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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 125 169
Rank change year-on-year -31 +44 +27
Permanent jobs citing SOA 1 14 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.024% 0.72% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.75% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 6
10th Percentile - £83,500 -
25th Percentile £82,500 £101,875 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £113,750 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% +24.66% +19.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £128,750 £95,000
90th Percentile - £131,000 £100,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £113,750 £90,000
% change year-on-year -25.27% +26.39% +12.50%

All Process & 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 3,396 1,871 2,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 79.92% 96.39% 90.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,460 1,416 2,356
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,320
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SOA job vacancy trend in the City of London

SOA
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

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) General Ledger
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) ERP Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Technical Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior ERP Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Accounts Payable
1 1 (100.00%) Accounts Receivable
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle