Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 654 395 350
Rank change year-on-year -259 -45 -41
Permanent jobs citing SOA 230 835 1,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.82% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.86% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 192 466 637
10th Percentile £53,346 £47,500 £47,400
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,427 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £84,063 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SOA in the UK

SOA
Top 16 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 13 May 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
England -229 190 £73,250 +1.03% 64
UK excluding London -256 132 £65,000 -3.70% 32
Work from Home -104 96 £80,000 +10.34% 20
London -32 85 £83,750 +11.67% 30
North of England -30 49 £60,000 -17.24% 11
Yorkshire +67 25 £71,250 -10.38% 3
Scotland -57 24 £65,500 -4.73% 1
South East -96 20 £70,000 +21.74% 16
South West -51 19 £55,173 -21.18%
North West -65 15 £57,587 -17.73% 4
Midlands -32 13 £57,494 -1.86% 4
North East -4 9 £55,173 -26.44% 4
West Midlands +1 8 £55,173 -31.03% 3
East Midlands -21 5 £82,500 +50.00% 1
Wales +3 4 £64,000 +13.67%
East of England -33 3 £55,173 -36.95%

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 13 (5.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (5.22%) Confluence
3 9 (3.91%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.48%) Anypoint
4 8 (3.48%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.30%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.30%) nginx
6 2 (0.87%) CMS
6 2 (0.87%) IIS
6 2 (0.87%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.43%) Drupal
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.91%) Teamcenter
2 7 (3.04%) Maximo
2 7 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.17%) SAP IBP
3 5 (2.17%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.43%) HFM
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG-BP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 108 (46.96%) Azure
2 61 (26.52%) AWS
3 49 (21.30%) SaaS
4 37 (16.09%) PaaS
5 36 (15.65%) IaaS
6 26 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.70%) Power Platform
8 14 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (5.65%) Serverless
10 11 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (3.04%) Pulumi
13 6 (2.61%) Azure Service Fabric
13 6 (2.61%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.17%) PowerApps
15 4 (1.74%) GCP
16 3 (1.30%) Azure API Management
16 3 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
17 2 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 2 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.09%) Network Security
2 5 (2.17%) Internet
3 3 (1.30%) LAN
3 3 (1.30%) WLAN
4 2 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.87%) Firewall
4 2 (0.87%) MPLS
4 2 (0.87%) PBX
4 2 (0.87%) VoIP
4 2 (0.87%) VPN
4 2 (0.87%) WAN
5 1 (0.43%) DNS
5 1 (0.43%) IPsec
5 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.43%) SAN
5 1 (0.43%) SSL
5 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.91%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.09%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.04%) GIS
5 7 (3.04%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.17%) Metadata
6 5 (2.17%) MySQL
7 4 (1.74%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.30%) DTS
8 3 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.87%) Power BI
9 2 (0.87%) Redis
10 1 (0.43%) Big Data
10 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.43%) OLTP
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.43%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 27 (11.74%) Visual Studio
2 19 (8.26%) Git
3 18 (7.83%) Team Foundation Server
4 14 (6.09%) JIRA
5 12 (5.22%) Visual Studio Code
6 11 (4.78%) Jasmine
6 11 (4.78%) NUnit
6 11 (4.78%) Selenium
7 7 (3.04%) TeamCity
8 6 (2.61%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.74%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.74%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (1.74%) Postman
10 1 (0.43%) Ant
10 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.43%) GitLab
10 1 (0.43%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 74 (32.17%) Finance
2 47 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.52%) Retail
6 14 (6.09%) Banking
7 12 (5.22%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.91%) Legal
8 9 (3.91%) Marketing
9 6 (2.61%) Back Office
10 4 (1.74%) Law
10 4 (1.74%) Multimedia
10 4 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.74%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.74%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (40.00%) Architect
2 78 (33.91%) Developer
3 51 (22.17%) Lead
4 41 (17.83%) Solutions Architect
5 38 (16.52%) Senior
6 34 (14.78%) Lead Developer
7 27 (11.74%) Software Engineer
8 23 (10.00%) .NET Developer
9 17 (7.39%) Salesforce Architect
9 17 (7.39%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 17 (7.39%) Software Developer
10 16 (6.96%) C# Developer
11 14 (6.09%) C# .NET Developer
12 13 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (5.22%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.78%) .NET Software Developer
14 11 (4.78%) C# Software Developer
14 11 (4.78%) Systems Architect
15 10 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (4.35%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (38.26%) .NET
2 54 (23.48%) REST
3 47 (20.43%) Web Services
4 31 (13.48%) OpenID
5 26 (11.30%) .NET Framework
5 26 (11.30%) OAuth
6 24 (10.43%) HTML
6 24 (10.43%) Middleware
7 21 (9.13%) .NET Core
8 16 (6.96%) AngularJS
8 16 (6.96%) ASP.NET
8 16 (6.96%) RESTful
8 16 (6.96%) SOAP
9 15 (6.52%) CSS
9 15 (6.52%) Node.js
9 15 (6.52%) Spring Boot
10 14 (6.09%) XML
11 13 (5.65%) React
11 13 (5.65%) Spring
12 11 (4.78%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.48%) Management Information System
2 27 (11.74%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (9.57%) Public Cloud
4 15 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.22%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.35%) IoT
7 9 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.04%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.61%) Virtual Team
10 5 (2.17%) Cloud Native
10 5 (2.17%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.17%) FMCG
10 5 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (2.17%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.74%) NHS
12 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.30%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.04%) Windows
2 5 (2.17%) Linux
2 5 (2.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.43%) Solaris
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (42.61%) Agile
2 87 (37.83%) Microservices
3 50 (21.74%) Software Engineering
4 49 (21.30%) DevOps
5 48 (20.87%) Enterprise Architecture
6 45 (19.57%) Full Stack Development
6 45 (19.57%) Mentoring
6 45 (19.57%) TOGAF
7 38 (16.52%) Test Automation
8 37 (16.09%) Scrum
8 37 (16.09%) SOLID
8 37 (16.09%) TDD
9 35 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
9 35 (15.22%) Roadmaps
10 32 (13.91%) Integration Patterns
11 31 (13.48%) MVC
12 29 (12.61%) Business Strategy
12 29 (12.61%) Code Quality
13 27 (11.74%) DevSecOps
13 27 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 76 (33.04%) C#
2 33 (14.35%) Java
3 31 (13.48%) JavaScript
4 30 (13.04%) C++
5 29 (12.61%) SQL
6 17 (7.39%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.78%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.04%) Bicep
9 6 (2.61%) C
9 6 (2.61%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.17%) Groovy
10 5 (2.17%) Python
10 5 (2.17%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.30%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.30%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.87%) Bash
12 2 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.87%) PHP
12 2 (0.87%) Ruby
13 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (17.83%) Degree
2 18 (7.83%) TOGAF Certification
3 14 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.35%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.04%) CISSP
6 7 (3.04%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.61%) CISM
7 6 (2.61%) GIAC
7 6 (2.61%) SANS
8 5 (2.17%) MCAD
9 4 (1.74%) CIPD
9 4 (1.74%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.30%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.30%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.87%) CCIE
11 2 (0.87%) CCNP
11 2 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.04%) QA
2 6 (2.61%) COBIT
2 6 (2.61%) NIST
2 6 (2.61%) Web Application Security Consortium
3 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.87%) ISO 9000
4 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.87%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 16 (6.96%) Docker
2 6 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.74%) VMware Server
4 3 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.43%) RACF
Systems Management
1 14 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.91%) Terraform
3 7 (3.04%) MIIS
4 6 (2.61%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 4 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.43%) Grafana
6 1 (0.43%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 15 (6.52%) IBM
4 13 (5.65%) Oracle
5 8 (3.48%) MuleSoft
5 8 (3.48%) SAP
6 6 (2.61%) Google
6 6 (2.61%) VMware
7 5 (2.17%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.30%) Progress
9 2 (0.87%) Cisco
10 1 (0.43%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.43%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.43%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.43%) Siemens
10 1 (0.43%) Sybase
10 1 (0.43%) Talend
10 1 (0.43%) webMethods
10 1 (0.43%) Yardi