SoapUI Contract Job Trends

SmartBear Software SoapUI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SoapUI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 474 523
Rank change year-on-year -136 +49 +109
Contract jobs citing SoapUI 28 46 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.058% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.48% 1.11% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 39 37
10th Percentile £350 £263 £325
25th Percentile £361 £340 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -13.51% -7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £431 £540
90th Percentile £650 £488 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £413 £380
% change year-on-year -15.15% +8.55% -22.84%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,807 4,161 5,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.09% 14.28% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,801 2,791 3,442
10th Percentile £349 £335 £353
25th Percentile £408 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 71 205
10th Percentile £35.13 £25.25 £32.23
25th Percentile £59.06 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.75 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% +5.69%

SoapUI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SoapUI job vacancy trend in the UK

SoapUI
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SoapUI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SoapUI

SoapUI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SoapUI over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SoapUI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SoapUI

SoapUI
Top 12 Contract Job 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 16 May 2026. 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 -136 25 £475 +20.25% 7
London -78 12 £625 +68.35% 3
UK excluding London -111 12 £350 -15.15% 4
Work from Home -24 11 £475 +39.30% 3
North of England -62 7 £350 +27.27%
West Midlands -60 3 £450 +5.88% 3
Midlands -67 3 £450 - 3
North East - 3 £350 -
Yorkshire -58 2 £372 +35.27%
North West - 2 £325 -
South East -76 1 - - 1
South West - 1 - -

SoapUI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (7.14%) Maximo
3 1 (3.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
1 10 (35.71%) OCI
1 10 (35.71%) PaaS
2 8 (28.57%) IaaS
3 6 (21.43%) AWS
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) Boomi
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) AtomSphere
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.57%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.57%) ChatGPT
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) Google Gemini
6 1 (3.57%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (3.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) HTTP
2 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.57%) Internet
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.57%) CockroachDB
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (75.00%) Postman
2 12 (42.86%) JIRA
3 10 (35.71%) Selenium
4 8 (28.57%) REST Assured
5 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (21.43%) Cucumber
7 5 (17.86%) Git
7 5 (17.86%) JUnit
8 3 (10.71%) Maven
9 2 (7.14%) GitLab
9 2 (7.14%) JMeter
9 2 (7.14%) TestNG
9 2 (7.14%) WebDriver
9 2 (7.14%) Zephyr
10 1 (3.57%) Ant
10 1 (3.57%) Burp Suite
10 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
10 1 (3.57%) Gatling
10 1 (3.57%) LoadRunner
10 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Military
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Police
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Specialist
1 8 (28.57%) Integration Specialist
1 8 (28.57%) Oracle Specialist
2 6 (21.43%) Test Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Tester
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Maximo Tester
5 2 (7.14%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Integration Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Performance Tester
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) SSIS Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (71.43%) SOAP
2 15 (53.57%) REST
3 12 (42.86%) XML
4 11 (39.29%) JSON
4 11 (39.29%) OAuth
5 10 (35.71%) JWT
5 10 (35.71%) Web Services
6 9 (32.14%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (32.14%) XSLT
7 5 (17.86%) Playwright
8 4 (14.29%) HTML
8 4 (14.29%) Kafka
9 2 (7.14%) Middleware
10 1 (3.57%) EDI
10 1 (3.57%) IBM Integration Bus
10 1 (3.57%) LDAP
10 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
10 1 (3.57%) OpenID
10 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (3.57%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.57%) IoT
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) AIX
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) DevOps
2 11 (39.29%) Test Automation
3 10 (35.71%) ERP
4 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
5 8 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
5 8 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 7 (25.00%) Agile
7 5 (17.86%) Test Planning
7 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (17.86%) Validation
8 4 (14.29%) API Testing
8 4 (14.29%) Microservices
8 4 (14.29%) Test Scripting
9 3 (10.71%) Acceptance Criteria
9 3 (10.71%) Data Validation
9 3 (10.71%) Defect Management
9 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven
9 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (10.71%) SDLC
9 3 (10.71%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Java
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) Python
5 1 (3.57%) Groovy
5 1 (3.57%) Korn
5 1 (3.57%) Perl
5 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 4 (14.29%) ISTQB
4 2 (7.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (3.57%) CCSAM
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) GPEN
5 1 (3.57%) GXPN
5 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (3.57%) OSCE
5 1 (3.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.57%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.57%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) IBM
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Dell
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) HP
4 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow