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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 658 397 353
Rank change year-on-year -261 -44 -32
Permanent jobs citing SOA 230 827 1,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.83% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.87% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 190 464 634
10th Percentile £53,346 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% -5.08%
75th Percentile £86,875 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £100,525
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 -238 192 £77,000 +8.45% 60
UK excluding London -256 134 £65,000 - 32
Work from Home -107 94 £80,000 +10.34% 20
London -26 83 £85,000 +13.33% 33
North of England -43 51 £60,000 -17.24% 10
Yorkshire +67 26 £71,250 -10.94% 2
Scotland -68 22 £65,500 -9.66% 2
South East -101 22 £68,750 +19.57% 15
South West -58 17 £57,000 -18.57%
North West -66 16 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Midlands -37 14 £57,494 +1.17% 5
North East -1 9 £55,173 -26.44% 4
West Midlands -2 9 £55,173 -31.03% 5
East Midlands -33 5 £82,500 +50.00%
Wales -3 4 £64,000 +25.23%
East of England -42 4 £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 14 (6.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 13 (5.65%) Confluence
3 8 (3.48%) Anypoint
3 8 (3.48%) WebSphere
4 7 (3.04%) SharePoint
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%) Liferay
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
1 4 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.91%) Teamcenter
2 8 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.17%) Maximo
3 5 (2.17%) SAP IBP
3 5 (2.17%) SAP PP
4 2 (0.87%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.87%) SAP MDG-BP
4 2 (0.87%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.43%) HFM
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 109 (47.39%) Azure
2 62 (26.96%) AWS
3 51 (22.17%) SaaS
4 37 (16.09%) PaaS
5 36 (15.65%) IaaS
6 26 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.83%) Power Platform
8 13 (5.65%) Serverless
9 12 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
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 16 (6.96%) 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 29 (12.61%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.09%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.48%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.48%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.61%) MySQL
6 5 (2.17%) GIS
6 5 (2.17%) Metadata
7 4 (1.74%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.30%) DTS
8 3 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.87%) OLTP
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%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (12.17%) Visual Studio
2 21 (9.13%) Git
3 16 (6.96%) Team Foundation Server
4 15 (6.52%) JIRA
5 14 (6.09%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (5.65%) Jasmine
6 13 (5.65%) NUnit
6 13 (5.65%) 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%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.43%) Maven
10 1 (0.43%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 75 (32.61%) Finance
2 48 (20.87%) Social Skills
3 34 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (7.39%) Retail
6 16 (6.96%) Banking
7 12 (5.22%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.91%) Marketing
9 8 (3.48%) Legal
10 6 (2.61%) Back Office
10 6 (2.61%) Law
10 6 (2.61%) Multimedia
11 4 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.74%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.74%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Automotive
14 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (40.00%) Architect
2 77 (33.48%) Developer
3 52 (22.61%) Lead
4 41 (17.83%) Solutions Architect
5 38 (16.52%) Senior
6 34 (14.78%) Lead Developer
7 26 (11.30%) Software Engineer
8 25 (10.87%) .NET Developer
9 19 (8.26%) Software Developer
10 18 (7.83%) C# Developer
11 17 (7.39%) Salesforce Architect
11 17 (7.39%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 16 (6.96%) C# .NET Developer
13 14 (6.09%) Senior Developer
14 13 (5.65%) .NET Software Developer
14 13 (5.65%) C# Software Developer
15 12 (5.22%) Senior Software Engineer
16 10 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
16 10 (4.35%) Principal Software Engineer
16 10 (4.35%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (37.39%) .NET
2 51 (22.17%) REST
3 48 (20.87%) Web Services
4 31 (13.48%) OpenID
5 26 (11.30%) .NET Framework
5 26 (11.30%) OAuth
6 25 (10.87%) Middleware
7 23 (10.00%) HTML
8 22 (9.57%) .NET Core
9 18 (7.83%) ASP.NET
9 18 (7.83%) RESTful
10 17 (7.39%) SOAP
11 16 (6.96%) Spring Boot
12 15 (6.52%) Node.js
13 14 (6.09%) AngularJS
13 14 (6.09%) CSS
13 14 (6.09%) Spring
13 14 (6.09%) XML
14 13 (5.65%) Entity Framework
14 13 (5.65%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.48%) Management Information System
2 28 (12.17%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (9.57%) Public Cloud
4 15 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.35%) IoT
7 9 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.04%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.04%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.17%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.17%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.17%) FMCG
9 5 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.17%) Taxonomies
10 4 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.74%) NHS
11 3 (1.30%) N-Tier
11 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 85 (36.96%) Microservices
3 50 (21.74%) DevOps
4 49 (21.30%) Software Engineering
5 48 (20.87%) Enterprise Architecture
6 45 (19.57%) TOGAF
7 44 (19.13%) Full Stack Development
7 44 (19.13%) Mentoring
8 40 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 39 (16.96%) SOLID
10 37 (16.09%) Scrum
10 37 (16.09%) TDD
11 36 (15.65%) Roadmaps
12 34 (14.78%) Cybersecurity
13 32 (13.91%) Integration Patterns
14 30 (13.04%) MVC
15 29 (12.61%) Code Quality
16 28 (12.17%) Business Strategy
16 28 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (11.74%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 75 (32.61%) C#
2 33 (14.35%) Java
3 29 (12.61%) JavaScript
4 28 (12.17%) C++
5 27 (11.74%) SQL
6 15 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.78%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.04%) Bicep
9 5 (2.17%) C
9 5 (2.17%) Groovy
9 5 (2.17%) Python
9 5 (2.17%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.17%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.30%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.30%) PHP
10 3 (1.30%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.87%) ABAP
11 2 (0.87%) Bash
11 2 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (17.39%) Degree
2 18 (7.83%) TOGAF Certification
3 14 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.48%) Security Cleared
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%) BPSS Clearance
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%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.48%) 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 17 (7.39%) 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 5 (2.17%) 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 57 (24.78%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 14 (6.09%) IBM
3 14 (6.09%) Oracle
4 9 (3.91%) SAP
5 8 (3.48%) MuleSoft
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%) 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%) TSYS
10 1 (0.43%) webMethods
10 1 (0.43%) Yardi