SOA Contracts in England

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 450 366
Rank change year-on-year +8 -84 -109
Contract jobs citing SOA 95 203 500
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.42% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.47% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 138 330
10th Percentile £406 £410 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -3.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £740 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £779 £800
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - - £37.68
25th Percentile - - £41.70
Median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £49.31
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -29.02% -17.82%
75th Percentile - £44.38 £57.82
90th Percentile - £50.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £49.31
% change year-on-year +60.71% -29.02% -16.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,491 43,355 63,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.40% 90.10% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,435 45,445
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,535 1,743
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in England

SOA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOA in England

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in England

SOA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SOA in England

SOA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
London -4 52 £538 -2.27% 28
Midlands +39 18 £750 +76.47% 4
West Midlands +35 16 £750 +76.47% 4
North of England +28 14 £492 -8.51% 10
North West +18 9 £489 +16.43% 4
South East +5 5 £750 +27.12% 9
Yorkshire +12 4 £529 -18.69% 2
South West -1 1 - -
North East - 1 £650 - 4
SOA
UK

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (12.63%) Confluence
1 12 (12.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (5.26%) Anypoint
2 5 (5.26%) Mule
2 5 (5.26%) Mule ESB
3 4 (4.21%) CMS
4 2 (2.11%) Apache
5 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (1.05%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.05%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (7.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Temenos T24
2 3 (3.16%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (3.16%) SAP MDG
3 2 (2.11%) NetSuite
3 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.05%) SAP MDG-BP
4 1 (1.05%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.58%) Azure
2 23 (24.21%) AWS
3 10 (10.53%) Serverless
4 8 (8.42%) Apigee
4 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.42%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.37%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (7.37%) Kong
5 7 (7.37%) PowerApps
6 6 (6.32%) Azure API Management
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Batch
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Functions
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Storage
6 6 (6.32%) Power Automate
6 6 (6.32%) SaaS
7 5 (5.26%) GCP
7 5 (5.26%) PaaS
7 5 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.63%) LAN
2 11 (11.58%) WAN
3 10 (10.53%) VoIP
3 10 (10.53%) VPN
4 9 (9.47%) MPLS
4 9 (9.47%) PBX
4 9 (9.47%) WLAN
5 7 (7.37%) Firewall
6 5 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (5.26%) DHCP
6 5 (5.26%) DNS
6 5 (5.26%) Internet
6 5 (5.26%) SD-WAN
7 4 (4.21%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (4.21%) Network Security
8 3 (3.16%) HTTP
9 2 (2.11%) IPsec
9 2 (2.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.68%) OLTP
2 10 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.37%) OLAP
4 6 (6.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.32%) Big Data
4 6 (6.32%) Data Lake
4 6 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.32%) Oracle OLAP
5 3 (3.16%) MySQL
5 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.11%) DB2
6 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.05%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (22.11%) Git
2 13 (13.68%) JIRA
3 12 (12.63%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.32%) Visual Studio Team System
5 4 (4.21%) Postman
6 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.11%) GitLab
7 2 (2.11%) JMeter
7 2 (2.11%) JUnit
7 2 (2.11%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (2.11%) Maven
7 2 (2.11%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.11%) Selenium
8 1 (1.05%) Gradle
8 1 (1.05%) gulp
8 1 (1.05%) Subversion
General
1 29 (30.53%) Finance
2 17 (17.89%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.58%) Banking
4 10 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Wearables
7 2 (2.11%) Arabic Language
7 2 (2.11%) French Language
7 2 (2.11%) German Language
7 2 (2.11%) Japanese Language
7 2 (2.11%) Korean Language
7 2 (2.11%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.05%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.05%) Front Office
8 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Marketing
8 1 (1.05%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.05%) Police
8 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (36.84%) Architect
2 31 (32.63%) Developer
3 8 (8.42%) AWS Architect
3 8 (8.42%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (7.37%) Senior
5 6 (6.32%) Consultant
5 6 (6.32%) Lead
5 6 (6.32%) Technical Architect
6 5 (5.26%) Angular Developer
6 5 (5.26%) C# Developer
6 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.26%) MuleSoft Developer
6 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.21%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.16%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Applications Developer
8 3 (3.16%) C++ Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.89%) Web Services
2 21 (22.11%) .NET
2 21 (22.11%) SOAP
3 15 (15.79%) XML
4 14 (14.74%) JSON
4 14 (14.74%) REST
5 11 (11.58%) Kafka
6 10 (10.53%) AngularJS
6 10 (10.53%) Spring
7 9 (9.47%) J2EE
7 9 (9.47%) React
8 7 (7.37%) IBM Integration Bus
8 7 (7.37%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (6.32%) Apache Camel
9 6 (6.32%) ARM Templates
9 6 (6.32%) CSS
9 6 (6.32%) HTML
9 6 (6.32%) Spring Boot
9 6 (6.32%) Spring Integration
10 5 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.37%) DataPower
2 7 (7.37%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.16%) Replication
5 2 (2.11%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.11%) IoT
5 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.05%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.47%) Linux
2 8 (8.42%) Windows
3 6 (6.32%) Unix
4 3 (3.16%) Android
5 2 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.11%) zOS
6 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.05%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.95%) Agile
2 35 (36.84%) Microservices
3 30 (31.58%) DevOps
4 24 (25.26%) API Management
5 18 (18.95%) TDD
6 17 (17.89%) CI/CD
7 15 (15.79%) Architectural Patterns
7 15 (15.79%) Scrum
8 14 (14.74%) Architectural Design
8 14 (14.74%) Computer Science
8 14 (14.74%) Design Patterns
8 14 (14.74%) TOGAF
9 13 (13.68%) BDD
9 13 (13.68%) Event-Driven
9 13 (13.68%) Migration
10 12 (12.63%) Analytics
10 12 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (11.58%) Enterprise Architecture
11 11 (11.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 11 (11.58%) OO
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.26%) Java
2 17 (17.89%) C#
3 7 (7.37%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.32%) Python
5 5 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.26%) SQL
6 3 (3.16%) ABAP
6 3 (3.16%) C++
7 2 (2.11%) C
7 2 (2.11%) XPath
8 1 (1.05%) Perl
8 1 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (15.79%) Degree
2 12 (12.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (9.47%) CCIE
3 9 (9.47%) CCIE Data Center
3 9 (9.47%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.26%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.21%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.21%) CCNP
5 4 (4.21%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.16%) CISA
6 3 (3.16%) CISM
6 3 (3.16%) CISSP
7 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.11%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.16%) WCAG
3 2 (2.11%) HL7
4 1 (1.05%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (9.47%) Terraform
2 7 (7.37%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (5.26%) CloudHub
4 3 (3.16%) TIBCO Hawk
5 2 (2.11%) Ansible
6 1 (1.05%) Istio
6 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.63%) Oracle
3 9 (9.47%) Cisco
3 9 (9.47%) IBM
3 9 (9.47%) Salesforce
4 7 (7.37%) MuleSoft
4 7 (7.37%) TSYS
5 5 (5.26%) CheckPoint
5 5 (5.26%) Infoblox
5 5 (5.26%) Palo Alto
5 5 (5.26%) Symantec
5 5 (5.26%) Zscaler
6 4 (4.21%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.16%) SAP
7 3 (3.16%) TIBCO
8 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.05%) Cognizant
9 1 (1.05%) Google
9 1 (1.05%) Splunk