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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 155 163
Rank change year-on-year +37 +8 +61
Permanent jobs citing SOA 10 16 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.64% 0.58% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.62% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 18
10th Percentile £47,000 £79,150 £57,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £80,500 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +7.19% -
75th Percentile £125,000 £94,000 £115,000
90th Percentile - £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 1,500 2,579 2,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.97% 93.92% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,211 1,687 2,670
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £96,875 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -

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

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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 27 October 2025.

Salary histogram for SOA in the City of London

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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 3 (30.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Front Office
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) C++ Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Product Owner
1 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Derivative
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (30.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) AI
2 3 (30.00%) Backlog Management
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (30.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 3 (30.00%) Data Science
2 3 (30.00%) Economics
2 3 (30.00%) Fintech
2 3 (30.00%) Insurtech
2 3 (30.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (30.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (30.00%) Product Backlog
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (30.00%) User Stories
2 3 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C++
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ambari
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
1 1 (10.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat