SOA Contracts in the West Midlands

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 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 93 132 148
Rank change year-on-year +39 +16 -32
Contract jobs citing SOA 16 8 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.83% 0.34% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.38% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 26
10th Percentile £450 £423 -
25th Percentile £600 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £775 £494 £550
90th Percentile - £498 £641
England median daily rate £563 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% -
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
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,114 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.67% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,452 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SOA in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +8 6 £450 +5.88%
Warwickshire +5 6 £750 +53.85% 1
Coventry +12 1 - -
SOA
England

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP MDG
1 1 (6.25%) SAP MDG-BP
1 1 (6.25%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) IaaS
1 1 (6.25%) PaaS
1 1 (6.25%) SaaS
1 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) LAN
1 9 (56.25%) MPLS
1 9 (56.25%) PBX
1 9 (56.25%) VoIP
1 9 (56.25%) VPN
1 9 (56.25%) WAN
1 9 (56.25%) WLAN
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (31.25%) DHCP
2 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) Internet
2 5 (31.25%) SD-WAN
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (6.25%) IPsec
4 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
4 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Metadata
1 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (56.25%) Telecoms
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Network Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Design Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Network Design Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Design Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) Web Services
2 4 (25.00%) Spring
3 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
3 3 (18.75%) React
4 1 (6.25%) IDoc
4 1 (6.25%) SAP ALE
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (6.25%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Data Centre
2 5 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Architectural Design
2 9 (56.25%) Analytics
2 9 (56.25%) Data Analytics
2 9 (56.25%) Network Architecture
2 9 (56.25%) Performance Management
2 9 (56.25%) Programme Management
2 9 (56.25%) Storage Management
3 7 (43.75%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 6 (37.50%) Resource Management
5 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 5 (31.25%) ITIL
5 5 (31.25%) Microservices
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
5 5 (31.25%) TOGAF
6 4 (25.00%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) ABAP
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) CCIE
1 9 (56.25%) CCIE Data Center
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (25.00%) CCNP
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) CheckPoint
2 5 (31.25%) Infoblox
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Palo Alto
2 5 (31.25%) Symantec
2 5 (31.25%) Zscaler
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow