SOAP Contract Job Trends in the North East

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SOAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 37 37
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +19
Contract jobs citing SOAP 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.37% 0.98% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.80% 4.55% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £590 £650
Median % change year-on-year -40.68% -9.23% -
75th Percentile - £620 £675
90th Percentile - £638 -
England median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% +1.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 111 66 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 20.44% 21.50% 15.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 50 14
10th Percentile £373 £355 £298
25th Percentile £409 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £423
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +9.93% -26.43%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £485
90th Percentile £588 £627 £613
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 4
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £69.44 - £20.77
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £27.12
90th Percentile - - £38.56
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in the North East

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SOAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SOAP

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SOAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SOAP

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -20 2 £350 -40.68% 3
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared