SOA Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SOA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 96 106
Rank change year-on-year -25 +10 +29
Contract jobs citing SOA 5 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.30% 0.20% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.24% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £548 £471 £610
25th Percentile £600 £484 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £513 £675
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -24.07% +17.39%
75th Percentile £675 £534 £688
90th Percentile - £544 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate - £52.50 -

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 1,515 1,242 1,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.29% 84.66% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 980 727 1,159
10th Percentile £260 £295 £306
25th Percentile £380 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £651 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 38 30
10th Percentile £17.48 - £15.11
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.06
Median hourly rate £25.04 £19.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +28.40% -8.49% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £26.02
90th Percentile £78.38 £51.00 £44.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

SOA job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SOA
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SOA

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in Yorkshire

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SOA

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 16 October 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 -6 4 £650 +26.83%
North Yorkshire - 1 £600 -
SOA
England

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP MRS
1 1 (20.00%) SAP PM
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) ABAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP PM Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) BAPI
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Micronaut
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (40.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Parallel Processing
3 1 (20.00%) People Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) ABAP
1 1 (20.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) SAP