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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 125 142
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 +42
Contract jobs citing SOA 7 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.38% 0.30% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.33% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £367 £479 £463
25th Percentile £463 £504 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £535 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% -20.74% +11.34%
75th Percentile - £572 £783
90th Percentile - £606 £830
London median daily rate £493 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -12.01% -6.67% +0.84%

All Process and 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 1,746 2,147 2,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.87% 91.79% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 1,346 1,881
10th Percentile £331 £367 £360
25th Percentile £425 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £750 £775 £813
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 26 19
10th Percentile £17.61 £19.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.86 £28.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -36.05%
75th Percentile £38.88 £74.38 £52.75
90th Percentile £61.65 £124.75 £69.75
London median hourly rate £30.50 £38.75 £39.09
% change year-on-year -21.29% -0.86% +4.23%

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 2025. 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 +5 6 £495 -10.20% 6
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 2 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (14.29%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Apigee
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub
1 3 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 3 (42.86%) Stackdriver
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Maven
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Gradle
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Mockito
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Billing
3 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) ABAP Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Angular Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Node.js
2 3 (42.86%) GraphQL
3 1 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) IDoc
3 1 (14.29%) JPA
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) Mongoose
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) SAP ALE
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Information Management
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) ABAP
2 1 (14.29%) Groovy
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Puppet
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Istio
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Ambari
3 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
1 3 (42.86%) MuleSoft
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) SAP