SOA Contracts in the South East

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 188 195
Rank change year-on-year +69 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing SOA 31 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.03% 0.091% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.11% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 5 13
10th Percentile £502 £605 £363
25th Percentile £534 £725 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £663 £775 £738
90th Percentile £775 £805 £755
England median daily rate £600 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +11.63% +2.38% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,644 5,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.32% 84.36% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,761 2,708 3,532
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -1.76% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 220
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.00 £16.78
25th Percentile £15.19 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -4.04% +130.23%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.04 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -20.44% -2.14% +52.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in the South East over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 10 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
Berkshire - 17 £550 - 12
Thames Valley - 17 £550 - 12
Hampshire - 11 £550 - 3
Surrey +17 6 £663 +20.45% 5
Kent - 1 £775 -
SOA
England

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (41.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (16.13%) WebLogic
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (6.45%) Apache Solr
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) OCI
3 5 (16.13%) GCP
4 4 (12.90%) AWS
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (6.45%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) dbt
6 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.68%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.23%) MySQL
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) GitLab
1 4 (12.90%) Maven
2 2 (6.45%) Selenium
2 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Architect
2 6 (19.35%) Security Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Lead
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
3 4 (12.90%) Senior Security Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) DBA
4 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Applications Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Integration Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Java Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.23%) HR Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) Web Services
2 7 (22.58%) REST
3 5 (16.13%) SOAP
4 4 (12.90%) .NET
4 4 (12.90%) JSON
4 4 (12.90%) React
5 2 (6.45%) Ajax
5 2 (6.45%) Apache Axis
5 2 (6.45%) Java EE
5 2 (6.45%) JAXB
5 2 (6.45%) JAX-RS
5 2 (6.45%) JAX-WS
5 2 (6.45%) OAuth
5 2 (6.45%) XML
5 2 (6.45%) XSD
5 2 (6.45%) XSL
5 2 (6.45%) XSLT
6 1 (3.23%) ADO
6 1 (3.23%) HTML
6 1 (3.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Unix
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Microservices
2 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (29.03%) Validation
3 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 7 (22.58%) Agile
4 7 (22.58%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (22.58%) ERP
4 7 (22.58%) Security Architecture
5 6 (19.35%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (19.35%) Data Transformation
5 6 (19.35%) Information Security
6 5 (16.13%) OO
6 5 (16.13%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (16.13%) Workflow
7 4 (12.90%) Migration
7 4 (12.90%) Multithreading
7 4 (12.90%) Scrum
7 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) SQL
2 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
2 9 (29.03%) PL/SQL
3 6 (19.35%) C#
3 6 (19.35%) Java
3 6 (19.35%) Python
4 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.68%) Perl
6 2 (6.45%) Ruby
6 2 (6.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) SC Cleared
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.81%) CISSP
3 6 (19.35%) CISM
4 3 (9.68%) Degree
5 2 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GDPR
1 3 (9.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.90%) Docker
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (9.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Zscaler