SOAP Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring SOAP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 57 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 -11 +17
Contract jobs citing SOAP 2 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.34% 0.25% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.33% 1.12% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £329 - £738
25th Percentile £334 - £794
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 £500 £925
Median % change year-on-year -30.50% -45.95% +118.93%
75th Percentile £366 - £1,094
90th Percentile £375 - £1,173
South Yorkshire median daily rate £348 £500 £925
% change year-on-year -30.50% -45.95% +118.93%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 150 89 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 25.68% 22.31% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 63 59
10th Percentile £345 £460 £385
25th Percentile £388 £496 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £700
90th Percentile £610 £650 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £554 £600
% change year-on-year -15.34% -7.67% +20.00%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in Sheffield

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SOAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SOAP

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SOAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SOAP

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) RAML
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) FMCG
1 1 (50.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle