SOA Jobs in England

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 592 684 362
Rank change year-on-year +92 -322 -12
Permanent jobs citing SOA 77 177 719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.18% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.22% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 40 137 365
10th Percentile £56,918 £53,346 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +17.86% -
75th Percentile £90,313 £93,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £125,500 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,887 79,212 77,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.16% 82.43% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 23,187 56,399 47,887
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,446 £34,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,015 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +0.03% -9.54% +1.33%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SOA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SOA in England

SOA
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOA in England.

Salary trend for SOA in England

SOA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOA in England over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SOA in England

SOA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the England region over the 6 months to 15 June 2025. 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
London +88 44 £82,500 -5.71% 79
South West +114 10 £53,859 -16.82% 11
North of England +35 9 £69,000 +15.00% 28
West Midlands +69 8 £67,500 +22.34% 13
Midlands +69 8 £67,500 +17.40% 16
East of England +44 5 £86,000 +55.87% 1
North West +12 5 £63,000 +14.19% 17
Yorkshire +41 4 £75,000 +5.26% 10
South East +70 1 - - 33
SOA
UK

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (19.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.90%) Apache
2 3 (3.90%) Mule
2 3 (3.90%) Oracle Coherence
2 3 (3.90%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.60%) CICS
3 2 (2.60%) Confluence
4 1 (1.30%) nginx
4 1 (1.30%) NServiceBus
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.60%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (1.30%) Magento
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.57%) Azure
2 15 (19.48%) AWS
3 8 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.39%) Serverless
4 7 (9.09%) SaaS
5 6 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (7.79%) GitHub
6 5 (6.49%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (6.49%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (5.19%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.90%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (3.90%) Azure API Management
8 3 (3.90%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.60%) Boomi
9 2 (2.60%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.99%) Big Data
2 10 (12.99%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.79%) Tableau
4 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.60%) DB2
5 2 (2.60%) Flink
5 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Git
2 6 (7.79%) Bitbucket
2 6 (7.79%) JIRA
3 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.60%) GitLab
4 2 (2.60%) IntelliJ
4 2 (2.60%) JUnit
4 2 (2.60%) Mockito
5 1 (1.30%) JDeveloper
5 1 (1.30%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.30%) NUnit
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.30%) PhpStorm
5 1 (1.30%) PHPUnit
General
1 17 (22.08%) Finance
2 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.88%) Banking
4 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Legal
6 3 (3.90%) Retail
7 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.60%) Law
8 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.30%) Military
8 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (32.47%) Developer
2 24 (31.17%) Software Engineer
3 18 (23.38%) Senior
4 13 (16.88%) Architect
4 13 (16.88%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (15.58%) Senior Developer
6 10 (12.99%) Lead
7 6 (7.79%) .NET Developer
7 6 (7.79%) AWS Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Lead Developer
8 5 (6.49%) Java Developer
8 5 (6.49%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Azure Developer
10 3 (3.90%) BPM Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Lead .NET Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 2 (2.60%) Salesforce Expert
11 2 (2.60%) Senior .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.78%) Kafka
2 15 (19.48%) .NET
3 14 (18.18%) React
4 12 (15.58%) Web Services
5 11 (14.29%) REST
5 11 (14.29%) RESTful
6 10 (12.99%) gRPC
7 8 (10.39%) JSON
8 7 (9.09%) SOAP
9 6 (7.79%) CSS
9 6 (7.79%) HTML
9 6 (7.79%) Middleware
9 6 (7.79%) XML
10 5 (6.49%) .NET Core
10 5 (6.49%) Spring
11 4 (5.19%) .NET Framework
11 4 (5.19%) Blazor
11 4 (5.19%) Oracle Fusion
12 3 (3.90%) Hibernate
12 3 (3.90%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Public Cloud
2 10 (12.99%) Data Structures
2 10 (12.99%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (12.99%) Reference Data
2 10 (12.99%) Replication
3 9 (11.69%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.30%) EPoS
7 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.30%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.30%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) zOS
3 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (49.35%) Microservices
1 38 (49.35%) Software Engineering
2 31 (40.26%) Agile
3 23 (29.87%) TDD
4 19 (24.68%) Test Automation
5 18 (23.38%) Migration
5 18 (23.38%) Unit Testing
6 17 (22.08%) DevOps
6 17 (22.08%) Mentoring
7 16 (20.78%) CI/CD
8 15 (19.48%) Code Quality
9 13 (16.88%) Containerisation
9 13 (16.88%) Software Delivery
10 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (12.99%) Business Agility
11 10 (12.99%) Concurrent Programming
11 10 (12.99%) High Availability
11 10 (12.99%) Multithreading
11 10 (12.99%) OO
11 10 (12.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 31 (40.26%) C#
2 30 (38.96%) Java
3 16 (20.78%) SQL
4 14 (18.18%) Python
5 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.79%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.19%) Bash
7 4 (5.19%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.90%) COBOL
8 3 (3.90%) XQuery
9 2 (2.60%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.60%) C++
10 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.30%) PHP
10 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (9.09%) Degree
1 7 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) JSP 440
1 4 (5.19%) NIST
1 4 (5.19%) NIST 800
1 4 (5.19%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) ISO 15022
3 1 (1.30%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (31.17%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.99%) Terraform
3 2 (2.60%) CA Endevor
3 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (19.48%) Oracle
2 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.19%) IBM
4 3 (3.90%) Databricks
4 3 (3.90%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.90%) Solace
5 2 (2.60%) Okta
5 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.60%) SimCorp
5 2 (2.60%) webMethods
6 1 (1.30%) Adobe
6 1 (1.30%) HP
6 1 (1.30%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.30%) Red Hat