SOA Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SOA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 158 171
Rank change year-on-year +36 +13 +71
Permanent jobs citing SOA 7 14 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.41% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.52% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 16
10th Percentile - £79,150 £57,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £80,500 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +7.19% -
75th Percentile £127,188 £94,000 £115,625
90th Percentile £130,000 £94,450 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £85,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% +7.19% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,643 2,689 3,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.91% 93.21% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 1,842 2,914
10th Percentile £39,890 £43,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £73,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +2.74% -1.02% +1.72%

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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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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SOA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SOA

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOA in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram 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 2 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Tableau
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Product Owner
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 3 (42.86%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Backlog Management
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Economics
2 3 (42.86%) Fintech
2 3 (42.86%) Insurtech
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Product Backlog
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (42.86%) User Stories
2 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle