SoapUI Contract Job Trends in the North of England

SmartBear Software SoapUI
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SoapUI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 163 175
Rank change year-on-year -31 +12 +74
Contract jobs citing SoapUI 12 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.26% 0.079% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.38% 0.54% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 11
10th Percentile £324 - -
25th Percentile £343 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% -13.04% +6.48%
75th Percentile £469 - £631
90th Percentile £532 - £650
England median daily rate £384 £365 £550
% change year-on-year +5.21% -33.64% +1.85%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

SoapUI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 872 557 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.91% 14.70% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 349 428
10th Percentile £325 £328 £350
25th Percentile £385 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £543 £575 £589
90th Percentile £632 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 39
10th Percentile £39.00 - £45.88
25th Percentile £40.38 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% - +0.16%
75th Percentile £63.40 £52.06 £64.38
90th Percentile £79.33 £75.28 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

SoapUI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SoapUI job vacancy trend in the North of England

SoapUI
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SoapUI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SoapUI

SoapUI
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SoapUI in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SoapUI in the North of England

SoapUI
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 SoapUI within the North of England region over the 6 months to 7 December 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
Yorkshire -30 11 £392 -21.60% 6
North East -3 1 - - 1
SoapUI
England

SoapUI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 9 (75.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) JIRA
1 11 (91.67%) Postman
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Analyst
1 10 (83.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile Test Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) FMCG
1 1 (8.33%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
1 10 (83.33%) API Testing
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 10 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
1 10 (83.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 9 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 9 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 9 (75.00%) Kanban
2 9 (75.00%) Scrum
2 9 (75.00%) Security Testing
2 9 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 9 (75.00%) Test Management
3 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) CISM
1 8 (66.67%) CISSP
1 8 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) GDPR
1 6 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (50.00%) NIST
1 6 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) CyberArk
2 9 (75.00%) BeyondTrust
2 9 (75.00%) Google
2 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (75.00%) Thycotic
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle