SOA Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 625 370
Rank change year-on-year +107 -255 -10
Permanent jobs citing SOA 58 135 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.19% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.23% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 35 113 256
10th Percentile £50,100 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,346 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £83,563
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £91,125
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,412 59,622 57,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.96% 83.97% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 18,008 41,236 29,662
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,365 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 13 May 2025.

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 13 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
Scotland +113 15 £80,000 +22.14% 4
South West +110 10 £51,930 -5.88% 7
North of England +11 10 £63,000 +5.00% 20
Midlands +66 9 £67,500 +17.40% 9
East of England +46 9 £55,000 -0.31% 7
West Midlands +48 8 £67,500 +22.34% 4
North West +5 8 £63,000 +9.40% 16
Wales +38 3 £52,000 -18.75% 8
Yorkshire +49 2 £64,250 -9.82% 4
South East +80 1 - - 42
East Midlands +29 1 £50,000 -28.57% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 13 (22.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.17%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.03%) Azure
2 7 (12.07%) AWS
3 6 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.62%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (8.62%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (6.90%) OCI
5 4 (6.90%) SaaS
5 4 (6.90%) Serverless
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Functions
6 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.17%) PaaS
6 3 (5.17%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.45%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.45%) IaaS
7 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.72%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.72%) Azure App Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) Big Data
2 10 (17.24%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.90%) Oracle ODI
3 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.17%) MariaDB
4 3 (5.17%) MySQL
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.72%) HBase
6 1 (1.72%) Impala
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) Visual Studio
2 6 (10.34%) Git
3 3 (5.17%) Eclipse
3 3 (5.17%) Gradle
3 3 (5.17%) Maven
3 3 (5.17%) Subversion
4 2 (3.45%) JIRA
4 2 (3.45%) JUnit
4 2 (3.45%) Mockito
5 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.72%) JDeveloper
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (17.24%) Banking
2 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Finance
4 5 (8.62%) Legal
5 4 (6.90%) Retail
6 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Law
6 3 (5.17%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (37.93%) Architect
2 17 (29.31%) Senior
3 16 (27.59%) Developer
4 15 (25.86%) Software Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) Senior Architect
5 10 (17.24%) Senior Software Architect
5 10 (17.24%) Senior Systems Architect
5 10 (17.24%) Software Architect
5 10 (17.24%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (17.24%) Systems Architect
6 7 (12.07%) Senior Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Integration Analyst
10 2 (3.45%) Data Architect
10 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) .NET
2 11 (18.97%) CSS
2 11 (18.97%) HTML
2 11 (18.97%) Kafka
3 10 (17.24%) .NET Framework
3 10 (17.24%) gRPC
4 9 (15.52%) REST
5 8 (13.79%) Web Services
6 7 (12.07%) SOAP
7 6 (10.34%) React
8 5 (8.62%) Spring
8 5 (8.62%) XML
9 3 (5.17%) J2EE
9 3 (5.17%) JAXB
9 3 (5.17%) JDBC
9 3 (5.17%) JSF
9 3 (5.17%) JSON
9 3 (5.17%) JSP
9 3 (5.17%) Struts
9 3 (5.17%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Data Structures
1 10 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Public Cloud
1 10 (17.24%) Reference Data
1 10 (17.24%) Replication
2 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Android
1 3 (5.17%) Apple iOS
1 3 (5.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 28 (48.28%) Microservices
3 22 (37.93%) Agile
4 21 (36.21%) Multithreading
5 15 (25.86%) TDD
6 13 (22.41%) Mentoring
6 13 (22.41%) Software Delivery
6 13 (22.41%) Test Automation
6 13 (22.41%) Unit Testing
7 12 (20.69%) Code Quality
8 11 (18.97%) DevOps
8 11 (18.97%) OO
9 10 (17.24%) Business Agility
9 10 (17.24%) Concurrent Programming
9 10 (17.24%) High Availability
9 10 (17.24%) Software Architecture
10 8 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (13.79%) CRM
11 7 (12.07%) Migration
11 7 (12.07%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.00%) C#
2 27 (46.55%) Java
3 25 (43.10%) SQL
4 10 (17.24%) C
4 10 (17.24%) C++
5 9 (15.52%) JavaScript
6 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
7 6 (10.34%) PL/SQL
8 5 (8.62%) Python
9 3 (5.17%) T-SQL
10 2 (3.45%) Bash
11 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) JSP 440
1 4 (6.90%) NIST
1 4 (6.90%) NIST 800
1 4 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) HDFS
2 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Oracle
2 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) Databricks
3 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) IBM
4 1 (1.72%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft