Microservices
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 49 30
Rank change year-on-year -16 -19 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 3,708 5,759 14,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.71% 5.81% 9.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 6.08% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,746 3,525 5,458
10th Percentile £43,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £83,759 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,206 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.32% +12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices 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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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% +9.38%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 -23 2,922 £65,000 -18.75% 757
UK excluding London +13 2,592 £61,206 -9.32% 515
Work from Home -5 1,881 £62,500 -16.67% 642
London -33 1,022 £82,500 -2.94% 361
Scotland -10 621 £65,000 -5.45% 47
South East -13 590 £60,000 -11.11% 138
North of England +26 583 £62,250 -7.78% 164
Midlands +25 289 £60,000 -7.69% 72
South West +17 286 £60,250 -12.01% 46
North West -8 274 £65,000 -0.38% 89
Yorkshire +70 232 £61,206 -12.56% 53
West Midlands +53 187 £65,000 +8.33% 35
East of England -22 144 £65,000 -7.14% 19
East Midlands -15 102 £55,000 -21.43% 37
North East +19 77 £61,206 -12.56% 23
Wales -9 45 £52,500 -12.50% 13
Northern Ireland 0 33 £65,000 +34.02% 19
Isle of Man - 4 £82,500 - 1

Microservices
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
1 195 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 98 (2.64%) FileNet
3 71 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 59 (1.59%) Apache
5 57 (1.54%) Confluence
6 41 (1.11%) OpenStack
7 21 (0.57%) GemFire
8 19 (0.51%) CMS
9 18 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 17 (0.46%) nginx
11 12 (0.32%) Umbraco
12 11 (0.30%) JBoss
12 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
14 8 (0.22%) Apache Pig
14 8 (0.22%) SharePoint
15 6 (0.16%) EPiServer
15 6 (0.16%) Immediacy CMS
15 6 (0.16%) Kentico
15 6 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 17 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 16 (0.43%) Simulink
3 8 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.081%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.027%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.027%) Sketch
6 1 (0.027%) UXPin
6 1 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 31 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
4 3 (0.081%) Magento
5 1 (0.027%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,769 (47.71%) Azure
2 1,700 (45.85%) AWS
3 410 (11.06%) Serverless
4 288 (7.77%) GCP
5 258 (6.96%) SaaS
6 235 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
7 199 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
8 169 (4.56%) Amazon S3
9 156 (4.21%) GitHub
10 153 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
11 112 (3.02%) Amazon ECS
12 110 (2.97%) PaaS
13 90 (2.43%) IaaS
14 84 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 80 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
16 64 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
17 52 (1.40%) OpenShift
18 50 (1.35%) Power Platform
19 48 (1.29%) Azure Functions
19 48 (1.29%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.35%) Internet
2 56 (1.51%) HTTP
3 54 (1.46%) DNS
4 46 (1.24%) Firewall
5 36 (0.97%) AMQP
6 20 (0.54%) MQTT
7 16 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
7 16 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.40%) Network Security
9 7 (0.19%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.19%) WAN
10 6 (0.16%) VPN
11 5 (0.13%) DHCP
12 3 (0.081%) 4G
12 3 (0.081%) 5G
12 3 (0.081%) GPRS
12 3 (0.081%) SMS
12 3 (0.081%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.081%) Wireless
13 2 (0.054%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 846 (22.82%) SQL Server
2 533 (14.37%) NoSQL
3 429 (11.57%) MongoDB
