SOAP Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring SOAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 46 59
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing SOAP 5 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.16% 1.28% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.24% 10.00% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 11
10th Percentile - - £208
25th Percentile £204 £203 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -53.89% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £211 £656 £528
90th Percentile £295 £668 £575
South East median daily rate £438 £443 £506
% change year-on-year -1.13% -12.59% -7.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 118 50 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 27.31% 12.82% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 26 85
10th Percentile - - £305
25th Percentile £204 £203 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £560 £557 £575
90th Percentile £655 £661 £672
South East median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 9
10th Percentile £27.50 - £41.93
25th Percentile £48.13 - £54.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £64.38 - £76.53
90th Percentile £81.28 - £76.72
South East median hourly rate £48.75 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -22.00% -10.71% +7.69%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

SOAP job vacancy trend in Surrey

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SOAP

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in Surrey over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in Surrey

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SOAP

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
2 4 (80.00%) FTP
2 4 (80.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Support
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Escalation Management
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (80.00%) OO
2 4 (80.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Information Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk