SOA Contracts in the Midlands

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 115 150 157
Rank change year-on-year +35 +7 -15
Contract jobs citing SOA 22 13 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.80% 0.38% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.43% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 40
10th Percentile £465 £423 £424
25th Percentile £638 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £775 £494 £581
90th Percentile - £498 £693
England median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £49.31
% change year-on-year +60.71% -29.02% -16.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,253 3,057 4,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.14% 88.38% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,131 3,302
10th Percentile £236 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 120 155
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.64 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.25 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +36 16 £750 +57.89% 2
East Midlands - 3 £732 - 2
SOA
England

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) SAP MDG
2 2 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (4.55%) SAP MDG-BP
3 1 (4.55%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) IaaS
1 1 (4.55%) PaaS
1 1 (4.55%) SaaS
1 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) LAN
1 9 (40.91%) MPLS
1 9 (40.91%) PBX
1 9 (40.91%) VoIP
1 9 (40.91%) VPN
1 9 (40.91%) WAN
1 9 (40.91%) WLAN
2 5 (22.73%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (22.73%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (22.73%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (22.73%) DHCP
2 5 (22.73%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) Firewall
2 5 (22.73%) Internet
2 5 (22.73%) SD-WAN
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.55%) IPsec
4 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) RDBMS
1 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (40.91%) Telecoms
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Finance
4 4 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Data Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Functional Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Network Architect
4 3 (13.64%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) SAP Functional Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) SAP MDG Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Data Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Data Governance Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Governance Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Master Data Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) SAP Data Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) SAP Master Data Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Web Services
2 4 (18.18%) Spring
3 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
3 3 (13.64%) IDoc
3 3 (13.64%) React
3 3 (13.64%) SAP ALE
3 3 (13.64%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (13.64%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Data Centre
2 7 (31.82%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (13.64%) CMDB
3 3 (13.64%) Replication
4 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Architectural Design
2 9 (40.91%) Analytics
2 9 (40.91%) Data Analytics
2 9 (40.91%) Network Architecture
2 9 (40.91%) Performance Management
2 9 (40.91%) Programme Management
2 9 (40.91%) Storage Management
3 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (31.82%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
4 6 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (27.27%) Design Patterns
4 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 6 (27.27%) Resource Management
5 5 (22.73%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) CRM
5 5 (22.73%) ITIL
5 5 (22.73%) Microservices
5 5 (22.73%) Open Source
5 5 (22.73%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) ABAP
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) CCIE
1 9 (40.91%) CCIE Data Center
1 9 (40.91%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (27.27%) Degree
3 4 (18.18%) CCNP
3 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (18.18%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Cisco
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) CheckPoint
3 5 (22.73%) Infoblox
3 5 (22.73%) Palo Alto
3 5 (22.73%) ServiceNow
3 5 (22.73%) Symantec
3 5 (22.73%) Zscaler
4 3 (13.64%) SAP
5 2 (9.09%) Oracle
5 2 (9.09%) Salesforce