SOAP Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring SOAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 70 73
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing SOAP 11 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.66% 1.09% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.92% 4.91% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 2
10th Percentile £413 £353 -
25th Percentile £437 £365 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.32% -11.17% -2.02%
75th Percentile £560 £433 £475
90th Percentile £575 £449 -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £419 £525
% change year-on-year +19.40% -20.24% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 159 163 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 24.05% 22.15% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 109 106
10th Percentile £347 £350 £400
25th Percentile £402 £363 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +4.38%
75th Percentile £539 £516 £601
90th Percentile £606 £619 £708
Scotland median daily rate £500 £470 £498
% change year-on-year +6.50% -5.63% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.86 - -
Median hourly rate £58.73 - -
75th Percentile £60.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £58.73 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +160.22%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

SOAP job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SOAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SOAP

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in Glasgow over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in Glasgow

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SOAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SOAP

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Apigee
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) HTTP
2 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
3 3 (27.27%) DHCP
4 2 (18.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (18.18%) Metadata
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Security Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
1 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) CMDB
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) STIX
2 1 (9.09%) TAXII
2 1 (9.09%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Analytics
2 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
3 3 (27.27%) ERP
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (27.27%) SIEM
3 3 (27.27%) SOAR
4 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Data Security
4 2 (18.18%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) Search Processing Language
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) Perl
4 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 2 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) ArcSight
2 3 (27.27%) F5
2 3 (27.27%) Infoblox
2 3 (27.27%) Splunk
3 2 (18.18%) MuleSoft
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Pega
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow