SOAP Contracts in England

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SOAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOAP over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 284 272
Rank change year-on-year -65 -12 -23
Contract jobs citing SOAP 200 443 710
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.92% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.68% 3.99% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 309 504
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £459 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £638
90th Percentile £699 £730 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £54.11 £33.23
25th Percentile - £54.47 £43.69
Median hourly rate - £55.69 £51.88
Median % change year-on-year - +7.34% +130.56%
75th Percentile - £57.53 £57.75
90th Percentile - £58.26 £64.05
UK median hourly rate - £55.69 £51.88
% change year-on-year - +7.34% +48.21%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

SOAP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,471 11,102 18,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.55% 22.99% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,300 8,242 14,179
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 133 215
10th Percentile £22.35 £26.60 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +10.99%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in England

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAP in England.

Daily rate trend for SOAP in England

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in England

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOAP in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 15 May 2024. 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 -22 112 £550 - 39
South East -13 31 £500 - 20
North of England +11 21 £525 +2.94% 19
North West +20 18 £500 - 12
Midlands +1 10 £563 +4.17% 8
South West +9 6 £463 -31.99% 2
West Midlands -1 6 £563 -16.67% 6
East of England +8 5 £425 +19.72% 8
East Midlands +4 4 £494 -1.25% 2
North East +12 2 £600 - 2
Yorkshire +9 1 - - 6
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (8.50%) Apache
2 15 (7.50%) Confluence
3 12 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (5.00%) Anypoint
5 8 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (3.00%) SharePoint
7 5 (2.50%) Mule
7 5 (2.50%) Mule ESB
8 4 (2.00%) WebLogic
8 4 (2.00%) WebSphere
9 2 (1.00%) ArcGIS
9 2 (1.00%) Jadu
10 1 (0.50%) Appian
10 1 (0.50%) CMS
10 1 (0.50%) Drupal
10 1 (0.50%) JBoss
10 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.50%) Temenos T24
2 6 (3.00%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.50%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (1.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.50%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.50%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (30.00%) Azure
2 45 (22.50%) AWS
3 26 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (11.50%) GitHub
5 18 (9.00%) GCP
5 18 (9.00%) Serverless
6 15 (7.50%) Apigee
7 14 (7.00%) SaaS
8 12 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (4.50%) Boomi
9 9 (4.50%) Power Platform
10 8 (4.00%) Azure API Management
11 7 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.50%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.50%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (3.50%) Kong
11 7 (3.50%) PaaS
12 6 (3.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (3.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.00%) BGP
1 12 (6.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 12 (6.00%) MPLS
1 12 (6.00%) VPN
2 11 (5.50%) Radio Access Network
3 9 (4.50%) HTTP
4 8 (4.00%) SSH
5 7 (3.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.00%) DNS
6 2 (1.00%) Internet
7 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.50%) SSL
7 1 (0.50%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.00%) SQL Server
2 32 (16.00%) MySQL
3 27 (13.50%) NoSQL
4 22 (11.00%) MongoDB
5 21 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (9.00%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.50%) Relational Database
9 8 (4.00%) OLAP
9 8 (4.00%) OLTP
9 8 (4.00%) Power BI
10 7 (3.50%) Oracle OLAP
11 4 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.50%) Big Data
12 3 (1.50%) DB2
13 2 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (1.00%) GIS
13 2 (1.00%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 46 (23.00%) JIRA
2 34 (17.00%) Git
3 19 (9.50%) GitLab
4 18 (9.00%) Jenkins
5 17 (8.50%) SoapUI
6 13 (6.50%) Postman
7 12 (6.00%) JUnit
7 12 (6.00%) Robot Framework
7 12 (6.00%) Selenium
7 12 (6.00%) TestRail
8 11 (5.50%) Cucumber
9 9 (4.50%) Visual Studio
10 8 (4.00%) JMeter
11 7 (3.50%) TeamCity
12 6 (3.00%) Bitbucket
13 5 (2.50%) Artifactory
14 4 (2.00%) Zephyr
15 3 (1.50%) Cypress.io
15 3 (1.50%) Rational DOORS
15 3 (1.50%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (20.00%) Finance
2 38 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.50%) Banking
5 11 (5.50%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.50%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.00%) Retail
8 4 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Arabic Language
9 2 (1.00%) French Language
9 2 (1.00%) German Language
9 2 (1.00%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.00%) Korean Language
9 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.00%) Marketing
9 2 (1.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 71 (35.50%) Developer
2 38 (19.00%) Architect
3 17 (8.50%) Software Engineer
4 13 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (6.00%) Analyst
5 12 (6.00%) Senior
6 10 (5.00%) Consultant
6 10 (5.00%) MuleSoft Developer
6 10 (5.00%) SailPoint Engineer
6 10 (5.00%) Test Engineer
7 9 (4.50%) Java Developer
7 9 (4.50%) Lead
7 9 (4.50%) Network Engineer
8 8 (4.00%) Business Analyst
8 8 (4.00%) SailPoint Architect
8 8 (4.00%) SailPoint Developer
8 8 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
9 7 (3.50%) AWS Architect
9 7 (3.50%) Integration Developer
9 7 (3.50%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (51.00%) REST
2 86 (43.00%) XML
3 72 (36.00%) Web Services
4 55 (27.50%) JSON
5 38 (19.00%) HTML
6 37 (18.50%) RESTful
7 32 (16.00%) Spring
8 28 (14.00%) LDAP
8 28 (14.00%) SailPoint
9 27 (13.50%) JSP
9 27 (13.50%) Servlets
10 26 (13.00%) SPML
11 25 (12.50%) .NET
12 19 (9.50%) Spring Boot
13 18 (9.00%) JDBC
14 15 (7.50%) J2EE
14 15 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
15 14 (7.00%) AngularJS
15 14 (7.00%) Kafka
15 14 (7.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.50%) Onboarding
2 12 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.00%) Mainframe
3 8 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.50%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.50%) DataPower
4 7 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.50%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.50%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.50%) CMDB
6 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.00%) Wiki
8 1 (0.50%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.50%) Linux
2 15 (7.50%) Windows
3 13 (6.50%) Unix
4 4 (2.00%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Android
6 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (36.00%) Agile
2 53 (26.50%) DevOps
3 40 (20.00%) Scrum
4 39 (19.50%) CI/CD
4 39 (19.50%) Test Automation
5 34 (17.00%) API Management
5 34 (17.00%) Microservices
6 28 (14.00%) Unit Testing
7 27 (13.50%) Software Engineering
8 26 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (13.00%) TDD
9 25 (12.50%) RBAC
10 22 (11.00%) OO
10 22 (11.00%) Workflow
11 21 (10.50%) SOA
12 19 (9.50%) BDD
12 19 (9.50%) Integration Testing
12 19 (9.50%) Security Testing
13 18 (9.00%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (8.50%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 89 (44.50%) SQL
2 68 (34.00%) Java
3 50 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 35 (17.50%) Python
5 29 (14.50%) C#
6 14 (7.00%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.00%) Bicep
7 6 (3.00%) Perl
8 5 (2.50%) Groovy
9 4 (2.00%) Apex Code
9 4 (2.00%) C
9 4 (2.00%) C++
10 3 (1.50%) PHP
10 3 (1.50%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.00%) XPath
12 1 (0.50%) ABAP
12 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.50%) Ruby
12 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.50%) X++
Qualifications
1 19 (9.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.00%) Degree
4 5 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.00%) CISSP
6 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.50%) QA
2 7 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.00%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.50%) GDPR
5 2 (1.00%) HL7
6 1 (0.50%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (16.50%) Docker
2 28 (14.00%) Active Directory
3 26 (13.00%) IAG
4 25 (12.50%) ACF2
4 25 (12.50%) RACF
5 4 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 18 (9.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.00%) Terraform
3 8 (4.00%) Ansible
4 7 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.50%) CloudHub
5 5 (2.50%) PingFederate
6 3 (1.50%) TIBCO Hawk
7 2 (1.00%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.50%) Anchore
8 1 (0.50%) Control-M
8 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.50%) Kibana
8 1 (0.50%) Packer
8 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 52 (26.00%) Oracle
2 35 (17.50%) ServiceNow
3 26 (13.00%) Microsoft
4 25 (12.50%) Salesforce
5 18 (9.00%) Sybase
6 16 (8.00%) IBM
7 15 (7.50%) SAP
8 11 (5.50%) MuleSoft
9 10 (5.00%) Google
10 9 (4.50%) CyberArk
11 8 (4.00%) BeyondTrust
12 7 (3.50%) TSYS
13 5 (2.50%) Pega
13 5 (2.50%) Ping Identity
13 5 (2.50%) WSO2
14 4 (2.00%) TIBCO
15 3 (1.50%) Micro Focus
16 2 (1.00%) ESRI
16 2 (1.00%) HP
16 2 (1.00%) Novell