SOA Contracts in Yorkshire

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 74 92 122
Rank change year-on-year +18 +30 +7
Contract jobs citing SOA 18 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.77% 0.47% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 0.55% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 4
10th Percentile £513 £486 £508
25th Percentile £525 £567 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £665 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% +2.23% +28.40%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £688
90th Percentile - £751 -
England median daily rate £625 £563 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% +7.14% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in Yorkshire

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in Yorkshire

SOA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in Yorkshire

SOA
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +28 18 £550 +4.07% 1
SOA
England

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (88.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (88.89%) Oracle Database
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Engineering Specialist
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 4 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Network Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Applications Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) IP Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.56%) IP Network Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (88.89%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.11%) Blockchain
2 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Linux
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
1 16 (88.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
1 18 (100.00%) Microservices
2 16 (88.89%) Security Management
3 15 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (72.22%) Server Management
5 12 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (44.44%) Migration
6 8 (44.44%) Roadmaps
7 6 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
8 3 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
9 2 (11.11%) Architectural Design
9 2 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
9 2 (11.11%) DevOps
9 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
9 2 (11.11%) Interface Catalogue
9 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
9 2 (11.11%) Project Planning
9 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Bash
1 16 (88.89%) PL/SQL
1 16 (88.89%) SQL
2 14 (77.78%) Perl
3 13 (72.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 13 (72.22%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) Cisco
1 16 (88.89%) Oracle