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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 77 84
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +31
Contract jobs citing SOAP 7 9 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.69% 0.75% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.50% 3.57% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 16
10th Percentile £351 £536 £484
25th Percentile £378 £617 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £688 £540
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% +27.31% +2.86%
75th Percentile £608 £712 £625
90th Percentile £612 £733 £643
North West median daily rate £437 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -10.50% -11.23% +4.76%

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 200 252 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 19.69% 21.11% 22.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 170 306
10th Percentile £323 £350 £363
25th Percentile £386 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.38% -3.94%
75th Percentile £545 £688 £600
90th Percentile £612 £850 £675
North West median daily rate £433 £489 £525
% change year-on-year -11.45% -6.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £70.63 £63.20 £62.75
25th Percentile £71.56 £64.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £76.25 £69.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -4.14% +3.57%
75th Percentile £84.06 £73.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £86.88 £74.20 £80.50
North West median hourly rate £51.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +10.44% - -34.03%

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
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 13 September 2025.

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 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 (14.29%) JBoss
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Gradle
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Back Office
2 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Transition Manager
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Derivative
1 3 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (28.57%) Credit Derivative
2 2 (28.57%) Market Risk
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Fintech
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) API Development
4 1 (14.29%) API Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Business Case
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Line Management
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Service Design
4 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Basel III
1 3 (42.86%) MiFID
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Sybase
3 1 (14.29%) Pega
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow