SOAP Contracts in Berkshire

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 81 86
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing SOAP 20 34 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.01% 1.87% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.60% 10.21% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 39
10th Percentile £430 £425 £399
25th Percentile £475 £452 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £519 £558 £588
90th Percentile £553 £620 £597
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £68.17
% change year-on-year - - +202.96%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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 Berkshire 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 303 333 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.31% 18.34% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 244 293
10th Percentile £325 £366 £353
25th Percentile £413 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.37% +13.89%
75th Percentile £619 £629 £588
90th Percentile £675 £713 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 5
10th Percentile £56.56 £52.90 £30.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +63.75%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £61.84 £80.48 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% -

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in Berkshire

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in Berkshire

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in Berkshire

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in Berkshire

SOAP
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Reading -6 19 £500 +9.89% 2
Maidenhead -10 1 - -
SOAP
South East

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 12 (60.00%) Apache
2 11 (55.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (20.00%) OpenStack
4 1 (5.00%) Jadu
4 1 (5.00%) JBoss
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Serverless
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Azure API Management
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) BGP
1 11 (55.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (55.00%) MPLS
1 11 (55.00%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (55.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (70.00%) NoSQL
3 11 (55.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.00%) MySQL
6 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) GitLab
1 11 (55.00%) JIRA
1 11 (55.00%) Robot Framework
1 11 (55.00%) TestRail
2 4 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) JUnit
2 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.00%) NWDI
3 1 (5.00%) NWDS
General
1 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 10 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Integration Developer
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Support
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) SAP Integration Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (95.00%) REST
2 11 (55.00%) NETCONF
2 11 (55.00%) RESTCONF
2 11 (55.00%) YANG
3 5 (25.00%) RESTful
4 4 (20.00%) .NET
4 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (20.00%) Node.js
4 4 (20.00%) Spring
4 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (20.00%) Web Services
5 3 (15.00%) ARM Templates
5 3 (15.00%) J2EE
5 3 (15.00%) JSON
5 3 (15.00%) OAuth
5 3 (15.00%) OpenID
5 3 (15.00%) XML
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Agile
2 15 (75.00%) Scrum
3 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (70.00%) Security Testing
4 12 (60.00%) Workflow
5 11 (55.00%) Containerisation
5 11 (55.00%) Integration Testing
5 11 (55.00%) Performance Testing
5 11 (55.00%) Regression Testing
5 11 (55.00%) Test Automation
5 11 (55.00%) Unit Testing
6 8 (40.00%) DevOps
7 5 (25.00%) TDD
8 4 (20.00%) BDD
8 4 (20.00%) Kanban
8 4 (20.00%) Microservices
9 3 (15.00%) B2C
9 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
9 3 (15.00%) OO
9 3 (15.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) SQL
2 11 (55.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) Java
3 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (20.00%) C#
5 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.00%) Groovy
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) SAP