SOA Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring SOA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 76 -
Rank change year-on-year +20 - -
Permanent jobs citing SOA 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.30% 0.16% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.17% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median annual salary £57,500 £77,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.81% +72.22% -30.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 514 585 867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.49% 92.56% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 346 239 537
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,900
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

SOA job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

SOA
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing SOA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing SOA

SOA
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Cheltenham - 1 - - 1
SOA
South West

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Gradle
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared