SoapUI Contract Job Trends in the South West

SmartBear Software SoapUI
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring SoapUI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 119 151
Rank change year-on-year -12 +32 -
Contract jobs citing SoapUI 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.087% 0.090% 0.065%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.57% 0.71% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £488 £575 £488
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £384 £365 £550
% change year-on-year +5.21% -33.64% +1.85%

All Development Application Skills
South West

SoapUI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 348 281 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.18% 12.69% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 150 262
10th Percentile £363 £397 £400
25th Percentile £450 £466 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -
75th Percentile £647 £649 £638
90th Percentile £738 £714 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 58
10th Percentile £15.66 £61.25 £47.89
25th Percentile £20.82 £62.81 £51.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £74.72 £80.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

SoapUI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

SoapUI job vacancy trend in the South West

SoapUI
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SoapUI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SoapUI

SoapUI
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SoapUI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SoapUI

SoapUI
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 SoapUI within the South West region over the 6 months to 7 December 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
Bristol - 1 £475 - 1
Dorset - 1 - - 3
SoapUI
England

SoapUI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk