Oracle SOA Suite Contract Job Trends

Oracle SOA Suite
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Oracle SOA Suite skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 467 561
Rank change year-on-year -140 +94 +74
Contract jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite 31 53 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.18% 0.028%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.74% 1.63% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 37 7
10th Percentile £454 £419 £457
25th Percentile £470 £500 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £489
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +12.47% -4.12%
75th Percentile £700 £600 £553
90th Percentile £819 £659 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £550 £489
% change year-on-year -12.73% +12.47% -32.78%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Oracle SOA Suite falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,196 3,253 4,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.74% 11.17% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,839 2,165 2,875
10th Percentile £313 £277 £257
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £686 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.22% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 69 160
10th Percentile £15.70 £16.26 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.03 £22.50 £15.45
Median hourly rate £32.50 £46.18 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% +57.88% -35.00%
75th Percentile £68.50 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.11 £52.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -33.12% +114.29% -10.91%

Oracle SOA Suite
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Oracle SOA Suite job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle SOA Suite
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle SOA Suite.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle SOA Suite

Oracle SOA Suite
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle SOA Suite in the UK

Oracle SOA Suite
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle SOA Suite.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle SOA Suite

Oracle SOA Suite
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England -130 29 £501 -9.00% 11
London -50 19 £600 +16.50% 5
UK excluding London -141 10 £480 -12.73% 5
Work from Home -27 8 £469 -6.20% 6
South East -76 5 £452 -23.92% 1
West Midlands -61 2 £1,300 +116.67% 1
Midlands -66 2 £1,300 +116.67% 4
North of England -80 2 £490 -10.86%
North East - 2 £490 -
South West - 1 - -

Oracle SOA Suite
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (32.26%) WebLogic
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (16.13%) WebSphere
4 4 (12.90%) Appian
4 4 (12.90%) IIS
4 4 (12.90%) JBoss
4 4 (12.90%) Oracle Service Bus
4 4 (12.90%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (6.45%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (6.45%) Teamcenter
5 1 (3.23%) Eloqua
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) OCI
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) PaaS
2 4 (12.90%) SaaS
3 3 (9.68%) IaaS
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (6.45%) Azure
4 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) Oracle Database
2 9 (29.03%) SQL Server
3 8 (25.81%) Relational Database
4 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.68%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (6.45%) DB2
5 2 (6.45%) DynamoDB
5 2 (6.45%) MySQL
5 2 (6.45%) Power BI
5 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.45%) Tableau
6 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Banking
4 4 (12.90%) General Ledger
5 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
6 2 (6.45%) French Language
6 2 (6.45%) Japanese Language
6 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) Senior
3 7 (22.58%) Architect
3 7 (22.58%) Lead
4 4 (12.90%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Appian Architect
5 3 (9.68%) DBA
5 3 (9.68%) Java Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Oracle Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Architect
7 1 (3.23%) ERP Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle Programme Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Technical Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) XML
2 11 (35.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (35.48%) REST
3 10 (32.26%) SOAP
4 8 (25.81%) Middleware
4 8 (25.81%) Web Services
5 7 (22.58%) JSON
5 7 (22.58%) XSLT
6 5 (16.13%) XSD
7 4 (12.90%) JMS
7 4 (12.90%) Spring Boot
8 3 (9.68%) OAuth
8 3 (9.68%) OAuth2
8 3 (9.68%) XML Messaging
9 2 (6.45%) HTML
9 2 (6.45%) J2EE
9 2 (6.45%) OC4J
9 2 (6.45%) Spring
9 2 (6.45%) TIBCO EMS
9 2 (6.45%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (12.90%) N-Tier
3 3 (9.68%) Client/Server
4 2 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.45%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (6.45%) Legacy Code
4 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Derivative
5 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Linux
2 6 (19.35%) Unix
3 2 (6.45%) Windows
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) SOA
2 14 (45.16%) Agile
2 14 (45.16%) ERP
3 10 (32.26%) Migration
4 8 (25.81%) ETL
4 8 (25.81%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (22.58%) Integration Patterns
6 6 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (19.35%) Workflow
7 5 (16.13%) Data Protection
7 5 (16.13%) SDLC
7 5 (16.13%) Validation
8 4 (12.90%) Accounts Payable
8 4 (12.90%) Accounts Receivable
8 4 (12.90%) Business Process Modelling
8 4 (12.90%) Design Patterns
8 4 (12.90%) DevOps
8 4 (12.90%) Microservices
8 4 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) SQL
2 9 (29.03%) Java
3 5 (16.13%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.45%) C
4 2 (6.45%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) C++
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.45%) Perl
4 2 (6.45%) Python
4 2 (6.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.68%) PMI Certification
3 3 (9.68%) PMP
4 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GAAP
1 3 (9.68%) IFRS
1 3 (9.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.45%) Basel III
2 2 (6.45%) IFRS 17
2 2 (6.45%) IFRS 9
2 2 (6.45%) ISO 15022
2 2 (6.45%) ISO 20022
2 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (9.68%) Control-M
3 2 (6.45%) Data Guard
3 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (6.45%) TIBCO Hawk
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 31 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (19.35%) IBM
3 5 (16.13%) Informatica
4 3 (9.68%) SAP
4 3 (9.68%) Workday
5 2 (6.45%) BEA
5 2 (6.45%) Pega
5 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.45%) Splunk
5 2 (6.45%) TIBCO
6 1 (3.23%) Hyperion
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.23%) Salesforce