SmartBear Software SoapUI
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SoapUI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SoapUI over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 634 565
Rank change year-on-year +101 -69 -46
Contract jobs citing SoapUI 57 69 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.10% 0.77% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 45 224
10th Percentile £325 £363 £337
25th Percentile £427 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £483
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +0.52% +13.53%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £566
90th Percentile £597 £594 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £475
% change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £50.45
25th Percentile - - £51.88
Median hourly rate - - £54.25
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £54.25
% change year-on-year - - +44.67%

All Development Application Skills
UK

SoapUI is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,192 8,904 15,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 15.03% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,489 6,260 11,273
10th Percentile £355 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.68%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 245 212
10th Percentile £33.40 £45.00 £37.02
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +22.14% +11.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.80 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.75
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.33% +21.67%

SoapUI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SoapUI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SoapUI.

Daily rate trend for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SoapUI over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SoapUI.

Hourly rate trend for SoapUI in the UK

SoapUI
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SoapUI within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +112 47 £506 +1.25% 17
London +99 35 £525 - 7
Work from Home +120 23 £500 +17.65% 6
UK excluding London +30 8 £500 +3.09% 9
North of England +28 4 £500 +100.00%
North West - 4 £500 -
Midlands +30 2 £380 - 1
East Midlands +22 2 £380 - 1
South East +6 2 £525 +25.00% 7

SoapUI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.75%) Confluence
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.75%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (8.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.05%) AWS
1 12 (21.05%) Azure
2 7 (12.28%) GCP
3 5 (8.77%) SuccessFactors
4 4 (7.02%) GitHub
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.51%) SaaS
7 1 (1.75%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.75%) Commercetools
7 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) HTTP
1 5 (8.77%) WinSCP
2 1 (1.75%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 7 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (12.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (12.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 44 (77.19%) Postman
2 25 (43.86%) Selenium
3 23 (40.35%) Git
4 18 (31.58%) Cucumber
5 17 (29.82%) Jenkins
6 16 (28.07%) JIRA
7 15 (26.32%) JUnit
7 15 (26.32%) REST Assured
7 15 (26.32%) WebDriver
8 14 (24.56%) TestNG
9 12 (21.05%) JMeter
9 12 (21.05%) Maven
10 11 (19.30%) Appium
11 10 (17.54%) eggPlant
11 10 (17.54%) SOAtest
12 6 (10.53%) Cypress.io
13 4 (7.02%) Eclipse
13 4 (7.02%) GitLab
13 4 (7.02%) Gradle
13 4 (7.02%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.02%) Finance
4 3 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) Analyst
2 11 (19.30%) Tester
3 9 (15.79%) Business Analyst
3 9 (15.79%) Technical Analyst
3 9 (15.79%) Technical Business Analyst
4 8 (14.04%) Developer
5 7 (12.28%) Automation Tester
5 7 (12.28%) Consultant
6 6 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Lead
7 5 (8.77%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Automation Consultant
8 4 (7.02%) Test Analyst
9 3 (5.26%) Senior
9 3 (5.26%) Test Automation Consultant
9 3 (5.26%) Test Consultant
10 2 (3.51%) QA Consultant
10 2 (3.51%) QA Test Analyst
10 2 (3.51%) QA Tester
10 2 (3.51%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (42.11%) SOAP
2 12 (21.05%) .NET
3 11 (19.30%) .NET Framework
3 11 (19.30%) Node.js
4 9 (15.79%) REST
4 9 (15.79%) XML
5 6 (10.53%) Spring
5 6 (10.53%) Web Services
6 5 (8.77%) JDBC
7 4 (7.02%) Spring Boot
8 3 (5.26%) Chai
8 3 (5.26%) HTML
8 3 (5.26%) JAXB
8 3 (5.26%) JAX-RS
8 3 (5.26%) JSON
8 3 (5.26%) Middleware
9 2 (3.51%) CSS
9 2 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (3.51%) Sass
9 2 (3.51%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Android
2 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (61.40%) Agile
2 29 (50.88%) Test Automation
3 19 (33.33%) BDD
4 18 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 18 (31.58%) DevOps
5 16 (28.07%) User Stories
6 13 (22.81%) Microservices
6 13 (22.81%) TDD
7 12 (21.05%) API Testing
7 12 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (19.30%) Continuous Deployment
8 11 (19.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 11 (19.30%) Software Testing
8 11 (19.30%) Test Scripting
8 11 (19.30%) Test Strategy
9 10 (17.54%) ATDD
10 9 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
11 8 (14.04%) E-Commerce
11 8 (14.04%) Scrum
12 7 (12.28%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (38.60%) Java
2 15 (26.32%) C#
3 14 (24.56%) SQL
4 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.77%) Python
7 2 (3.51%) C
8 1 (1.75%) Bash
8 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 20 (35.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) ISEB
3 3 (5.26%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) HP ALM
2 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.51%) Kibana
3 2 (3.51%) logstash
4 1 (1.75%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) SAP
3 6 (10.53%) HP
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow