SOAP Contracts in Manchester

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 94 114
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 -10
Contract jobs citing SOAP 8 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.85% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.33% 1.91% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 8
10th Percentile £506 £425 £396
25th Percentile £528 £506 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £595 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +19.00% -11.31%
75th Percentile £596 £598 £541
90th Percentile £612 - £576
North West median daily rate £545 £497 £500
% change year-on-year +9.60% -0.55% -14.89%

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 240 367 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.40% 23.33% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 300 335
10th Percentile £389 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £594
90th Percentile £650 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £67.00 £33.25
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 £34.38
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +79.68% +142.42%
75th Percentile £88.75 £76.75 £45.00
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £46.18 £40.59
% change year-on-year +46.71% +13.77% -0.06%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in Manchester

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in Manchester

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in Manchester

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in Manchester

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (12.50%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Military
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) SAML
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Derivative
1 4 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) API Testing
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Basel III
1 4 (50.00%) MiFID
2 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
1 4 (50.00%) Sybase
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow