SOA Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring SOA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 56 74
Rank change year-on-year -9 +18 +16
Contract jobs citing SOA 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.34% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.25% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £586 - £534
25th Percentile £622 £513 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -10.26% +37.65%
75th Percentile £772 £538 £616
90th Percentile £789 - £625
South West median daily rate £625 £740 £603
% change year-on-year -15.54% +22.82% +14.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 494 405 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.59% 85.08% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 276 502
10th Percentile £389 £340 £351
25th Percentile £513 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -
75th Percentile £713 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 13
10th Percentile £12.50 - £14.36
25th Percentile £13.75 £12.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £36.40 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.82% -27.21% -23.66%
75th Percentile £24.50 £60.00 £69.50
90th Percentile £25.15 - £75.50
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

SOA job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SOA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SOA

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in Wiltshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SOA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SOA

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Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Corsham - 2 £713 -
SOA
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (100.00%) IaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) NsoIT
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware