SOAP Contracts in the Midlands

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring SOAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOAP over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 128 124
Rank change year-on-year +32 -4 +34
Contract jobs citing SOAP 18 10 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.94% 0.36% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.64% 2.60% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 29
10th Percentile £400 £383 -
25th Percentile £411 £474 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £581 £540
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +7.64% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £628 £713
90th Percentile £585 £653 £731
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -3.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 384 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.69% 13.96% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 273 464
10th Percentile £315 £277 £313
25th Percentile £400 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £575 £622 £588
90th Percentile £678 £725 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 0
10th Percentile £23.96 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.71 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% - -
75th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the Midlands

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the Midlands

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the Midlands

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the Midlands

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
West Midlands +25 16 £440 -21.78% 14
East Midlands +9 2 £494 -21.04% 13
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (16.67%) AWS KMS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Route 53
4 2 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (22.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 7 (38.89%) Maven
3 6 (33.33%) JUnit
4 4 (22.22%) Mockito
5 3 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (16.67%) DbUnit
5 3 (16.67%) Git
5 3 (16.67%) jMock
5 3 (16.67%) SonarQube
6 2 (11.11%) Postman
7 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (5.56%) JBehave
7 1 (5.56%) Selenium
7 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
7 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Java Developer
3 4 (22.22%) SAP Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) ABAP Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Integration Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) SAP Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Support Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (77.78%) REST
2 9 (50.00%) Web Services
3 7 (38.89%) Spring
3 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
4 6 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 6 (33.33%) JPA
4 6 (33.33%) RESTful
5 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
5 5 (27.78%) Bootstrap
5 5 (27.78%) IDoc
5 5 (27.78%) Spring Batch
5 5 (27.78%) Spring Integration
6 4 (22.22%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (16.67%) EDI
7 3 (16.67%) J2EE
7 3 (16.67%) JDBC
7 3 (16.67%) PowerMock
7 3 (16.67%) XSLT
8 2 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) Microservices
2 7 (38.89%) Scrum
3 6 (33.33%) TDD
4 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
5 3 (16.67%) B2B
5 3 (16.67%) BDD
5 3 (16.67%) BPMN
5 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 3 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (16.67%) Kanban
5 3 (16.67%) OO
5 3 (16.67%) Open Source
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
5 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) ABAP
4 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 3 (16.67%) COBOL
5 3 (16.67%) Groovy
6 2 (11.11%) Apex Code
7 1 (5.56%) PHP
7 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.56%) Scala
7 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) SAP Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Grafana
1 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (27.78%) SAP
2 3 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 2 (11.11%) Adobe
3 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle