SOA Contracts in England

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 457 451
Rank change year-on-year +68 -6 -79
Contract jobs citing SOA 109 95 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.26% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.30% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 59 139
10th Percentile £457 £424 £413
25th Percentile £503 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.87%
75th Percentile £713 £745 £688
90th Percentile £813 £775 £784
UK median daily rate £550 £568 £534
% change year-on-year -3.08% +6.27% -4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £50.25 -
25th Percentile - £52.50 -
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +60.71% -29.02%
75th Percentile - - £44.38
90th Percentile - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate - £56.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +60.71% -29.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24,147 31,870 43,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.93% 85.64% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,520 20,680 30,282
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,216 2,288 1,563
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%
75th Percentile £54.81 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £72.73 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
% change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in England

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in England

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in England

SOA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in England

SOA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the England region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
London +39 50 £683 +18.70% 213
South East +59 28 £550 -7.37% 58
Yorkshire +18 19 £550 +7.32% 24
North of England +6 19 £550 +11.85% 68
Midlands +4 8 £500 -28.57% 54
West Midlands 0 8 £500 -33.33% 28
East of England - 4 £600 - 28
SOA
UK

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 46 (42.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (4.59%) Oracle Service Bus
2 5 (4.59%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (3.67%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.83%) Confluence
4 2 (1.83%) SAS
5 1 (0.92%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.92%) CICS
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 15 (13.76%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (3.67%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.92%) SAP MRS
4 1 (0.92%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.76%) Azure
2 13 (11.93%) OCI
3 11 (10.09%) GCP
4 8 (7.34%) AWS
4 8 (7.34%) SaaS
5 6 (5.50%) Oracle CX
6 3 (2.75%) GitHub
7 2 (1.83%) Apigee
7 2 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.83%) dbt
7 2 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.83%) IaaS
7 2 (1.83%) PaaS
7 2 (1.83%) Stackdriver
8 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.92%) Serverless
8 1 (0.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.84%) DNS
2 3 (2.75%) HTTP
2 3 (2.75%) SSL
3 1 (0.92%) Firewall
3 1 (0.92%) Internet
3 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.35%) Oracle Database
2 10 (9.17%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.26%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.50%) Oracle ODI
5 4 (3.67%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.75%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.75%) ClickHouse
6 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.75%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.83%) Tableau
8 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.92%) DB2
8 1 (0.92%) MySQL
8 1 (0.92%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.92%) Power BI
8 1 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) Git
2 10 (9.17%) Bitbucket
3 9 (8.26%) TeamCity
4 7 (6.42%) Maven
5 5 (4.59%) GitLab
6 4 (3.67%) JIRA
7 3 (2.75%) JUnit
7 3 (2.75%) Mockito
7 3 (2.75%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.83%) Gradle
8 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.92%) Appium
9 1 (0.92%) Selenium
9 1 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 47 (43.12%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.27%) Finance
3 18 (16.51%) Front Office
4 17 (15.60%) Banking
5 14 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (10.09%) Investment Banking
7 8 (7.34%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.67%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.83%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.83%) Retail
11 1 (0.92%) Automotive
11 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (25.69%) Developer
2 20 (18.35%) Architect
3 13 (11.93%) C# Developer
4 12 (11.01%) Senior
5 9 (8.26%) .NET Developer
5 9 (8.26%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (7.34%) Applications Architect
7 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Security Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Engineering Specialist
8 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 6 (5.50%) Integration Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Oracle Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.67%) Consultant
9 4 (3.67%) IT Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.10%) .NET
2 17 (15.60%) Web Services
3 14 (12.84%) Node.js
4 13 (11.93%) HTML
4 13 (11.93%) React
5 12 (11.01%) HTML5
6 11 (10.09%) ASP.NET
7 10 (9.17%) CSS
8 9 (8.26%) ASP.NET Web API
8 9 (8.26%) Kafka
8 9 (8.26%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (8.26%) REST
9 8 (7.34%) LESS
9 8 (7.34%) Sass
9 8 (7.34%) SOAP
9 8 (7.34%) Tailwind CSS
10 7 (6.42%) Reactive Extensions
11 6 (5.50%) AngularJS
11 6 (5.50%) gRPC
11 6 (5.50%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (10.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (8.26%) Data Structures
3 9 (8.26%) Fixed Income
4 6 (5.50%) Blockchain
4 6 (5.50%) IoT
5 3 (2.75%) Equities
5 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.75%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.83%) Derivative
6 2 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.83%) IVR
6 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.92%) CCTV
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.69%) Windows
2 18 (16.51%) Linux
3 17 (15.60%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.67%) Unix
5 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.92%) Android
6 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (47.71%) Agile
2 47 (43.12%) Microservices
3 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (20.18%) DevOps
4 22 (20.18%) OO
5 19 (17.43%) Test Automation
6 17 (15.60%) CI/CD
6 17 (15.60%) Design Patterns
6 17 (15.60%) Scrum
6 17 (15.60%) Technical Leadership
7 16 (14.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (14.68%) Migration
8 14 (12.84%) Clean Code
8 14 (12.84%) Enterprise Architecture
8 14 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (12.84%) Security Management
8 14 (12.84%) TDD
9 13 (11.93%) Mentoring
9 13 (11.93%) OOP
10 12 (11.01%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 43 (39.45%) SQL
2 30 (27.52%) C#
3 28 (25.69%) PL/SQL
4 26 (23.85%) Java
5 24 (22.02%) JavaScript
6 16 (14.68%) Perl
7 14 (12.84%) Bash
7 14 (12.84%) PowerShell
8 13 (11.93%) Python
8 13 (11.93%) TypeScript
9 8 (7.34%) C++
10 5 (4.59%) F#
11 3 (2.75%) Ruby
12 2 (1.83%) ABAP
13 1 (0.92%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.92%) COBOL
13 1 (0.92%) SOQL
13 1 (0.92%) XPath
Qualifications
1 37 (33.94%) Security Cleared
2 34 (31.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.84%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (8.26%) CISSP
4 9 (8.26%) Degree
5 6 (5.50%) CISM
6 4 (3.67%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.92%) CAPM
9 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.59%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) GDPR
2 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.83%) GAAP
3 2 (1.83%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.92%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.92%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (16.51%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.17%) Docker
3 4 (3.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 4 (3.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 4 (3.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.75%) Terraform
4 2 (1.83%) Ansible
4 2 (1.83%) Control-M
4 2 (1.83%) Istio
4 2 (1.83%) Puppet
5 1 (0.92%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.92%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 46 (42.20%) Oracle
2 15 (13.76%) Microsoft
3 14 (12.84%) Cisco
4 8 (7.34%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.59%) Google
5 5 (4.59%) IBM
6 4 (3.67%) Informatica
7 3 (2.75%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.83%) Pega
8 2 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.83%) SAP
8 2 (1.83%) Splunk
9 1 (0.92%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.92%) HP
9 1 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.92%) Zscaler