SOAP Contracts in Berkshire

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring SOAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOAP over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 102 73
Rank change year-on-year +30 -29 +9
Contract jobs citing SOAP 18 16 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.57% 0.83% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.83% 5.80% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 15
10th Percentile £466 £430 £425
25th Percentile - £475 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £519
90th Percentile - £553 £602
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

SOAP falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 230 276 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 20.09% 14.35% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 181 230
10th Percentile £350 £325 £374
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £701
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 8
10th Percentile £39.64 £56.58 £52.90
25th Percentile £53.72 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +52.67%
75th Percentile £84.85 - £80.25
90th Percentile £89.44 £61.80 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £64.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% -4.50% +84.29%

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
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 15 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 +34 9 £550 +10.00% 14
Wokingham - 3 £500 - 6
Windsor - 2 £465 - 3
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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) OCI
1 3 (16.67%) SaaS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS KMS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Route 53
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) GIS
2 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (5.56%) DbUnit
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) jMock
1 1 (5.56%) JUnit
1 1 (5.56%) Maven
1 1 (5.56%) Mockito
1 1 (5.56%) Postman
1 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Solutions Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Architect
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Telecoms Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) React Developer
6 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) REST
1 10 (55.56%) Web Services
2 4 (22.22%) Ajax
2 4 (22.22%) CSS
2 4 (22.22%) HTML
2 4 (22.22%) XML
3 3 (16.67%) OAuth
4 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.11%) Node.js
4 2 (11.11%) React
4 2 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
5 1 (5.56%) JPA
5 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
5 1 (5.56%) PowerMock
5 1 (5.56%) Spring Batch
5 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Operational Technology
1 5 (27.78%) SCADA
2 4 (22.22%) CMDB
3 2 (11.11%) Replication
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) Scrum
3 6 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
3 6 (33.33%) ITIL
3 6 (33.33%) ITSM
4 4 (22.22%) API Management
4 4 (22.22%) Change Management
4 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
4 4 (22.22%) Service Management
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) API Integration
5 3 (16.67%) Log Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Cartography
6 2 (11.11%) Data Integration
6 2 (11.11%) System Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Workflow
6 2 (11.11%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 5 (27.78%) Perl
4 3 (16.67%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) Python
6 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Snow
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.56%) Jaspersoft