SOA Contract Job Trends in Central London

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring SOA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 118 131
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 +20
Contract jobs citing SOA 14 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.56% 0.41% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.43% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 1
10th Percentile £468 £364 -
25th Percentile £494 £433 £626
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £495 £628
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -21.12% -10.36%
75th Percentile £628 - £629
90th Percentile £638 £627 -
London median daily rate £575 £503 £560
% change year-on-year +14.43% -10.27% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,223 1,850 2,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.42% 93.81% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 1,235 1,389
10th Percentile £358 £323 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £784
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 27
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.05 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £22.56
Median hourly rate £25.57 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.06% -16.94% +27.27%
75th Percentile £42.56 £50.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £110.50
London median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -12.50%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

SOA job vacancy trend in Central London

SOA
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SOA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SOA

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in Central London over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in Central London

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SOA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SOA

SOA
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
City of London -11 14 £513 +3.59% 5
SOA
London

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (14.29%) CICS
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (7.14%) Google Play
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) FTP
2 2 (14.29%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database
2 2 (14.29%) Db2
2 2 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) eggPlant
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) HP UFT
2 1 (7.14%) JMeter
2 1 (7.14%) JUnit
2 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
2 1 (7.14%) Postman
2 1 (7.14%) Rational Functional Tester
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) SilkTest
2 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
2 1 (7.14%) SOAtest
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) DBA
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (14.29%) Sales Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) UI Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) webMethods Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Integration Developer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) SOAP
2 6 (42.86%) Web Services
3 5 (35.71%) HTML
3 5 (35.71%) JSON
3 5 (35.71%) XML
4 3 (21.43%) .NET
4 3 (21.43%) CSS
4 3 (21.43%) React
4 3 (21.43%) REST
4 3 (21.43%) RESTful
5 2 (14.29%) EDI
5 2 (14.29%) WSDL
5 2 (14.29%) XBRL
6 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.14%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (7.14%) Kafka
6 1 (7.14%) Middleware
6 1 (7.14%) React Native
6 1 (7.14%) Spring
6 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Fixed Income
2 2 (14.29%) DataPower
2 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 2 (14.29%) Online Banking
3 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Unix
2 2 (14.29%) zOS
3 1 (7.14%) Android
3 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) AI
2 5 (35.71%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (28.57%) Observability
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Pair Programming
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (21.43%) TDD
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) B2B
5 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (14.29%) OO
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) ActionScript
4 2 (14.29%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (14.29%) JCL
4 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 2 (14.29%) VB.NET
5 1 (7.14%) Korn
5 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) ISEB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Control-M
1 1 (7.14%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Axway
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) Software AG
2 2 (14.29%) webMethods
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft