8.82%) Senior
4 33 (8.31%) Consultant
5 28 (7.05%) Lead
5 28 (7.05%) ServiceNow Developer
6 24 (6.05%) Analyst
7 22 (5.54%) ServiceNow Architect
8 19 (4.79%) Java Developer
8 19 (4.79%) Salesforce Developer
9 17 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (4.03%) Integration Developer
11 15 (3.78%) Salesforce Architect
12 14 (3.53%) Integration Specialist
12 14 (3.53%) Tester
13 13 (3.27%) Technical Leader
14 12 (3.02%) Senior Developer
15 11 (2.77%) SAP Consultant
15 11 (2.77%) Senior Architect
15 11 (2.77%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (75.06%) REST
2 110 (27.71%) Web Services
3 107 (26.95%) XML
4 91 (22.92%) JSON
5 59 (14.86%) HTML
6 46 (11.59%) Middleware
7 43 (10.83%) OAuth
7 43 (10.83%) RESTful
8 41 (10.33%) Spring
9 40 (10.08%) AngularJS
10 37 (9.32%) .NET
11 35 (8.82%) Lightning Web Components
12 30 (7.56%) CSS
13 29 (7.30%) Spring Boot
14 27 (6.80%) HTML5
15 25 (6.30%) JMS
15 25 (6.30%) Visualforce
16 22 (5.54%) Oracle Fusion
17 21 (5.29%) React
18 20 (5.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.07%) CMDB
2 25 (6.30%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.28%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.27%) Replication
7 7 (1.76%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.51%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.26%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.26%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.26%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.26%) SCADA
9 5 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.26%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.07%) Linux
2 35 (8.82%) Unix
3 23 (5.79%) Windows
4 9 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.76%) AIX
6 2 (0.50%) CentOS
7 1 (0.25%) VMS
7 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (52.90%) Agile
2 147 (37.03%) DevOps
3 135 (34.01%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (26.20%) Scrum
5 103 (25.94%) CI/CD
6 68 (17.13%) Microservices
7 64 (16.12%) ITSM
8 63 (15.87%) Test Automation
9 61 (15.37%) Integration Patterns
10 54 (13.60%) Data Modelling
11 49 (12.34%) Mentoring
12 42 (10.58%) Deployment Automation
13 41 (10.33%) Analytics
14 38 (9.57%) API Integration
14 38 (9.57%) Requirements Gathering
14 38 (9.57%) Workflow
15 37 (9.32%) Migration
16 36 (9.07%) API Management
16 36 (9.07%) Translating Business Requirements
17 33 (8.31%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 117 (29.47%) JavaScript
2 108 (27.20%) Java
3 103 (25.94%) SQL
4 39 (9.82%) Python
5 38 (9.57%) C#
6 35 (8.82%) Apex Code
7 24 (6.05%) PL/SQL
8 20 (5.04%) Groovy
9 16 (4.03%) Shell Script
10 15 (3.78%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.27%) ABAP
12 9 (2.27%) Scala
12 9 (2.27%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.51%) DataWeave
13 6 (1.51%) PHP
13 6 (1.51%) XPath
14 5 (1.26%) Bicep
14 5 (1.26%) COBOL
14 5 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (1.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 116 (29.22%) Security Cleared
2 91 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.32%) Degree
4 26 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.76%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.01%) CISM
8 4 (1.01%) CISSP
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.50%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) ISEB
10 1 (0.25%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.25%) OCP
10 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.08%) QA
2 22 (5.54%) GDPR
3 13 (3.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.26%) GRC
6 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.50%) SEPA
6 2 (0.50%) SLA
6 2 (0.50%) WCAG
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%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) NIST
7 1 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 44 (11.08%) Docker
2 9 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.76%) Postfix
3 3 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (5.79%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (4.28%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.53%) Terraform
4 8 (2.02%) Puppet
5 6 (1.51%) Ansible
6 5 (1.26%) CloudHub
6 5 (1.26%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.26%) TIBCO Hawk
7 4 (1.01%) Grafana
8 2 (0.50%) Rsyslog
8 2 (0.50%) 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 82 (20.65%) ServiceNow
2 74 (18.64%) Oracle
3 53 (13.35%) Microsoft
4 51 (12.85%) Salesforce
5 41 (10.33%) SAP
6 22 (5.54%) IBM
6 22 (5.54%) webMethods
7 20 (5.04%) MuleSoft
8 15 (3.78%) HP
9 13 (3.27%) BMC
9 13 (3.27%) Ivanti
9 13 (3.27%) Pega
9 13 (3.27%) Remedy
10 10 (2.52%) Axway
11 8 (2.02%) Blue Prism
11 8 (2.02%) Workday
12 7 (1.76%) Siebel
12 7 (1.76%) Software AG
12 7 (1.76%) Splunk
13 6 (1.51%) Atlassian
105 SOAP jobs in England