SOA Contracts in Central London

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 148 174
Rank change year-on-year +19 +26 -50
Contract jobs citing SOA 4 24 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.17% 0.62% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.68% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 18
10th Percentile £533 £513 £488
25th Percentile £554 £558 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £725 £613
Median % change year-on-year -17.41% +18.37% +2.08%
75th Percentile £634 £794 £716
90th Percentile £650 £825 £725
London median daily rate £531 £525 £590
% change year-on-year +1.19% -11.02% +1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £43.75 -
London median hourly rate - £43.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,189 3,514 4,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.64% 91.39% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 2,377 3,194
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 29 41
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.45 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £29.11 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.75
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.41
% change year-on-year -26.92% +7.11% +10.84%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in Central London

SOA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in Central London

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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 4 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
City of London +31 4 £599 -11.30%
SOA
London

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Arabic Language
2 1 (25.00%) French Language
2 1 (25.00%) German Language
2 1 (25.00%) Japanese Language
2 1 (25.00%) Korean Language
2 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (25.00%) CIO
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) TIBCO Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) TIBCO Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) TIBCO EMS
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) XSD
1 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) EAI
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) TIBCO