4 387 (10.44%) Elasticsearch
5 273 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
6 238 (6.42%) Relational Database
7 208 (5.61%) MySQL
8 139 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 134 (3.61%) Big Data
10 114 (3.07%) Hadoop
11 103 (2.78%) Redis
12 89 (2.40%) Apache Hive
13 72 (1.94%) HBase
14 68 (1.83%) DynamoDB
15 66 (1.78%) RDBMS
16 60 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
17 47 (1.27%) Oracle Database
18 34 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
19 33 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
20 29 (0.78%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 505 (13.62%) Git
2 351 (9.47%) Jenkins
3 181 (4.88%) JUnit
4 115 (3.10%) JIRA
5 106 (2.86%) GitLab
6 70 (1.89%) Maven
7 67 (1.81%) Jasmine
8 62 (1.67%) Selenium
9 61 (1.65%) Mockito
10 60 (1.62%) Cucumber
11 58 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
12 48 (1.29%) Visual Studio
13 43 (1.16%) Cypress.io
13 43 (1.16%) JMeter
14 38 (1.02%) NUnit
15 36 (0.97%) JDeveloper
16 29 (0.78%) Jaeger
16 29 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
16 29 (0.78%) TeamCity
17 28 (0.76%) Postman
General
1 1,091 (29.42%) Finance
2 609 (16.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 566 (15.26%) Social Skills
4 550 (14.83%) Law
5 320 (8.63%) Marketing
6 288 (7.77%) Banking
7 222 (5.99%) Legal
8 211 (5.69%) Public Sector
9 167 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
10 136 (3.67%) Retail
11 110 (2.97%) Financial Institution
12 84 (2.27%) Investment Banking
13 71 (1.91%) Games
14 56 (1.51%) Aerospace
15 42 (1.13%) Front Office
15 42 (1.13%) Tech for Good
16 35 (0.94%) Retail Banking
17 32 (0.86%) Advertising
17 32 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,737 (46.84%) Developer
2 883 (23.81%) .NET Developer
3 880 (23.73%) Software Engineer
4 689 (18.58%) Senior
5 485 (13.08%) Lead
6 464 (12.51%) Architect
7 384 (10.36%) Java Engineer
8 342 (9.22%) C# Developer
9 309 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
10 306 (8.25%) Senior Developer
11 284 (7.66%) C# .NET Developer
12 279 (7.52%) Java Developer
13 257 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
14 214 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
15 175 (4.72%) Full Stack Engineer
16 173 (4.67%) Software Developer
17 147 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
18 146 (3.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 120 (3.24%) Full Stack Developer
20 109 (2.94%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,376 (37.11%) .NET
2 1,141 (30.77%) AngularJS
3 940 (25.35%) React
4 796 (21.47%) ASP.NET Web API
5 786 (21.20%) .NET Core
6 736 (19.85%) ASP.NET
7 666 (17.96%) Spring
8 645 (17.39%) Node.js
9 620 (16.72%) .NET Framework
10 567 (15.29%) Entity Framework
11 557 (15.02%) RESTful
12 548 (14.78%) ASP.NET MVC
13 532 (14.35%) Kafka
14 529 (14.27%) Spring Boot
15 430 (11.60%) Vue
16 426 (11.49%) HTML
17 388 (10.46%) REST
18 274 (7.39%) CSS
19 215 (5.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 207 (5.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 441 (11.89%) Cloud Native
2 197 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
3 184 (4.96%) Algorithms
4 173 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 159 (4.29%) Public Cloud
6 100 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 98 (2.64%) Product Ownership
8 91 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 85 (2.29%) Management Information System
10 72 (1.94%) Client/Server
11 61 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 60 (1.62%) IoT
13 58 (1.56%) Social Media
14 55 (1.48%) Distributed Applications
15 54 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
15 54 (1.46%) Social Network
16 40 (1.08%) iPhone
17 39 (1.05%) Blog
18 36 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 36 (0.97%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 189 (5.10%) Linux
2 109 (2.94%) Unix
3 89 (2.40%) Android
4 79 (2.13%) Windows
5 49 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 44 (1.19%) CentOS
