SOA Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SOA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOA over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 122 149
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 +17
Contract jobs citing SOA 7 4 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.18% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.20% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 10
10th Percentile £494 £533 £512
25th Percentile £604 £554 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £599 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.32% -11.30% +12.50%
75th Percentile £790 £634 £761
90th Percentile £863 £650 £825
Central London median daily rate £673 £599 £725
% change year-on-year +12.32% -17.41% +20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £36.63
25th Percentile - - £39.06
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £49.06
90th Percentile - - £51.88
Central London median hourly rate - - £43.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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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 2 May 2025.

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 (14.29%) Anypoint
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Boomi
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
1 1 (14.29%) Front Office
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Integration Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration Architect
4 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C++ Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C++/C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Integration Architect
4 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior C++ Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) MUnit
2 1 (14.29%) RAML
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) WCF
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (42.86%) API Integration
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) MOM
2 1 (14.29%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) MuleSoft
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce