SOAP Contracts in Reading

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 76 70 74
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing SOAP 19 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.60% 1.63% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.45% 7.73% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 21
10th Percentile £430 £452 £394
25th Percentile £475 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £455
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -0.08% -13.26%
75th Percentile £519 £500 £538
90th Percentile £553 - £575
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading 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 201 220 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 16.88% 21.13% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 173 176
10th Percentile £325 £407 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +10.82%
75th Percentile £631 £680 £597
90th Percentile £675 £725 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £540 £513
% change year-on-year -2.78% +5.37% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 2
10th Percentile £56.50 £72.76 £28.25
25th Percentile £56.65 £76.89 £29.38
Median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +143.66% -45.83%
75th Percentile £61.60 - £34.38
90th Percentile - - £34.75
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +63.75%

SOAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAP in Reading

SOAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SOAP in Reading

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for SOAP in Reading

SOAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for SOAP in Reading

SOAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (63.16%) Apache
2 11 (57.89%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (21.05%) OpenStack
4 1 (5.26%) Jadu
4 1 (5.26%) JBoss
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Serverless
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Azure API Management
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Functions
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.26%) PaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) BGP
1 11 (57.89%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (57.89%) MPLS
1 11 (57.89%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (57.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (73.68%) NoSQL
3 11 (57.89%) MongoDB
4 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
4 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
5 3 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.26%) MySQL
6 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) GitLab
1 11 (57.89%) JIRA
1 11 (57.89%) Robot Framework
1 11 (57.89%) TestRail
2 4 (21.05%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) JUnit
2 4 (21.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Network Engineer
1 10 (52.63%) Test Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Integration Developer
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Support
6 1 (5.26%) Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.26%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Telecoms Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (94.74%) REST
2 11 (57.89%) NETCONF
2 11 (57.89%) RESTCONF
2 11 (57.89%) YANG
3 5 (26.32%) RESTful
4 4 (21.05%) .NET
4 4 (21.05%) AngularJS
4 4 (21.05%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (21.05%) Node.js
4 4 (21.05%) Spring
4 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 4 (21.05%) Web Services
5 3 (15.79%) ARM Templates
5 3 (15.79%) J2EE
5 3 (15.79%) JSON
5 3 (15.79%) OAuth
5 3 (15.79%) OpenID
5 3 (15.79%) XML
6 1 (5.26%) Apache Camel
6 1 (5.26%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Agile
2 15 (78.95%) Scrum
3 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
3 14 (73.68%) Security Testing
4 12 (63.16%) Workflow
5 11 (57.89%) Containerisation
5 11 (57.89%) Integration Testing
5 11 (57.89%) Performance Testing
5 11 (57.89%) Regression Testing
5 11 (57.89%) Test Automation
5 11 (57.89%) Unit Testing
6 8 (42.11%) DevOps
7 5 (26.32%) TDD
8 4 (21.05%) BDD
8 4 (21.05%) Kanban
8 4 (21.05%) Microservices
9 3 (15.79%) B2C
9 3 (15.79%) Break/Fix
9 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
9 3 (15.79%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) SQL
2 11 (57.89%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 4 (21.05%) C#
4 4 (21.05%) Java
5 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Ansible
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle