SOA Contracts in London

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 295 344 350
Rank change year-on-year +49 +6 -40
Contract jobs citing SOA 58 47 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.26% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.30% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 31 100
10th Percentile £411 £406 £436
25th Percentile £613 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +44.19% +2.38% -10.64%
75th Percentile £825 £611 £662
90th Percentile £852 £750 £801
England median daily rate £625 £563 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% +7.14% -4.55%
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
England median hourly rate - £56.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +60.71% -29.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in London

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in London

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in London

SOA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in London

SOA
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the London 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
Central London +8 8 £673 +12.32% 2
West London +9 1 £625 +51.52% 2
South London - 1 £515 - 2
SOA
England

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (12.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) CMS
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.72%) CICS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.97%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) AWS
2 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.17%) Boomi
3 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (5.17%) PaaS
3 3 (5.17%) Serverless
4 2 (3.45%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (3.45%) GCP
4 2 (3.45%) OCI
4 2 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.72%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle CX
5 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Firewall
1 1 (1.72%) HTTP
1 1 (1.72%) Internet
1 1 (1.72%) IPsec
1 1 (1.72%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.72%) SSL
1 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.34%) Tableau
3 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.90%) Power BI
3 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (5.17%) ClickHouse
4 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.72%) DB2
6 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (20.69%) Git
2 11 (18.97%) TeamCity
3 10 (17.24%) Bitbucket
4 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.90%) Maven
6 3 (5.17%) GitLab
7 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (3.45%) JUnit
7 2 (3.45%) Mockito
8 1 (1.72%) Appium
8 1 (1.72%) JIRA
8 1 (1.72%) Selenium
8 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 24 (41.38%) Front Office
3 17 (29.31%) Banking
3 17 (29.31%) Finance
4 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (22.41%) Investment Banking
6 12 (20.69%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.45%) Retail
9 1 (1.72%) Automotive
9 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (50.00%) Developer
2 16 (27.59%) C# Developer
3 8 (13.79%) .NET Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Architect
3 8 (13.79%) C# .NET Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Senior
4 7 (12.07%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Angular Developer
6 4 (6.90%) C++ Developer
6 4 (6.90%) C++/C# Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Head of Business Intelligence
6 4 (6.90%) Integration Architect
6 4 (6.90%) SOA Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Consultant
7 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Lead
7 3 (5.17%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (39.66%) .NET
2 15 (25.86%) HTML
2 15 (25.86%) HTML5
3 14 (24.14%) ASP.NET
3 14 (24.14%) Node.js
4 12 (20.69%) Kafka
5 10 (17.24%) CSS
5 10 (17.24%) React
6 9 (15.52%) AngularJS
6 9 (15.52%) ASP.NET Web API
7 8 (13.79%) LESS
7 8 (13.79%) REST
7 8 (13.79%) Sass
7 8 (13.79%) SOAP
7 8 (13.79%) Tailwind CSS
8 7 (12.07%) Reactive Extensions
9 6 (10.34%) .NET Framework
9 6 (10.34%) Akka.NET
9 6 (10.34%) gRPC
9 6 (10.34%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (15.52%) Fixed Income
3 6 (10.34%) Algorithms
4 5 (8.62%) N-Tier
5 4 (6.90%) Derivative
6 3 (5.17%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.45%) Equities
8 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.72%) DataPower
8 1 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.72%) Exotic Derivative
8 1 (1.72%) Life Science
8 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.52%) Windows
2 2 (3.45%) Linux
3 1 (1.72%) Android
3 1 (1.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Agile
2 21 (36.21%) Microservices
3 18 (31.03%) DevOps
4 17 (29.31%) TDD
5 16 (27.59%) Design Patterns
5 16 (27.59%) OO
5 16 (27.59%) OOP
6 15 (25.86%) CI/CD
7 13 (22.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (20.69%) Test Automation
9 11 (18.97%) Clean Code
10 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (15.52%) Unit Testing
12 8 (13.79%) Computer Science
12 8 (13.79%) Data Integration
12 8 (13.79%) Refactoring
12 8 (13.79%) Requirements Analysis
12 8 (13.79%) Risk Management
12 8 (13.79%) Scrum
13 7 (12.07%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) C#
2 21 (36.21%) Java
3 17 (29.31%) JavaScript
4 13 (22.41%) TypeScript
5 12 (20.69%) C++
6 11 (18.97%) SQL
7 6 (10.34%) Python
8 5 (8.62%) F#
8 5 (8.62%) Scala
9 4 (6.90%) T-SQL
10 2 (3.45%) ABAP
11 1 (1.72%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) PMI Certification
2 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) CAPM
4 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.72%) PMP
4 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.90%) GDPR
3 3 (5.17%) QA
4 2 (3.45%) WCAG
5 1 (1.72%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) MOM
1 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (3.45%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Ansible
2 1 (1.72%) CA Endevor
2 1 (1.72%) CloudHub
2 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) Packer
2 1 (1.72%) QRadar
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) Oracle
3 4 (6.90%) IBM
3 4 (6.90%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.45%) Informatica
4 2 (3.45%) Pega
4 2 (3.45%) SAP
4 2 (3.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.72%) Dell
5 1 (1.72%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow