SmartBear Software SoapUI
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SoapUI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SoapUI over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 650 556
Rank change year-on-year +115 -94 -53
Contract jobs citing SoapUI 63 69 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.12% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.23% 0.76% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 44 225
10th Percentile £325 £359 £338
25th Percentile £436 £409 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £493 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% +2.60% +12.94%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £567
90th Percentile £599 £594 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £475
% change year-on-year +1.52% +3.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £50.45
25th Percentile - - £51.88
Median hourly rate - - £54.25
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £54.25
% change year-on-year - - +44.67%

All Development Application Skills
UK

SoapUI is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

SoapUI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SoapUI over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +120 52 £519 +3.75% 18
London +112 39 £540 +2.86% 8
Work from Home +129 25 £500 +16.62% 7
UK excluding London +40 8 £500 +1.52% 9
North of England +30 4 £500 +26.58% 1
North West +18 4 £500 -7.41% 1
South East +16 2 £525 +25.00% 6
Midlands - 2 £380 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £380 - 1

SoapUI
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 1 (1.59%) Confluence
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.59%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (7.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.98%) Azure
2 16 (25.40%) AWS
3 11 (17.46%) GCP
4 5 (7.94%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (6.35%) GitHub
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.17%) SaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.59%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) HTTP
1 5 (7.94%) WinSCP
2 1 (1.59%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 11 (17.46%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (17.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 11 (17.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (6.35%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 50 (79.37%) Postman
2 27 (42.86%) Git
3 26 (41.27%) Selenium
4 21 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 20 (31.75%) JIRA
6 18 (28.57%) Cucumber
7 16 (25.40%) Maven
8 15 (23.81%) JUnit
8 15 (23.81%) REST Assured
8 15 (23.81%) WebDriver
9 14 (22.22%) TestNG
10 12 (19.05%) JMeter
11 11 (17.46%) Appium
12 10 (15.87%) eggPlant
12 10 (15.87%) SOAtest
13 6 (9.52%) Cypress.io
14 4 (6.35%) Eclipse
14 4 (6.35%) GitLab
14 4 (6.35%) Gradle
14 4 (6.35%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (34.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.35%) Finance
4 3 (4.76%) Banking
5 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Analyst
2 13 (20.63%) Developer
3 11 (17.46%) Tester
4 10 (15.87%) Business Analyst
4 10 (15.87%) Technical Analyst
4 10 (15.87%) Technical Business Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Node.js Developer
6 7 (11.11%) Automation Tester
6 7 (11.11%) Consultant
7 6 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Lead
9 4 (6.35%) Automation Consultant
9 4 (6.35%) Test Analyst
10 3 (4.76%) Senior
10 3 (4.76%) Test Automation Consultant
10 3 (4.76%) Test Consultant
11 2 (3.17%) Agile Business Analyst
11 2 (3.17%) QA Analyst
11 2 (3.17%) QA Consultant
11 2 (3.17%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (41.27%) SOAP
2 15 (23.81%) Node.js
3 13 (20.63%) .NET
4 12 (19.05%) .NET Framework
5 9 (14.29%) REST
5 9 (14.29%) XML
6 6 (9.52%) Spring
6 6 (9.52%) Web Services
7 5 (7.94%) JDBC
8 4 (6.35%) Spring Boot
9 3 (4.76%) Chai
9 3 (4.76%) HTML
9 3 (4.76%) JAXB
9 3 (4.76%) JAX-RS
9 3 (4.76%) JSON
9 3 (4.76%) Middleware
10 2 (3.17%) CSS
10 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (3.17%) Sass
10 2 (3.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.59%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Android
2 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (65.08%) Agile
2 30 (47.62%) Test Automation
3 23 (36.51%) DevOps
4 19 (30.16%) BDD
4 19 (30.16%) CI/CD
5 17 (26.98%) User Stories
6 15 (23.81%) Microservices
7 14 (22.22%) API Testing
7 14 (22.22%) TDD
8 13 (20.63%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (17.46%) Containerisation
9 11 (17.46%) Continuous Deployment
9 11 (17.46%) Privileged Access Management
9 11 (17.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 11 (17.46%) Software Testing
9 11 (17.46%) Test Scripting
9 11 (17.46%) Test Strategy
10 10 (15.87%) Acceptance Criteria
10 10 (15.87%) ATDD
10 10 (15.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.92%) Java
2 18 (28.57%) SQL
3 16 (25.40%) C#
4 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.94%) Python
7 2 (3.17%) C
8 1 (1.59%) Bash
8 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) ISEB
3 3 (4.76%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.17%) Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) HP ALM
2 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.17%) Kibana
3 2 (3.17%) logstash
4 1 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Oracle
2 7 (11.11%) SAP
3 6 (9.52%) HP
4 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow