SOA Contracts in Edinburgh

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 59 67 104
Rank change year-on-year +8 +37 +3
Contract jobs citing SOA 8 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.28% 0.61% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.69% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £400 £438 £398
25th Percentile £413 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £509 £625 £613
90th Percentile £510 £663 £630
Scotland median daily rate £503 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -8.64% -8.33% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in Edinburgh

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in Edinburgh

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (62.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) OCI
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle CX
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) PaaS
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) PowerApps
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
1 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) Postman
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
1 3 (37.50%) TeamCity
1 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) QA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analytics Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Middleware
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
2 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CRM
1 5 (62.50%) ERP
1 5 (62.50%) Human Resource Management
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Business Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) ATDD
3 3 (37.50%) BDD
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Feature Driven Development
3 3 (37.50%) Kanban
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
3 3 (37.50%) V-Model
3 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) C++
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) VBA
2 3 (37.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) ISEB
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle