SOA Jobs in England

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SOA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOA over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 653 402 357
Rank change year-on-year -251 -45 -59
Permanent jobs citing SOA 194 690 1,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.76% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.80% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 155 398 564
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £47,325
25th Percentile £55,447 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,125 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £105,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% -6.67%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,372 86,501 127,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.52% 95.63% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 53,935 51,101 73,310
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SOA in England

SOA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOA in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SOA in England

SOA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -17 88 £82,500 +6.45% 34
North of England -40 50 £60,000 -17.24% 9
Yorkshire +65 26 £71,250 -9.81% 1
South West -66 19 £55,173 -18.26%
South East -94 19 £70,000 +21.74% 17
North West -60 15 £57,587 -17.73% 4
Midlands -24 14 £57,494 -6.13% 5
North East -2 9 £55,173 -26.44% 4
West Midlands -3 8 £55,173 -32.09% 3
East Midlands -26 6 £69,997 +27.27% 2
East of England -42 3 £55,173 -36.95%
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 13 (6.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (5.67%) Confluence
3 8 (4.12%) Anypoint
3 8 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.12%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.55%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.55%) CMS
4 3 (1.55%) nginx
5 2 (1.03%) IIS
5 2 (1.03%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.52%) Drupal
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.61%) Maximo
1 7 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.58%) SAP IBP
2 5 (2.58%) SAP PP
3 3 (1.55%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.52%) HFM
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG-BP
4 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 100 (51.55%) Azure
2 61 (31.44%) AWS
3 42 (21.65%) SaaS
4 31 (15.98%) PaaS
5 30 (15.46%) IaaS
6 24 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (8.25%) Power Platform
8 14 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (6.70%) Serverless
10 11 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (3.61%) Pulumi
13 4 (2.06%) Azure API Management
13 4 (2.06%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.06%) GCP
14 3 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (1.55%) Cloudflare
15 2 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.70%) Network Security
2 5 (2.58%) Internet
3 3 (1.55%) LAN
3 3 (1.55%) WLAN
4 2 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.03%) Firewall
4 2 (1.03%) MPLS
4 2 (1.03%) PBX
4 2 (1.03%) VoIP
4 2 (1.03%) VPN
4 2 (1.03%) WAN
5 1 (0.52%) DNS
5 1 (0.52%) IPsec
5 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.52%) SAN
5 1 (0.52%) SSL
5 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.04%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.22%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.15%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.61%) GIS
5 7 (3.61%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.58%) MySQL
7 4 (2.06%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.55%) DTS
8 3 (1.55%) Redis
8 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.03%) Metadata
10 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.52%) Big Data
10 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.52%) OLTP
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.52%) Power BI
10 1 (0.52%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 18 (9.28%) Team Foundation Server
2 17 (8.76%) Git
3 15 (7.73%) Visual Studio
4 13 (6.70%) JIRA
5 11 (5.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (5.15%) Jasmine
6 10 (5.15%) NUnit
6 10 (5.15%) Selenium
7 7 (3.61%) TeamCity
8 6 (3.09%) IntelliJ
9 4 (2.06%) Jenkins
9 4 (2.06%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (2.06%) Postman
10 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.52%) Maven
10 1 (0.52%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 71 (36.60%) Finance
2 42 (21.65%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.25%) Retail
5 9 (4.64%) Legal
5 9 (4.64%) Marketing
6 8 (4.12%) Banking
7 7 (3.61%) Back Office
8 6 (3.09%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.58%) Tech for Good
10 4 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.55%) Law
11 3 (1.55%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (38.14%) Developer
2 72 (37.11%) Architect
3 47 (24.23%) Lead
4 42 (21.65%) Solutions Architect
5 30 (15.46%) Lead Developer
6 26 (13.40%) Senior
7 22 (11.34%) .NET Developer
8 17 (8.76%) Salesforce Architect
8 17 (8.76%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 16 (8.25%) Software Developer
10 15 (7.73%) C# Developer
10 15 (7.73%) Software Engineer
11 13 (6.70%) C# .NET Developer
12 11 (5.67%) Enterprise Architect
13 10 (5.15%) .NET Software Developer
13 10 (5.15%) C# Software Developer
13 10 (5.15%) Full Stack Developer
13 10 (5.15%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (5.15%) Principal Software Engineer
13 10 (5.15%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (40.21%) .NET
2 48 (24.74%) REST
3 38 (19.59%) Web Services
4 31 (15.98%) OpenID
5 26 (13.40%) OAuth
6 24 (12.37%) Middleware
7 22 (11.34%) .NET Core
8 21 (10.82%) HTML
9 18 (9.28%) AngularJS
10 17 (8.76%) ASP.NET
11 16 (8.25%) .NET Framework
11 16 (8.25%) Node.js
12 15 (7.73%) CSS
12 15 (7.73%) RESTful
12 15 (7.73%) Spring Boot
13 14 (7.22%) React
14 13 (6.70%) Spring
15 11 (5.67%) XML
16 10 (5.15%) Entity Framework
16 10 (5.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.98%) Management Information System
2 27 (13.92%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (11.34%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.70%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.15%) IoT
6 9 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.61%) Data Structures
8 6 (3.09%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.09%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.58%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.58%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.58%) FMCG
9 5 (2.58%) Taxonomies
10 4 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.06%) NHS
11 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.55%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.55%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.61%) Windows
2 5 (2.58%) Linux
2 5 (2.58%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.52%) Solaris
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (43.30%) Agile
2 60 (30.93%) Microservices
3 50 (25.77%) Enterprise Architecture
4 47 (24.23%) DevOps
5 46 (23.71%) Full Stack Development
6 41 (21.13%) TOGAF
7 40 (20.62%) TDD
8 38 (19.59%) Roadmaps
8 38 (19.59%) SOLID
9 33 (17.01%) MVC
9 33 (17.01%) Scrum
9 33 (17.01%) Test Automation
10 32 (16.49%) Integration Patterns
11 31 (15.98%) Mentoring
12 29 (14.95%) Business Strategy
12 29 (14.95%) Code Quality
12 29 (14.95%) Cybersecurity
13 28 (14.43%) DevSecOps
13 28 (14.43%) Software Engineering
14 24 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 47 (24.23%) C#
2 33 (17.01%) JavaScript
3 28 (14.43%) Java
4 22 (11.34%) SQL
5 19 (9.79%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.64%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.12%) T-SQL
8 7 (3.61%) Bicep
9 6 (3.09%) Python
10 5 (2.58%) Groovy
11 3 (1.55%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.55%) Bash
11 3 (1.55%) C++
11 3 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.55%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.03%) C
12 2 (1.03%) PHP
12 2 (1.03%) Ruby
12 2 (1.03%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.52%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 35 (18.04%) Degree
2 18 (9.28%) TOGAF Certification
3 9 (4.64%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.64%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.06%) CIPD
7 4 (2.06%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.55%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.55%) Sun Certification
9 2 (1.03%) CCIE
9 2 (1.03%) CCIE Data Center
9 2 (1.03%) CCNP
9 2 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.03%) MCAD
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.52%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.61%) QA
2 5 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.55%) ISO 9000
3 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.03%) SLA
5 1 (0.52%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 16 (8.25%) Docker
2 6 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.06%) VMware Server
4 3 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.52%) RACF
Systems Management
1 15 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.64%) Terraform
3 7 (3.61%) MIIS
4 4 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (29.38%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.86%) Salesforce
3 15 (7.73%) IBM
4 13 (6.70%) Oracle
5 8 (4.12%) MuleSoft
5 8 (4.12%) SAP
6 6 (3.09%) Google
6 6 (3.09%) VMware
7 5 (2.58%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.55%) Progress
9 2 (1.03%) Cisco
10 1 (0.52%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.52%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.52%) Siemens
10 1 (0.52%) Sybase
10 1 (0.52%) Talend
10 1 (0.52%) webMethods
10 1 (0.52%) Yardi