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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 603 654 412
Rank change year-on-year +51 -242 -63
Permanent jobs citing SOA 92 193 686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.22% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.26% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 50 155 397
10th Percentile £49,925 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,188 £55,447 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £89,500 £92,125 £88,750
90th Percentile £122,750 £99,000 £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 46,211 73,441 86,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.15% 85.47% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,829 53,979 51,188
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +66 53 £80,000 -4.48% 93
South West +110 10 £51,930 -5.88% 8
North of England +11 10 £63,000 +5.00% 19
Midlands +66 9 £67,500 +17.40% 9
East of England +46 9 £55,000 -0.31% 7
West Midlands +48 8 £67,500 +22.34% 4
North West +5 8 £63,000 +9.40% 15
Yorkshire +49 2 £64,250 -9.82% 4
South East +80 1 - - 41
East Midlands +29 1 £50,000 -28.57% 4
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 22 (23.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (6.52%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.26%) Mule
3 3 (3.26%) Oracle Coherence
4 2 (2.17%) Apache
4 2 (2.17%) CICS
4 2 (2.17%) Confluence
4 2 (2.17%) NServiceBus
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (2.17%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 31 (33.70%) Azure
2 14 (15.22%) AWS
3 12 (13.04%) SaaS
4 8 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.70%) Serverless
5 7 (7.61%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (7.61%) OCI
5 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (6.52%) GitHub
6 6 (6.52%) PaaS
7 4 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.35%) IaaS
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.26%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.48%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.87%) Big Data
2 10 (10.87%) MongoDB
3 9 (9.78%) Tableau
4 7 (7.61%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.43%) MySQL
5 5 (5.43%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (5.43%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (4.35%) Power BI
7 3 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.26%) MariaDB
7 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.17%) DB2
8 2 (2.17%) Flink
8 2 (2.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (2.17%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 11 (11.96%) Git
2 6 (6.52%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.43%) JIRA
4 3 (3.26%) Eclipse
4 3 (3.26%) Gradle
4 3 (3.26%) Maven
4 3 (3.26%) Subversion
5 2 (2.17%) GitLab
5 2 (2.17%) IntelliJ
5 2 (2.17%) JUnit
5 2 (2.17%) Mockito
5 2 (2.17%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.09%) JDeveloper
6 1 (1.09%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.09%) NUnit
General
1 24 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.57%) Finance
3 13 (14.13%) Banking
4 12 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.43%) Legal
5 5 (5.43%) Retail
6 3 (3.26%) Marketing
6 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.09%) Military
8 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (30.43%) Developer
2 25 (27.17%) Software Engineer
3 17 (18.48%) Architect
4 15 (16.30%) Senior
5 11 (11.96%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (10.87%) Lead
7 9 (9.78%) Senior Developer
8 8 (8.70%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.52%) .NET Developer
9 6 (6.52%) AWS Developer
9 6 (6.52%) Lead Developer
10 5 (5.43%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (5.43%) Oracle Developer
10 5 (5.43%) Salesforce Expert
11 4 (4.35%) Analyst
11 4 (4.35%) Data Architect
11 4 (4.35%) Integration Architect
11 4 (4.35%) Oracle Architect
11 4 (4.35%) Oracle Data Architect
12 3 (3.26%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.74%) Web Services
2 16 (17.39%) React
3 15 (16.30%) .NET
3 15 (16.30%) REST
4 14 (15.22%) Kafka
5 13 (14.13%) SOAP
6 12 (13.04%) RESTful
7 10 (10.87%) gRPC
8 9 (9.78%) JSON
9 8 (8.70%) Spring
9 8 (8.70%) XML
10 7 (7.61%) Middleware
11 5 (5.43%) .NET Core
11 5 (5.43%) AngularJS
11 5 (5.43%) Lightning Web Components
11 5 (5.43%) Visualforce
12 4 (4.35%) .NET Framework
12 4 (4.35%) Blazor
12 4 (4.35%) CSS
12 4 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Data Structures
1 12 (13.04%) Public Cloud
2 10 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (10.87%) Reference Data
2 10 (10.87%) Replication
3 9 (9.78%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.61%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.26%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.26%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.09%) EPoS
7 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Android
2 3 (3.26%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.17%) zOS
4 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.48%) Microservices
2 38 (41.30%) Software Engineering
3 35 (38.04%) Agile
4 24 (26.09%) Migration
5 21 (22.83%) DevOps
5 21 (22.83%) TDD
6 18 (19.57%) CI/CD
6 18 (19.57%) Mentoring
7 17 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (18.48%) Test Automation
7 17 (18.48%) Unit Testing
8 15 (16.30%) Code Quality
8 15 (16.30%) Data Migration
9 13 (14.13%) Software Delivery
10 12 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (13.04%) Containerisation
11 11 (11.96%) Strategic Thinking
12 10 (10.87%) Business Agility
12 10 (10.87%) Concurrent Programming
12 10 (10.87%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.13%) C#
2 31 (33.70%) Java
3 28 (30.43%) SQL
4 16 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 16 (17.39%) Python
5 9 (9.78%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.43%) Apex Code
6 5 (5.43%) PL/SQL
7 4 (4.35%) Bash
7 4 (4.35%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.26%) COBOL
8 3 (3.26%) XQuery
9 2 (2.17%) C++
9 2 (2.17%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.09%) Go
10 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.09%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.70%) Degree
3 7 (7.61%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.35%) JSP 440
2 4 (4.35%) NIST
2 4 (4.35%) NIST 800
2 4 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.09%) GDPR
3 1 (1.09%) ISO 15022
3 1 (1.09%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 9 (9.78%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (29.35%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.87%) Terraform
3 2 (2.17%) CA Endevor
3 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (23.91%) Oracle
2 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.43%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.35%) IBM
5 3 (3.26%) Databricks
5 3 (3.26%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.26%) Solace
6 2 (2.17%) Okta
6 2 (2.17%) SAP
6 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.17%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.17%) webMethods
7 1 (1.09%) HP
7 1 (1.09%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.09%) Red Hat