SOAP Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring SOAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 19 34
Rank change year-on-year -26 +15 -
Contract jobs citing SOAP 8 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 3.13% 6.54% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.77% 15.56% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 0
10th Percentile - £340 -
25th Percentile £350 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% - -
75th Percentile £401 - -
90th Percentile £402 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £400 £390 -
% change year-on-year +2.56% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 103 45 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 40.23% 42.06% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 35 13
10th Percentile £313 £306 £467
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £390 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -27.78% +22.73%
75th Percentile £468 £496 £567
90th Percentile £495 £623 £582
Cheshire median daily rate £420 £398 £494
% change year-on-year +5.59% -19.44% +9.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £96.50 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year +13.53% - -

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in Knutsford

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing SOAP

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) JBoss
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Apigee
2 5 (62.50%) Kong
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Gradle
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Analyst
1 7 (87.50%) Business Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) REST
2 7 (87.50%) JSON
2 7 (87.50%) Swagger
2 7 (87.50%) XML
3 5 (62.50%) JWT
3 5 (62.50%) OAuth
3 5 (62.50%) OpenAPI
4 1 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Integration Patterns
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (87.50%) Requirements Gathering
1 7 (87.50%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (87.50%) Validation
1 7 (87.50%) Workshop Facilitation
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) API Management
3 5 (62.50%) API Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Business Analysis
3 5 (62.50%) Business Process Analysis
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) GAP Analysis
3 5 (62.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 5 (62.50%) Use Case
4 4 (50.00%) Monetization
5 2 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (25.00%) PSD2
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) MuleSoft
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle