Microservices Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microservices
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 36 27
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,801 2,648 7,199
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.11% 6.95% 9.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.69% 7.24% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,614 1,824 3,293
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,825 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £75,000 £70,278
Median % change year-on-year -18.39% +6.72% +8.12%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,212 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,781 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.23% +1.04% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,671 36,595 73,127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.78% 96.04% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,689 25,972 42,234
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Microservices
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microservices trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microservices.

Microservices salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microservices over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Microservices salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (1.22%) OpenStack
2 19 (1.05%) Confluence
3 13 (0.72%) CMS
4 11 (0.61%) nginx
5 10 (0.56%) Apache
5 10 (0.56%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.44%) JBoss
6 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
8 6 (0.33%) DNN
8 6 (0.33%) EPiServer
8 6 (0.33%) Immediacy CMS
8 6 (0.33%) Kentico
8 6 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
8 6 (0.33%) Sitefinity
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.22%) IIS
10 3 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 20 (1.11%) Simulink
2 7 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.17%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.056%) Sketch
6 1 (0.056%) UXPin
6 1 (0.056%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 4 (0.22%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,093 (60.69%) Azure
2 822 (45.64%) AWS
3 179 (9.94%) Serverless
4 157 (8.72%) SaaS
5 138 (7.66%) GCP
6 117 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
8 71 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
9 65 (3.61%) GitHub
10 64 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (2.44%) Amazon S3
12 41 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
12 41 (2.28%) PaaS
13 38 (2.11%) Google Play
14 37 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (1.67%) IaaS
16 25 (1.39%) Azure Functions
17 23 (1.28%) Amazon Kinesis
17 23 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.50%) Internet
2 40 (2.22%) DNS
3 27 (1.50%) Firewall
4 23 (1.28%) HTTP
5 16 (0.89%) Hyperconnected
6 14 (0.78%) Network Security
7 7 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.33%) AMQP
9 5 (0.28%) DHCP
9 5 (0.28%) VPN
10 3 (0.17%) 4G
10 3 (0.17%) 5G
10 3 (0.17%) GPRS
10 3 (0.17%) SMS
10 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.17%) Wireless
11 1 (0.056%) Broadband
11 1 (0.056%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.056%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 650 (36.09%) SQL Server
2 314 (17.43%) MongoDB
3 269 (14.94%) Elasticsearch
4 162 (9.00%) NoSQL
5 159 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
6 120 (6.66%) MySQL
7 92 (5.11%) Relational Database
8 39 (2.17%) Redis
9 34 (1.89%) DynamoDB
10 24 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (1.11%) NonStop SQL
12 19 (1.05%) DB2
13 18 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 18 (1.00%) RDBMS
14 16 (0.89%) Big Data
15 15 (0.83%) CouchDB
16 13 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (0.72%) GIS
17 8 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
18 7 (0.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 248 (13.77%) Git
2 104 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 56 (3.11%) GitLab
4 44 (2.44%) JIRA
5 30 (1.67%) Visual Studio
6 25 (1.39%) Selenium
7 24 (1.33%) Cypress.io
7 24 (1.33%) JUnit
8 23 (1.28%) Cucumber
9 22 (1.22%) TeamCity
10 21 (1.17%) Vagrant
11 20 (1.11%) Maven
11 20 (1.11%) Postman
12 16 (0.89%) NUnit
12 16 (0.89%) SpecFlow
12 16 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
14 11 (0.61%) Gradle
15 9 (0.50%) Jasmine
15 9 (0.50%) SoapUI
General
1 316 (17.55%) Finance
2 282 (15.66%) Social Skills
3 143 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 94 (5.22%) Retail
5 81 (4.50%) Banking
6 76 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
8 50 (2.78%) Legal
9 47 (2.61%) Law
10 46 (2.55%) Games
11 39 (2.17%) Marketing
12 33 (1.83%) Advertising
13 27 (1.50%) Music Industry
13 27 (1.50%) Tech for Good
14 24 (1.33%) Automotive
15 15 (0.83%) Aerospace
16 14 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.67%) Manufacturing
18 9 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
19 8 (0.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 999 (55.47%) Developer
2 612 (33.98%) .NET Developer
3 374 (20.77%) Senior
4 247 (13.71%) C# Developer
5 232 (12.88%) Architect
6 229 (12.72%) Software Engineer
7 210 (11.66%) C# .NET Developer
7 210 (11.66%) Lead
