SOA Jobs in England

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SOA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOA over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 614 389 351
Rank change year-on-year -225 -38 -60
Permanent jobs citing SOA 202 777 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.82% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.86% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 165 450 577
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,570 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

SOA is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,450 90,857 124,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.08% 95.70% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 53,748 53,506 74,331
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,250
25th Percentile £39,759 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 -10 95 £82,500 +3.13% 36
North of England -23 49 £60,000 -14.29% 11
Yorkshire +81 24 £71,250 -3.39% 7
South West -58 23 £55,173 -11.72% 1
South East -119 17 £70,000 +12.00% 20
North West -50 16 £60,000 -14.29% 3
Midlands -15 12 £56,334 -9.87% 5
North East -4 9 £55,173 -28.81% 1
West Midlands +17 6 £55,173 -31.03% 2
East Midlands -28 6 £57,494 +4.53% 3
East of England -36 3 £55,173 -36.95% 3
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 12 (5.94%) Confluence
1 12 (5.94%) SharePoint
2 11 (5.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (3.96%) Anypoint
3 8 (3.96%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.98%) CMS
5 3 (1.49%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.49%) nginx
6 2 (0.99%) IIS
6 2 (0.99%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.50%) Drupal
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.45%) Maximo
2 7 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (2.48%) SAP IBP
3 5 (2.48%) SAP PP
4 3 (1.49%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.50%) HFM
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.50%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.50%) SAP MDG-BP
5 1 (0.50%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 108 (53.47%) Azure
2 61 (30.20%) AWS
3 42 (20.79%) SaaS
4 32 (15.84%) PaaS
5 31 (15.35%) IaaS
6 27 (13.37%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (9.90%) Power Platform
8 18 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (5.94%) Serverless
10 10 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (3.47%) Pulumi
12 5 (2.48%) Azure API Management
12 5 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.98%) Cloudflare
13 4 (1.98%) GCP
14 1 (0.50%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.45%) Network Security
2 5 (2.48%) Internet
3 3 (1.49%) LAN
3 3 (1.49%) WLAN
4 2 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.99%) Firewall
4 2 (0.99%) MPLS
4 2 (0.99%) PBX
4 2 (0.99%) VoIP
4 2 (0.99%) VPN
4 2 (0.99%) WAN
5 1 (0.50%) DNS
5 1 (0.50%) HTTP
5 1 (0.50%) IPsec
5 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.50%) SAN
5 1 (0.50%) SSL
5 1 (0.50%) VLAN
5 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (20.79%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (6.93%) NoSQL
3 12 (5.94%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.45%) GIS
5 6 (2.97%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.98%) Redis
7 3 (1.49%) DTS
7 3 (1.49%) MySQL
7 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.99%) Metadata
9 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.50%) Big Data
9 1 (0.50%) OLTP
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.50%) Power BI
9 1 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 21 (10.40%) Team Foundation Server
2 14 (6.93%) Git
2 14 (6.93%) JIRA
3 13 (6.44%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.96%) Jasmine
4 8 (3.96%) NUnit
4 8 (3.96%) Selenium
4 8 (3.96%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (3.47%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.48%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.98%) Katalon Studio
7 4 (1.98%) Postman
8 2 (0.99%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 72 (35.64%) Finance
2 45 (22.28%) Social Skills
3 35 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.92%) Retail
5 11 (5.45%) Legal
6 9 (4.46%) Banking
6 9 (4.46%) Marketing
7 6 (2.97%) Back Office
7 6 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.49%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.99%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (39.60%) Developer
2 73 (36.14%) Architect
3 45 (22.28%) Lead
4 44 (21.78%) Solutions Architect
5 30 (14.85%) Lead Developer
6 27 (13.37%) Senior
7 24 (11.88%) .NET Developer
8 18 (8.91%) Salesforce Architect
8 18 (8.91%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 16 (7.92%) C# Developer
9 16 (7.92%) Software Engineer
10 14 (6.93%) Software Developer
11 13 (6.44%) Applications Developer
11 13 (6.44%) C# .NET Developer
12 11 (5.45%) Full Stack Developer
13 10 (4.95%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (4.95%) Principal Software Engineer
13 10 (4.95%) Technical Architect
14 9 (4.46%) Senior Architect
14 9 (4.46%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (42.57%) .NET
2 56 (27.72%) REST
3 39 (19.31%) Web Services
4 31 (15.35%) OpenID
5 28 (13.86%) OAuth
6 25 (12.38%) Middleware
7 24 (11.88%) .NET Core
8 22 (10.89%) AngularJS
9 20 (9.90%) HTML
10 18 (8.91%) .NET Framework
11 16 (7.92%) ASP.NET
11 16 (7.92%) Node.js
12 15 (7.43%) RESTful
12 15 (7.43%) Spring Boot
13 14 (6.93%) CSS
13 14 (6.93%) React
14 13 (6.44%) Spring
14 13 (6.44%) XML
15 11 (5.45%) SOAP
16 10 (4.95%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.35%) Management Information System
2 26 (12.87%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (11.88%) Public Cloud
4 14 (6.93%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.95%) IoT
7 9 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.47%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.47%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.97%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.48%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.48%) FMCG
10 5 (2.48%) NHS
10 5 (2.48%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.98%) N-Tier
11 4 (1.98%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.47%) Windows
2 5 (2.48%) Linux
2 5 (2.48%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (42.57%) Agile
2 65 (32.18%) Microservices
3 51 (25.25%) DevOps
4 50 (24.75%) Enterprise Architecture
5 49 (24.26%) Full Stack Development
6 46 (22.77%) TOGAF
7 44 (21.78%) TDD
8 37 (18.32%) SOLID
9 36 (17.82%) Roadmaps
10 35 (17.33%) MVC
11 33 (16.34%) Mentoring
11 33 (16.34%) Scrum
12 32 (15.84%) Business Strategy
12 32 (15.84%) Integration Patterns
13 31 (15.35%) Cybersecurity
13 31 (15.35%) Test Automation
14 29 (14.36%) Code Quality
14 29 (14.36%) DevSecOps
14 29 (14.36%) Software Engineering
15 25 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.25%) C#
2 37 (18.32%) JavaScript
3 30 (14.85%) Java
4 25 (12.38%) SQL
5 23 (11.39%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.95%) PowerShell
6 10 (4.95%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.47%) Bicep
7 7 (3.47%) Python
8 4 (1.98%) Bash
8 4 (1.98%) Groovy
8 4 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.49%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.49%) C++
9 3 (1.49%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.99%) C
10 2 (0.99%) Ruby
10 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.50%) F#
11 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (19.31%) Degree
2 19 (9.41%) TOGAF Certification
3 13 (6.44%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.44%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.98%) CIPD
7 4 (1.98%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.49%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.49%) Sun Certification
9 2 (0.99%) CCIE
9 2 (0.99%) CCIE Data Center
9 2 (0.99%) CCNP
9 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.99%) MCAD
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.50%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.47%) QA
2 6 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.98%) ISO 9000
3 4 (1.98%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.99%) SLA
5 1 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.50%) HL7
5 1 (0.50%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (6.93%) Docker
2 6 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.98%) VMware Server
4 3 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.50%) RACF
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.96%) Terraform
3 7 (3.47%) MIIS
4 4 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (31.19%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.38%) Salesforce
3 20 (9.90%) IBM
4 11 (5.45%) Oracle
5 9 (4.46%) SAP
6 8 (3.96%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.97%) Google
7 6 (2.97%) VMware
8 5 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.49%) Progress
10 2 (0.99%) Cisco
10 2 (0.99%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.50%) DocuSign
11 1 (0.50%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.50%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.50%) Informatica
11 1 (0.50%) Siemens
11 1 (0.50%) Sparx
11 1 (0.50%) webMethods
11 1 (0.50%) Yardi