SoapUI Contracts in the UK excluding London

SmartBear Software SoapUI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SoapUI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SoapUI over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 357 382
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 +11
Contract jobs citing SoapUI 29 12 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.066% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.32% 0.55% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 6 18
10th Percentile £344 £358 £389
25th Percentile £400 £366 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -21.95% -2.38%
75th Percentile £516 £427 £613
90th Percentile £525 £434 £640
UK median daily rate £400 £506 £538
% change year-on-year -20.99% -5.81% -0.46%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,192 2,191 2,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.25% 11.99% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 1,386 1,892
10th Percentile £308 £348 £350
25th Percentile £400 £405 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.77% +1.80%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £674 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 179 169
10th Percentile £27.35 £40.94 £46.18
25th Percentile £51.30 £54.18 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

SoapUI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SoapUI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SoapUI in the UK excluding London

SoapUI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SoapUI in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SoapUI in the UK excluding London

SoapUI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SoapUI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SoapUI in the UK excluding London

SoapUI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SoapUI in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SoapUI in the UK excluding London

SoapUI
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SoapUI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
South East +39 15 £475 +15.15% 11
North of England -14 10 £400 - 2
Yorkshire - 10 £400 - 1
Midlands -9 3 £450 +21.21% 1
East Midlands 0 2 £450 +21.21%
Wales - 1 £183 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 1
SoapUI
UK

SoapUI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) GCP
3 2 (6.90%) BrowserStack
3 2 (6.90%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (68.97%) JIRA
2 16 (55.17%) Postman
3 12 (41.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (10.34%) Cucumber
4 3 (10.34%) Selenium
5 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.90%) Git
5 2 (6.90%) JMeter
6 1 (3.45%) JBehave
6 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) French Language
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Analyst
2 12 (41.38%) Test Analyst
3 11 (37.93%) Senior
4 9 (31.03%) Tester
5 8 (27.59%) Senior Tester
6 2 (6.90%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Test Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Security Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (51.72%) SOAP
2 13 (44.83%) XML
3 2 (6.90%) Playwright
3 2 (6.90%) Web Services
4 1 (3.45%) FHIR
4 1 (3.45%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Clustering
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (86.21%) Agile
2 22 (75.86%) Software Testing
3 17 (58.62%) API Testing
3 17 (58.62%) Test Automation
4 13 (44.83%) Test Scripting
5 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
5 11 (37.93%) Test Strategy
5 11 (37.93%) V-Model
5 11 (37.93%) Waterfall
6 10 (34.48%) Identity Access Management
6 10 (34.48%) Mentoring
6 10 (34.48%) Privileged Access Management
6 10 (34.48%) Scrum
7 9 (31.03%) Cloud Security
7 9 (31.03%) DevSecOps
7 9 (31.03%) Security Testing
7 9 (31.03%) Test Management
8 8 (27.59%) Kanban
8 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (27.59%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.45%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) Scala
3 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) DV Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) CISM
3 8 (27.59%) CISSP
3 8 (27.59%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.45%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) ISEB
5 1 (3.45%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) GDPR
1 6 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (20.69%) NIST
1 6 (20.69%) PCI DSS
2 5 (17.24%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) HL7
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Microsoft
2 10 (34.48%) CyberArk
3 9 (31.03%) BeyondTrust
3 9 (31.03%) Thycotic
4 8 (27.59%) Google
5 2 (6.90%) Nintex
6 1 (3.45%) Compaq
6 1 (3.45%) HP
6 1 (3.45%) RedGate
6 1 (3.45%) Terracotta
6 1 (3.45%) webMethods