SOAP Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SOAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 76 70
Rank change year-on-year -30 -6 +21
Contract jobs citing SOAP 12 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.61% 0.70% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.67% 3.10% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile £525 £351 £536
25th Percentile £613 £378 £617
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £510 £688
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -25.89% +25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £712
90th Percentile - £612 £733
North West median daily rate £625 £447 £439
% change year-on-year +39.82% +1.88% -20.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 449 226 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 22.71% 22.76% 23.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 169 161
10th Percentile £403 £334 £331
25th Percentile £450 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £550 £643
90th Percentile £738 £625 £748
North West median daily rate £530 £447 £486
% change year-on-year +18.57% -8.07% -7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 1 3
10th Percentile - - £49.50
25th Percentile £62.50 - £54.38
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +4.48% +3.08%
75th Percentile £77.00 - £73.00
90th Percentile £77.50 - £73.90
North West median hourly rate £72.33 £51.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +41.82% +7.37% +2.86%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

SOAP job vacancy trend in Manchester

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SOAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SOAP

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in Manchester

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SOAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SOAP

SOAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) SAP BW
1 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow Specialist
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Salesforce Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Salesforce Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) REST
2 6 (50.00%) OAuth
3 4 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) SAML
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Basis
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (8.33%) SAP PI
4 1 (8.33%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) CMDB
1 6 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (8.33%) FMCG
2 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (50.00%) AI
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) ITSM
3 5 (41.67%) CAD
3 5 (41.67%) Client Onboarding
3 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 5 (41.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Generative AI
6 1 (8.33%) High Availability
6 1 (8.33%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 1 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Apex Code
2 1 (8.33%) ABAP
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) SAP