SOAP Contracts in the Midlands

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SOAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOAP over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 121 158
Rank change year-on-year -2 +37 -31
Contract jobs citing SOAP 10 39 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 1.19% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.55% 6.90% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 29 35
10th Percentile £400 - £380
25th Percentile £458 £500 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £540 £459
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +17.65% +26.62%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £539
90th Percentile £630 £731 £576
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

SOAP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 392 565 897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.56% 17.21% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 443 685
10th Percentile £280 £313 £360
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £621 £588 £550
90th Percentile £720 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 10
10th Percentile £10.90 - £16.70
25th Percentile £14.16 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £39.98 - £46.25
90th Percentile £56.25 - £47.95
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the Midlands

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the Midlands

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the Midlands

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the Midlands

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +8 6 £563 -16.67% 7
East Midlands +2 4 £494 -1.25% 2
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Boomi
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) iPaaS
4 2 (20.00%) SaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (10.00%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) OLAP
2 1 (10.00%) OLTP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) JMeter
1 2 (20.00%) SoapUI
1 2 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Integration Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) XML
2 6 (60.00%) JSON
2 6 (60.00%) REST
3 3 (30.00%) WSDL
3 3 (30.00%) XSD
3 3 (30.00%) XSLT
4 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (10.00%) gRPC
5 1 (10.00%) JMS
5 1 (10.00%) Kafka
5 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (10.00%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Integration Patterns
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) CRM
3 4 (40.00%) ERP
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) API Design
5 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Data Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Groovy
2 1 (10.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Jitterbit
3 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) SnapLogic
3 1 (10.00%) Software AG
3 1 (10.00%) Talend
3 1 (10.00%) TIBCO