SOA Jobs in the UK excluding London

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 372 358
Rank change year-on-year -250 -14 -17
Permanent jobs citing SOA 135 479 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.80% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.83% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 113 261 307
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,346 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £84,250
UK median annual salary £78,750 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% +3.57% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the UK excluding London

SOA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOA in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SOA in the UK excluding London

SOA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SOA in the UK excluding London

SOA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England -29 49 £60,000 -17.24% 9
Scotland -64 26 £65,500 +0.77% 4
Yorkshire +74 25 £71,250 -9.81% 1
South East -111 20 £70,000 +21.74% 16
South West -62 19 £55,173 -18.26%
North West -54 15 £57,587 -17.73% 4
Midlands -40 14 £57,494 -1.86% 5
North East -4 9 £55,173 -26.44% 4
West Midlands -4 8 £55,173 -31.03% 3
East Midlands -30 6 £69,997 +27.27% 2
Wales -8 4 £64,000 +25.23%
East of England -34 3 £55,173 -36.95%
SOA
UK

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 11 (8.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (5.93%) Anypoint
2 8 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.93%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.48%) Confluence
3 2 (1.48%) IIS
3 2 (1.48%) nginx
3 2 (1.48%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Maximo
2 5 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.70%) SAP IBP
2 5 (3.70%) SAP PP
2 5 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (53.33%) Azure
2 26 (19.26%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (18.52%) AWS
4 20 (14.81%) SaaS
5 18 (13.33%) Power Platform
6 14 (10.37%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (5.19%) IaaS
8 7 (5.19%) PaaS
8 7 (5.19%) Pulumi
9 4 (2.96%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.48%) GCP
10 2 (1.48%) Serverless
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.63%) Network Security
2 4 (2.96%) Internet
3 3 (2.22%) LAN
3 3 (2.22%) WLAN
4 2 (1.48%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.48%) Firewall
4 2 (1.48%) MPLS
4 2 (1.48%) PBX
4 2 (1.48%) VoIP
4 2 (1.48%) VPN
4 2 (1.48%) WAN
5 1 (0.74%) IPsec
5 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.74%) SAN
5 1 (0.74%) SSL
5 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.78%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.93%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.19%) GIS
3 7 (5.19%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.96%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.96%) MySQL
5 3 (2.22%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (17.04%) Visual Studio
2 14 (10.37%) Team Foundation Server
3 12 (8.89%) Git
4 11 (8.15%) Jasmine
4 11 (8.15%) NUnit
4 11 (8.15%) Selenium
4 11 (8.15%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (5.19%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.96%) JIRA
6 4 (2.96%) Katalon Studio
6 4 (2.96%) Postman
7 2 (1.48%) GitLab
8 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (28.89%) Finance
2 25 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (10.37%) Social Skills
4 11 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.67%) Retail
6 5 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.96%) Law
7 4 (2.96%) Legal
7 4 (2.96%) Multimedia
7 4 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.96%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.22%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Back Office
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (40.74%) Developer
2 48 (35.56%) Lead
3 43 (31.85%) Architect
4 32 (23.70%) Lead Developer
5 25 (18.52%) Senior
6 16 (11.85%) .NET Developer
6 16 (11.85%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (11.11%) C# Developer
8 14 (10.37%) Software Developer
9 13 (9.63%) C# .NET Developer
9 13 (9.63%) Software Engineer
10 12 (8.89%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (8.89%) Systems Architect
11 11 (8.15%) .NET Software Developer
12 10 (7.41%) C# Software Developer
13 9 (6.67%) Senior Developer
14 8 (5.93%) Integration Manager
14 8 (5.93%) Lead .NET Developer
14 8 (5.93%) Lead C# Developer
15 7 (5.19%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (51.85%) .NET
2 29 (21.48%) OpenID
2 29 (21.48%) REST
2 29 (21.48%) Web Services
3 27 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 21 (15.56%) HTML
4 21 (15.56%) OAuth
5 17 (12.59%) CSS
6 15 (11.11%) .NET Core
7 14 (10.37%) ASP.NET
8 13 (9.63%) RESTful
9 11 (8.15%) AngularJS
9 11 (8.15%) Entity Framework
10 9 (6.67%) HTML5
11 7 (5.19%) ARM Templates
12 5 (3.70%) SAP TM
13 4 (2.96%) EDI
13 4 (2.96%) Gherkin
13 4 (2.96%) XML
13 4 (2.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.26%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.93%) IoT
3 7 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.70%) FMCG
4 5 (3.70%) Taxonomies
4 5 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.96%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.96%) NHS
6 3 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.22%) N-Tier
6 3 (2.22%) PMI
7 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.48%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.96%) Linux
2 2 (1.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (51.85%) Agile
2 53 (39.26%) Microservices
3 41 (30.37%) Mentoring
4 36 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 35 (25.93%) DevOps
5 35 (25.93%) Full Stack Development
6 31 (22.96%) SOLID
7 27 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 27 (20.00%) TDD
8 23 (17.04%) Customer Service
9 22 (16.30%) Scrum
10 21 (15.56%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (15.56%) MVC
11 20 (14.81%) DevSecOps
11 20 (14.81%) Enterprise Architecture
11 20 (14.81%) Information Governance
11 20 (14.81%) Integration Patterns
11 20 (14.81%) Programme Delivery
11 20 (14.81%) Roadmaps
11 20 (14.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (42.96%) C#
2 26 (19.26%) JavaScript
3 23 (17.04%) C++
4 14 (10.37%) SQL
5 9 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.19%) Bicep
7 6 (4.44%) Java
8 5 (3.70%) Groovy
9 3 (2.22%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.48%) C
10 2 (1.48%) PHP
10 2 (1.48%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.48%) Python
10 2 (1.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 10 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.70%) Degree
4 4 (2.96%) CIPD
4 4 (2.96%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.48%) CCIE
6 2 (1.48%) CCIE Data Center
6 2 (1.48%) CCNP
6 2 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.74%) MCSE
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) PMP
7 1 (0.74%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) QA
2 2 (1.48%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (6.67%) Docker
2 6 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.96%) VMware Server
4 3 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.74%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.93%) Terraform
3 7 (5.19%) MIIS
4 1 (0.74%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.11%) IBM
3 11 (8.15%) Oracle
4 8 (5.93%) MuleSoft
5 6 (4.44%) VMware
6 5 (3.70%) SAP
7 4 (2.96%) Google
8 2 (1.48%) Cisco
9 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.74%) Talend