Microservices Jobs

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 52 30
Rank change year-on-year -18 -22 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 3,643 5,093 15,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.36% 5.47% 9.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 5.73% 9.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,697 3,261 5,522
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,781 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% +1.04% +9.49%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £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%

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 9 June 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 9 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 -27 2,909 £65,000 -18.75% 608
UK excluding London +5 2,539 £61,206 -9.32% 363
Work from Home -11 1,793 £61,206 -18.39% 428
London -32 1,014 £82,500 -3.84% 268
North of England +16 590 £61,206 -9.32% 134
South East -7 588 £60,000 -14.29% 71
Scotland -11 569 £65,000 -6.40% 24
South West +6 285 £60,000 -13.60% 37
North West -11 282 £65,000 - 87
Midlands +6 280 £60,000 -4.00% 56
Yorkshire +56 229 £60,603 -12.73% 30
West Midlands +27 181 £65,000 +8.33% 28
East of England -29 144 £65,000 -7.14% 22
East Midlands -28 99 £55,000 -21.43% 28
North East +14 79 £61,206 -12.56% 18
Wales -6 45 £52,500 -12.50% 8
Northern Ireland +11 37 £65,000 +42.86% 13
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
1 188 (5.16%) Apache Spark
2 98 (2.69%) FileNet
3 69 (1.89%) Apache
4 67 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 59 (1.62%) Confluence
6 34 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 21 (0.58%) GemFire
8 18 (0.49%) CMS
8 18 (0.49%) nginx
8 18 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 12 (0.33%) JBoss
9 12 (0.33%) Umbraco
10 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
11 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
13 6 (0.16%) EPiServer
13 6 (0.16%) Immediacy CMS
13 6 (0.16%) Kentico
13 6 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 20 (0.55%) Simulink
2 17 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.082%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.027%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.027%) Sketch
6 1 (0.027%) UXPin
6 1 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 29 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
4 3 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.055%) Magento
5 2 (0.055%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,793 (49.22%) Azure
2 1,683 (46.20%) AWS
3 367 (10.07%) Serverless
4 275 (7.55%) GCP
5 236 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
5 236 (6.48%) SaaS
6 202 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
7 169 (4.64%) Amazon S3
8 154 (4.23%) GitHub
9 144 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
10 104 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
11 91 (2.50%) PaaS
12 89 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
13 84 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
14 72 (1.98%) IaaS
15 65 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
16 56 (1.54%) OpenShift
17 48 (1.32%) Azure Functions
18 44 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
19 42 (1.15%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 88 (2.42%) Internet
2 59 (1.62%) HTTP
3 56 (1.54%) DNS
4 48 (1.32%) Firewall
5 36 (0.99%) AMQP
6 24 (0.66%) MQTT
7 19 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
9 15 (0.41%) Network Security
10 7 (0.19%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.19%) WAN
11 6 (0.16%) VPN
12 5 (0.14%) DHCP
13 3 (0.082%) 4G
13 3 (0.082%) 5G
13 3 (0.082%) GPRS
13 3 (0.082%) SMS
13 3 (0.082%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.082%) Wireless
14 2 (0.055%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 876 (24.05%) SQL Server
2 503 (13.81%) NoSQL
3 428 (11.75%) MongoDB
4 389 (10.68%) Elasticsearch
5 273 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
6 201 (5.52%) MySQL
7 184 (5.05%) Relational Database
8 141 (3.87%) Apache Cassandra
9 121 (3.32%) Big Data
10 111 (3.05%) Redis
11 105 (2.88%) Hadoop
12 83 (2.28%) DynamoDB
13 78 (2.14%) Apache Hive
14 62 (1.70%) HBase
15 46 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
16 37 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
17 35 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
18 30 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
18 30 (0.82%) RDBMS
19 29 (0.80%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 449 (12.33%) Git
2 332 (9.11%) Jenkins
3 173 (4.75%) JUnit
4 116 (3.18%) JIRA
5 101 (2.77%) GitLab
6 63 (1.73%) Maven
7 60 (1.65%) Cucumber
7 60 (1.65%) Jasmine
8 57 (1.56%) Mockito
8 57 (1.56%) Selenium
9 52 (1.43%) Bitbucket Server
10 47 (1.29%) Visual Studio
11 44 (1.21%) JMeter
12 41 (1.13%) Cypress.io
13 36 (0.99%) NUnit
14 30 (0.82%) CircleCI
15 29 (0.80%) Jaeger
15 29 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
16 28 (0.77%) Postman
16 28 (0.77%) TeamCity
General
1 1,025 (28.14%) Finance
2 573 (15.73%) Social Skills
3 567 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 516 (14.16%) Law
5 295 (8.10%) Marketing
6 254 (6.97%) Banking
7 217 (5.96%) Legal
8 206 (5.65%) Public Sector
9 159 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
10 123 (3.38%) Retail
11 100 (2.74%) Financial Institution
12 78 (2.14%) Investment Banking
13 68 (1.87%) Games
14 58 (1.59%) Aerospace
15 46 (1.26%) Tech for Good
16 41 (1.13%) Front Office
17 38 (1.04%) Retail Banking
18 37 (1.02%) Advertising
19 32 (0.88%) Electronics
20 30 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,760 (48.31%) Developer
2 933 (25.61%) .NET Developer
3 837 (22.98%) Software Engineer
4 683 (18.75%) Senior
5 481 (13.20%) Lead
6 427 (11.72%) Architect
7 361 (9.91%) Java Engineer
8 354 (9.72%) C# Developer
9 308 (8.45%) Senior Developer
10 295 (8.10%) C# .NET Developer
11 292 (8.02%) Java Software Engineer
12 266 (7.30%) Java Developer
13 235 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
14 209 (5.74%) Senior Software Engineer
15 173 (4.75%) Software Developer
16 168 (4.61%) Full Stack Engineer
17 149 (4.09%) Lead Software Engineer
18 136 (3.73%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 111 (3.05%) Full Stack Developer
20 103 (2.83%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,415 (38.84%) .NET
2 1,141 (31.32%) AngularJS
3 919 (25.23%) React
4 839 (23.03%) ASP.NET Web API
5 787 (21.60%) .NET Core
6 759 (20.83%) ASP.NET
7 643 (17.65%) .NET Framework
8 632 (17.35%) Spring
9 604 (16.58%) Node.js
10 588 (16.14%) Entity Framework
11 555 (15.23%) RESTful
12 548 (15.04%) ASP.NET MVC
13 542 (14.88%) Kafka
14 513 (14.08%) Spring Boot
15 455 (12.49%) Vue
16 417 (11.45%) HTML
17 370 (10.16%) REST
18 263 (7.22%) CSS
19 216 (5.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 208 (5.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 426 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 193 (5.30%) Greenfield Project
3 178 (4.89%) Algorithms
4 171 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 159 (4.36%) Public Cloud
6 98 (2.69%) Mobile App
7 93 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 90 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
9 83 (2.28%) Management Information System
10 72 (1.98%) Social Media
11 70 (1.92%) Client/Server
12 67 (1.84%) IoT
13 63 (1.73%) Social Network
14 61 (1.67%) Data Structures
15 55 (1.51%) Distributed Applications
16 50 (1.37%) Blog
17 43 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
18 40 (1.10%) iPhone
19 34 (0.93%) Hedge funds
20 33 (0.91%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 201 (5.52%) Linux
2 87 (2.39%) Android
3 85 (2.33%) Unix
4 80 (2.20%) Windows
5 57 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 52 (1.43%) Ubuntu
7 50 (1.37%) CentOS
8 29 (0.80%) Debian
9 25 (0.69%) Apple iOS
10 21 (0.58%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.082%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.055%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.027%) Solaris
13 1 (0.027%) tvOS
13 1 (0.027%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,216 (60.83%) Agile
2 1,274 (34.97%) Full Stack Development
3 1,226 (33.65%) Software Engineering
4 1,035 (28.41%) CI/CD
5 835 (22.92%) DevOps
6 765 (21.00%) TDD
7 663 (18.20%) MVC
8 657 (18.03%) SDLC
9 613 (16.83%) Scrum
10 436 (11.97%) Kanban
11 434 (11.91%) BDD
12 431 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
13 422 (11.58%) Artificial Intelligence
14 406 (11.14%) Mentoring
15 399 (10.95%) Machine Learning
16 386 (10.60%) Test Automation
17 375 (10.29%) Computer Science
18 357 (9.80%) Containerisation
19 338 (9.28%) Operational Stability
20 313 (8.59%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 1,388 (38.10%) C#
2 1,357 (37.25%) Java
3 1,183 (32.47%) JavaScript
4 762 (20.92%) SQL
5 699 (19.19%) TypeScript
6 601 (16.50%) Python
7 127 (3.49%) Go
8 99 (2.72%) Kotlin
9 83 (2.28%) PHP
10 68 (1.87%) Scala
11 63 (1.73%) PL/SQL
12 61 (1.67%) C++
13 48 (1.32%) PowerShell
14 42 (1.15%) C
15 30 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 29 (0.80%) T-SQL
17 28 (0.77%) Bash
18 26 (0.71%) Groovy
19 24 (0.66%) Ruby
20 15 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 348 (9.55%) Degree
2 212 (5.82%) Security Cleared
3 191 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 189 (5.19%) SC Cleared
5 97 (2.66%) Master's Degree
6 74 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 55 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
8 51 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 43 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 42 (1.15%) DV Cleared
11 34 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 22 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.44%) PhD
16 15 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
17 13 (0.36%) DBS Check
18 8 (0.22%) CISSP
19 6 (0.16%) CIPD
20 5 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (4.01%) QA
2 39 (1.07%) Data Quality
3 35 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 31 (0.85%) GDPR
5 14 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.33%) HIPAA
6 12 (0.33%) SLA
7 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.19%) PSD2
8 7 (0.19%) WCAG
9 6 (0.16%) MiFID
10 5 (0.14%) GRC
10 5 (0.14%) SEPA
11 4 (0.11%) EMIR
12 3 (0.082%) NIST
12 3 (0.082%) PMO
13 2 (0.055%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.027%) SNOMED CT
14 1 (0.027%) Solvency II
System Software
1 708 (19.43%) Docker
2 67 (1.84%) HDFS
3 59 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.71%) Active Directory
6 21 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.25%) Firmware
8 5 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 888 (24.38%) Kubernetes
2 348 (9.55%) Terraform
3 156 (4.28%) Ansible
4 103 (2.83%) Grafana
5 58 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 55 (1.51%) Puppet
7 43 (1.18%) Kibana
8 21 (0.58%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.58%) Zipkin
9 15 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.36%) Consul
11 10 (0.27%) MIIS
12 9 (0.25%) Istio
13 8 (0.22%) Kiali
14 6 (0.16%) Argo
15 5 (0.14%) Rancher
15 5 (0.14%) SCOM
16 3 (0.082%) logstash
16 3 (0.082%) Nessus
Vendors
1 879 (24.13%) Microsoft
2 250 (6.86%) Google
3 236 (6.48%) Oracle
4 87 (2.39%) Databricks
5 82 (2.25%) Splunk
6 66 (1.81%) Dynatrace
7 63 (1.73%) Cloudera
8 58 (1.59%) Facebook
9 52 (1.43%) Informatica
10 42 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 34 (0.93%) WSO2
12 33 (0.91%) Apple
12 33 (0.91%) Salesforce
12 33 (0.91%) Sony
12 33 (0.91%) Yahoo!
13 32 (0.88%) Sparx
14 29 (0.80%) SaltStack
15 26 (0.71%) YouTube
16 25 (0.69%) IBM
17 22 (0.60%) Sitecore