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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 87 69
Rank change year-on-year +38 -18 +7
Contract jobs citing SOAP 10 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.83% 0.93% 1.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.06% 5.26% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £508 £413 £451
25th Percentile £531 £431 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £559 £531 -
90th Percentile £591 £558 £620
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £453
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.97% -9.50%

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 124 209 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.75% 17.67% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 142 160
10th Percentile £350 £326 £400
25th Percentile £410 £431 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.49% +8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £652
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 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% +28.05%

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 2 (20.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (10.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) GIS
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (10.00%) DbUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) jMock
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) Mockito
1 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Consultant
1 5 (50.00%) Solutions Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) REST
1 5 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (20.00%) OAuth
2 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (10.00%) JPA
3 1 (10.00%) PowerMock
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 5 (50.00%) SCADA
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) API Management
2 2 (20.00%) Cartography
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Scrum
2 2 (20.00%) SOA
2 2 (20.00%) System Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Burndown Charts
3 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (10.00%) Microservices
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) PL/SQL
3 5 (50.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Jaspersoft