SOA Job Trends in the North East

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SOA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -35
Permanent jobs citing SOA 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.034% - 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% - 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86,250 - £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 - £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.94%
75th Percentile £88,750 - £83,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +13.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,139 733 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 73.05% 82.36% 80.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,599 474 881
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £46,457
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -3.14% -7.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,188 £61,250
90th Percentile £91,375 £78,175 £71,991
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

SOA job vacancy trend in the North East

SOA
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SOA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SOA

SOA
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the North East region over the 6 months to 10 August 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £87,500 - 1
SOA
England

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (100.00%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) EDI
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) PLM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Infor
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce