SOA Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 71 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOA 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.30% - 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - 0.68%
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 - -
North East median daily rate £490 - £650

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 558 177 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.16% 82.33% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 115 81
10th Percentile £313 £200 £345
25th Percentile £386 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £554 £575 £550
90th Percentile £640 £638 £650
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 11 14
10th Percentile £17.00 £11.60 £17.83
25th Percentile £43.96 £13.56 £18.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +275.72% -19.53% +8.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £65.00
90th Percentile - £36.00 £70.00
North East median hourly rate £65.00 £17.30 £38.27
% change year-on-year +275.72% -54.79% +47.19%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

SOA job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

SOA
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SOA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SOA

SOA
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 2 £490 - 1
SOA
North East

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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