8 31 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 27 (0.73%) Debian
10 21 (0.57%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.081%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.081%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.054%) VMS
13 1 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,260 (60.95%) Agile
2 1,265 (34.12%) Software Engineering
3 1,244 (33.55%) Full Stack Development
4 1,053 (28.40%) CI/CD
5 884 (23.84%) DevOps
6 778 (20.98%) TDD
7 687 (18.53%) SDLC
8 668 (18.02%) MVC
9 625 (16.86%) Scrum
10 487 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
11 457 (12.32%) Artificial Intelligence
12 449 (12.11%) BDD
13 445 (12.00%) Machine Learning
14 434 (11.70%) Kanban
15 422 (11.38%) Mentoring
16 410 (11.06%) Containerisation
17 403 (10.87%) Test Automation
18 371 (10.01%) Operational Stability
19 360 (9.71%) Computer Science
20 339 (9.14%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 1,425 (38.43%) Java
2 1,349 (36.38%) C#
3 1,233 (33.25%) JavaScript
4 815 (21.98%) SQL
5 688 (18.55%) TypeScript
6 656 (17.69%) Python
7 159 (4.29%) Go
8 86 (2.32%) Kotlin
9 80 (2.16%) PHP
10 70 (1.89%) PL/SQL
11 62 (1.67%) Bash
12 60 (1.62%) C++
13 59 (1.59%) Ruby
14 46 (1.24%) Scala
15 45 (1.21%) Perl
16 44 (1.19%) PowerShell
17 42 (1.13%) C
18 34 (0.92%) T-SQL
19 31 (0.84%) Shell Script
20 26 (0.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 338 (9.12%) Degree
2 221 (5.96%) Security Cleared
3 198 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 175 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 93 (2.51%) Master's Degree
6 78 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 58 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
8 49 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 46 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.00%) DV Cleared
11 30 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (0.65%) PMI Certification
13 19 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
16 14 (0.38%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.32%) PhD
18 7 (0.19%) CISSP
19 6 (0.16%) CIPD
20 5 (0.13%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (4.83%) QA
2 42 (1.13%) Accessibility
2 42 (1.13%) Data Quality
3 28 (0.76%) GDPR
4 13 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (0.30%) SLA
6 10 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.22%) PSD2
8 7 (0.19%) SEPA
8 7 (0.19%) WCAG
9 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.13%) GRC
11 3 (0.081%) PMO
12 2 (0.054%) EMIR
12 2 (0.054%) MiFID
12 2 (0.054%) NIST
13 1 (0.027%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.027%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.027%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 722 (19.47%) Docker
2 80 (2.16%) HDFS
3 50 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 28 (0.76%) Active Directory
6 19 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.24%) Firmware
8 6 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.027%) RACF
Systems Management
1 887 (23.92%) Kubernetes
2 344 (9.28%) Terraform
3 159 (4.29%) Ansible
4 113 (3.05%) Grafana
5 59 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 53 (1.43%) Puppet
7 43 (1.16%) Kibana
8 21 (0.57%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.57%) Zipkin
9 17 (0.46%) Consul
10 12 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.27%) MIIS
12 8 (0.22%) Istio
12 8 (0.22%) Kiali
13 6 (0.16%) Argo
14 5 (0.13%) SCOM
14 5 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.11%) Rancher
16 3 (0.081%) Galera Cluster
Vendors
1 874 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 283 (7.63%) Oracle
3 236 (6.36%) Google
4 95 (2.56%) Databricks
5 92 (2.48%) Splunk
6 76 (2.05%) Dynatrace
7 74 (2.00%) Cloudera
8 58 (1.56%) Facebook
9 56 (1.51%) Informatica
10 41 (1.11%) WSO2
11 39 (1.05%) Red Hat
12 34 (0.92%) Salesforce
12 34 (0.92%) Sparx
13 33 (0.89%) Apple
13 33 (0.89%) Sony
13 33 (0.89%) Yahoo!
14 32 (0.86%) IBM
15 27 (0.73%) SaltStack
16 26 (0.70%) YouTube
17 24 (0.65%) Sitecore