SOAP Contracts in the North of England

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 139 198
Rank change year-on-year +1 +59 -14
Contract jobs citing SOAP 24 53 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.60% 1.08% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.56% 5.03% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 36
10th Percentile £378 £485 £313
25th Percentile £390 £507 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -7.69%
75th Percentile £700 £706 £538
90th Percentile £739 £738 £616
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +6.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.88 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year -24.21% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 675 1,053 1,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.00% 21.41% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 805 1,212
10th Percentile £355 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 37 24
10th Percentile £26.50 £45.88 £35.03
25th Percentile £41.09 - £60.63
Median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year - -36.52% +102.08%
75th Percentile £67.63 £62.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £74.50 £69.25 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +32.65%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
North West +20 21 £488 -11.36% 13
Yorkshire -5 2 £500 -28.57% 1
North East -7 1 £525 - 3
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) MQSeries
2 1 (4.17%) nginx
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Temenos T24
2 1 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Boomi
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (8.33%) Apigee
4 2 (8.33%) Kong
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.17%) BrowserStack
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) npm
5 1 (4.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (4.17%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) OLAP
2 2 (8.33%) OLTP
3 1 (4.17%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.17%) DB2
3 1 (4.17%) MS Access
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 3 (12.50%) GitLab
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Appium
3 1 (4.17%) Babel
3 1 (4.17%) Fiddler
3 1 (4.17%) Maven
3 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.17%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) SoapUI
3 1 (4.17%) webpack
3 1 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (25.00%) Banking
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Military
4 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Architect
2 13 (54.17%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Integration Architect
4 6 (25.00%) Migration Architect
5 5 (20.83%) Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Senior
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Architect
7 2 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Automation Tester
8 1 (4.17%) AWS Solution Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Integration Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Mobile Tester
8 1 (4.17%) Payments Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Developer
8 1 (4.17%) SAP Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) RAML
1 12 (50.00%) Web Services
2 10 (41.67%) REST
3 6 (25.00%) RESTful
4 4 (16.67%) Spring
4 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 3 (12.50%) Kafka
6 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.33%) Apache Camel
6 2 (8.33%) CSS
6 2 (8.33%) HTML
6 2 (8.33%) IBM Integration Bus
6 2 (8.33%) J2EE
6 2 (8.33%) JSON
6 2 (8.33%) Middleware
6 2 (8.33%) OAuth
6 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (8.33%) Spring Integration
6 2 (8.33%) XML
7 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) DataPower
1 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.17%) CMDB
2 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (4.17%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Agile
1 11 (45.83%) Migration
2 10 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 9 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 8 (33.33%) API Management
5 6 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 5 (20.83%) Business Strategy
6 5 (20.83%) Data Privacy
6 5 (20.83%) SOA
6 5 (20.83%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (16.67%) DevOps
7 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven
7 4 (16.67%) Microservices
7 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
8 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (12.50%) Scrum
8 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 3 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Java
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
4 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
3 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) IBM
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle
1 3 (12.50%) Splunk
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) TSYS
3 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) SnapLogic
3 1 (4.17%) Talend