SOA Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 337 310
Rank change year-on-year +40 -27 -65
Contract jobs citing SOA 47 137 352
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.53% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.59% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 91 219
10th Percentile £413 £375 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £570 £584 £663
90th Percentile £624 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £49.31
% change year-on-year +60.71% -29.02% -9.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

SOA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOA trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing SOA over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 8 (17.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (14.89%) Anypoint
2 7 (14.89%) Mule
3 5 (10.64%) Mule ESB
4 4 (8.51%) Confluence
5 3 (6.38%) CMS
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) SAP MDG
1 4 (8.51%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (8.51%) Temenos T24
2 2 (4.26%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (2.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) Azure
2 10 (21.28%) AWS
3 6 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (12.77%) SaaS
4 5 (10.64%) Apigee
4 5 (10.64%) IaaS
4 5 (10.64%) PaaS
4 5 (10.64%) Serverless
4 5 (10.64%) WhatsApp
5 4 (8.51%) Kong
5 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.38%) Azure API Management
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Batch
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Functions
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Storage
6 3 (6.38%) Power Automate
6 3 (6.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) LAN
1 4 (8.51%) WAN
2 3 (6.38%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (6.38%) MPLS
2 3 (6.38%) PBX
2 3 (6.38%) VoIP
2 3 (6.38%) VPN
2 3 (6.38%) WLAN
3 1 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) MongoDB
1 7 (14.89%) OLTP
2 6 (12.77%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.51%) OLAP
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle OLAP
4 3 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (6.38%) Big Data
4 3 (6.38%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.38%) MySQL
5 2 (4.26%) DB2
5 2 (4.26%) MariaDB
5 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) Git
2 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.89%) JIRA
3 3 (6.38%) Visual Studio Team System
4 2 (4.26%) Eclipse
4 2 (4.26%) Maven
5 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.13%) GitLab
5 1 (2.13%) Gradle
5 1 (2.13%) gulp
5 1 (2.13%) Selenium
5 1 (2.13%) Subversion
5 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.13%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (19.15%) Finance
1 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Banking
2 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Marketing
3 3 (6.38%) Retail
3 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Arabic Language
4 2 (4.26%) French Language
4 2 (4.26%) German Language
4 2 (4.26%) Japanese Language
4 2 (4.26%) Korean Language
4 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.13%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Developer
2 15 (31.91%) Architect
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
4 7 (14.89%) MuleSoft Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Consultant
6 5 (10.64%) AWS Architect
7 4 (8.51%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (8.51%) SAP MDG Consultant
8 3 (6.38%) Data Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Data Consultant
8 3 (6.38%) Data Governance Consultant
8 3 (6.38%) Designer
8 3 (6.38%) Governance Consultant
8 3 (6.38%) Integration Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Master Data Consultant
8 3 (6.38%) Network Architect
8 3 (6.38%) SAP Data Consultant
8 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) Web Services
2 13 (27.66%) SOAP
3 8 (17.02%) .NET
4 7 (14.89%) JSON
5 6 (12.77%) REST
6 5 (10.64%) J2EE
6 5 (10.64%) Node.js
6 5 (10.64%) XML
7 4 (8.51%) IBM Integration Bus
7 4 (8.51%) Kafka
7 4 (8.51%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (8.51%) SAP ALE
8 3 (6.38%) Apache Camel
8 3 (6.38%) ARM Templates
8 3 (6.38%) Middleware
8 3 (6.38%) Spring
8 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
8 3 (6.38%) Spring Integration
9 2 (4.26%) React
9 2 (4.26%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.51%) DataPower
2 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.51%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.51%) Replication
3 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.26%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.13%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) IoT
5 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.13%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Android
2 3 (6.38%) Apple iOS
2 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Unix
2 3 (6.38%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) API Management
2 16 (34.04%) Agile
2 16 (34.04%) Microservices
3 15 (31.91%) DevOps
4 12 (25.53%) Design Patterns
5 11 (23.40%) Architectural Design
5 11 (23.40%) Migration
6 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
6 9 (19.15%) Integration Patterns
6 9 (19.15%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (17.02%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (17.02%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (17.02%) Scrum
8 7 (14.89%) Event-Driven
9 6 (12.77%) Data Modelling
9 6 (12.77%) Kanban
9 6 (12.77%) OO
9 6 (12.77%) Project Delivery
9 6 (12.77%) Roadmaps
9 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) Java
2 6 (12.77%) C#
3 3 (6.38%) ABAP
3 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.38%) Python
4 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.26%) XPath
5 1 (2.13%) C++
5 1 (2.13%) Scala
5 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.13%) SQL
5 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.13%) VBA
5 1 (2.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) CCIE
2 3 (6.38%) CCIE Data Center
2 3 (6.38%) CCNP
2 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) ISEB
4 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) CloudHub
2 6 (12.77%) Terraform
3 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.26%) Ansible
4 2 (4.26%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (2.13%) Istio
5 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.15%) Salesforce
3 8 (17.02%) MuleSoft
3 8 (17.02%) Oracle
4 6 (12.77%) IBM
5 4 (8.51%) Cisco
5 4 (8.51%) SAP
5 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
5 4 (8.51%) TSYS
6 2 (4.26%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.13%) Cognizant
7 1 (2.13%) Databricks
7 1 (2.13%) Google
7 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (2.13%) Splunk
7 1 (2.13%) VMware