SOAP Contracts in the North West

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for SOAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOAP over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 136 145
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 -31
Contract jobs citing SOAP 15 20 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.54% 0.62% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.98% 3.32% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 32
10th Percentile £425 £399 £360
25th Percentile £487 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -4.76% +12.90%
75th Percentile £598 £550 £639
90th Percentile - £563 £734
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £55.69 £51.88
% change year-on-year - +7.34% +130.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

SOAP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 504 602 977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.18% 18.70% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 474 741
10th Percentile £350 £337 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.12%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £740 £647 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 26
10th Percentile £37.63 £35.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.10 £25.69
Median hourly rate £47.31 £42.80 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% +5.37% +19.46%
75th Percentile £71.87 £45.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.05 - £62.50
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the North West

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the North West

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the North West

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the North West

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Manchester +14 9 £595 +19.00% 11
Cheshire 0 5 £489 -11.09% 2
Merseyside +16 1 - -
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) Apigee
3 5 (33.33%) Kong
4 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 5 (33.33%) OLAP
1 5 (33.33%) OLTP
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) JMeter
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.67%) Mercurial
3 1 (6.67%) Postman
3 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (33.33%) Banking
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Pega Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Web Services
2 5 (33.33%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (33.33%) J2EE
2 5 (33.33%) Kafka
2 5 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (33.33%) REST
3 4 (26.67%) Apache Camel
3 4 (26.67%) Spring
3 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
3 4 (26.67%) Spring Integration
4 2 (13.33%) .NET
4 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (13.33%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.67%) CSS
5 1 (6.67%) CSS3
5 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
5 1 (6.67%) HTML5
5 1 (6.67%) jQuery
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) DataPower
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) OO
4 5 (33.33%) API Management
4 5 (33.33%) CQRS
4 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 5 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (33.33%) Microservices
4 5 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
4 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 5 (33.33%) SOA
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (26.67%) Technical Debt
5 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) C
2 3 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.67%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
2 5 (33.33%) IBM
2 5 (33.33%) TSYS
3 4 (26.67%) Pega
4 1 (6.67%) HP