SOA Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring SOA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.18% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £685 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 - -
75th Percentile £695 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £800 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

SOA falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66 50 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 77.65% 96.15% 81.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 20 61
10th Percentile £320 £204 £180
25th Percentile £400 £328 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -13.89% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £556 £506
90th Percentile £775 £688 £569
Oxfordshire median daily rate £494 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +19.70% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 15
10th Percentile £17.85 £13.08 £12.70
25th Percentile £19.34 £16.96 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.44 £25.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +57.19% -36.00%
75th Percentile £41.13 £46.30 £47.75
90th Percentile £60.25 - £65.00
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £33.50 £25.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year +32.41% +29.74% -35.49%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

SOA job vacancy trend in Oxford

SOA
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing SOA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing SOA

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SOA Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt