Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 607 690 384
Rank change year-on-year +83 -306 -31
Permanent jobs citing SOA 102 225 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.22% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.26% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 57 185 444
10th Percentile £49,500 £53,346 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.05% +0.77% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SOA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOA in the UK

SOA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOA.

Salary trend for SOA in the UK

SOA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOA over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SOA in the UK

SOA
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England +47 76 £75,000 -2.60% 209
UK excluding London +111 50 £67,500 +3.05% 216
London +80 46 £80,000 -4.48% 33
Work from Home +66 39 £75,000 -6.25% 59
Scotland +108 12 £80,000 +22.14% 10
South West +99 9 £51,930 -8.90% 19
North of England +10 8 £63,000 +5.00% 51
Midlands +77 7 £67,500 +17.40% 37
West Midlands +54 7 £67,500 +22.34% 18
Wales +51 7 £52,000 -18.75% 10
East of England +48 5 £86,000 +55.87% 25
North West -1 5 £63,000 +9.40% 26
Yorkshire +37 3 £75,000 +5.26% 21
South East +66 1 - - 65
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8

SOA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (3.92%) Apache
3 3 (2.94%) Mule
3 3 (2.94%) Oracle Coherence
3 3 (2.94%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.96%) CICS
4 2 (1.96%) Confluence
4 2 (1.96%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.98%) nginx
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.98%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.96%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.98%) Magento
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 35 (34.31%) Azure
2 17 (16.67%) AWS
3 12 (11.76%) Serverless
4 10 (9.80%) Power Platform
5 9 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (8.82%) SaaS
6 7 (6.86%) PowerApps
7 6 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.88%) GitHub
8 5 (4.90%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.92%) iPaaS
10 3 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.94%) AWS CloudTrail
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.75%) Big Data
3 12 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.84%) Tableau
5 4 (3.92%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.94%) MySQL
6 3 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.94%) Power BI
6 3 (2.94%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.96%) DB2
7 2 (1.96%) Flink
7 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (1.96%) QlikView
7 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (11.76%) Git
2 9 (8.82%) Visual Studio
3 7 (6.86%) JIRA
4 6 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.96%) GitLab
6 2 (1.96%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.96%) JUnit
6 2 (1.96%) Mockito
6 2 (1.96%) NUnit
7 1 (0.98%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.98%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.98%) PhpStorm
7 1 (0.98%) PHPUnit
General
1 22 (21.57%) Finance
2 15 (14.71%) Banking
2 15 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.92%) Legal
5 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.94%) Law
5 3 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.98%) Military
6 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (33.33%) Developer
2 27 (26.47%) Senior
2 27 (26.47%) Software Engineer
3 25 (24.51%) Architect
4 15 (14.71%) Senior Developer
5 12 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (9.80%) Lead
7 9 (8.82%) Senior Architect
7 9 (8.82%) Senior Software Architect
7 9 (8.82%) Senior Systems Architect
7 9 (8.82%) Software Architect
7 9 (8.82%) Systems Architect
8 7 (6.86%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.88%) AWS Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Lead Developer
10 4 (3.92%) Integration Architect
10 4 (3.92%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (3.92%) SAP Architect
11 3 (2.94%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (23.53%) .NET
2 20 (19.61%) Web Services
3 19 (18.63%) Kafka
4 15 (14.71%) RESTful
5 14 (13.73%) .NET Framework
5 14 (13.73%) CSS
5 14 (13.73%) HTML
5 14 (13.73%) REST
6 13 (12.75%) React
7 12 (11.76%) gRPC
8 10 (9.80%) Middleware
8 10 (9.80%) SOAP
9 9 (8.82%) JSON
10 5 (4.90%) Spring
10 5 (4.90%) XML
11 4 (3.92%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.92%) Blazor
11 4 (3.92%) IDoc
11 4 (3.92%) Node.js
11 4 (3.92%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.73%) Data Structures
1 14 (13.73%) Public Cloud
2 12 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.76%) Reference Data
2 12 (11.76%) Replication
3 9 (8.82%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.86%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.98%) EPoS
8 1 (0.98%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.98%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (1.96%) zOS
3 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.98%) Unix
3 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (52.94%) Microservices
2 50 (49.02%) Agile
2 50 (49.02%) Software Engineering
3 26 (25.49%) Mentoring
3 26 (25.49%) TDD
4 23 (22.55%) Migration
4 23 (22.55%) Unit Testing
5 22 (21.57%) Multithreading
6 21 (20.59%) Test Automation
7 19 (18.63%) DevOps
7 19 (18.63%) OO
8 18 (17.65%) Code Quality
9 16 (15.69%) High Availability
9 16 (15.69%) Software Delivery
10 15 (14.71%) CI/CD
10 15 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (13.73%) Software Architecture
12 12 (11.76%) Business Agility
12 12 (11.76%) Containerisation
12 12 (11.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 49 (48.04%) C#
2 42 (41.18%) Java
3 29 (28.43%) SQL
4 20 (19.61%) Python
5 16 (15.69%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.78%) C++
6 11 (10.78%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.82%) C
8 4 (3.92%) Bash
8 4 (3.92%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.94%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.94%) COBOL
9 3 (2.94%) XQuery
10 2 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.98%) Go
11 1 (0.98%) PHP
11 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.98%) Rust
11 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (15.69%) Degree
2 10 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.92%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.92%) SAP Certification
6 3 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.92%) JSP 440
1 4 (3.92%) NIST
1 4 (3.92%) NIST 800
1 4 (3.92%) QA
2 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.98%) ISO 15022
2 1 (0.98%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (6.86%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.98%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (25.49%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.76%) Terraform
3 2 (1.96%) CA Endevor
3 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (16.67%) Oracle
2 14 (13.73%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.92%) IBM
3 4 (3.92%) SAP
4 3 (2.94%) Databricks
4 3 (2.94%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.94%) Solace
5 2 (1.96%) Okta
5 2 (1.96%) SimCorp
5 2 (1.96%) webMethods
6 1 (0.98%) Adobe
6 1 (0.98%) HP
6 1 (0.98%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (0.98%) Red Hat