SOA Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring SOA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £469 £625 £750
% change year-on-year -24.96% -16.67% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 246 99 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 78.85% 89.19% 79.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 59 106
10th Percentile £225 £198 £150
25th Percentile £320 £256 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £500
90th Percentile £638 £690 £611
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.80% -0.10% -1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 8 38
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.08 £12.20
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.91 £13.12
Median hourly rate £27.69 £26.53 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% +36.05% -27.99%
75th Percentile £51.27 £46.30 £29.38
90th Percentile £53.75 - £65.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £27.76 £47.50
% change year-on-year +89.12% -41.56% -5.00%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

SOA job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

SOA
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing SOA

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Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing SOA

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SOA Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt