SOA Contracts in the North of England

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 199 232
Rank change year-on-year +28 +33 -71
Contract jobs citing SOA 12 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.26% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 10
10th Percentile £424 - £428
25th Percentile £445 £410 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £538 £519
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +3.61% -0.24%
75th Percentile £567 £688 £538
90th Percentile £641 £725 £558
England median daily rate £538 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +2.38% -6.67% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
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
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in the North of England

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in the North of England

SOA
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North West +14 7 £489 +16.43% 4
Yorkshire +18 4 £529 -18.69% 1
North East - 1 £650 - 4
SOA
England

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (8.33%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Apigee
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (41.67%) Kong
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) iPaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Miro
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) MongoDB
1 5 (41.67%) OLAP
1 5 (41.67%) OLTP
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) gulp
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Maven
2 1 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Environment Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) SOAP
1 6 (50.00%) Web Services
2 5 (41.67%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (41.67%) J2EE
2 5 (41.67%) Kafka
2 5 (41.67%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (33.33%) Apache Camel
3 4 (33.33%) Spring
3 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 4 (33.33%) Spring Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Middleware
5 2 (16.67%) Node.js
5 2 (16.67%) RESTful
5 2 (16.67%) XML
5 2 (16.67%) XSLT
6 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
6 1 (8.33%) OpenID
6 1 (8.33%) Play Framework
6 1 (8.33%) React
6 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) DataPower
2 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
2 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Unix
2 2 (16.67%) Android
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (16.67%) zOS
3 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) API Management
1 7 (58.33%) Design Patterns
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 6 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (41.67%) CQRS
3 5 (41.67%) Microservices
3 5 (41.67%) OO
3 5 (41.67%) OOA/OOD
3 5 (41.67%) Risk Management
3 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (41.67%) TOGAF
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Technical Debt
5 3 (25.00%) Architectural Design
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 2 (16.67%) Network Design
6 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 5 (41.67%) IBM
2 5 (41.67%) TSYS
3 1 (8.33%) Cognizant
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud