SOA Contracts in Birmingham

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 75 84
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 -18
Contract jobs citing SOA 6 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.80% 0.34% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.39% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile - - £443
25th Percentile - £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -27.66% +13.53%
75th Percentile £550 £438 £728
90th Percentile £610 - £738
West Midlands median daily rate £750 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +76.47% -22.73% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.25 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 610 770 1,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 80.90% 86.61% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 506 858
10th Percentile £235 £263 £250
25th Percentile £375 £398 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £703 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £495
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 33 18
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.10 £12.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.71 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.57% +20.03% +1.47%
75th Percentile £47.13 £28.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
% change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in Birmingham

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in Birmingham

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP MDG
1 1 (16.67%) SAP MDG-BP
1 1 (16.67%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) IPsec
1 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Functional Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SAP MDG Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (50.00%) React
3 1 (16.67%) IDoc
3 1 (16.67%) SAP ALE
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (16.67%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) ArchiMate
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) BPEL
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) ABAP
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) SAP