SoapUI Contracts

SmartBear Software SoapUI
UK

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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 539 625
Rank change year-on-year +55 +86 -50
Contract jobs citing SoapUI 45 48 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.07% 0.93% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 39 46
10th Percentile £263 £325 £366
25th Percentile £340 £378 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £490
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -5.61% -2.00%
75th Percentile £466 £550 £569
90th Percentile £488 - £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £380 £450
% change year-on-year +8.55% -15.56% -5.26%

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 4,224 5,136 8,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.60% 11.97% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,836 3,454 5,682
10th Percentile £340 £351 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 222 228
10th Percentile £21.69 £28.33 £44.89
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £82.37 £77.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

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 30 May 2025.

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 12 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 30 May 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 +61 41 £400 -11.99% 97
London +40 24 £375 -25.00% 11
UK excluding London +64 20 £413 +8.55% 99
Work from Home +49 12 £354 -23.74% 87
South East +66 10 £475 +15.15% 32
North of England +13 4 £275 -33.33% 20
Yorkshire - 4 £275 - 10
Midlands +17 3 £450 +21.21% 20
East Midlands +9 2 £450 +21.21% 8
Scotland - 2 £425 - 3
Wales - 1 £183 - 5
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 11

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 7 (15.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (2.22%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) Azure
2 7 (15.56%) AWS
2 7 (15.56%) BrowserStack
3 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.67%) Azure API Management
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) GitHub
5 2 (4.44%) SaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.67%) Redis
3 2 (4.44%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) MySQL
4 1 (2.22%) Power BI
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (62.22%) Postman
2 23 (51.11%) JIRA
3 20 (44.44%) Jenkins
4 15 (33.33%) Cypress.io
5 11 (24.44%) Selenium
6 10 (22.22%) REST Assured
7 7 (15.56%) JUnit
8 6 (13.33%) Git
8 6 (13.33%) GitLab
9 5 (11.11%) Appium
9 5 (11.11%) Cucumber
10 4 (8.89%) Toad
11 3 (6.67%) Ant
11 3 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (6.67%) Maven
11 3 (6.67%) Mockito
11 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
11 3 (6.67%) Subversion
11 3 (6.67%) Xcode
11 3 (6.67%) XCTest
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 5 (11.11%) Banking
5 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.44%) French Language
6 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Electronics
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Senior
1 13 (28.89%) Tester
2 12 (26.67%) Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Senior Tester
3 7 (15.56%) Test Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) QA Tester
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Integration Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Test Leader
7 2 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Automation Test Lead
7 2 (4.44%) QA Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Test Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (55.56%) SOAP
2 16 (35.56%) XML
3 11 (24.44%) Web Services
4 8 (17.78%) Kafka
5 7 (15.56%) REST
6 6 (13.33%) Playwright
7 4 (8.89%) JSON
8 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.67%) Bootstrap
8 3 (6.67%) CSS3
8 3 (6.67%) EDI
8 3 (6.67%) HTML5
8 3 (6.67%) IBM Integration Bus
8 3 (6.67%) JPA
8 3 (6.67%) Material-UI
8 3 (6.67%) Middleware
8 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 3 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (6.67%) Spring MVC
8 3 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.22%) Clustering
4 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Unix
2 5 (11.11%) Windows
3 3 (6.67%) AIX
3 3 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (80.00%) Agile
2 30 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 22 (48.89%) API Testing
4 19 (42.22%) Test Scripting
5 16 (35.56%) DevOps
6 14 (31.11%) Software Testing
7 11 (24.44%) Manual Testing
7 11 (24.44%) Waterfall
8 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 10 (22.22%) Test Strategy
9 9 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 9 (20.00%) V-Model
10 8 (17.78%) Microservices
10 8 (17.78%) Scrum
11 7 (15.56%) SDLC
12 6 (13.33%) Project Management
12 6 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (13.33%) Validation
13 5 (11.11%) Defect Management
13 5 (11.11%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) Java
2 12 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 11 (24.44%) SQL
4 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.89%) Groovy
5 4 (8.89%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.67%) Korn
6 3 (6.67%) Perl
6 3 (6.67%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.44%) C#
8 1 (2.22%) ABAP
8 1 (2.22%) COBOL
8 1 (2.22%) JCL
8 1 (2.22%) Python
8 1 (2.22%) Scala
8 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.67%) QA
2 8 (17.78%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.67%) SEPA
4 1 (2.22%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Oracle
2 3 (6.67%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 3 (6.67%) IBM
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Perforce
2 3 (6.67%) Splunk
3 2 (4.44%) Nintex
3 2 (4.44%) SAP
3 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) RedGate