SOA Job Trends in Scotland

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring SOA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 135 179
Rank change year-on-year +11 +44 +8
Permanent jobs citing SOA 17 13 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.62% 0.51% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.55% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -
75th Percentile - £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile - £89,000 -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +23.08% -18.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,206 2,381 2,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.84% 92.90% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,076 1,004 1,812
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,325 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,370 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

SOA job vacancy trend in Scotland

SOA
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SOA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SOA

SOA
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 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
Edinburgh +2 17 - -
SOA
UK

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 17 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 17 (100.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
1 17 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 17 (100.00%) GitHub
1 17 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 17 (100.00%) OCI
1 17 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) Power BI
1 17 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (100.00%) Git
1 17 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 17 (100.00%) JIRA
1 17 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 17 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (100.00%) OAuth
1 17 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 17 (100.00%) RESTful
1 17 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 17 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Agile
1 17 (100.00%) AI
1 17 (100.00%) Analytics
1 17 (100.00%) API Integration
1 17 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 17 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 17 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 17 (100.00%) Coaching
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
1 17 (100.00%) ERP
1 17 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 17 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 17 (100.00%) Microservices
1 17 (100.00%) RBAC
1 17 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
1 17 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 17 (100.00%) Python
1 17 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 17 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 17 (100.00%) Oracle