Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 658 377 365
Rank change year-on-year -281 -12 -63
Permanent jobs citing SOA 239 912 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.87% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.91% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 201 518 629
10th Percentile £53,346 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £100,150
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the UK

SOA
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SOA in the UK

SOA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SOA in the UK

SOA
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -244 197 £72,500 - 77
UK excluding London -257 134 £65,000 -7.14% 49
Work from Home -114 101 £80,000 +10.34% 41
London -22 90 £82,500 +6.45% 34
North of England -29 51 £60,000 -17.24% 14
Yorkshire +76 26 £71,250 -5.00% 6
Scotland -63 26 £65,500 -4.73% 6
South West -49 20 £55,173 -11.72% 1
South East -87 18 £70,000 +19.15% 19
North West -54 16 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Midlands -21 12 £57,494 -6.13% 4
North East -2 9 £55,173 -26.44% 4
West Midlands +10 6 £55,173 -32.09% 2
East Midlands -27 6 £69,997 +27.27% 2
Wales -1 4 £64,000 +2.81% 1
East of England -57 3 £55,173 -36.95% 2

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (5.86%) Confluence
2 12 (5.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 10 (4.18%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.35%) Anypoint
4 8 (3.35%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.26%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.26%) CMS
5 3 (1.26%) nginx
6 2 (0.84%) IIS
6 2 (0.84%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.42%) Drupal
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.77%) Teamcenter
2 8 (3.35%) Maximo
3 7 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (2.09%) SAP IBP
4 5 (2.09%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.42%) HFM
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG-BP
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 111 (46.44%) Azure
2 61 (25.52%) AWS
3 48 (20.08%) SaaS
4 37 (15.48%) PaaS
5 36 (15.06%) IaaS
6 27 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (8.79%) Power Platform
8 15 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (5.02%) Serverless
10 10 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.18%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.93%) Pulumi
12 6 (2.51%) Azure Service Fabric
12 6 (2.51%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.09%) PowerApps
14 4 (1.67%) Azure API Management
14 4 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.67%) GCP
15 3 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (1.26%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.02%) Network Security
2 5 (2.09%) Internet
3 3 (1.26%) LAN
3 3 (1.26%) WLAN
4 2 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.84%) Firewall
4 2 (0.84%) MPLS
4 2 (0.84%) PBX
4 2 (0.84%) VoIP
4 2 (0.84%) VPN
4 2 (0.84%) WAN
5 1 (0.42%) DNS
5 1 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.42%) IPsec
5 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.42%) SAN
5 1 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.86%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.60%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.35%) GIS
6 7 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.93%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.09%) Metadata
8 4 (1.67%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.26%) DTS
9 3 (1.26%) MySQL
9 3 (1.26%) Redis
9 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.84%) Power BI
11 1 (0.42%) Big Data
11 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.42%) OLTP
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.42%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 26 (10.88%) Visual Studio
2 19 (7.95%) Team Foundation Server
3 17 (7.11%) Git
4 16 (6.69%) JIRA
5 10 (4.18%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (3.77%) Jasmine
6 9 (3.77%) NUnit
6 9 (3.77%) Selenium
7 7 (2.93%) TeamCity
8 6 (2.51%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.67%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (1.67%) Postman
10 3 (1.26%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.84%) GitLab
12 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.42%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.42%) Mercurial
12 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 78 (32.64%) Finance
2 50 (20.92%) Social Skills
3 34 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (6.69%) Retail
6 14 (5.86%) Banking
7 12 (5.02%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.18%) Legal
9 9 (3.77%) Marketing
10 7 (2.93%) Back Office
11 5 (2.09%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.09%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.84%) Law
14 2 (0.84%) Multimedia
15 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (40.59%) Architect
2 81 (33.89%) Developer
3 49 (20.50%) Lead
4 42 (17.57%) Solutions Architect
5 41 (17.15%) Senior
6 34 (14.23%) Lead Developer
7 29 (12.13%) Software Engineer
8 23 (9.62%) .NET Developer
9 17 (7.11%) Salesforce Architect
9 17 (7.11%) Salesforce Solution Architect
10 16 (6.69%) C# Developer
11 15 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (6.28%) Software Developer
12 13 (5.44%) C# .NET Developer
13 12 (5.02%) Systems Architect
14 11 (4.60%) Enterprise Architect
14 11 (4.60%) Senior Developer
15 10 (4.18%) Applications Developer
15 10 (4.18%) Principal Software Engineer
15 10 (4.18%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (39.75%) .NET
2 57 (23.85%) REST
3 48 (20.08%) Web Services
4 31 (12.97%) OpenID
5 30 (12.55%) .NET Framework
6 27 (11.30%) OAuth
7 26 (10.88%) HTML
8 24 (10.04%) Middleware
9 22 (9.21%) .NET Core
10 19 (7.95%) AngularJS
11 17 (7.11%) CSS
11 17 (7.11%) SOAP
12 16 (6.69%) ASP.NET
12 16 (6.69%) Node.js
12 16 (6.69%) RESTful
13 15 (6.28%) Spring Boot
13 15 (6.28%) XML
14 14 (5.86%) React
15 13 (5.44%) Spring
16 10 (4.18%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.97%) Management Information System
2 28 (11.72%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (9.62%) Public Cloud
4 17 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.60%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.18%) IoT
7 9 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.93%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.51%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.51%) Virtual Team
10 5 (2.09%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.09%) FMCG
10 5 (2.09%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (2.09%) NHS
10 5 (2.09%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.67%) N-Tier
11 4 (1.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.93%) Windows
2 6 (2.51%) Linux
3 5 (2.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.42%) Solaris
4 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (42.26%) Agile
2 92 (38.49%) Microservices
3 52 (21.76%) Software Engineering
4 51 (21.34%) DevOps
4 51 (21.34%) Enterprise Architecture
5 48 (20.08%) Mentoring
5 48 (20.08%) TOGAF
6 46 (19.25%) Full Stack Development
7 42 (17.57%) TDD
8 38 (15.90%) Roadmaps
8 38 (15.90%) Scrum
9 37 (15.48%) SOLID
10 36 (15.06%) Cybersecurity
10 36 (15.06%) Test Automation
11 33 (13.81%) MVC
12 32 (13.39%) Integration Patterns
13 30 (12.55%) Business Strategy
14 29 (12.13%) Code Quality
14 29 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (11.72%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 82 (34.31%) C#
2 37 (15.48%) Java
3 34 (14.23%) SQL
4 33 (13.81%) JavaScript
5 32 (13.39%) C++
6 20 (8.37%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.02%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.35%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.93%) Bicep
9 7 (2.93%) C
10 6 (2.51%) Python
11 5 (2.09%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.67%) Groovy
13 3 (1.26%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.26%) Bash
13 3 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.26%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.84%) Ruby
15 1 (0.42%) ABAP
15 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (17.99%) Degree
2 18 (7.53%) TOGAF Certification
3 15 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.60%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.93%) CISSP
7 7 (2.93%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.51%) CISM
8 6 (2.51%) GIAC
8 6 (2.51%) SANS
9 5 (2.09%) MCAD
10 4 (1.67%) CIPD
10 4 (1.67%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.26%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.26%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.84%) CCIE
12 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.93%) QA
2 6 (2.51%) COBIT
2 6 (2.51%) NIST
2 6 (2.51%) Web Application Security Consortium
3 5 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.26%) ISO 9000
4 3 (1.26%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.84%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.42%) HL7
6 1 (0.42%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (6.28%) Docker
2 6 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.67%) VMware Server
4 3 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) RACF
Systems Management
1 14 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.35%) Terraform
3 7 (2.93%) MIIS
4 6 (2.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 4 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.42%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (26.36%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.62%) Salesforce
3 16 (6.69%) IBM
4 12 (5.02%) Oracle
5 8 (3.35%) MuleSoft
5 8 (3.35%) SAP
6 6 (2.51%) Google
6 6 (2.51%) VMware
7 5 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.26%) Progress
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco
9 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.42%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.42%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.42%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.42%) Siemens
10 1 (0.42%) Sybase
10 1 (0.42%) webMethods
10 1 (0.42%) Yardi