SOA Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring SOA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 62 72
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 +27
Contract jobs citing SOA 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.42% 0.45% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.52% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £520 £471 -
25th Percentile £531 £484 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% - -
75th Percentile £650 £534 -
90th Percentile - £544 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £625 £513 -
% change year-on-year +21.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 638 573 882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.11% 86.04% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 360 606
10th Percentile £311 £300 £319
25th Percentile £400 £400 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -6.19% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £516
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.95% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 7
10th Percentile £17.48 £15.64 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.31 £17.79 £18.97
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +52.51% +0.28%
75th Percentile £27.06 £40.13 £22.86
90th Percentile £28.08 £59.00 £39.05
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year -19.49% +32.82% -1.80%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

SOA job vacancy trend in Leeds

SOA
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SOA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SOA

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SOA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SOA

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Manager
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Manager
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Programme Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior SAP Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Micronaut
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) BCP
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) People Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Ariba
2 1 (33.33%) Concur
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft