SOA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 348 313
Rank change year-on-year +4 -35 -58
Contract jobs citing SOA 54 107 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.44% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.49% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 60 142
10th Percentile £427 £363 £413
25th Percentile £489 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £554 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% +5.48% +0.96%
75th Percentile £775 £656 £623
90th Percentile - £750 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -44.98% +7.82%
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £49.31
% change year-on-year +60.71% -29.02% -9.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,627 21,715 27,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.89% 89.58% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,629 15,041 19,312
10th Percentile £243 £254 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,023 1,341 1,383
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.16 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.59 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the UK excluding London

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SOA in the UK excluding London

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in the UK excluding London

SOA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SOA in the UK excluding London

SOA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Midlands +45 22 £750 +57.89% 5
North of England +39 21 £575 +6.98% 14
West Midlands +45 16 £750 +57.89% 2
North West +21 12 £492 +17.08% 4
Yorkshire +24 8 £665 +2.23% 6
Scotland +19 7 £425 -29.17% 5
South East +5 6 £750 +53.85% 20
East Midlands - 3 £732 - 3
South West +17 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £650 - 4
SOA
UK

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (7.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (9.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Temenos T24
2 3 (5.56%) SAP MDG
3 2 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.85%) SAP MDG-BP
4 1 (1.85%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) AWS
3 8 (14.81%) IaaS
3 8 (14.81%) PaaS
4 6 (11.11%) Apigee
5 5 (9.26%) Kong
5 5 (9.26%) SaaS
6 4 (7.41%) iPaaS
7 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.70%) Serverless
9 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.85%) GCP
9 1 (1.85%) Miro
9 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.93%) LAN
1 14 (25.93%) WAN
2 9 (16.67%) MPLS
2 9 (16.67%) PBX
2 9 (16.67%) VoIP
2 9 (16.67%) VPN
2 9 (16.67%) WLAN
3 5 (9.26%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (9.26%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (9.26%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (9.26%) DHCP
3 5 (9.26%) DNS
3 5 (9.26%) Firewall
3 5 (9.26%) Internet
3 5 (9.26%) SD-WAN
4 4 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (3.70%) SSL
6 1 (1.85%) IPsec
6 1 (1.85%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) RDBMS
1 10 (18.52%) Relational Database
2 5 (9.26%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.26%) OLAP
2 5 (9.26%) OLTP
2 5 (9.26%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.70%) Metadata
5 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) JIRA
2 7 (12.96%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.26%) Subversion
4 3 (5.56%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.56%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.56%) Git
4 3 (5.56%) Selenium
4 3 (5.56%) TeamCity
4 3 (5.56%) WebDriver
5 2 (3.70%) GitLab
6 1 (1.85%) gulp
6 1 (1.85%) Maven
General
1 17 (31.48%) Finance
1 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Public Sector
3 9 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.81%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Marketing
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (68.52%) Architect
2 10 (18.52%) Data Architect
3 9 (16.67%) Senior
4 8 (14.81%) ServiceNow Architect
4 8 (14.81%) Technical Architect
5 6 (11.11%) AWS Architect
6 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (7.41%) Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Consultant
8 3 (5.56%) Functional Consultant
8 3 (5.56%) Lead
8 3 (5.56%) Network Architect
8 3 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (5.56%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Architect
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Test Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (37.04%) Web Services
2 12 (22.22%) .NET
3 8 (14.81%) J2EE
3 8 (14.81%) Spring
4 7 (12.96%) SOAP
5 5 (9.26%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (9.26%) Kafka
5 5 (9.26%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (7.41%) Apache Camel
6 4 (7.41%) React
6 4 (7.41%) Spring Boot
6 4 (7.41%) Spring Integration
7 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.56%) IDoc
7 3 (5.56%) Middleware
7 3 (5.56%) SAP ALE
7 3 (5.56%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (5.56%) Web Dynpro
7 3 (5.56%) XML
8 2 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Data Centre
1 10 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (14.81%) Client/Server
2 8 (14.81%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (11.11%) CMDB
4 5 (9.26%) DataPower
5 4 (7.41%) Mobile App
6 3 (5.56%) N-Tier
6 3 (5.56%) Replication
7 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.85%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.85%) IoT
8 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Unix
2 2 (3.70%) Android
2 2 (3.70%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Windows
2 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.70%) zOS
3 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.74%) Architectural Design
2 20 (37.04%) Agile
3 18 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 17 (31.48%) Architectural Patterns
5 16 (29.63%) Microservices
6 14 (25.93%) DevOps
7 12 (22.22%) CRM
7 12 (22.22%) Project Delivery
7 12 (22.22%) TDD
8 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.37%) TOGAF
9 10 (18.52%) Analytics
9 10 (18.52%) Content Management
9 10 (18.52%) Enterprise Architecture
9 10 (18.52%) Open Source
10 9 (16.67%) Data Analytics
10 9 (16.67%) Network Architecture
10 9 (16.67%) OO
10 9 (16.67%) Performance Management
10 9 (16.67%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) Java
2 8 (14.81%) C#
3 5 (9.26%) SQL
4 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.56%) ABAP
5 3 (5.56%) C++
5 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.56%) VBA
5 3 (5.56%) VBScript
6 1 (1.85%) Python
6 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (20.37%) Degree
2 9 (16.67%) CCIE
2 9 (16.67%) CCIE Data Center
2 9 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (7.41%) CCNP
3 4 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.41%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.56%) ISEB
4 3 (5.56%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.85%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.52%) ServiceNow
3 9 (16.67%) Cisco
3 9 (16.67%) Oracle
4 5 (9.26%) CheckPoint
4 5 (9.26%) IBM
4 5 (9.26%) Infoblox
4 5 (9.26%) Palo Alto
4 5 (9.26%) Symantec
4 5 (9.26%) TSYS
4 5 (9.26%) Zscaler
5 4 (7.41%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.56%) SAP
6 3 (5.56%) VMware
7 1 (1.85%) Cognizant
7 1 (1.85%) Databricks
7 1 (1.85%) Google
7 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud