SOAP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 205 250
Rank change year-on-year -23 +45 -50
Contract jobs citing SOAP 112 283 469
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 1.19% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.03% 4.73% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 198 324
10th Percentile £425 £388 £366
25th Percentile £475 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -4.76% +12.90%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £731 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £56.25 £68.08
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £68.17
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% +137.10%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £55.69 £54.25
% change year-on-year - +2.65% +55.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,693 5,980 13,113
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.17% 25.05% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,597 4,483 9,739
10th Percentile £345 £390 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 110
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.45
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £66.64
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%

SOAP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOAP trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOAP.

SOAP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SOAP over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

SOAP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOAP.

SOAP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (7.14%) Confluence
2 7 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (5.36%) Anypoint
4 5 (4.46%) Mule
4 5 (4.46%) Mule ESB
5 4 (3.57%) SharePoint
5 4 (3.57%) WebSphere
6 3 (2.68%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.79%) CMS
8 1 (0.89%) JBoss
8 1 (0.89%) Jetty
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (4.46%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.68%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.79%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.89%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 33 (29.46%) Azure
2 23 (20.54%) GitHub
3 22 (19.64%) AWS
4 17 (15.18%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.04%) Apigee
5 9 (8.04%) Serverless
6 6 (5.36%) GCP
6 6 (5.36%) SaaS
7 5 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (4.46%) Kong
7 5 (4.46%) WhatsApp
8 4 (3.57%) Azure API Management
8 4 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.57%) PaaS
8 4 (3.57%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.57%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.68%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.46%) HTTP
2 4 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.79%) Internet
4 1 (0.89%) Firewall
4 1 (0.89%) FTP
4 1 (0.89%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.89%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.32%) MySQL
1 25 (22.32%) SQL Server
2 16 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (8.93%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.36%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.46%) OLAP
6 5 (4.46%) OLTP
6 5 (4.46%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (3.57%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (3.57%) Power BI
8 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.79%) DB2
9 2 (1.79%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.89%) Informix
10 1 (0.89%) Ingres
10 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (26.79%) Git
2 22 (19.64%) JIRA
3 14 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 11 (9.82%) Selenium
5 8 (7.14%) SoapUI
6 6 (5.36%) GitLab
6 6 (5.36%) JMeter
7 4 (3.57%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.57%) Postman
7 4 (3.57%) TeamCity
7 4 (3.57%) Visual Studio
8 3 (2.68%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.68%) HP UFT
8 3 (2.68%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.79%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.79%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.79%) Maven
10 1 (0.89%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.89%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.32%) Finance
3 14 (12.50%) Banking
4 12 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.82%) Public Sector
6 9 (8.04%) Financial Institution
7 8 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.46%) Retail
8 5 (4.46%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.68%) Back Office
10 2 (1.79%) Arabic Language
10 2 (1.79%) French Language
10 2 (1.79%) German Language
10 2 (1.79%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.79%) Korean Language
10 2 (1.79%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (34.82%) Developer
2 24 (21.43%) Architect
3 11 (9.82%) Senior
3 11 (9.82%) Software Engineer
4 9 (8.04%) Lead
4 9 (8.04%) SailPoint Developer
5 8 (7.14%) AWS Architect
5 8 (7.14%) Pega Architect
5 8 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 8 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.25%) MuleSoft Developer
6 7 (6.25%) SailPoint Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Consultant
7 6 (5.36%) Technical Leader
8 5 (4.46%) ServiceNow Developer
9 4 (3.57%) Salesforce Developer
10 3 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) Integration Developer
10 3 (2.68%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (50.00%) REST
2 47 (41.96%) XML
3 43 (38.39%) Web Services
4 26 (23.21%) JSON
5 23 (20.54%) HTML
6 21 (18.75%) RESTful
7 18 (16.07%) SailPoint
7 18 (16.07%) Servlets
8 17 (15.18%) JSP
8 17 (15.18%) LDAP
8 17 (15.18%) SPML
8 17 (15.18%) Spring
9 15 (13.39%) JDBC
10 14 (12.50%) Spring Boot
11 12 (10.71%) .NET
12 10 (8.93%) Swagger
13 9 (8.04%) AngularJS
13 9 (8.04%) jQuery
13 9 (8.04%) Kafka
13 9 (8.04%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.46%) DataPower
2 5 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.68%) CMDB
4 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.68%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.68%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.79%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.89%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.89%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.04%) Windows
2 8 (7.14%) Linux
3 5 (4.46%) Unix
4 3 (2.68%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.93%) Agile
2 29 (25.89%) DevOps
3 25 (22.32%) API Management
4 21 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 20 (17.86%) Test Automation
6 17 (15.18%) Microservices
7 16 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 16 (14.29%) RBAC
8 15 (13.39%) Software Engineering
9 14 (12.50%) SOA
10 12 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (10.71%) SDLC
10 12 (10.71%) Unit Testing
11 11 (9.82%) OO
11 11 (9.82%) Scrum
12 10 (8.93%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (8.93%) Migration
12 10 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (8.04%) Event-Driven
13 9 (8.04%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 49 (43.75%) SQL
2 40 (35.71%) Java
3 29 (25.89%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.61%) C#
4 13 (11.61%) Python
5 6 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.57%) Apex Code
6 4 (3.57%) Bicep
7 3 (2.68%) C++
7 3 (2.68%) Go
7 3 (2.68%) Ruby
7 3 (2.68%) XPath
8 2 (1.79%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.79%) VB
8 2 (1.79%) VB6
9 1 (0.89%) C
9 1 (0.89%) Groovy
9 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.89%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 9 (8.04%) Degree
2 5 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.46%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.79%) ISEB
4 2 (1.79%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.89%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.71%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (16.07%) Active Directory
2 17 (15.18%) IAG
3 16 (14.29%) ACF2
3 16 (14.29%) RACF
4 12 (10.71%) Docker
5 3 (2.68%) vCloud
5 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.68%) VirtualBox
5 3 (2.68%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.04%) Terraform
3 5 (4.46%) CloudHub
4 4 (3.57%) Ansible
4 4 (3.57%) HP ALM
4 4 (3.57%) PingFederate
4 4 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.68%) Autotask
5 3 (2.68%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.68%) Puppet
6 2 (1.79%) Grafana
6 2 (1.79%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.89%) Control-M
Vendors
1 44 (39.29%) Oracle
2 23 (20.54%) ServiceNow
3 16 (14.29%) Sybase
4 13 (11.61%) Salesforce
5 12 (10.71%) IBM
6 11 (9.82%) Microsoft
7 8 (7.14%) Pega
8 7 (6.25%) MuleSoft
9 5 (4.46%) BMC
9 5 (4.46%) HP
9 5 (4.46%) TSYS
10 4 (3.57%) Google
10 4 (3.57%) Ping Identity
11 3 (2.68%) Arista
11 3 (2.68%) Micro Focus
11 3 (2.68%) Remedy
11 3 (2.68%) SAP
11 3 (2.68%) TOWER Software
11 3 (2.68%) VMware
12 2 (1.79%) Infragistics