SOA Jobs in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SOA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SOA over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 170 200
Rank change year-on-year +37 +30 +46
Permanent jobs citing SOA 15 7 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.72% 0.21% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.23% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 23
10th Percentile £81,250 - -
25th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £91,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.55% +25.86% -9.38%
75th Percentile £127,500 £95,000 £90,625
90th Percentile £130,000 £100,000 £102,500
Central London median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% +24.14% -3.33%

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 1,986 3,080 4,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.99% 92.02% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,500 2,434 3,685
10th Percentile £42,450 £41,250 £43,162
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,188 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £113,750 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

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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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOA in the City of London.

Salary trend for SOA in the City of London

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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 10 May 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 (13.33%) NServiceBus
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) SaaS
3 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) OCI
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (26.67%) Tableau
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Lead .NET Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Principal Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Head of Software Development
5 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) .NET
1 7 (46.67%) RESTful
2 5 (33.33%) React
3 4 (26.67%) Node.js
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
4 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (13.33%) CSS
4 2 (13.33%) Express.js
4 2 (13.33%) HTML
4 2 (13.33%) REST
4 2 (13.33%) Socket.IO
4 2 (13.33%) Web Services
4 2 (13.33%) WebSockets
5 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.67%) Next.js
5 1 (6.67%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) EPoS
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Software Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) Microservices
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (40.00%) Migration
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 5 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) TDD
4 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 4 (26.67%) API Development
5 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
5 4 (26.67%) Business Strategy
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (26.67%) OO
5 4 (26.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (26.67%) Technology Transformation
6 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) C#
2 6 (40.00%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) C++
5 2 (13.33%) Kotlin
5 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.67%) Go
6 1 (6.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle