Separation of Concerns Contract Job Trends

Separation of Concerns (SoC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Separation of Concerns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 523 -
Rank change year-on-year -117 - -
Contract jobs citing Separation of Concerns 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.003% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.004% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £565 - -
25th Percentile £588 £669 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £688 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £663 £706 -
90th Percentile £685 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Separation of Concerns 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,104 26,621 36,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.94% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,283 16,896 23,594
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,167 2,565
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

Separation of Concerns
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Separation of Concerns relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Separation of Concerns job vacancy trend in the UK

Separation of Concerns
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Separation of Concerns.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Separation of Concerns

Separation of Concerns
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Separation of Concerns over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Separation of Concerns in the UK

Separation of Concerns
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Claude Code
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
1 2 (66.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (66.67%) Data Design
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Product Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow