SOA Jobs in the Midlands

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 307 266
Rank change year-on-year +52 -41 -39
Permanent jobs citing SOA 7 15 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.12% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 23
10th Percentile £64,500 £53,346 -
25th Percentile £65,625 £54,396 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,494 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.40% +1.76% -9.60%
75th Percentile £71,563 £83,750 £84,375
90th Percentile £72,125 - £99,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.60% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,225 10,156 8,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.57% 80.56% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 7,358 4,443
10th Percentile £26,974 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,276
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the Midlands

SOA
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for SOA in the Midlands

SOA
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
West Midlands +61 7 £67,500 +22.34% 4
SOA
England

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure API Management
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JUnit
1 2 (28.57%) Mockito
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Blazor
2 2 (28.57%) gRPC
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Reference Data
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Software Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) API Management
4 2 (28.57%) Business Agility
4 2 (28.57%) Business Case
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (28.57%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Systems Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) Bash
4 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle