SOA Contracts in Edinburgh

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 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 66 104 106
Rank change year-on-year +38 +2 -15
Contract jobs citing SOA 5 8 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.61% 0.61% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.65% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 16
10th Percentile £438 £398 £381
25th Percentile £475 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £629
90th Percentile £663 £630 £688
Scotland median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 720 1,240 1,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.34% 95.17% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 884 1,254
10th Percentile £228 £254 £257
25th Percentile £413 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £568
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 17
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.16 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.87 £21.26 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -46.85% -26.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £53.97
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for SOA in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) IaaS
1 5 (100.00%) PaaS
2 3 (60.00%) iPaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Client/Server
2 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Architecture Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) ATDD
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) VBA
1 2 (40.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware