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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 523 531
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 +108
Contract jobs citing SoapUI 46 41 81
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.83% 0.90% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 33 59
10th Percentile £345 £305 £368
25th Percentile £358 £340 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £380 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £610
90th Percentile £536 £550 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £392 £413 £513
% change year-on-year -4.97% -19.51% -3.53%

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 5,509 4,577 5,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 13.24% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,802 2,877 4,018
10th Percentile £338 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £695 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.03% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 98 213
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.43 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.81 £46.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £89.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 -26 43 £384 +9.71% 16
UK excluding London -36 23 £392 -4.97% 13
London -4 20 £375 +7.14% 4
Work from Home +17 15 £372 -18.47% 9
North of England -29 13 £384 +39.64% 3
Yorkshire -35 12 £384 +39.64%
South East +6 5 £425 +3.03% 8
Midlands - 3 £406 -
South West -8 2 £475 -13.64% 2
West Midlands - 2 £350 -
North East -10 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £463 -

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 3 (6.52%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (4.35%) Maximo
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (54.35%) Azure
2 14 (30.43%) AWS
3 11 (23.91%) GCP
4 4 (8.70%) Azure API Management
4 4 (8.70%) OCI
4 4 (8.70%) PaaS
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.35%) IaaS
5 2 (4.35%) SaaS
5 2 (4.35%) Serverless
5 2 (4.35%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) Oracle Database
2 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.87%) Redis
2 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.35%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (2.17%) CockroachDB
4 1 (2.17%) DB2
4 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (69.57%) Postman
2 27 (58.70%) JIRA
3 14 (30.43%) Jenkins
4 12 (26.09%) JUnit
4 12 (26.09%) REST Assured
5 9 (19.57%) Selenium
6 8 (17.39%) Git
7 7 (15.22%) Maven
8 5 (10.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (10.87%) Cucumber
8 5 (10.87%) Mockito
8 5 (10.87%) SonarQube
8 5 (10.87%) Subversion
8 5 (10.87%) Xcode
8 5 (10.87%) XCTest
9 4 (8.70%) Zephyr
10 3 (6.52%) JMeter
11 2 (4.35%) Ant
11 2 (4.35%) GitLab
11 2 (4.35%) TestNG
General
1 27 (58.70%) Social Skills
2 17 (36.96%) Finance
3 10 (21.74%) Banking
4 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Military
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Analyst
2 15 (32.61%) Test Analyst
3 8 (17.39%) Tester
4 7 (15.22%) Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) Senior Tester
6 3 (6.52%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Automation Tester
6 3 (6.52%) Cloud Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Integration Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Lead
6 3 (6.52%) Middleware Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Maximo Tester
7 2 (4.35%) Test Leader
8 1 (2.17%) Applications Support Analyst
8 1 (2.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (56.52%) SOAP
2 15 (32.61%) REST
3 12 (26.09%) Kafka
3 12 (26.09%) XML
4 10 (21.74%) Web Services
5 7 (15.22%) HTML
6 6 (13.04%) CSS
6 6 (13.04%) Hibernate
6 6 (13.04%) JPA
6 6 (13.04%) JSON
6 6 (13.04%) Spring
6 6 (13.04%) Spring Boot
7 5 (10.87%) AngularJS
7 5 (10.87%) Bootstrap
7 5 (10.87%) CSS3
7 5 (10.87%) HTML5
7 5 (10.87%) Material-UI
7 5 (10.87%) Spring Cloud
7 5 (10.87%) Spring MVC
7 5 (10.87%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.17%) FMCG
4 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) PDA
4 1 (2.17%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Unix
2 7 (15.22%) Windows
3 5 (10.87%) Linux
4 3 (6.52%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (69.57%) Agile
2 20 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (41.30%) API Testing
4 18 (39.13%) Software Testing
4 18 (39.13%) Test Automation
5 17 (36.96%) CI/CD
6 14 (30.43%) Scrum
7 12 (26.09%) Test Management
8 11 (23.91%) Identity Access Management
8 11 (23.91%) Kanban
9 10 (21.74%) Privileged Access Management
9 10 (21.74%) Security Testing
10 9 (19.57%) Cloud Security
10 9 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (19.57%) DevSecOps
10 9 (19.57%) Test Strategy
10 9 (19.57%) Unit Testing
11 8 (17.39%) SDLC
11 8 (17.39%) TDD
12 7 (15.22%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) Java
1 19 (41.30%) SQL
2 9 (19.57%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.87%) Groovy
3 5 (10.87%) PL/SQL
3 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.70%) Korn
4 4 (8.70%) Perl
5 3 (6.52%) C#
5 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) COBOL
6 1 (2.17%) JCL
6 1 (2.17%) Python
6 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) ISTQB
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.39%) CISM
2 8 (17.39%) CISSP
3 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) Degree
5 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) ISEB
6 1 (2.17%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (2.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) QA
2 6 (13.04%) GDPR
2 6 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (13.04%) NIST
2 6 (13.04%) PCI DSS
3 3 (6.52%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Kibana
3 1 (2.17%) Control-M
3 1 (2.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Oracle
2 10 (21.74%) CyberArk
2 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 9 (19.57%) BeyondTrust
3 9 (19.57%) Google
3 9 (19.57%) Thycotic
4 7 (15.22%) Splunk
5 6 (13.04%) IBM
6 5 (10.87%) CA Agile Central
6 5 (10.87%) Dynatrace
7 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
7 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.17%) Compaq
8 1 (2.17%) HP
8 1 (2.17%) Perforce
8 1 (2.17%) Terracotta
8 1 (2.17%) webMethods