SOAP Contracts in the South West

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 156 139
Rank change year-on-year +55 -17 +4
Contract jobs citing SOAP 20 4 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.09% 0.12% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.09% 0.81% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 1 18
10th Percentile £331 - £510
25th Percentile £416 £463 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £680
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -30.15% +43.16%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £725
90th Percentile £633 - £738
England median daily rate £500 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -5.48% -3.82% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 282 493 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.38% 15.10% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 298 410
10th Percentile £354 £325 £374
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £635
90th Percentile £675 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 77 24
10th Percentile £61.25 £43.75 £50.75
25th Percentile £64.38 £45.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +2.20%
75th Percentile £68.19 - £78.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.16% -10.31% +19.82%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the South West

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the South West

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the South West

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the South West

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Wiltshire +44 12 £575 +21.05% 1
Bristol +16 5 £335 - 6
Dorset - 3 £505 - 1
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 7 (35.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (80.00%) Git
2 11 (55.00%) Bitbucket
2 11 (55.00%) JIRA
3 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) Ant
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Billing
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Leader
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) REST
2 5 (25.00%) XML
3 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (20.00%) JMS
3 4 (20.00%) React
3 4 (20.00%) XSD
4 3 (15.00%) Middleware
4 3 (15.00%) OAuth
4 3 (15.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (15.00%) Spring
4 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.00%) Spring Security
5 2 (10.00%) RESTful
5 2 (10.00%) Web Services
6 1 (5.00%) CSS
6 1 (5.00%) HTML
6 1 (5.00%) LDAP
6 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
2 10 (50.00%) Windows
3 9 (45.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 12 (60.00%) Validation
3 11 (55.00%) Configuration Management
3 11 (55.00%) Deployment Automation
3 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (55.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 10 (50.00%) NsoIT
4 10 (50.00%) Service Management
4 10 (50.00%) System Testing
5 7 (35.00%) Scrum
6 4 (20.00%) DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) OO
6 4 (20.00%) OOP
6 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
7 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
7 3 (15.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Bash
1 11 (55.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (20.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) CCNP
2 10 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (50.00%) OCA
2 10 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
2 10 (50.00%) RHCA
2 10 (50.00%) RHCE
2 10 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Ansible
1 11 (55.00%) Progress Chef
1 11 (55.00%) Puppet
2 10 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Oracle
1 11 (55.00%) VMware
2 10 (50.00%) Cisco
3 7 (35.00%) Atlassian
4 4 (20.00%) Blue Prism
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) Pardot
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce