SOAP Contracts

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 347 274
Rank change year-on-year +90 -73 -8
Contract jobs citing SOAP 303 266 578
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 0.61% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.57% 2.97% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 172 388
10th Percentile £397 £421 £400
25th Percentile £450 £487 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £564 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +7.38% -
75th Percentile £598 £625 £623
90th Percentile £672 £699 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.11
25th Percentile - - £54.47
Median hourly rate - - £55.69
75th Percentile - - £57.53
90th Percentile - - £58.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the UK

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the UK

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the UK

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the UK

SOAP
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +81 236 £525 -4.55% 187
UK excluding London +104 134 £500 -4.76% 132
London +35 121 £525 -5.83% 85
Work from Home +38 104 £521 -9.39% 149
South East +47 36 £500 - 25
North of England +41 32 £492 -4.00% 39
North West +21 25 £492 -1.06% 28
Scotland +21 24 £513 -22.64% 14
Midlands +32 18 £451 -22.41% 27
West Midlands +25 16 £440 -21.78% 14
South West +54 14 £575 +27.78% 6
Northern Ireland - 7 £494 - 6
Yorkshire +17 4 £450 - 11
North East +1 3 £590 -1.67%
East Midlands +9 2 £494 -21.04% 13
Wales - 2 £460 - 11
East of England +29 1 - - 5

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (8.25%) Confluence
2 16 (5.28%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.96%) WebSphere
4 10 (3.30%) Anypoint
4 10 (3.30%) Mule
5 9 (2.97%) JBoss
6 8 (2.64%) NetWeaver
6 8 (2.64%) WebLogic
7 7 (2.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (2.31%) Tomcat
8 6 (1.98%) Apache
8 6 (1.98%) CMS
9 4 (1.32%) Drupal
9 4 (1.32%) Mule ESB
9 4 (1.32%) WordPress
10 3 (0.99%) IIS
10 3 (0.99%) nginx
10 3 (0.99%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.66%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (2.64%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (2.64%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.65%) Kondor
5 3 (0.99%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.66%) assyst
6 2 (0.66%) Magento
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle 11i
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.66%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.66%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.66%) Shopify
6 2 (0.66%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.33%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.33%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 1 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (29.70%) Azure
2 50 (16.50%) AWS
3 37 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (12.21%) Power Platform
4 30 (9.90%) Power Automate
4 30 (9.90%) PowerApps
5 29 (9.57%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (8.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 23 (7.59%) GCP
8 12 (3.96%) Boomi
8 12 (3.96%) OCI
9 10 (3.30%) GitHub
10 9 (2.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 8 (2.64%) Azure API Management
12 7 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.31%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 6 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.98%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.54%) HTTP
2 15 (4.95%) HTTPS
3 11 (3.63%) SSL
4 6 (1.98%) POP3
4 6 (1.98%) SMTP
5 4 (1.32%) Internet
6 3 (0.99%) VPN
7 2 (0.66%) BGP
7 2 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.66%) MPLS
7 2 (0.66%) SMS
7 2 (0.66%) SNMP
8 1 (0.33%) DNS
8 1 (0.33%) FTP
8 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.33%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.54%) Relational Database
2 35 (11.55%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.27%) Power BI
4 17 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.96%) DB2
5 12 (3.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (2.97%) MySQL
6 9 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.31%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.31%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.98%) GIS
8 6 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.65%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (1.65%) Siebel EIM
10 4 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.32%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 70 (23.10%) JIRA
2 63 (20.79%) Git
3 42 (13.86%) Jenkins
4 21 (6.93%) Bitbucket
5 18 (5.94%) SoapUI
6 16 (5.28%) JUnit
7 14 (4.62%) Maven
7 14 (4.62%) Postman
8 13 (4.29%) GitLab
9 10 (3.30%) Selenium
10 8 (2.64%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (2.31%) Mockito
12 6 (1.98%) SonarQube
13 5 (1.65%) Subversion
14 4 (1.32%) Ant
14 4 (1.32%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.32%) DbUnit
14 4 (1.32%) jMock
14 4 (1.32%) NUnit
14 4 (1.32%) REST Assured
General
1 57 (18.81%) Social Skills
2 55 (18.15%) Finance
3 45 (14.85%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.23%) Banking
5 29 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.97%) Marketing
7 7 (2.31%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.32%) Retail
11 3 (0.99%) Billing
12 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.66%) Law
12 2 (0.66%) Legal
13 1 (0.33%) Automotive
13 1 (0.33%) Electronics
13 1 (0.33%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 151 (49.83%) Developer
2 34 (11.22%) Architect
3 31 (10.23%) ServiceNow Developer
4 27 (8.91%) Lead
5 22 (7.26%) Senior
6 20 (6.60%) Java Developer
7 18 (5.94%) Consultant
8 16 (5.28%) Integration Developer
9 15 (4.95%) SAP Developer
9 15 (4.95%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.29%) Power Platform Developer
11 10 (3.30%) MuleSoft Developer
11 10 (3.30%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.30%) ServiceNow Architect
12 9 (2.97%) Automation Developer
12 9 (2.97%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 9 (2.97%) Lead Developer
12 9 (2.97%) Salesforce Developer
13 8 (2.64%) Integration Architect
14 7 (2.31%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (74.92%) REST
2 106 (34.98%) Web Services
3 80 (26.40%) XML
4 61 (20.13%) JSON
5 40 (13.20%) RESTful
6 38 (12.54%) HTML
7 35 (11.55%) Middleware
8 34 (11.22%) CSS
9 33 (10.89%) AngularJS
10 29 (9.57%) OAuth
11 25 (8.25%) Spring Boot
12 24 (7.92%) JDBC
12 24 (7.92%) Spring
13 20 (6.60%) Kafka
13 20 (6.60%) SAML
13 20 (6.60%) XSLT
14 18 (5.94%) Ajax
15 17 (5.61%) EDI
15 17 (5.61%) J2EE
15 17 (5.61%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.61%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.28%) CMDB
3 13 (4.29%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.97%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.97%) PKI
5 9 (2.97%) Private Cloud
5 9 (2.97%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.98%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.98%) SCADA
8 6 (1.98%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.65%) Derivative
9 5 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.32%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.20%) Linux
2 25 (8.25%) Unix
3 23 (7.59%) Windows
4 10 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.99%) AIX
6 2 (0.66%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (49.17%) Agile
2 78 (25.74%) DevOps
3 61 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (20.13%) Scrum
4 42 (13.86%) CI/CD
5 40 (13.20%) SDLC
6 34 (11.22%) Microservices
7 31 (10.23%) API Management
8 28 (9.24%) ITSM
8 28 (9.24%) Migration
9 26 (8.58%) API Integration
9 26 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (8.58%) Service Management
10 25 (8.25%) API Development
10 25 (8.25%) Roadmaps
11 24 (7.92%) Software Engineering
12 23 (7.59%) Test Automation
13 22 (7.26%) Mentoring
13 22 (7.26%) Workflow
14 21 (6.93%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 111 (36.63%) SQL
2 90 (29.70%) JavaScript
3 87 (28.71%) Java
4 41 (13.53%) C#
5 37 (12.21%) Python
6 25 (8.25%) PL/SQL
7 23 (7.59%) PowerShell
8 21 (6.93%) ABAP
9 16 (5.28%) Apex Code
10 13 (4.29%) Groovy
11 12 (3.96%) Bash
11 12 (3.96%) Shell Script
12 10 (3.30%) DataWeave
13 9 (2.97%) Perl
14 6 (1.98%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.65%) PHP
16 4 (1.32%) COBOL
16 4 (1.32%) SOQL
16 4 (1.32%) XPath
17 3 (0.99%) Korn
Qualifications
1 94 (31.02%) Security Cleared
2 77 (25.41%) SC Cleared
3 31 (10.23%) Degree
4 12 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.30%) CCNP
5 10 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (3.30%) OCA
5 10 (3.30%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (3.30%) RHCA
5 10 (3.30%) RHCE
5 10 (3.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.32%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.99%) CAPM
8 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.99%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.96%) QA
2 8 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.65%) Basel III
4 5 (1.65%) GDPR
4 5 (1.65%) MiFID
5 4 (1.32%) GRC
5 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.66%) SEPA
7 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.33%) HL7
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 22 (7.26%) Docker
2 16 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.98%) OpenAM
4 6 (1.98%) OpenDJ
4 6 (1.98%) OpenIDM
5 5 (1.65%) Postfix
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (8.25%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (4.95%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.96%) Ansible
4 11 (3.63%) Progress Chef
4 11 (3.63%) Puppet
5 10 (3.30%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.64%) Grafana
6 8 (2.64%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.98%) Terraform
8 5 (1.65%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.33%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.33%) Kibana
9 1 (0.33%) logstash
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Identity Manager
9 1 (0.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 69 (22.77%) Oracle
2 61 (20.13%) ServiceNow
3 46 (15.18%) Microsoft
4 33 (10.89%) SAP
5 25 (8.25%) MuleSoft
6 24 (7.92%) Salesforce
7 13 (4.29%) Atlassian
7 13 (4.29%) ForgeRock
8 12 (3.96%) Cisco
9 11 (3.63%) VMware
10 10 (3.30%) IBM
10 10 (3.30%) Ping Identity
11 8 (2.64%) Snow
12 6 (1.98%) Dell
12 6 (1.98%) Jaspersoft
12 6 (1.98%) Qualtrics
12 6 (1.98%) Siebel
13 5 (1.65%) Adobe
13 5 (1.65%) Google
13 5 (1.65%) Sybase
245 SOAP jobs Nationwide