SOAP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 306 265 230
Rank change year-on-year -41 -35 -26
Contract jobs citing SOAP 88 195 342
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.85% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.70% 4.64% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 117 257
10th Percentile £393 £400 £384
25th Percentile £425 £453 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £596
90th Percentile £688 £728 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £33.23
25th Percentile - - £43.69
Median hourly rate - - £51.88
75th Percentile - - £57.75
90th Percentile - - £64.05
UK median hourly rate - £55.69 £51.88
% change year-on-year - +7.34% +48.21%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 3,256 4,203 6,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.27% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,129 3,144 4,310
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £691 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 146
10th Percentile £21.96 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.94 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.85 £79.19 £76.64
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in the UK excluding London

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SOAP in the UK excluding London

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in the UK excluding London

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOAP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in the UK excluding London

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the UK excluding London 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
South East -20 30 £475 -5.00% 21
North of England +16 21 £525 +2.94% 18
North West +20 18 £500 - 12
Scotland +37 16 £650 +23.81% 6
Midlands -2 10 £563 +4.17% 9
West Midlands +8 6 £563 -16.67% 7
South West +2 6 £463 -32.48% 2
East of England +7 5 £425 +18.06% 8
East Midlands +2 4 £494 -1.25% 2
North East +11 2 £600 - 2
Yorkshire +3 1 - - 5
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (12.50%) Apache
1 11 (12.50%) Confluence
2 9 (10.23%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.14%) Appian
4 1 (1.14%) CMS
4 1 (1.14%) Drupal
4 1 (1.14%) Jadu
4 1 (1.14%) JBoss
4 1 (1.14%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (7.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Temenos T24
2 4 (4.55%) NetSuite
3 3 (3.41%) Teamcenter
4 2 (2.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.95%) Azure
2 26 (29.55%) AWS
3 14 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.09%) Serverless
5 7 (7.95%) Apigee
5 7 (7.95%) Boomi
5 7 (7.95%) Kong
5 7 (7.95%) SaaS
6 6 (6.82%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (6.82%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 6 (6.82%) AWS CodePipeline
7 5 (5.68%) IaaS
7 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.55%) GCP
9 3 (3.41%) Azure API Management
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.23%) BGP
1 9 (10.23%) Ethernet VPN
1 9 (10.23%) MPLS
1 9 (10.23%) Radio Access Network
1 9 (10.23%) VPN
2 5 (5.68%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 14 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (14.77%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.09%) OLAP
4 8 (9.09%) OLTP
4 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.95%) Oracle OLAP
6 6 (6.82%) Oracle Database
7 5 (5.68%) MySQL
7 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.55%) Power BI
8 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.41%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.14%) Big Data
10 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.14%) DB2
10 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (29.55%) JIRA
2 14 (15.91%) Git
3 11 (12.50%) GitLab
4 9 (10.23%) Robot Framework
4 9 (10.23%) TestRail
5 8 (9.09%) Visual Studio
6 6 (6.82%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.82%) Jenkins
6 6 (6.82%) SoapUI
7 5 (5.68%) Artifactory
7 5 (5.68%) JMeter
8 4 (4.55%) Selenium
9 3 (3.41%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (3.41%) Zephyr
10 2 (2.27%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.27%) Postman
11 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.91%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 9 (10.23%) Back Office
5 8 (9.09%) Banking
5 8 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.27%) Marketing
7 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Law
8 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (35.23%) Architect
2 21 (23.86%) Developer
3 14 (15.91%) AWS Architect
4 12 (13.64%) Test Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Network Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.95%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (6.82%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Analyst
9 4 (4.55%) AWS Solution Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Consultant
9 4 (4.55%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Development Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Integration Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Pega Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Software Development Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Test Development Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (59.09%) REST
2 24 (27.27%) XML
3 22 (25.00%) Web Services
4 17 (19.32%) .NET
5 15 (17.05%) JSON
5 15 (17.05%) RESTful
6 10 (11.36%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (10.23%) Kafka
7 9 (10.23%) NETCONF
7 9 (10.23%) RESTCONF
7 9 (10.23%) YANG
8 8 (9.09%) Spring
8 8 (9.09%) Spring Boot
9 7 (7.95%) Apache Camel
9 7 (7.95%) HTML
9 7 (7.95%) IBM Integration Bus
9 7 (7.95%) J2EE
10 6 (6.82%) CSS
10 6 (6.82%) OAuth
10 6 (6.82%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.95%) DataPower
2 6 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.41%) CMDB
4 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.14%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.50%) Windows
2 8 (9.09%) Linux
3 4 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.14%) Unix
5 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.77%) Agile
2 24 (27.27%) DevOps
3 23 (26.14%) Test Automation
4 22 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 19 (21.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (20.45%) Scrum
7 17 (19.32%) Containerisation
8 16 (18.18%) API Management
9 14 (15.91%) Design Patterns
10 13 (14.77%) OO
11 12 (13.64%) Integration Testing
11 12 (13.64%) Roadmaps
11 12 (13.64%) Security Testing
12 11 (12.50%) Service Management
12 11 (12.50%) Unit Testing
12 11 (12.50%) Workflow
13 10 (11.36%) ERP
13 10 (11.36%) Identity Access Management
13 10 (11.36%) Microservices
14 9 (10.23%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (35.23%) SQL
2 21 (23.86%) Java
3 19 (21.59%) C#
4 14 (15.91%) Python
5 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.95%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.55%) C
7 4 (4.55%) C++
7 4 (4.55%) VB
7 4 (4.55%) VB6
8 2 (2.27%) Groovy
8 2 (2.27%) PHP
9 1 (1.14%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.14%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) Degree
3 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.14%) CISM
4 1 (1.14%) CISSP
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
3 3 (3.41%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (15.91%) Docker
2 4 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.55%) VirtualBox
3 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.14%) ACF2
4 1 (1.14%) IAG
4 1 (1.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
1 6 (6.82%) Terraform
2 3 (3.41%) Ansible
3 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.14%) Anchore
4 1 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.14%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.14%) Kibana
4 1 (1.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (29.55%) Oracle
2 8 (9.09%) IBM
2 8 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 7 (7.95%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.95%) TSYS
4 6 (6.82%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.68%) Pega
5 5 (5.68%) SAP
6 4 (4.55%) Infragistics
7 2 (2.27%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.14%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.14%) Dell
8 1 (1.14%) HP
8 1 (1.14%) Jitterbit
8 1 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) SnapLogic
8 1 (1.14%) Software AG
8 1 (1.14%) TIBCO