SOAP Contracts in London

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 253 295
Rank change year-on-year -22 +42 -68
Contract jobs citing SOAP 113 276 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.64% 1.03% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.54% 3.79% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 215 241
10th Percentile £448 £405 £413
25th Percentile £475 £458 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -6.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £619 £648 £688
90th Percentile £699 £730 £741
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate - £55.69 £51.88
% change year-on-year - +7.34% +130.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London 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 4,456 7,282 12,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.18% 27.23% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 5,437 9,391
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £810 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 40 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £32.13
25th Percentile £23.99 £41.97 £35.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £67.25 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -44.24% +38.43% -0.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £68.20 £82.33 £78.98
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +8.15%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in London

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in London

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in London

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in London

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Central London +15 7 £613 +8.50% 1
South London -2 4 - -
East London -10 1 £613 +14.70%
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (8.85%) Anypoint
2 5 (4.42%) Apache
2 5 (4.42%) Mule
2 5 (4.42%) Mule ESB
2 5 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.54%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.54%) WebLogic
3 4 (3.54%) WebSphere
4 3 (2.65%) Confluence
5 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.77%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.88%) Jadu
6 1 (0.88%) JBoss
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) BusinessWorks
1 2 (1.77%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 33 (29.20%) Azure
2 28 (24.78%) AWS
3 20 (17.70%) GitHub
4 15 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (11.50%) Serverless
6 12 (10.62%) GCP
7 9 (7.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (7.96%) SaaS
8 8 (7.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (6.19%) Apigee
10 6 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (5.31%) Azure API Management
10 6 (5.31%) NuGet
10 6 (5.31%) PaaS
11 5 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (4.42%) OpenShift
11 5 (4.42%) Power Platform
11 5 (4.42%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.42%) HTTP
1 5 (4.42%) SSH
2 2 (1.77%) BGP
2 2 (1.77%) DNS
2 2 (1.77%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (1.77%) MPLS
2 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.77%) VPN
3 1 (0.88%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.88%) Internet
3 1 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (21.24%) SQL Server
2 22 (19.47%) MySQL
3 16 (14.16%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (10.62%) Relational Database
5 11 (9.73%) NoSQL
6 8 (7.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.42%) Power BI
8 4 (3.54%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.77%) Big Data
9 2 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.77%) GIS
10 1 (0.88%) DB2
10 1 (0.88%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.88%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (25.66%) Git
2 16 (14.16%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.16%) JIRA
3 13 (11.50%) JUnit
4 10 (8.85%) Postman
5 9 (7.96%) SoapUI
6 8 (7.08%) Selenium
7 7 (6.19%) Cucumber
8 6 (5.31%) GitLab
9 5 (4.42%) TeamCity
10 4 (3.54%) Visual Studio
11 3 (2.65%) HP UFT
11 3 (2.65%) JMeter
11 3 (2.65%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (1.77%) Mocha
12 2 (1.77%) Robot Framework
12 2 (1.77%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.77%) TestNG
12 2 (1.77%) TestRail
12 2 (1.77%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (23.01%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.12%) Finance
3 14 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.96%) Banking
4 9 (7.96%) Financial Institution
5 5 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.42%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.42%) Retail
6 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.77%) Front Office
7 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.88%) French Language
8 1 (0.88%) German Language
8 1 (0.88%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.88%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 47 (41.59%) Developer
2 16 (14.16%) Architect
3 12 (10.62%) Software Engineer
4 10 (8.85%) Java Developer
4 10 (8.85%) MuleSoft Developer
5 9 (7.96%) SailPoint Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Senior
6 8 (7.08%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.19%) Analyst
7 7 (6.19%) Business Analyst
7 7 (6.19%) SailPoint Architect
7 7 (6.19%) SailPoint Developer
7 7 (6.19%) Technical Analyst
7 7 (6.19%) Technical Business Analyst
8 6 (5.31%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Integration Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Lead
9 5 (4.42%) Consultant
9 5 (4.42%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (52.21%) REST
2 48 (42.48%) Web Services
3 46 (40.71%) XML
4 29 (25.66%) HTML
5 27 (23.89%) JSON
6 25 (22.12%) SailPoint
6 25 (22.12%) Spring
7 24 (21.24%) LDAP
7 24 (21.24%) RESTful
8 23 (20.35%) JSP
8 23 (20.35%) Servlets
8 23 (20.35%) SPML
9 15 (13.27%) JDBC
10 14 (12.39%) Spring Boot
11 12 (10.62%) AngularJS
11 12 (10.62%) Node.js
12 11 (9.73%) .NET
12 11 (9.73%) GraphQL
13 9 (7.96%) J2EE
14 8 (7.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.16%) Onboarding
2 11 (9.73%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.08%) Mobile App
4 7 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (6.19%) Mainframe
5 6 (5.31%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.42%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.42%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.65%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.65%) Wiki
9 2 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.88%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.88%) CMDB
10 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.73%) Linux
2 8 (7.08%) Unix
3 5 (4.42%) Windows
4 1 (0.88%) Android
4 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.63%) Agile
2 34 (30.09%) DevOps
3 26 (23.01%) Microservices
4 23 (20.35%) API Management
4 23 (20.35%) Scrum
4 23 (20.35%) TDD
5 22 (19.47%) RBAC
6 21 (18.58%) CI/CD
6 21 (18.58%) Software Engineering
7 18 (15.93%) BDD
8 16 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (13.27%) Test Automation
9 15 (13.27%) Unit Testing
10 12 (10.62%) Acceptance Criteria
10 12 (10.62%) SDLC
10 12 (10.62%) SOA
11 11 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (9.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (8.85%) API Testing
12 10 (8.85%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 50 (44.25%) Java
2 49 (43.36%) SQL
3 38 (33.63%) JavaScript
4 20 (17.70%) Python
5 12 (10.62%) C#
6 8 (7.08%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.31%) Bicep
7 6 (5.31%) Perl
8 4 (3.54%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.77%) SOQL
9 2 (1.77%) SOSL
9 2 (1.77%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.88%) PHP
10 1 (0.88%) Ruby
10 1 (0.88%) Solidity
10 1 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (8.85%) SC Cleared
1 10 (8.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.42%) Degree
3 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.96%) QA
2 7 (6.19%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.77%) HL7
4 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (20.35%) Active Directory
1 23 (20.35%) IAG
2 22 (19.47%) ACF2
2 22 (19.47%) RACF
3 20 (17.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (15.93%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.73%) Terraform
3 9 (7.96%) Ansible
4 5 (4.42%) CloudHub
5 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.77%) TIBCO Hawk
6 1 (0.88%) Control-M
6 1 (0.88%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 29 (25.66%) Oracle
1 29 (25.66%) ServiceNow
2 18 (15.93%) Salesforce
3 16 (14.16%) Sybase
4 15 (13.27%) Microsoft
5 10 (8.85%) MuleSoft
6 9 (7.96%) Google
7 7 (6.19%) BeyondTrust
7 7 (6.19%) CyberArk
7 7 (6.19%) IBM
8 5 (4.42%) SAP
8 5 (4.42%) WSO2
9 3 (2.65%) Micro Focus
10 2 (1.77%) CA
10 2 (1.77%) ESRI
10 2 (1.77%) Novell
10 2 (1.77%) Okta
10 2 (1.77%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.88%) Informatica
11 1 (0.88%) Workday