SOA Job Trends in the East Midlands

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SOA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 124 98
Rank change year-on-year -8 -26 +34
Permanent jobs citing SOA 4 5 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.16% 0.22% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.25% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 17
10th Percentile £73,150 £51,000 -
25th Percentile £73,375 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% +28.57% -14.29%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - £84,000 £59,450
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +23.08% -18.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,016 2,023 1,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.97% 88.07% 88.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 859 1,117
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,662 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,125 £36,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,500
90th Percentile £75,270 £75,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SOA job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SOA
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SOA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SOA

SOA
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire +17 4 £77,500 -8.82% 1
SOA
England

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle Solutions Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Product Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Debt
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) ERP
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle