SOA Contracts in the North of England

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 206 227
Rank change year-on-year +41 +21 -69
Contract jobs citing SOA 21 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.44% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 13
10th Percentile £428 - £438
25th Percentile £486 £410 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% -1.18%
75th Percentile £716 £688 £556
90th Percentile £742 £725 £607
England median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
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
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,105 5,316 6,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.81% 90.87% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,531 3,697 4,628
10th Percentile £288 £300 £237
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £688 £649
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 216 262
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.48 £15.50 £13.06
Median hourly rate £17.61 £27.50 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -35.96% +47.12% -0.01%
75th Percentile £44.24 £45.05 £33.37
90th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £51.72
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the North of England

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in the North of England

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in the North of England

SOA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in the North of England

SOA
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
North West +20 12 £492 +17.08% 4
Yorkshire +30 8 £665 +2.23% 6
North East - 1 £650 - 4
SOA
England

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (19.05%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (28.57%) Apigee
4 5 (23.81%) Kong
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) iPaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Miro
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) LAN
1 2 (9.52%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) RDBMS
1 8 (38.10%) Relational Database
2 5 (23.81%) MongoDB
2 5 (23.81%) OLAP
2 5 (23.81%) OLTP
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) Subversion
3 1 (4.76%) gulp
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) Maven
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
1 6 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
3 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Architect
2 8 (38.10%) Data Architect
3 7 (33.33%) ServiceNow Architect
4 6 (28.57%) AWS Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Environment Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Designer
6 1 (4.76%) Integration Architect
6 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.76%) ITSM Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Scala Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (4.76%) SOA Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) SOAP
1 6 (28.57%) Web Services
2 5 (23.81%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (23.81%) J2EE
2 5 (23.81%) Kafka
2 5 (23.81%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (19.05%) Apache Camel
3 4 (19.05%) Spring
3 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
3 4 (19.05%) Spring Integration
4 3 (14.29%) Middleware
5 2 (9.52%) Node.js
5 2 (9.52%) RESTful
5 2 (9.52%) XML
5 2 (9.52%) XSLT
6 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.76%) JSON
6 1 (4.76%) OAuth
6 1 (4.76%) OpenID
6 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (23.81%) DataPower
2 5 (23.81%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (19.05%) CMDB
4 2 (9.52%) Client/Server
5 1 (4.76%) Blockchain
5 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.76%) IoT
5 1 (4.76%) Low-Code
5 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Unix
2 2 (9.52%) Android
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.52%) zOS
3 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Design Patterns
2 11 (52.38%) Architectural Design
3 9 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
3 9 (42.86%) CRM
4 8 (38.10%) Content Management
4 8 (38.10%) Open Source
5 7 (33.33%) API Management
5 7 (33.33%) Data Design
5 7 (33.33%) DevOps
6 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (28.57%) Event-Driven
6 6 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (23.81%) CQRS
7 5 (23.81%) ITSM
7 5 (23.81%) Microservices
7 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
7 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (23.81%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) BC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) ServiceNow
2 7 (33.33%) Oracle
3 5 (23.81%) IBM
3 5 (23.81%) TSYS
4 1 (4.76%) Cognizant
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud