SOA Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SOA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 299 339
Rank change year-on-year +56 +40 -21
Contract jobs citing SOA 61 46 139
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.30% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.34% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 29 93
10th Percentile £473 £418 £381
25th Percentile £506 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.15% -2.67%
75th Percentile £651 £575 £580
90th Percentile £800 £630 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

SOA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SOA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SOA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SOA.

SOA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SOA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SOA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SOA.

SOA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (16.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.28%) Apache
2 2 (3.28%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (34.43%) Azure
2 14 (22.95%) AWS
2 14 (22.95%) GCP
3 7 (11.48%) PaaS
4 6 (9.84%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (9.84%) IaaS
4 6 (9.84%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.84%) SaaS
5 4 (6.56%) OCI
5 4 (6.56%) Oracle CX
5 4 (6.56%) Serverless
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.92%) AWS KMS
6 3 (4.92%) Route 53
7 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.28%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) IPsec
1 3 (4.92%) Kerberos
1 3 (4.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.95%) Relational Database
2 6 (9.84%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.56%) Power BI
3 4 (6.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (6.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (6.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (6.56%) Tableau
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.28%) Apache Hive
5 2 (3.28%) Big Data
5 2 (3.28%) HBase
5 2 (3.28%) Impala
6 1 (1.64%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.56%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) TeamCity
3 3 (4.92%) GitLab
3 3 (4.92%) Maven
4 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.28%) JIRA
4 2 (3.28%) Postman
4 2 (3.28%) Selenium
4 2 (3.28%) Subversion
4 2 (3.28%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.84%) Front Office
5 4 (6.56%) Finance
5 4 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.92%) Retail
7 2 (3.28%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.28%) Law
8 1 (1.64%) Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) Developer
2 11 (18.03%) Architect
3 9 (14.75%) Software Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Security Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Senior
5 7 (11.48%) C# Developer
6 6 (9.84%) Senior Security Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) .NET Developer
7 5 (8.20%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (8.20%) Technical Architect
8 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) SOA Developer
9 3 (4.92%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.28%) Functional Architect
10 2 (3.28%) Lead
10 2 (3.28%) QA Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (24.59%) .NET
2 13 (21.31%) Web Services
3 8 (13.11%) REST
4 6 (9.84%) Node.js
4 6 (9.84%) SOAP
5 5 (8.20%) .NET Framework
5 5 (8.20%) Akka.NET
5 5 (8.20%) Kafka
5 5 (8.20%) Reactive Extensions
6 4 (6.56%) Middleware
6 4 (6.56%) OAuth
6 4 (6.56%) OpenID
6 4 (6.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (6.56%) SAML
6 4 (6.56%) Spring
6 4 (6.56%) Spring Boot
6 4 (6.56%) XACML
7 3 (4.92%) JSON
7 3 (4.92%) OAuth2
8 2 (3.28%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Fixed Income
2 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (3.28%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.64%) Derivative
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Unix
3 1 (1.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) Microservices
2 22 (36.07%) Agile
3 21 (34.43%) CI/CD
3 21 (34.43%) Test Automation
4 17 (27.87%) OO
5 16 (26.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 15 (24.59%) Multithreading
7 14 (22.95%) Software Engineering
8 13 (21.31%) Concurrent Programming
8 13 (21.31%) Containerisation
8 13 (21.31%) Mentoring
8 13 (21.31%) TDD
9 12 (19.67%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (19.67%) Design Patterns
9 12 (19.67%) Security Architecture
9 12 (19.67%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (18.03%) DevOps
10 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (14.75%) Enterprise Architecture
12 8 (13.11%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.07%) JavaScript
2 17 (27.87%) SQL
3 16 (26.23%) C#
3 16 (26.23%) Java
4 15 (24.59%) Python
5 5 (8.20%) C++
5 5 (8.20%) F#
6 4 (6.56%) T-SQL
6 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.28%) VBA
7 2 (3.28%) VBScript
8 1 (1.64%) ABAP
8 1 (1.64%) Perl
8 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (24.59%) SC Cleared
1 15 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.39%) Degree
3 8 (13.11%) CISM
3 8 (13.11%) CISSP
4 3 (4.92%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.28%) ISEB
5 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.64%) CAPM
6 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.64%) VCAP
6 1 (1.64%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) Accessibility
1 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.56%) GDPR
2 2 (3.28%) QA
3 1 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 17 (27.87%) Docker
2 3 (4.92%) RACF
3 2 (3.28%) HDFS
4 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.92%) Ansible
3 3 (4.92%) Packer
3 3 (4.92%) Terraform
4 1 (1.64%) QRadar
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.39%) Oracle
3 3 (4.92%) Google
4 2 (3.28%) Ariba
4 2 (3.28%) SAP
5 1 (1.64%) Dell
5 1 (1.64%) IBM
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) VMware
5 1 (1.64%) webMethods