SOAP Contracts in Wales

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring SOAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOAP over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing SOAP 2 0 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.68% - 3.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.17% - 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £456 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.90%
75th Percentile £463 - £547
90th Percentile £465 - £654
UK median daily rate £523 £564 £525
% change year-on-year -7.23% +7.38% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

SOAP falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 48 89 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 16.27% 22.19% 27.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 73 135
10th Percentile £234 £293 £313
25th Percentile £327 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £547 £531 £586
90th Percentile £596 £589 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £20.68 £15.38 -
25th Percentile £21.53 £15.66 -
Median hourly rate £25.63 £18.14 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.26% - -
75th Percentile £36.31 £21.29 -
90th Percentile £49.03 £22.77 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in Wales

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in Wales

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in Wales

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Wales region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Dyfed - 2 £460 -
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (100.00%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Developer
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) EDI
1 2 (100.00%) IDoc
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SAP PI
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) ABAP
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP