SOA Contracts in the North West

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 125 152 177
Rank change year-on-year +27 +25 -52
Contract jobs citing SOA 12 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.43% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.28% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 3
10th Percentile £424 £376 £535
25th Percentile £484 £410 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £420 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.08% -26.96% +15.00%
75th Percentile £672 £641 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £695
England median daily rate £563 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% -
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for SOA in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +16 7 £700 +66.67% 3
Cheshire +9 5 £489 -20.97% 1
SOA
England

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (41.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Apigee
2 5 (41.67%) Kong
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) MongoDB
1 5 (41.67%) OLAP
1 5 (41.67%) OLTP
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle OLAP
1 5 (41.67%) RDBMS
1 5 (41.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Banking
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) AWS Architect
3 5 (41.67%) Data Architect
3 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
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
2 5 (41.67%) SOAP
3 4 (33.33%) Apache Camel
3 4 (33.33%) Spring
3 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 4 (33.33%) Spring Integration
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js
4 1 (8.33%) Play Framework
4 1 (8.33%) React
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) DataPower
1 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (25.00%) CMDB
2 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Design Patterns
2 6 (50.00%) API Management
3 5 (41.67%) Architectural Design
3 5 (41.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (41.67%) Content Management
3 5 (41.67%) CQRS
3 5 (41.67%) CRM
3 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
3 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (41.67%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (41.67%) Microservices
3 5 (41.67%) OO
3 5 (41.67%) OOA/OOD
3 5 (41.67%) Open Source
3 5 (41.67%) Risk Management
3 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (41.67%) TOGAF
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) BC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) IBM
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
1 5 (41.67%) TSYS
2 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft