SOA Contracts in the City of London

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 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 122 154 171
Rank change year-on-year +32 +17 -60
Contract jobs citing SOA 4 23 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.18% 0.63% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.69% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 16
10th Percentile £533 £512 £474
25th Percentile £554 £539 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £634 £761 £725
90th Percentile £650 £825 -
Central London median daily rate £599 £725 £613
% change year-on-year -17.41% +18.37% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £43.75 -
Central London median hourly rate - £43.75 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,347 3,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 2,259 2,945
10th Percentile £359 £355 £385
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOA in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SOA in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOA in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SOA in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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