SOA Contracts in the Midlands

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SOA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOA over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 151 168
Rank change year-on-year +34 +17 -30
Contract jobs citing SOA 18 9 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.67% 0.27% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.31% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 29
10th Percentile £450 - £410
25th Percentile £600 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% -15.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £775 £438 £580
90th Percentile - - £738
England median daily rate £544 £538 £560
% change year-on-year +1.16% -4.02% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £49.31
% change year-on-year +60.71% -29.02% -16.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

SOA is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,209 2,944 4,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.09% 88.33% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 2,062 3,238
10th Percentile £235 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £593 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 105 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.88 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.60 £14.52 £13.73
Median hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +14.29% +14.75%
75th Percentile £34.56 £32.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +32 16 £750 +76.47% 3
SOA
England

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) SAP MDG
2 2 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (5.56%) SAP MDG-BP
3 1 (5.56%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Serverless
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) IaaS
2 1 (5.56%) PaaS
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) LAN
1 9 (50.00%) MPLS
1 9 (50.00%) PBX
1 9 (50.00%) VoIP
1 9 (50.00%) VPN
1 9 (50.00%) WAN
1 9 (50.00%) WLAN
2 5 (27.78%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (27.78%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (27.78%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (27.78%) DHCP
2 5 (27.78%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) Internet
2 5 (27.78%) SD-WAN
3 4 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (5.56%) IPsec
4 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
4 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Functional Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Network Architect
4 3 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) SAP Functional Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) SAP MDG Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Data Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Data Governance Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Governance Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Master Data Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) SAP Data Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) SAP Master Data Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) Web Services
2 4 (22.22%) Spring
3 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 3 (16.67%) IDoc
3 3 (16.67%) React
3 3 (16.67%) SAP ALE
3 3 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (16.67%) Web Dynpro
4 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (16.67%) Replication
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Analytics
1 9 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 9 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 9 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 9 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 9 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 9 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 7 (38.89%) Technical Architecture
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 6 (33.33%) Resource Management
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 5 (27.78%) ITIL
4 5 (27.78%) Microservices
4 5 (27.78%) Project Delivery
4 5 (27.78%) TDD
4 5 (27.78%) TOGAF
5 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) ABAP
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) CCIE
1 9 (50.00%) CCIE Data Center
1 9 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (22.22%) CCNP
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) CheckPoint
3 5 (27.78%) Infoblox
3 5 (27.78%) Palo Alto
3 5 (27.78%) Symantec
3 5 (27.78%) Zscaler
4 3 (16.67%) SAP
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle
5 2 (11.11%) Salesforce