SOAP Contracts in the South East

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 174 159
Rank change year-on-year +64 -15 -9
Contract jobs citing SOAP 55 26 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.68% 0.46% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.62% 3.27% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 12 34
10th Percentile £400 £215 £308
25th Percentile £463 £372 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £516 £617
90th Percentile £571 £671 £788
England median daily rate £500 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -5.48% -3.82% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 572 796 983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.44% 13.98% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 535 689
10th Percentile £319 £325 £325
25th Percentile £403 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £584 £621 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £706
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 42
10th Percentile £22.73 £35.00 £50.00
25th Percentile £36.42 £56.65 £52.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -2.61% +33.16%
75th Percentile £58.70 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £61.79 £75.00 £79.19
England median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the South East

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the South East

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the South East over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the South East

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the South East

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Thames Valley +40 30 £505 +32.46% 48
Berkshire +42 28 £505 - 26
Hampshire +50 26 £500 -23.08% 25
Buckinghamshire +8 2 £450 +9.09% 16
Kent +3 2 £563 - 9
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 4 (7.27%) Anypoint
2 4 (7.27%) Apache
2 4 (7.27%) CMS
2 4 (7.27%) Drupal
2 4 (7.27%) Mule
2 4 (7.27%) Mule ESB
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle Service Bus
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (7.27%) WordPress
3 1 (1.82%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.82%) IBM Domino
3 1 (1.82%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.36%) Azure
2 8 (14.55%) AWS
3 7 (12.73%) OCI
4 3 (5.45%) GitHub
4 3 (5.45%) iPaaS
4 3 (5.45%) SaaS
5 2 (3.64%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.64%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.82%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) HTTP
2 4 (7.27%) Internet
3 2 (3.64%) SSL
4 1 (1.82%) BGP
4 1 (1.82%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.82%) FTP
4 1 (1.82%) MPLS
4 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.55%) Relational Database
3 6 (10.91%) MySQL
4 5 (9.09%) GIS
5 3 (5.45%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) JIRA
2 13 (23.64%) SoapUI
3 12 (21.82%) Jenkins
4 7 (12.73%) Git
5 5 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.64%) Postman
6 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.82%) DbUnit
7 1 (1.82%) GitLab
7 1 (1.82%) jMock
7 1 (1.82%) JUnit
7 1 (1.82%) Maven
7 1 (1.82%) Mockito
7 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.82%) Finance
4 1 (1.82%) French Language
4 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (38.18%) Developer
2 14 (25.45%) Senior
3 9 (16.36%) Tester
4 8 (14.55%) Senior Tester
5 7 (12.73%) Architect
6 6 (10.91%) Consultant
7 5 (9.09%) Cloud Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Solutions Consultant
8 4 (7.27%) Analyst
8 4 (7.27%) Lead
8 4 (7.27%) MuleSoft Developer
8 4 (7.27%) PHP Software Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) AWS Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Integration Developer
9 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Telecoms Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (49.09%) REST
2 24 (43.64%) Web Services
2 24 (43.64%) XML
3 10 (18.18%) HTML
4 8 (14.55%) Ajax
4 8 (14.55%) CSS
4 8 (14.55%) JSON
5 6 (10.91%) jQuery
5 6 (10.91%) RESTful
6 5 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 5 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (7.27%) CodeIgniter
7 4 (7.27%) LAMP
7 4 (7.27%) OAuth
7 4 (7.27%) RAML
8 3 (5.45%) React
8 3 (5.45%) Visualforce
9 2 (3.64%) GraphQL
9 2 (3.64%) Node.js
9 2 (3.64%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 5 (9.09%) SCADA
3 4 (7.27%) CMDB
3 4 (7.27%) Legacy Code
4 2 (3.64%) Replication
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.55%) Linux
2 6 (10.91%) Unix
3 3 (5.45%) Windows
4 1 (1.82%) CentOS
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (67.27%) Agile
2 17 (30.91%) Scrum
3 12 (21.82%) Software Testing
3 12 (21.82%) Test Automation
3 12 (21.82%) Test Scripting
4 11 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 11 (20.00%) V-Model
4 11 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 9 (16.36%) API Management
6 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (16.36%) Test Strategy
7 8 (14.55%) Programme Delivery
7 8 (14.55%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (12.73%) ITIL
9 6 (10.91%) Data Modelling
9 6 (10.91%) DevOps
9 6 (10.91%) IT Asset Management
9 6 (10.91%) ITSM
9 6 (10.91%) OO
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.00%) SQL
2 12 (21.82%) Java
3 9 (16.36%) PL/SQL
4 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.09%) Apex Code
5 5 (9.09%) Perl
6 4 (7.27%) DataWeave
6 4 (7.27%) PHP
7 3 (5.45%) Python
8 2 (3.64%) SOQL
9 1 (1.82%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.82%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.82%) C#
9 1 (1.82%) LotusScript
9 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) Degree
5 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) ISEB
5 1 (1.82%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) CloudHub
2 1 (1.82%) Grafana
2 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.82%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.36%) Oracle
3 7 (12.73%) ServiceNow
4 5 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 4 (7.27%) MuleSoft
5 4 (7.27%) Zend
6 3 (5.45%) Snow
7 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.82%) Cisco
7 1 (1.82%) Compaq
7 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.82%) HP
7 1 (1.82%) IBM
7 1 (1.82%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (1.82%) SAP
7 1 (1.82%) Terracotta
7 1 (1.82%) webMethods