SOA Contracts in Scotland

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 147 139
Rank change year-on-year +25 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing SOA 6 20 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.27% 0.71% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.77% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 16
10th Percentile £438 £413 £381
25th Percentile £475 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £629
90th Percentile £663 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
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
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,936 2,599 3,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.48% 92.52% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,869 2,315
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £386 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £580 £558 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £18.79 £16.86 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -57.86% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £49.24 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in Scotland

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in Scotland

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 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
Edinburgh +38 5 £550 -8.33%
SOA
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) IaaS
1 5 (83.33%) PaaS
2 3 (50.00%) iPaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
1 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
1 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 3 (50.00%) J2EE
4 1 (16.67%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Client/Server
2 3 (50.00%) N-Tier
3 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 3 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) ATDD
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Feature Driven Development
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) VBA
2 2 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISEB
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) VMware