SOA Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SOA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 102 114
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 +88
Permanent jobs citing SOA 9 1 25
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.50% 0.069% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.078% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 21
10th Percentile £69,500 - £46,306
25th Percentile £72,500 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £100,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +37.93% +45.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £83,750
90th Percentile - - £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £100,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +37.93% +31.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,464 1,277 1,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.57% 87.95% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 855 636 1,438
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,125 £41,077 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

SOA
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

SOA job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SOA
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SOA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SOA

SOA
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Leeds -12 7 £75,000 -25.00%
Bradford - 2 - -
SOA
Yorkshire

SOA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (22.22%) HCL Notes
1 2 (22.22%) IIS
1 2 (22.22%) JBoss
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
1 2 (22.22%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Financial Institution
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Senior
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Software Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Spring
2 5 (55.56%) Micronaut
2 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
3 4 (44.44%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
4 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
4 2 (22.22%) Middleware
4 2 (22.22%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) SOAP
4 2 (22.22%) Struts
4 2 (22.22%) WCF
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) DataPower
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (55.56%) Collaborative Culture
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven
2 5 (55.56%) Fintech
2 5 (55.56%) People Management
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) MVC
3 4 (44.44%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) AI
4 2 (22.22%) API Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
4 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Release Management
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) C++
3 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Lotus
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle