SOAP Contracts in the Thames Valley

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SOAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOAP over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 109 107
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 -9
Contract jobs citing SOAP 19 35 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.72% 1.24% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.54% 7.23% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 52
10th Percentile £355 £425 £400
25th Percentile £400 £451 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -17.27% +2.33%
75th Percentile - £519 £606
90th Percentile £545 £602 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £68.17
% change year-on-year - - +202.96%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

SOAP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 343 484 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.97% 17.16% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 349 446
10th Percentile £325 £373 £358
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £588
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 4
10th Percentile £56.58 £52.90 £29.75
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £33.13
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £51.58
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +52.67% +37.55%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £71.29
90th Percentile £61.80 £80.48 £76.75
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £64.50 £39.21
% change year-on-year -4.50% +64.51% -12.87%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the Thames Valley

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the Thames Valley

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the Thames Valley

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the Thames Valley

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Berkshire -31 17 £500 +9.89% 6
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £350 -
SOAP
South East

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (57.89%) Apache
2 10 (52.63%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (10.53%) OpenStack
4 1 (5.26%) Drupal
4 1 (5.26%) Jadu
4 1 (5.26%) JBoss
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Serverless
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Azure API Management
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Functions
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) BGP
1 10 (52.63%) Ethernet VPN
1 10 (52.63%) MPLS
1 10 (52.63%) Radio Access Network
1 10 (52.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) NoSQL
2 12 (63.16%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (52.63%) MongoDB
4 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
5 3 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (10.53%) MySQL
6 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
7 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) GitLab
1 10 (52.63%) JIRA
1 10 (52.63%) Robot Framework
1 10 (52.63%) TestRail
2 4 (21.05%) Visual Studio
3 3 (15.79%) Git
4 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.53%) JUnit
5 1 (5.26%) NWDI
5 1 (5.26%) NWDS
General
1 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.26%) Marketing
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Network Engineer
1 9 (47.37%) Test Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Integration Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) ITSM Developer
4 1 (5.26%) PHP Developer
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Integration Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (89.47%) REST
2 10 (52.63%) NETCONF
2 10 (52.63%) RESTCONF
2 10 (52.63%) YANG
3 4 (21.05%) .NET
3 4 (21.05%) JSON
3 4 (21.05%) XML
4 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
4 3 (15.79%) ARM Templates
4 3 (15.79%) OAuth
4 3 (15.79%) OpenID
4 3 (15.79%) RESTful
4 3 (15.79%) Web Services
5 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (10.53%) Node.js
5 2 (10.53%) Spring
5 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.26%) LAMP
6 1 (5.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Agile
2 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 13 (68.42%) Scrum
2 13 (68.42%) Security Testing
3 11 (57.89%) Workflow
4 10 (52.63%) Containerisation
4 10 (52.63%) Integration Testing
4 10 (52.63%) Performance Testing
4 10 (52.63%) Regression Testing
4 10 (52.63%) Test Automation
4 10 (52.63%) Unit Testing
5 6 (31.58%) DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Application Security
6 3 (15.79%) B2C
6 3 (15.79%) Break/Fix
6 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.79%) OO
6 3 (15.79%) SOLID
6 3 (15.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) SQL
2 10 (52.63%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) C#
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.53%) PHP
6 1 (5.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow