SOA Contracts in West London

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 63 59
Rank change year-on-year +23 -4 -14
Contract jobs citing SOA 4 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.13% 0.35% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.38% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £366 - £417
25th Percentile £372 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -15.79% -3.06%
75th Percentile £450 - £497
90th Percentile - - £625
London median daily rate £538 £525 £590
% change year-on-year +2.38% -11.02% +2.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 309 530 580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 87.54% 93.47% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 382 418
10th Percentile £212 £350 £200
25th Percentile £311 £457 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 50 27
10th Percentile £16.25 £29.80 £15.30
25th Percentile £16.63 £52.13 £17.27
Median hourly rate £30.16 £64.00 £21.93
Median % change year-on-year -52.88% +191.84% -17.25%
75th Percentile £48.31 £75.00 £41.51
90th Percentile £59.25 £85.00 £43.61
London median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing SOA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for SOA in West London

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOA in West London.

Daily rate trend for SOA in West London

SOA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOA in West London.

Hourly rate trend for SOA in West London

SOA
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Hillingdon - 3 £450 - 1
Hounslow - 1 £375 -
SOA
London

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Karma Test Runner
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Angular Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 2 (50.00%) C++ Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (50.00%) Playwright
2 2 (50.00%) Swagger
2 2 (50.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (50.00%) Feasibility Study
2 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA