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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 75 81
Rank change year-on-year -30 +6 +23
Contract jobs citing SOAP 4 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.23% 0.67% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 2.61% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £310 £513 £431
25th Percentile £325 £545 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £585 £560
Median % change year-on-year -40.12% +4.38% +12.56%
75th Percentile £369 £603 £598
90th Percentile £380 £615 -
North West median daily rate £375 £492 £495
% change year-on-year -23.78% -0.51% -1.10%

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 422 230 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 24.72% 25.81% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 184 275
10th Percentile £355 £400 £375
25th Percentile £400 £406 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £558 £552 £623
90th Percentile £638 £638 £825
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 1 9
10th Percentile £52.50 - £65.50
25th Percentile £53.75 £76.25 £67.50
Median hourly rate £71.00 £82.50 £71.87
Median % change year-on-year -13.94% +14.79% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £81.30
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £48.43
% change year-on-year +3.32% +39.89% +19.45%

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
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Boomi
2 1 (25.00%) AtomSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Integration Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Architect
1 1 (25.00%) SSIS Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) SAML
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) HubSpot
2 1 (25.00%) Reuters
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow