SOAP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 249 191
Rank change year-on-year +69 -58 +65
Contract jobs citing SOAP 139 92 273
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.37% 0.70% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.09% 2.74% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 70 174
10th Percentile £359 £306 £364
25th Percentile £413 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £538 £619 £626
90th Percentile £600 £676 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -37.39% -
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £36.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +73.61% -21.53% -15.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,731 3,360 5,507
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.95% 25.45% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,919 2,357 4,086
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +3.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £660
90th Percentile £825 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 84 63
10th Percentile £31.25 £24.68 £26.10
25th Percentile £42.13 - £48.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.81% +6.67%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £53.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.09% -10.42% +4.93%

SOAP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOAP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SOAP.

SOAP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SOAP over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

SOAP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SOAP.

SOAP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (4.32%) WebLogic
2 5 (3.60%) Confluence
2 5 (3.60%) NetWeaver
2 5 (3.60%) nginx
2 5 (3.60%) Oracle Service Bus
2 5 (3.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.88%) JBoss
3 4 (2.88%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.16%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.44%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.44%) IIS
5 2 (1.44%) Mule
5 2 (1.44%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.72%) Apache
6 1 (0.72%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.72%) CICS
6 1 (0.72%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.72%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Aladdin
1 5 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (3.60%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.88%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (2.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.44%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.44%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.72%) Kondor
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.72%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.18%) Azure
2 27 (19.42%) AWS
3 17 (12.23%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (9.35%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (6.47%) GitHub
6 8 (5.76%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (5.76%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.32%) AWS KMS
7 6 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.32%) OCI
7 6 (4.32%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.32%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 6 (4.32%) Serverless
8 5 (3.60%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.60%) PowerApps
8 5 (3.60%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.51%) HTTP
2 7 (5.04%) HTTPS
2 7 (5.04%) SSL
3 1 (0.72%) BGP
3 1 (0.72%) DHCP
3 1 (0.72%) DNS
3 1 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.72%) FTP
3 1 (0.72%) MPLS
3 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.23%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.63%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.63%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (5.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (5.76%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.32%) Redis
6 5 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.60%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.60%) Power BI
6 5 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (3.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.88%) DB2
8 3 (2.16%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.16%) MySQL
9 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.72%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (23.74%) JIRA
2 29 (20.86%) Git
3 21 (15.11%) Jenkins
4 19 (13.67%) JUnit
5 17 (12.23%) SonarQube
6 16 (11.51%) Maven
7 14 (10.07%) Postman
8 11 (7.91%) Mockito
9 8 (5.76%) SoapUI
9 8 (5.76%) Subversion
10 6 (4.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (4.32%) REST Assured
10 6 (4.32%) Xcode
10 6 (4.32%) XCTest
11 4 (2.88%) Bitbucket
11 4 (2.88%) Selenium
12 3 (2.16%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (2.16%) DbUnit
12 3 (2.16%) jMock
13 2 (1.44%) Gradle
General
1 48 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.86%) Finance
3 23 (16.55%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.47%) Banking
7 5 (3.60%) Digital Healthcare
8 4 (2.88%) Marketing
8 4 (2.88%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.72%) Automotive
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.72%) Police
11 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (52.52%) Developer
2 20 (14.39%) Architect
3 17 (12.23%) Lead
4 15 (10.79%) Java Developer
5 13 (9.35%) Senior
6 8 (5.76%) Consultant
7 7 (5.04%) Salesforce Architect
7 7 (5.04%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.04%) ServiceNow Architect
8 5 (3.60%) Analyst
8 5 (3.60%) AWS Developer
8 5 (3.60%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 5 (3.60%) Integration Developer
8 5 (3.60%) Lead Developer
8 5 (3.60%) SAP Developer
8 5 (3.60%) ServiceNow Developer
8 5 (3.60%) Technical Leader
8 5 (3.60%) Test Analyst
9 4 (2.88%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (2.88%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (75.54%) REST
2 51 (36.69%) Web Services
3 41 (29.50%) XML
4 29 (20.86%) JSON
5 25 (17.99%) RESTful
6 22 (15.83%) Middleware
6 22 (15.83%) Spring
7 21 (15.11%) HTML
7 21 (15.11%) Spring Boot
8 20 (14.39%) AngularJS
8 20 (14.39%) OAuth
9 17 (12.23%) .NET
10 15 (10.79%) OAuth2
11 14 (10.07%) JDBC
11 14 (10.07%) JPA
12 13 (9.35%) Spring Cloud
13 12 (8.63%) Bootstrap
13 12 (8.63%) CSS
13 12 (8.63%) Hibernate
13 12 (8.63%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.19%) Data Protection Act
1 10 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (6.47%) Virtual Team
3 7 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.60%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.60%) CMDB
5 5 (3.60%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.60%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.88%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.88%) PKI
6 4 (2.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (2.88%) Taxonomies
7 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.44%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.44%) Replication
8 2 (1.44%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.35%) Linux
1 13 (9.35%) Unix
2 6 (4.32%) Windows
3 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.72%) CentOS
4 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (58.99%) Agile
2 51 (36.69%) DevOps
3 47 (33.81%) Scrum
4 33 (23.74%) CI/CD
4 33 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (20.86%) Microservices
6 27 (19.42%) TDD
7 22 (15.83%) Mentoring
8 21 (15.11%) SDLC
9 17 (12.23%) Computer Science
9 17 (12.23%) Containerisation
9 17 (12.23%) Integration Patterns
10 15 (10.79%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (10.07%) ITSM
11 14 (10.07%) Test Automation
12 13 (9.35%) SOLID
13 12 (8.63%) API Development
13 12 (8.63%) API Management
13 12 (8.63%) Software Engineering
13 12 (8.63%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (42.45%) SQL
2 51 (36.69%) Java
3 42 (30.22%) JavaScript
4 27 (19.42%) Python
5 20 (14.39%) C#
6 12 (8.63%) Apex Code
7 10 (7.19%) Groovy
7 10 (7.19%) PL/SQL
7 10 (7.19%) PowerShell
7 10 (7.19%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.60%) ABAP
8 5 (3.60%) Bash
9 2 (1.44%) COBOL
9 2 (1.44%) DataWeave
9 2 (1.44%) JCL
9 2 (1.44%) Perl
9 2 (1.44%) Ruby
9 2 (1.44%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.72%) Bicep
10 1 (0.72%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 29 (20.86%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.95%) Degree
4 14 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.32%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.88%) ISEB
7 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.44%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.72%) CCNP
9 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) OCA
9 1 (0.72%) OCP
9 1 (0.72%) RHCA
9 1 (0.72%) RHCE
9 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.47%) QA
2 5 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.88%) SEPA
4 3 (2.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (2.16%) GDPR
5 2 (1.44%) HL7
6 1 (0.72%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.72%) Basel III
6 1 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.72%) GxP
6 1 (0.72%) MiFID
6 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (19.42%) Docker
2 3 (2.16%) Postfix
3 2 (1.44%) OpenAM
3 2 (1.44%) OpenDJ
3 2 (1.44%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (7.19%) Kubernetes
1 10 (7.19%) Terraform
2 9 (6.47%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (4.32%) Ansible
4 5 (3.60%) Grafana
4 5 (3.60%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.16%) SCOM
6 2 (1.44%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.44%) Puppet
6 2 (1.44%) Rsyslog
7 1 (0.72%) Cilium
7 1 (0.72%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.72%) Control-M
7 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (22.30%) Oracle
2 22 (15.83%) ServiceNow
3 17 (12.23%) Salesforce
4 13 (9.35%) Microsoft
5 10 (7.19%) SAP
6 9 (6.47%) MuleSoft
7 7 (5.04%) Dynatrace
8 6 (4.32%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (4.32%) ForgeRock
8 6 (4.32%) Splunk
9 5 (3.60%) Pega
10 4 (2.88%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.88%) BMC
10 4 (2.88%) HP
10 4 (2.88%) Ivanti
10 4 (2.88%) Murex
10 4 (2.88%) Ping Identity
10 4 (2.88%) Remedy
11 3 (2.16%) IBM
11 3 (2.16%) Snow