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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 76 79
Rank change year-on-year -35 +3 +17
Contract jobs citing SOAP 12 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.62% 0.89% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.09% 4.64% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 4
10th Percentile £350 £399 £536
25th Percentile £538 £472 £617
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £585 £688
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -14.98% +25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £612 £712
90th Percentile - £615 £733
North West median daily rate £625 £455 £585
% change year-on-year +37.36% -22.19% +1.70%

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 388 194 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 19.99% 19.28% 21.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 147 179
10th Percentile £375 £343 £363
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £549 £688
90th Percentile £701 £613 £850
North West median daily rate £525 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +17.71% -10.80% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 5
10th Percentile £62.50 £70.63 £64.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £71.56 £66.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £76.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +8.93% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77.50 £84.06 £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £86.88 £73.70
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £70.00 £67.25
% change year-on-year +6.09% +4.09% +45.63%

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 12 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Boomi
2 1 (8.33%) AtomSphere
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Postman
1 2 (16.67%) SoapUI
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow Specialist
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (8.33%) SSIS Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) REST
2 6 (50.00%) OAuth
3 3 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (8.33%) JSON
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) SAML
4 1 (8.33%) Web Services
4 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) CMDB
1 6 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (50.00%) AI
2 6 (50.00%) ITSM
3 5 (41.67%) CAD
3 5 (41.67%) Client Onboarding
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 3 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) UML
7 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (8.33%) CRM
7 1 (8.33%) ETL
7 1 (8.33%) ITIL
7 1 (8.33%) Migration
7 1 (8.33%) Project Management
7 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Apex Code
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Dell