SOA Contracts in Berkshire

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring SOA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing SOA 13 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.11% - 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% - 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £450 - £385
25th Percentile £525 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.16%
75th Percentile £638 - £463
90th Percentile £653 - £470
South East median daily rate £625 £750 £475
% change year-on-year -16.67% +57.89% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

SOA falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in Berkshire

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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 SOA within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 - 10 £625 - 15
Wokingham - 2 £450 -
SOA
South East

SOA
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 3 (23.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) dbt
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Security Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.69%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) Web Services
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Axis
2 2 (15.38%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) ADO
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) Blazor
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.69%) OpenID
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) SAML
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) SPML
3 1 (7.69%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Validation
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (38.46%) Information Security
3 5 (38.46%) Security Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
4 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
4 3 (23.08%) Integration Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (15.38%) Data Mapping
5 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 2 (15.38%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (15.38%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) C#
2 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Ruby
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) CISSP
2 5 (38.46%) CISM
3 3 (23.08%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Zscaler