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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 305 355
Rank change year-on-year +38 +50 -56
Contract jobs citing SOA 52 36 99
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.27% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.31% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 24 68
10th Percentile £410 £413 £410
25th Percentile £503 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £507 £529
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -4.16% -8.40%
75th Percentile £678 £595 £650
90th Percentile £800 £705 £688
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £566
% change year-on-year -1.82% -2.87% -1.52%

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 9,410 11,795 20,536
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.80% 87.25% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,340 7,953 14,463
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 432 494
10th Percentile £12.62 £16.63 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.77 £30.16 £25.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.66 £75.00 £78.93
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

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 27 July 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 16 (30.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (13.46%) WebLogic
3 5 (9.62%) Oracle Service Bus
4 3 (5.77%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (3.85%) Apache
5 2 (3.85%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Oracle BPM
1 4 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (5.77%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (5.77%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.08%) Azure
2 10 (19.23%) GCP
3 8 (15.38%) OCI
4 7 (13.46%) AWS
5 5 (9.62%) Oracle CX
6 4 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (5.77%) SaaS
8 2 (3.85%) IaaS
8 2 (3.85%) PaaS
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.23%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.85%) Apache Hive
4 2 (3.85%) Big Data
4 2 (3.85%) HBase
4 2 (3.85%) Impala
4 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.92%) ClickHouse
5 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.92%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Git
1 2 (3.85%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) JUnit
2 1 (1.92%) Maven
2 1 (1.92%) Mockito
2 1 (1.92%) Postman
2 1 (1.92%) Selenium
2 1 (1.92%) Subversion
2 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.54%) Finance
5 5 (9.62%) Front Office
6 3 (5.77%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.85%) Banking
7 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.85%) Law
8 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Developer
2 7 (13.46%) Software Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) C# Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Security Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Senior
4 5 (9.62%) .NET Developer
4 5 (9.62%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Consultant
5 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Lead
5 4 (7.69%) Oracle Consultant
5 4 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) DBA
6 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Middleware Consultant
6 3 (5.77%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (5.77%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
6 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) SOA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) .NET
2 9 (17.31%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (17.31%) Web Services
3 8 (15.38%) JSON
4 7 (13.46%) Middleware
4 7 (13.46%) SOAP
5 6 (11.54%) REST
6 5 (9.62%) .NET Framework
6 5 (9.62%) Akka.NET
6 5 (9.62%) Kafka
6 5 (9.62%) OAuth
6 5 (9.62%) OAuth2
6 5 (9.62%) Reactive Extensions
6 5 (9.62%) XML
7 4 (7.69%) OpenAPI
7 4 (7.69%) Swagger
7 4 (7.69%) XSD
8 3 (5.77%) Node.js
9 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.85%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Fixed Income
2 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.69%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.92%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.92%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Unix
2 3 (5.77%) Windows
3 1 (1.92%) Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Test Automation
2 15 (28.85%) Agile
3 14 (26.92%) Microservices
4 13 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 13 (25.00%) OO
5 12 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 12 (23.08%) Multithreading
6 11 (21.15%) Containerisation
6 11 (21.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (19.23%) Concurrent Programming
7 10 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 9 (17.31%) DevOps
8 9 (17.31%) Security Architecture
8 9 (17.31%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (15.38%) ERP
9 8 (15.38%) Information Security
9 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (15.38%) Validation
10 7 (13.46%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.77%) SQL
2 14 (26.92%) JavaScript
3 12 (23.08%) Java
4 10 (19.23%) C#
4 10 (19.23%) Python
5 8 (15.38%) PL/SQL
6 5 (9.62%) F#
7 4 (7.69%) Perl
8 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.85%) C++
10 1 (1.92%) ABAP
10 1 (1.92%) COBOL
10 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.92%) VBA
10 1 (1.92%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) CISM
2 6 (11.54%) CISSP
3 5 (9.62%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) CAPM
5 1 (1.92%) ISEB
5 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.92%) VCAP
5 1 (1.92%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) ISO 15022
1 1 (1.92%) ISO 20022
1 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (3.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (5.77%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Oracle
2 10 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.85%) Ariba
3 2 (3.85%) Google
3 2 (3.85%) SAP
3 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.92%) Dell
4 1 (1.92%) HP
4 1 (1.92%) IBM
4 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.92%) VMware
4 1 (1.92%) webMethods