SOA Contracts in Cheshire

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for SOA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOA over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 60 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing SOA 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.96% 0.37% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £444 £534 -
25th Percentile £482 £558 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £619 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.97% - -
75th Percentile - £683 -
90th Percentile £500 £708 -
North West median daily rate £492 £420 £575
% change year-on-year +17.08% -26.96% +10.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

SOA is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 440 493 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.78% 91.64% 85.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 332 253
10th Percentile £285 £264 £214
25th Percentile £400 £385 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +7.19% +2.97%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £630 £656 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 25
10th Percentile £13.70 £15.97 £11.29
25th Percentile £16.61 £22.97 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +24.65% -19.50%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.90
90th Percentile £44.13 £38.80 £61.30
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing SOA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for SOA in Cheshire

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOA in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for SOA in Cheshire

SOA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOA in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for SOA in Cheshire

SOA
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Knutsford - 5 £489 -
SOA
North West

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Apigee
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Kong
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (100.00%) OLAP
1 5 (100.00%) OLTP
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Camel
2 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) DataPower
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) API Management
1 5 (100.00%) CQRS
1 5 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 5 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 5 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Debt
2 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) TSYS