SOA Contracts in the City of Westminster

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing SOA 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 2.27% - 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% - 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £794
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - £838
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.42%
75th Percentile - - £881
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £673 £599 £725
% change year-on-year +12.32% -17.41% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38 40 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 86.36% 90.91% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 24
10th Percentile £409 £435 £219
25th Percentile £425 £497 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +7.95% -
75th Percentile £636 £806 £650
90th Percentile £691 £956 £850
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the City of Westminster

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in the City of Westminster

SOA
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Paddington - 1 £630 -
SOA
Central London

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) SPML
1 1 (100.00%) XACML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft