SOA Contract Job Trends in Reading

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring SOA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 75 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing SOA 2 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.28% 0.67% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.72% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £422 £384 -
25th Percentile £430 £385 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £393 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.95% - -
75th Percentile £465 £449 -
90th Percentile £467 £548 -
Berkshire median daily rate £452 £400 -
% change year-on-year +12.94% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 634 833 907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.93% 92.45% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 456 591
10th Percentile £325 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £431 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% +8.62% -
75th Percentile £623 £650 £615
90th Percentile £665 £681 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 8 16
10th Percentile £14.63 £28.18 £55.83
25th Percentile £58.00 £39.13 £60.59
Median hourly rate £80.50 £59.63 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -5.78% -9.91%
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.26 £65.44
90th Percentile £105.75 £75.56 £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £60.57
% change year-on-year -5.68% +1.53% -6.82%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

SOA job vacancy trend in Reading

SOA
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SOA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SOA

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SOA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SOA

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle