SOA Job Trends in the South East

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SOA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 307 222
Rank change year-on-year +53 -85 +90
Permanent jobs citing SOA 17 11 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.11% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.13% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 19
10th Percentile - £60,750 £46,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £73,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £84,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.99% -0.59% +21.43%
75th Percentile £62,500 £92,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £93,800 -
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +11.11% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,085 8,795 6,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.56% 84.58% 92.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,925 4,575 4,815
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,763
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.00% -0.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

SOA job vacancy trend in the South East

SOA
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SOA

SOA
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 December 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
Hampshire +55 17 £60,000 -33.33% 1
SOA
England

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 17 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 17 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 17 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 17 (100.00%) Senior
1 17 (100.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
1 17 (100.00%) Senior Applications Support
1 17 (100.00%) Senior Support Engineer
1 17 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (100.00%) REST
1 17 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 17 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 17 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 17 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 17 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) C#
1 17 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 17 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft