SOAP Contract Job Trends in South London

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring SOAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 31 35
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing SOAP 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.58% 2.75% 0.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.06% 8.77% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.44%
75th Percentile £788 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £578 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.55% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 62 57 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 19.56% 31.32% 28.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 34 37
10th Percentile £474 £463 £425
25th Percentile £505 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +17.07% +5.13%
75th Percentile £550 £689 £600
90th Percentile £629 £738 £750
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in South London

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SOAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SOAP

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SOAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SOAP

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Croydon -12 5 £775 -
SOAP
London

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (80.00%) AWS KMS
2 4 (80.00%) Route 53
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (20.00%) Boomi
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) iPaaS
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (80.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (80.00%) DbUnit
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) jMock
1 4 (80.00%) JUnit
1 4 (80.00%) Maven
1 4 (80.00%) Mockito
1 4 (80.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (80.00%) Bootstrap
2 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (80.00%) JPA
2 4 (80.00%) PowerMock
2 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Batch
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Cloud
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
3 3 (60.00%) Node.js
4 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (20.00%) JSON
4 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (80.00%) Kanban
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) BPMN
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (40.00%) Biometrics
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 3 (60.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (80.00%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft