SOA Contracts in the South East

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 182 187 197
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -30
Contract jobs citing SOA 5 16 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.092% 0.29% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.32% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 33
10th Percentile - £365 £406
25th Percentile £725 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £590 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% +18.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £788 £755 £638
90th Percentile £810 £759 £688
England median daily rate £550 £545 £563
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.11% -2.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,596 4,978 6,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.27% 89.15% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 3,464 4,669
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £595
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 213 279
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £11.99
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SOA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOA in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SOA in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOA in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SOA in the South East

SOA
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the South East 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
West Sussex +1 4 £750 +3.09%
Thames Valley +6 1 - - 2
Berkshire -10 1 - - 2
SOA
England

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Coaching
2 4 (80.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 4 (80.00%) SOLID
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) EAI
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle