SOAP Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring SOAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing SOAP 1 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.45% 4.21% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.38% 29.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £448 -
25th Percentile £638 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% - -
75th Percentile £663 £522 -
90th Percentile - £548 -
UK median daily rate £550 £516 £550
% change year-on-year +6.54% -6.14% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 42 27 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 19.00% 14.21% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 14
10th Percentile £390 £325 £516
25th Percentile £570 £363 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £410 £588
Median % change year-on-year +58.54% -30.21% +46.88%
75th Percentile £694 £488 £650
90th Percentile - £527 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing SOAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing SOAP

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
County Antrim -5 1 £650 +36.84% 2
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (100.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (100.00%) Mule
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce