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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 687 367 354
Rank change year-on-year -320 -13 -33
Permanent jobs citing SOA 223 831 1,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.88% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.92% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 182 439 628
10th Percentile £53,346 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% -2.10%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £85,313
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.77% +4.00% +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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -290 186 £80,000 +14.29% 44
UK excluding London -281 132 £65,500 +0.77% 17
Work from Home -145 90 £80,000 +10.34% 12
London -18 79 £85,000 +13.33% 27
North of England -62 51 £60,000 -17.24% 7
Yorkshire +38 26 £71,250 -10.94% 1
South East -116 23 £67,500 +14.89% 4
Scotland -69 22 £65,500 -11.19% 2
Midlands -47 16 £57,494 +3.13% 4
North West -73 15 £57,587 -17.73% 4
South West -68 13 £57,000 -18.57%
West Midlands -28 11 £55,173 -33.12% 3
North East -12 10 £55,173 -26.44% 2
East Midlands -38 5 £82,500 +50.00% 1
East of England -42 4 £55,173 -36.95%
Wales -6 3 £64,000 +25.23%

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 14 (6.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 13 (5.83%) Confluence
3 8 (3.59%) Anypoint
3 8 (3.59%) WebSphere
4 5 (2.24%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.35%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.35%) CMS
5 3 (1.35%) nginx
6 2 (0.90%) IIS
6 2 (0.90%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.45%) Drupal
7 1 (0.45%) Liferay
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.04%) Teamcenter
2 8 (3.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (2.24%) SAP IBP
3 5 (2.24%) SAP PP
4 4 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (1.35%) Maximo
6 2 (0.90%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.90%) SAP MDG-BP
6 2 (0.90%) SAP MDG-F
7 1 (0.45%) HFM
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 104 (46.64%) Azure
2 60 (26.91%) AWS
3 51 (22.87%) SaaS
4 36 (16.14%) PaaS
5 35 (15.70%) IaaS
6 25 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.28%) Power Platform
8 13 (5.83%) Serverless
9 11 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.48%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.14%) Pulumi
13 6 (2.69%) Azure Service Fabric
13 6 (2.69%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.24%) GCP
14 5 (2.24%) PowerApps
15 3 (1.35%) Azure API Management
15 3 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
16 2 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
16 2 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.62%) Network Security
2 5 (2.24%) Internet
3 3 (1.35%) LAN
3 3 (1.35%) WLAN
4 2 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.90%) Firewall
4 2 (0.90%) MPLS
4 2 (0.90%) PBX
4 2 (0.90%) VoIP
4 2 (0.90%) VPN
4 2 (0.90%) WAN
5 1 (0.45%) DNS
5 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.45%) SAN
5 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.11%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.28%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.59%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.59%) MySQL
4 7 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.69%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.24%) Metadata
7 4 (1.79%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.35%) DTS
8 3 (1.35%) GIS
8 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.90%) OLTP
9 2 (0.90%) Power BI
9 2 (0.90%) Redis
10 1 (0.45%) Big Data
10 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.45%) OLAP
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.45%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 29 (13.00%) Visual Studio
2 21 (9.42%) Git
3 16 (7.17%) JIRA
4 15 (6.73%) Visual Studio Code
5 14 (6.28%) Jasmine
5 14 (6.28%) NUnit
5 14 (6.28%) Selenium
5 14 (6.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (3.14%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.69%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.79%) Katalon Studio
8 4 (1.79%) Postman
9 3 (1.35%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.45%) Ant
10 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.45%) Maven
10 1 (0.45%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 73 (32.74%) Finance
2 46 (20.63%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (8.07%) Retail
6 16 (7.17%) Banking
7 13 (5.83%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.48%) Marketing
9 7 (3.14%) Law
9 7 (3.14%) Legal
9 7 (3.14%) Multimedia
10 6 (2.69%) Back Office
11 4 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.79%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.79%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.45%) Automotive
14 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (39.91%) Architect
2 73 (32.74%) Developer
3 54 (24.22%) Lead
4 39 (17.49%) Solutions Architect
5 34 (15.25%) Lead Developer
6 33 (14.80%) Senior
7 25 (11.21%) .NET Developer
7 25 (11.21%) Software Engineer
8 20 (8.97%) Software Developer
9 18 (8.07%) C# Developer
10 17 (7.62%) C# .NET Developer
10 17 (7.62%) Salesforce Architect
10 17 (7.62%) Salesforce Solution Architect
11 14 (6.28%) .NET Software Developer
11 14 (6.28%) C# Software Developer
12 12 (5.38%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (4.48%) Principal Engineer
14 10 (4.48%) Principal Software Engineer
14 10 (4.48%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (37.67%) .NET
2 50 (22.42%) REST
3 47 (21.08%) Web Services
4 30 (13.45%) OpenID
5 27 (12.11%) .NET Framework
6 25 (11.21%) HTML
6 25 (11.21%) OAuth
7 24 (10.76%) Middleware
8 23 (10.31%) .NET Core
9 19 (8.52%) ASP.NET
10 18 (8.07%) RESTful
10 18 (8.07%) SOAP
11 16 (7.17%) CSS
11 16 (7.17%) Spring Boot
12 14 (6.28%) Entity Framework
12 14 (6.28%) Node.js
12 14 (6.28%) Spring
12 14 (6.28%) XML
13 11 (4.93%) React
14 10 (4.48%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.35%) Management Information System
2 27 (12.11%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (9.42%) Public Cloud
4 15 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.38%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.48%) IoT
7 9 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.14%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.14%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.24%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.24%) FMCG
9 5 (2.24%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.24%) Taxonomies
10 4 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.79%) NHS
11 3 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.35%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.14%) Windows
2 5 (2.24%) Linux
2 5 (2.24%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.45%) Solaris
3 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (43.05%) Agile
2 81 (36.32%) Microservices
3 48 (21.52%) Software Engineering
4 47 (21.08%) DevOps
5 46 (20.63%) Enterprise Architecture
6 44 (19.73%) Mentoring
7 43 (19.28%) Full Stack Development
8 42 (18.83%) TOGAF
9 40 (17.94%) SOLID
9 40 (17.94%) Test Automation
10 36 (16.14%) Scrum
11 35 (15.70%) Roadmaps
12 34 (15.25%) TDD
13 32 (14.35%) Cybersecurity
13 32 (14.35%) Integration Patterns
14 30 (13.45%) MVC
15 29 (13.00%) Code Quality
16 27 (12.11%) DevSecOps
16 27 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (11.66%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 74 (33.18%) C#
2 32 (14.35%) Java
3 29 (13.00%) JavaScript
4 28 (12.56%) C++
5 25 (11.21%) SQL
6 13 (5.83%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.93%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.14%) Bicep
9 5 (2.24%) C
9 5 (2.24%) Groovy
9 5 (2.24%) PHP
9 5 (2.24%) Python
9 5 (2.24%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.24%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.35%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.35%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.90%) ABAP
11 2 (0.90%) Bash
11 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (16.59%) Degree
2 17 (7.62%) TOGAF Certification
3 14 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.14%) CISSP
5 7 (3.14%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.69%) CISM
6 6 (2.69%) GIAC
6 6 (2.69%) SANS
7 5 (2.24%) MCAD
7 5 (2.24%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.24%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.79%) CIPD
8 4 (1.79%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.35%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.35%) Sun Certification
10 2 (0.90%) CCIE
10 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.59%) QA
2 6 (2.69%) COBIT
2 6 (2.69%) NIST
2 6 (2.69%) Web Application Security Consortium
3 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.90%) ISO 9000
4 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.90%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 17 (7.62%) Docker
2 6 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.79%) VMware Server
4 3 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (6.28%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.04%) Terraform
3 7 (3.14%) MIIS
4 6 (2.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 4 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.45%) Grafana
6 1 (0.45%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.31%) Salesforce
3 14 (6.28%) Oracle
4 12 (5.38%) IBM
5 9 (4.04%) SAP
6 8 (3.59%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.69%) Google
7 6 (2.69%) VMware
8 5 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.35%) Progress
10 2 (0.90%) Cisco
11 1 (0.45%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.45%) DocuSign
11 1 (0.45%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.45%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.45%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.45%) Siemens
11 1 (0.45%) Sybase
11 1 (0.45%) TOWER Software
11 1 (0.45%) webMethods