Parasoft SOAtest
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SOAtest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOAtest over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOAtest 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £454 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

SOAtest 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 5,142 9,126 15,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 15.20% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,466 6,416 11,233
10th Percentile £356 £387 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £456
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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 254 214
10th Percentile £31.71 £44.75 £37.25
25th Percentile £45.96 £53.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +22.14% +11.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.63% +11.82% +22.22%

SOAtest
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAtest in the UK

SOAtest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SOAtest in the UK

SOAtest
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAtest within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
London - 10 £375 -
England - 10 £375 - 1
Work from Home - 3 £450 - 1

SOAtest
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:

Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Appium
1 10 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 10 (100.00%) eggPlant
1 10 (100.00%) Git
1 10 (100.00%) JUnit
1 10 (100.00%) Postman
1 10 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 10 (100.00%) Selenium
1 10 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 10 (100.00%) TestNG
1 10 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (90.00%) .NET Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 10 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 10 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 10 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 9 (90.00%) ATDD
2 9 (90.00%) BDD
2 9 (90.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 9 (90.00%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (90.00%) TDD
2 9 (90.00%) User Stories
3 5 (50.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft