SOA Contracts in England

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 445 360
Rank change year-on-year +4 -85 -98
Contract jobs citing SOA 97 214 515
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.42% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.47% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 139 348
10th Percentile £426 £409 £425
25th Percentile £475 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £749 £672 £688
90th Percentile £775 £803 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - - £37.68
25th Percentile - - £41.70
Median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £49.31
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -29.02% -16.43%
75th Percentile - £44.38 £57.82
90th Percentile - £50.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £49.31
% change year-on-year +60.71% -29.02% -9.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in England

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in England

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in England

SOA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in England

SOA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +9 46 £538 +2.38% 34
Midlands +36 22 £750 +57.89% 4
North of England +40 21 £575 +6.98% 14
West Midlands +39 16 £750 +57.89% 2
North West +27 12 £492 +17.08% 4
Yorkshire +26 8 £665 +2.23% 6
South East +7 5 £750 +57.89% 19
East Midlands - 3 £732 - 2
South West +12 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £650 - 4
SOA
UK

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (11.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (10.31%) Confluence
3 5 (5.15%) Anypoint
3 5 (5.15%) Mule
3 5 (5.15%) Mule ESB
4 4 (4.12%) CMS
5 2 (2.06%) Apache
6 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (1.03%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Temenos T24
2 3 (3.09%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (3.09%) SAP MDG
3 2 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.03%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.03%) SAP MDG-BP
4 1 (1.03%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.93%) Azure
2 16 (16.49%) AWS
3 10 (10.31%) Serverless
4 8 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.22%) Azure Functions
5 7 (7.22%) PowerApps
5 7 (7.22%) SaaS
6 6 (6.19%) Apigee
6 6 (6.19%) Azure API Management
6 6 (6.19%) Azure Batch
6 6 (6.19%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (6.19%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (6.19%) Azure Storage
6 6 (6.19%) Power Automate
7 5 (5.15%) Kong
7 5 (5.15%) WhatsApp
8 4 (4.12%) IaaS
8 4 (4.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.34%) LAN
1 11 (11.34%) WAN
2 9 (9.28%) MPLS
2 9 (9.28%) PBX
2 9 (9.28%) VoIP
2 9 (9.28%) VPN
2 9 (9.28%) WLAN
3 5 (5.15%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (5.15%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (5.15%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (5.15%) DHCP
3 5 (5.15%) DNS
3 5 (5.15%) Firewall
3 5 (5.15%) Internet
3 5 (5.15%) SD-WAN
4 4 (4.12%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.06%) HTTP
5 2 (2.06%) SSL
6 1 (1.03%) IPsec
6 1 (1.03%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.40%) Relational Database
2 11 (11.34%) OLTP
2 11 (11.34%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.31%) RDBMS
4 8 (8.25%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (6.19%) Big Data
5 6 (6.19%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (5.15%) OLAP
6 5 (5.15%) Oracle OLAP
7 3 (3.09%) MySQL
8 2 (2.06%) DB2
8 2 (2.06%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.06%) Metadata
8 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (18.56%) Git
2 12 (12.37%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.31%) JIRA
4 6 (6.19%) Visual Studio Team System
5 4 (4.12%) Postman
6 3 (3.09%) GitLab
7 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.06%) JMeter
7 2 (2.06%) JUnit
7 2 (2.06%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (2.06%) Maven
7 2 (2.06%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.06%) Selenium
7 2 (2.06%) Subversion
8 1 (1.03%) Gradle
8 1 (1.03%) gulp
General
1 24 (24.74%) Finance
2 22 (22.68%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.28%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.28%) Telecoms
4 8 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.25%) Banking
4 8 (8.25%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Marketing
6 2 (2.06%) Arabic Language
6 2 (2.06%) French Language
6 2 (2.06%) German Language
6 2 (2.06%) Japanese Language
6 2 (2.06%) Korean Language
6 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.03%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.03%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.03%) Police
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
7 1 (1.03%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 42 (43.30%) Architect
2 26 (26.80%) Developer
3 10 (10.31%) Data Architect
4 8 (8.25%) Consultant
4 8 (8.25%) Senior
4 8 (8.25%) ServiceNow Architect
4 8 (8.25%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.19%) AWS Architect
5 6 (6.19%) Lead
5 6 (6.19%) Technical Architect
6 5 (5.15%) C# Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (5.15%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.15%) MuleSoft Developer
7 4 (4.12%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.09%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.09%) Applications Developer
8 3 (3.09%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.09%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (3.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.93%) Web Services
2 19 (19.59%) .NET
2 19 (19.59%) SOAP
3 16 (16.49%) XML
4 15 (15.46%) JSON
4 15 (15.46%) REST
5 10 (10.31%) Kafka
6 8 (8.25%) AngularJS
6 8 (8.25%) Spring
7 7 (7.22%) React
8 6 (6.19%) ARM Templates
8 6 (6.19%) J2EE
9 5 (5.15%) IBM Integration Bus
9 5 (5.15%) Node.js
9 5 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (4.12%) CSS
10 4 (4.12%) HTML
10 4 (4.12%) Middleware
10 4 (4.12%) RESTful
10 4 (4.12%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Data Centre
1 12 (12.37%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (11.34%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (7.22%) CMDB
4 5 (5.15%) DataPower
4 5 (5.15%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.09%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.09%) Replication
6 2 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.06%) IoT
6 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.03%) Infotainment
7 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.25%) Linux
1 8 (8.25%) Windows
2 7 (7.22%) Unix
3 3 (3.09%) Android
4 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.06%) zOS
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.24%) Agile
2 33 (34.02%) Microservices
3 26 (26.80%) DevOps
4 24 (24.74%) Architectural Design
5 23 (23.71%) Architectural Patterns
6 22 (22.68%) API Management
7 20 (20.62%) Design Patterns
8 17 (17.53%) Scrum
8 17 (17.53%) TDD
9 16 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (14.43%) CI/CD
11 13 (13.40%) BDD
11 13 (13.40%) CRM
11 13 (13.40%) Migration
11 13 (13.40%) Open Source
11 13 (13.40%) Project Delivery
12 12 (12.37%) Analytics
12 12 (12.37%) Content Management
12 12 (12.37%) TOGAF
13 11 (11.34%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.71%) Java
2 18 (18.56%) C#
3 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.15%) Python
4 5 (5.15%) SQL
4 5 (5.15%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.12%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.09%) ABAP
7 2 (2.06%) C
7 2 (2.06%) C++
7 2 (2.06%) XPath
8 1 (1.03%) Perl
8 1 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Degree
2 9 (9.28%) CCIE
2 9 (9.28%) CCIE Data Center
2 9 (9.28%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (9.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.15%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) CCNP
5 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.03%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) HL7
3 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (9.28%) Terraform
2 5 (5.15%) CloudHub
2 5 (5.15%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.09%) TIBCO Hawk
4 2 (2.06%) Ansible
5 1 (1.03%) Istio
5 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (23.71%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.40%) ServiceNow
3 11 (11.34%) Oracle
4 10 (10.31%) Salesforce
5 9 (9.28%) Cisco
6 7 (7.22%) IBM
6 7 (7.22%) MuleSoft
7 5 (5.15%) CheckPoint
7 5 (5.15%) Infoblox
7 5 (5.15%) Palo Alto
7 5 (5.15%) Symantec
7 5 (5.15%) TSYS
7 5 (5.15%) Zscaler
8 3 (3.09%) SAP
8 3 (3.09%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.03%) Cognizant
9 1 (1.03%) Google
9 1 (1.03%) NCR
9 1 (1.03%) Red Hat