SOA Jobs in the UK excluding London

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SOA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOA over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 621 356 364
Rank change year-on-year -265 +8 -25
Permanent jobs citing SOA 134 512 625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.83% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.87% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 114 279 301
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,346 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £92,300 £85,000
UK median annual salary £78,750 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% +3.57% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

SOA is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,230 59,150 66,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.47% 95.64% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,096 30,337 41,441
10th Percentile £27,234 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the UK excluding London

SOA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOA in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SOA in the UK excluding London

SOA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SOA in the UK excluding London

SOA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
North of England -35 51 £60,000 -14.29% 14
Yorkshire +78 26 £71,250 -5.00% 6
Scotland -60 26 £65,500 -4.73% 6
South West -71 20 £55,173 -11.72% 1
South East -91 18 £70,000 +19.15% 19
North West -58 16 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Midlands -23 12 £57,494 -8.01% 4
North East 0 9 £55,173 -26.44% 4
West Midlands +11 6 £55,173 -32.09% 2
East Midlands -30 6 £69,997 +27.27% 2
Wales -7 4 £64,000 +1.59% 1
East of England -46 3 £55,173 -36.95% 2
SOA
UK

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (7.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (6.72%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.97%) Anypoint
3 8 (5.97%) WebSphere
4 3 (2.24%) Confluence
5 2 (1.49%) IIS
5 2 (1.49%) nginx
5 2 (1.49%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Maximo
2 5 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.73%) SAP IBP
2 5 (3.73%) SAP PP
2 5 (3.73%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (52.99%) Azure
2 25 (18.66%) AWS
2 25 (18.66%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (14.18%) Power Platform
4 18 (13.43%) SaaS
5 15 (11.19%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (7.46%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (5.22%) IaaS
7 7 (5.22%) PaaS
7 7 (5.22%) Pulumi
8 4 (2.99%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.49%) GCP
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.21%) Network Security
2 4 (2.99%) Internet
3 3 (2.24%) LAN
3 3 (2.24%) WLAN
4 2 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.49%) Firewall
4 2 (1.49%) MPLS
4 2 (1.49%) PBX
4 2 (1.49%) VoIP
4 2 (1.49%) VPN
4 2 (1.49%) WAN
5 1 (0.75%) HTTP
5 1 (0.75%) IPsec
5 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.75%) SAN
5 1 (0.75%) SSL
5 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.66%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (5.97%) GIS
2 8 (5.97%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.97%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.24%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.49%) MySQL
6 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (15.67%) Visual Studio
2 15 (11.19%) Team Foundation Server
3 10 (7.46%) Git
4 9 (6.72%) Jasmine
4 9 (6.72%) NUnit
4 9 (6.72%) Selenium
4 9 (6.72%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (5.22%) TeamCity
6 5 (3.73%) JIRA
7 4 (2.99%) Katalon Studio
7 4 (2.99%) Postman
8 2 (1.49%) GitLab
General
1 40 (29.85%) Finance
2 25 (18.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (10.45%) Social Skills
4 11 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.72%) Retail
6 5 (3.73%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.73%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.99%) Legal
7 4 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.24%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.49%) Law
9 2 (1.49%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Back Office
10 1 (0.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (41.04%) Developer
2 46 (34.33%) Lead
3 45 (33.58%) Architect
4 32 (23.88%) Lead Developer
5 24 (17.91%) Senior
6 16 (11.94%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (11.19%) .NET Developer
8 13 (9.70%) C# Developer
8 13 (9.70%) Software Engineer
9 12 (8.96%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (8.96%) Software Developer
9 12 (8.96%) Systems Architect
10 11 (8.21%) C# .NET Developer
11 9 (6.72%) .NET Software Developer
12 8 (5.97%) Applications Developer
12 8 (5.97%) C# Software Developer
12 8 (5.97%) Integration Manager
12 8 (5.97%) Lead .NET Developer
12 8 (5.97%) Lead C# Developer
12 8 (5.97%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (52.24%) .NET
2 31 (23.13%) REST
3 30 (22.39%) Web Services
4 29 (21.64%) OpenID
5 25 (18.66%) .NET Framework
6 21 (15.67%) OAuth
7 19 (14.18%) HTML
8 15 (11.19%) CSS
9 13 (9.70%) .NET Core
10 12 (8.96%) AngularJS
10 12 (8.96%) ASP.NET
11 11 (8.21%) RESTful
12 9 (6.72%) Entity Framework
12 9 (6.72%) HTML5
13 7 (5.22%) ARM Templates
14 5 (3.73%) SAP TM
14 5 (3.73%) XML
15 4 (2.99%) EDI
15 4 (2.99%) Gherkin
15 4 (2.99%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.40%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.97%) IoT
3 6 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.73%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (3.73%) FMCG
4 5 (3.73%) Taxonomies
4 5 (3.73%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.99%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.99%) NHS
5 4 (2.99%) N-Tier
5 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.24%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.24%) PMI
6 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.24%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) Linux
2 2 (1.49%) Windows
3 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (51.49%) Agile
2 54 (40.30%) Microservices
3 42 (31.34%) Mentoring
4 34 (25.37%) DevOps
4 34 (25.37%) Full Stack Development
4 34 (25.37%) Software Engineering
5 29 (21.64%) SOLID
6 28 (20.90%) TDD
7 27 (20.15%) Code Quality
8 23 (17.16%) Customer Service
8 23 (17.16%) Scrum
9 21 (15.67%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (15.67%) Enterprise Architecture
9 21 (15.67%) MVC
9 21 (15.67%) Roadmaps
10 20 (14.93%) DevSecOps
10 20 (14.93%) Information Governance
10 20 (14.93%) Integration Patterns
10 20 (14.93%) Programme Delivery
11 18 (13.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 57 (42.54%) C#
2 25 (18.66%) JavaScript
3 23 (17.16%) C++
4 15 (11.19%) SQL
5 10 (7.46%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.22%) Bicep
6 7 (5.22%) Java
7 4 (2.99%) Groovy
8 3 (2.24%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.49%) C
9 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.49%) Python
9 2 (1.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
1 11 (8.21%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.73%) Degree
4 4 (2.99%) CIPD
4 4 (2.99%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.24%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.49%) CCIE
6 2 (1.49%) CCIE Data Center
6 2 (1.49%) CCNP
6 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.75%) MCSE
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.75%) PMP
7 1 (0.75%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) QA
2 2 (1.49%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (5.97%) Docker
2 6 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.99%) VMware Server
4 3 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.75%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.22%) MIIS
2 7 (5.22%) Terraform
3 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (38.06%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.94%) IBM
3 10 (7.46%) Oracle
4 8 (5.97%) MuleSoft
5 6 (4.48%) VMware
6 5 (3.73%) SAP
7 4 (2.99%) Google
8 2 (1.49%) Cisco
8 2 (1.49%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow