SOA Contracts in the City of London

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 142 171
Rank change year-on-year +20 +29 -13
Contract jobs citing SOA 5 8 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.24% 0.29% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.32% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £495 £463 £566
25th Percentile £544 £544 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £700 £606
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% +15.46% +1.04%
75th Percentile £656 £791 £688
90th Percentile £673 £860 £700
Central London median daily rate £535 £700 £606
% change year-on-year -23.57% +15.46% +1.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,941 2,497 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.43% 89.92% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,754 2,734
10th Percentile £375 £363 £363
25th Percentile £470 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 51
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% -35.15% +49.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £52.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.25 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £43.24
% change year-on-year +6.87% -24.26% +26.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SOA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOA in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SOA in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOA in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOA in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOA in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SOA in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Boomi
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Integration Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP BI Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Technical Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Oracle Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) BAPI
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) JMS
3 1 (20.00%) NgRx
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) RxJS
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) API Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) ABAP
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Pega
1 1 (20.00%) SAP