SOAP Contracts in Reading

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 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 51 72 70
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing SOAP 9 19 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% 1.59% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.62% 9.50% 7.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 8
10th Percentile £520 £430 £452
25th Percentile - £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +9.89% -0.08%
75th Percentile - £519 £500
90th Percentile £561 £553 -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £478
% change year-on-year - +4.71% -4.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 200 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.78% 16.78% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 173
10th Percentile £350 £325 £407
25th Percentile £409 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £680
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £72.76
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.89
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% +143.66%
75th Percentile - £61.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
% change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%

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
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 1 (11.11%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) OCI
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
2 1 (11.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) BGP
1 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (11.11%) MPLS
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) GIS
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (11.11%) DbUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) jMock
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Mockito
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Consultant
1 5 (55.56%) Solutions Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
3 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 1 (11.11%) JPA
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) NETCONF
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) PowerMock
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Batch
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Integration
3 1 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Operational Technology
1 5 (55.56%) SCADA
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Cartography
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
2 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Scrum
2 2 (22.22%) System Testing
3 1 (11.11%) API Management
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) PL/SQL
3 5 (55.56%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Jaspersoft