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 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 70 51 30
Rank change year-on-year -19 -21 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 3,665 5,271 15,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.49% 5.57% 9.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 5.83% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,716 3,305 5,463
10th Percentile £42,749 £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% +7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £93,750
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 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%

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 1 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 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 -24 2,909 £65,000 -18.75% 650
UK excluding London +11 2,557 £61,206 -9.32% 363
Work from Home -11 1,816 £61,206 -18.39% 415
London -33 1,020 £82,500 -2.94% 322
Scotland -10 595 £65,000 -6.40% 31
North of England +22 588 £61,206 -9.32% 131
South East -16 585 £60,000 -11.11% 72
South West +14 283 £60,000 -13.60% 43
Midlands +17 282 £60,000 -5.88% 53
North West -13 274 £65,000 - 80
Yorkshire +65 236 £61,206 -12.56% 35
West Midlands +32 182 £65,000 +8.33% 27
East of England -23 144 £65,000 -7.14% 17
East Midlands -19 100 £55,000 -21.43% 26
North East +15 78 £61,206 -12.56% 17
Wales -10 44 £52,500 -12.50% 8
Northern Ireland +10 35 £65,000 +37.57% 10
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
1 196 (5.35%) Apache Spark
2 98 (2.67%) FileNet
3 71 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
4 65 (1.77%) Apache
5 58 (1.58%) Confluence
6 36 (0.98%) OpenStack
7 21 (0.57%) 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%) Apache Pig
13 6 (0.16%) EPiServer
13 6 (0.16%) Kentico
13 6 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 18 (0.49%) Simulink
2 17 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.082%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.027%) Sketch
5 1 (0.027%) UXPin
5 1 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 30 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
4 3 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.055%) Magento
6 1 (0.027%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,778 (48.51%) Azure
2 1,704 (46.49%) AWS
3 374 (10.20%) Serverless
4 284 (7.75%) GCP
5 244 (6.66%) SaaS
6 235 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
7 205 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
8 170 (4.64%) Amazon S3
9 154 (4.20%) GitHub
10 151 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
11 107 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
12 98 (2.67%) PaaS
13 89 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 85 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
15 78 (2.13%) IaaS
16 66 (1.80%) Amazon SQS
17 55 (1.50%) OpenShift
18 47 (1.28%) Azure Functions
19 46 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
19 46 (1.26%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 88 (2.40%) Internet
2 59 (1.61%) HTTP
3 56 (1.53%) DNS
4 48 (1.31%) Firewall
5 36 (0.98%) AMQP
6 24 (0.65%) 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
1 863 (23.55%) SQL Server
2 519 (14.16%) NoSQL
3 429 (11.71%) MongoDB
4 388 (10.59%) Elasticsearch
5 274 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
6 202 (5.51%) MySQL
7 194 (5.29%) Relational Database
8 141 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 128 (3.49%) Big Data
10 113 (3.08%) Hadoop
11 107 (2.92%) Redis
12 86 (2.35%) Apache Hive
13 75 (2.05%) DynamoDB
14 69 (1.88%) HBase
15 53 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
16 36 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
17 33 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
18 31 (0.85%) RDBMS
19 29 (0.79%) Cloudera CDH
19 29 (0.79%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 456 (12.44%) Git
2 343 (9.36%) Jenkins
3 180 (4.91%) JUnit
4 113 (3.08%) JIRA
5 104 (2.84%) GitLab
6 68 (1.86%) Maven
7 62 (1.69%) Jasmine
8 61 (1.66%) Cucumber
9 59 (1.61%) Mockito
10 58 (1.58%) Selenium
11 55 (1.50%) Bitbucket Server
12 47 (1.28%) Visual Studio
13 44 (1.20%) JMeter
14 40 (1.09%) Cypress.io
15 36 (0.98%) NUnit
16 31 (0.85%) CircleCI
17 30 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
18 29 (0.79%) Jaeger
18 29 (0.79%) TeamCity
19 28 (0.76%) Postman
General
1 1,054 (28.76%) Finance
2 594 (16.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 573 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 540 (14.73%) Law
5 312 (8.51%) Marketing
6 272 (7.42%) Banking
7 217 (5.92%) Legal
8 212 (5.78%) Public Sector
9 158 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
10 129 (3.52%) Retail
11 106 (2.89%) Financial Institution
12 82 (2.24%) Investment Banking
13 68 (1.86%) Games
14 58 (1.58%) Aerospace
15 44 (1.20%) Tech for Good
16 41 (1.12%) Front Office
17 37 (1.01%) Retail Banking
18 34 (0.93%) Advertising
19 30 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
19 30 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,748 (47.69%) Developer
2 911 (24.86%) .NET Developer
3 849 (23.17%) Software Engineer
4 685 (18.69%) Senior
5 485 (13.23%) Lead
6 443 (12.09%) Architect
7 376 (10.26%) Java Engineer
8 349 (9.52%) C# Developer
9 306 (8.35%) Senior Developer
10 305 (8.32%) Java Software Engineer
11 292 (7.97%) C# .NET Developer
12 273 (7.45%) Java Developer
13 242 (6.60%) Solutions Architect
14 211 (5.76%) Senior Software Engineer
15 174 (4.75%) Full Stack Engineer
16 172 (4.69%) Software Developer
17 150 (4.09%) Lead Software Engineer
18 143 (3.90%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 113 (3.08%) Full Stack Developer
20 104 (2.84%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,397 (38.12%) .NET
2 1,144 (31.21%) AngularJS
3 907 (24.75%) React
4 818 (22.32%) ASP.NET Web API
5 788 (21.50%) .NET Core
6 748 (20.41%) ASP.NET
7 650 (17.74%) Spring
8 630 (17.19%) .NET Framework
9 607 (16.56%) Node.js
10 576 (15.72%) Entity Framework
11 557 (15.20%) RESTful
12 549 (14.98%) ASP.NET MVC
13 534 (14.57%) Kafka
14 524 (14.30%) Spring Boot
15 443 (12.09%) Vue
16 419 (11.43%) HTML
17 385 (10.50%) REST
18 265 (7.23%) CSS
19 215 (5.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 207 (5.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 435 (11.87%) Cloud Native
2 193 (5.27%) Greenfield Project
3 184 (5.02%) Algorithms
4 172 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 163 (4.45%) Public Cloud
6 100 (2.73%) Mobile App
7 96 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 89 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
9 86 (2.35%) Management Information System
10 71 (1.94%) Client/Server
11 66 (1.80%) Social Media
12 65 (1.77%) IoT
13 61 (1.66%) Data Structures
14 59 (1.61%) Social Network
15 55 (1.50%) Distributed Applications
16 49 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
17 46 (1.26%) Blog
18 40 (1.09%) iPhone
19 34 (0.93%) Hedge funds
19 34 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 197 (5.38%) Linux
2 97 (2.65%) Unix
3 87 (2.37%) Android
4 80 (2.18%) Windows
5 55 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.36%) Ubuntu
7 48 (1.31%) CentOS
8 29 (0.79%) Debian
9 27 (0.74%) Apple iOS
10 21 (0.57%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.082%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.055%) VMS
12 2 (0.055%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.027%) Solaris
13 1 (0.027%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,244 (61.23%) Agile
2 1,261 (34.41%) Full Stack Development
3 1,245 (33.97%) Software Engineering
4 1,058 (28.87%) CI/CD
5 842 (22.97%) DevOps
6 777 (21.20%) TDD
7 684 (18.66%) SDLC
8 668 (18.23%) MVC
9 621 (16.94%) Scrum
10 444 (12.11%) Artificial Intelligence
11 442 (12.06%) BDD
12 439 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
13 436 (11.90%) Kanban
14 429 (11.71%) Machine Learning
15 412 (11.24%) Mentoring
16 395 (10.78%) Test Automation
17 372 (10.15%) Computer Science
18 371 (10.12%) Containerisation
19 360 (9.82%) Operational Stability
20 317 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,383 (37.74%) Java
2 1,370 (37.38%) C#
3 1,184 (32.31%) JavaScript
4 797 (21.75%) SQL
5 688 (18.77%) TypeScript
6 624 (17.03%) Python
7 123 (3.36%) Go
8 92 (2.51%) Kotlin
9 82 (2.24%) PHP
10 67 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 61 (1.66%) C++
12 58 (1.58%) Scala
13 48 (1.31%) PowerShell
14 41 (1.12%) C
15 31 (0.85%) Shell Script
15 31 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 28 (0.76%) Bash
17 26 (0.71%) Groovy
18 24 (0.65%) Ruby
19 16 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 344 (9.39%) Degree
2 215 (5.87%) Security Cleared
3 192 (5.24%) SC Cleared
4 187 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 97 (2.65%) Master's Degree
6 77 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 56 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 52 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 44 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 40 (1.09%) DV Cleared
11 34 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 21 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.44%) PhD
16 15 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
17 14 (0.38%) DBS Check
18 8 (0.22%) CISSP
19 6 (0.16%) CIPD
20 5 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (4.04%) QA
2 43 (1.17%) Data Quality
3 39 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 31 (0.85%) GDPR
5 14 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.35%) SLA
7 12 (0.33%) HIPAA
8 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.22%) PSD2
10 7 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.19%) WCAG
11 5 (0.14%) GRC
11 5 (0.14%) SEPA
12 4 (0.11%) MiFID
13 3 (0.082%) EMIR
13 3 (0.082%) NIST
13 3 (0.082%) PMO
14 2 (0.055%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.027%) SNOMED CT
15 1 (0.027%) Solvency II
System Software
1 715 (19.51%) Docker
2 75 (2.05%) HDFS
3 57 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.74%) Active Directory
6 21 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.25%) Firmware
8 5 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 890 (24.28%) Kubernetes
2 347 (9.47%) Terraform
3 157 (4.28%) Ansible
4 111 (3.03%) Grafana
5 58 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 55 (1.50%) Puppet
7 43 (1.17%) Kibana
8 21 (0.57%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.57%) Zipkin
9 14 (0.38%) Consul
9 14 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.27%) MIIS
11 9 (0.25%) Istio
12 8 (0.22%) Kiali
13 6 (0.16%) Argo
14 5 (0.14%) Rancher
14 5 (0.14%) SCOM
15 3 (0.082%) Nessus
15 3 (0.082%) Nmap
Vendors
1 877 (23.93%) Microsoft
2 249 (6.79%) Google
3 241 (6.58%) Oracle
4 92 (2.51%) Databricks
5 90 (2.46%) Splunk
6 73 (1.99%) Dynatrace
7 70 (1.91%) Cloudera
8 58 (1.58%) Facebook
9 55 (1.50%) Informatica
10 42 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 36 (0.98%) WSO2
12 33 (0.90%) Apple
12 33 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 33 (0.90%) Sony
12 33 (0.90%) Sparx
12 33 (0.90%) Yahoo!
13 29 (0.79%) SaltStack
14 27 (0.74%) IBM
15 26 (0.71%) YouTube
16 22 (0.60%) Sitecore