SOAP Contracts in the North of England

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 165 181 186
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 -45
Contract jobs citing SOAP 21 31 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.55% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.32% 2.85% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 54
10th Percentile £456 £392 £329
25th Percentile £489 £456 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £598 £557 £606
90th Percentile £690 £585 £696
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £55.69 £51.88
% change year-on-year - +7.34% +159.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 North of England 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 904 1,089 1,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.47% 19.49% 22.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 848 1,218
10th Percentile £362 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 38
10th Percentile £14.56 £37.79 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +10.62% +76.56%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £78.55
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the North of England

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the North of England 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
North West +20 18 £500 - 12
North East +11 2 £600 - 2
Yorkshire +3 1 - - 5
SOAP
England

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (28.57%) Confluence
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) Apigee
2 7 (33.33%) Kong
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Miro
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 7 (33.33%) OLAP
1 7 (33.33%) OLTP
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) JMeter
2 2 (9.52%) Selenium
2 2 (9.52%) SoapUI
3 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Gradle
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) Liquibase
3 1 (4.76%) Mercurial
3 1 (4.76%) Postman
3 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Architect
2 7 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Pega Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) SailPoint Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Web Services
2 7 (33.33%) IBM Integration Bus
2 7 (33.33%) J2EE
2 7 (33.33%) Kafka
2 7 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (33.33%) Spring
2 7 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 6 (28.57%) Apache Camel
3 6 (28.57%) REST
3 6 (28.57%) Spring Integration
4 3 (14.29%) HTML
4 3 (14.29%) JSON
4 3 (14.29%) RESTful
4 3 (14.29%) XML
5 2 (9.52%) .NET
5 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET
5 2 (9.52%) CSS
5 2 (9.52%) jQuery
5 2 (9.52%) Node.js
5 2 (9.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) DataPower
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) CMDB
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Design Patterns
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (38.10%) Event-Driven
3 8 (38.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 8 (38.10%) OO
3 8 (38.10%) SOA
4 7 (33.33%) API Management
4 7 (33.33%) CQRS
4 7 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (33.33%) Microservices
4 7 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
4 7 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (28.57%) Technical Debt
5 6 (28.57%) TOGAF
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (14.29%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) C
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) ACF2
3 1 (4.76%) IAG
3 1 (4.76%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.76%) Anchore
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (4.76%) HP ALM
2 1 (4.76%) Kibana
2 1 (4.76%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) IBM
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle
1 7 (33.33%) TSYS
2 4 (19.05%) Pega
3 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud