SOA Contract Job Trends in the North East

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SOA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOA 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.26% - 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £473 - -
25th Percentile £478 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - £650
75th Percentile £498 - £675
90th Percentile £500 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 651 225 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 84.33% 79.51% 85.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 135 106
10th Percentile £313 £200 £269
25th Percentile £363 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% -3.16%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £558
90th Percentile £650 £638 £663
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 19 23
10th Percentile £17.00 - £14.55
25th Percentile £38.50 £11.60 £18.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.30 £38.27
Median % change year-on-year +275.72% -54.79% +47.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £50.00
90th Percentile - £47.34 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

SOA job vacancy trend in the North East

SOA
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SOA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SOA

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SOA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SOA

SOA
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the North East region over the 6 months to 10 August 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £490 - 1
SOA
England

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle