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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 155 173
Rank change year-on-year +27 +18 +3
Contract jobs citing SOAP 40 26 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.18% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.13% 2.82% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 21 23
10th Percentile £358 £481 £392
25th Percentile £380 £489 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £595 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £597 £688 £563
90th Percentile £715 £738 £585
England median daily rate £522 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -5.18% +1.85% -1.82%

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 652 922 1,059
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.29% 19.22% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 611 829
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 6
10th Percentile - £13.87 £37.77
25th Percentile £70.00 £37.63 £39.89
Median hourly rate £76.25 £46.18 £54.34
Median % change year-on-year +65.11% -15.02% -16.40%
75th Percentile £91.20 £70.81 £63.75
90th Percentile £95.61 £72.70 £66.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.22%

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 7 June 2025.

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 7 June 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
North West +24 35 £492 -17.31% 27
Yorkshire +12 4 £500 - 11
North East -3 1 £488 -18.75%
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 11 (27.50%) JBoss
1 11 (27.50%) Tomcat
2 6 (15.00%) WebSphere
3 4 (10.00%) NetWeaver
3 4 (10.00%) WebLogic
4 2 (5.00%) Apache
5 1 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (2.50%) CMS
5 1 (2.50%) IIS
Business Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Kondor
2 1 (2.50%) Maximo
2 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) AWS
2 7 (17.50%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) OpenShift
4 5 (12.50%) GCP
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) HTTP
2 3 (7.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Siebel EIM
1 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.50%) DB2
3 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Git
2 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (17.50%) JIRA
2 7 (17.50%) JUnit
3 6 (15.00%) Gradle
3 6 (15.00%) Maven
3 6 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.50%) Hudson
5 1 (2.50%) REST Assured
General
1 20 (50.00%) Finance
2 16 (40.00%) Banking
2 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
4 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Back Office
5 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Billing
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Developer
2 7 (17.50%) Siebel Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Integration Developer
4 4 (10.00%) SAP Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Scrum Master
5 3 (7.50%) Architect
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Developer
5 3 (7.50%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) DevOps Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow Administrator
7 1 (2.50%) Agile Scrum Master
7 1 (2.50%) Consultant
7 1 (2.50%) Integration Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Java Scrum Master
7 1 (2.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (67.50%) REST
2 15 (37.50%) Web Services
3 12 (30.00%) JMS
4 11 (27.50%) Spring
5 10 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 7 (17.50%) JDBC
7 6 (15.00%) Middleware
8 5 (12.50%) JSP
8 5 (12.50%) RAML
8 5 (12.50%) Servlets
8 5 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
8 5 (12.50%) XML
9 4 (10.00%) EJB
9 4 (10.00%) IDoc
9 4 (10.00%) J2EE
9 4 (10.00%) OAuth
9 4 (10.00%) SAP PI
9 4 (10.00%) WSDL
10 3 (7.50%) OpenID
10 3 (7.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Derivative
1 7 (17.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.50%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (7.50%) PKI
4 3 (7.50%) Taxonomies
4 3 (7.50%) Virtual Team
5 2 (5.00%) CMDB
5 2 (5.00%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (5.00%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (52.50%) Linux
2 13 (32.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) SDLC
2 12 (30.00%) Agile
3 11 (27.50%) Scrum
4 9 (22.50%) System Integration Testing
5 8 (20.00%) Change Management
5 8 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (20.00%) EAI
5 8 (20.00%) Migration
5 8 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (17.50%) Knowledge Transfer
6 7 (17.50%) Microservices
6 7 (17.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (17.50%) Risk Management
7 6 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (15.00%) Design Patterns
7 6 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.00%) API Development
8 4 (10.00%) Backlog Management
8 4 (10.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) SQL
2 18 (45.00%) Java
3 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 8 (20.00%) Python
5 6 (15.00%) Shell Script
6 4 (10.00%) ABAP
7 2 (5.00%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) Basel III
1 7 (17.50%) MiFID
2 1 (2.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (62.50%) Oracle
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) Siebel
3 7 (17.50%) Sybase
4 4 (10.00%) Ping Identity
4 4 (10.00%) SAP
5 3 (7.50%) ForgeRock
5 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.00%) IBM
6 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.50%) Adobe
7 1 (2.50%) Okta