8 165 (9.16%) Senior Developer
9 130 (7.22%) Solutions Architect
10 127 (7.05%) Java Engineer
11 108 (6.00%) Software Developer
12 101 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 81 (4.50%) Java Developer
13 81 (4.50%) Java Software Engineer
14 67 (3.72%) Senior Java Engineer
15 61 (3.39%) Lead Developer
16 59 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
17 57 (3.16%) Technical Architect
18 55 (3.05%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 846 (46.97%) .NET
2 672 (37.31%) AngularJS
3 661 (36.70%) .NET Core
4 587 (32.59%) ASP.NET
5 573 (31.82%) ASP.NET Web API
6 541 (30.04%) ASP.NET MVC
7 453 (25.15%) .NET Framework
8 425 (23.60%) Entity Framework
9 411 (22.82%) React
10 388 (21.54%) Node.js
11 350 (19.43%) RESTful
12 294 (16.32%) Vue
13 226 (12.55%) HTML
14 176 (9.77%) HTML5
15 170 (9.44%) LINQ
16 169 (9.38%) Kafka
17 163 (9.05%) Spring
18 152 (8.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 148 (8.22%) REST
20 141 (7.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 149 (8.27%) Greenfield Project
2 98 (5.44%) Cloud Native
2 98 (5.44%) Public Cloud
3 82 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 70 (3.89%) Mobile App
5 67 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
6 61 (3.39%) Client/Server
7 51 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 39 (2.17%) Algorithms
8 39 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 38 (2.11%) iPhone
10 35 (1.94%) IoT
10 35 (1.94%) Social Network
11 34 (1.89%) Data Structures
11 34 (1.89%) Social Media
12 33 (1.83%) BBC
13 25 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
14 23 (1.28%) PMI
15 21 (1.17%) Blog
16 16 (0.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (4.94%) Linux
2 72 (4.00%) Android
3 57 (3.16%) Windows
4 23 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.17%) CentOS
5 21 (1.17%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.50%) Unix
8 5 (0.28%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.056%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,162 (64.52%) Agile
2 709 (39.37%) Full Stack Development
3 594 (32.98%) MVC
4 498 (27.65%) TDD
5 392 (21.77%) DevOps
6 384 (21.32%) Scrum
7 375 (20.82%) Software Engineering
8 335 (18.60%) CI/CD
9 332 (18.43%) BDD
10 307 (17.05%) Kanban
11 236 (13.10%) Mentoring
12 205 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
13 192 (10.66%) Design Patterns
14 187 (10.38%) Multithreading
15 178 (9.88%) OO
16 169 (9.38%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 148 (8.22%) Test Automation
18 143 (7.94%) Containerisation
19 139 (7.72%) Coaching
20 130 (7.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 866 (48.08%) C#
2 823 (45.70%) JavaScript
3 448 (24.88%) Java
4 407 (22.60%) TypeScript
5 285 (15.82%) SQL
6 191 (10.61%) Python
7 79 (4.39%) Go
8 54 (3.00%) PHP
9 47 (2.61%) C++
10 40 (2.22%) Kotlin
11 38 (2.11%) C
12 22 (1.22%) PowerShell
13 16 (0.89%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.67%) Ada
15 11 (0.61%) Bash
16 10 (0.56%) VB.NET
17 9 (0.50%) Scala
18 7 (0.39%) Ruby
18 7 (0.39%) Swift
18 7 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 139 (7.72%) Degree
2 102 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 89 (4.94%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 26 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
7 23 (1.28%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.11%) AWS Certification
9 16 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.78%) DBS Check
10 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.39%) CISSP
14 6 (0.33%) CIPD
15 3 (0.17%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.17%) OSCE
15 3 (0.17%) OSCP
15 3 (0.17%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (2.11%) QA
2 9 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (0.33%) GDPR
3 6 (0.33%) WCAG
4 5 (0.28%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.28%) SEPA
5 4 (0.22%) EMIR
5 4 (0.22%) MiFID
6 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.11%) NIST
6 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.056%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.056%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.056%) SLA
7 1 (0.056%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 364 (20.21%) Docker
2 34 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (1.17%) Hyper-V
4 19 (1.05%) Active Directory
4 19 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 337 (18.71%) Kubernetes
2 127 (7.05%) Terraform
3 65 (3.61%) Ansible
4 33 (1.83%) Grafana
5 16 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.72%) Puppet
7 8 (0.44%) Kibana
7 8 (0.44%) MIIS
8 6 (0.33%) Consul
9 5 (0.28%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.28%) Rancher
9 5 (0.28%) SCOM
10 3 (0.17%) Argo
10 3 (0.17%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (0.17%) logstash
10 3 (0.17%) Nessus
10 3 (0.17%) Nmap
11 2 (0.11%) Podman
12 1 (0.056%) Istio
12 1 (0.056%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 717 (39.81%) Microsoft
2 142 (7.88%) Google
3 63 (3.50%) Oracle
4 58 (3.22%) Facebook
5 33 (1.83%) Apple
5 33 (1.83%) Sony
5 33 (1.83%) Yahoo!
6 26 (1.44%) YouTube
7 22 (1.22%) Sitecore
7 22 (1.22%) WSO2
8 21 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.11%) IBM
9 20 (1.11%) Xilinx
10 17 (0.94%) ForgeRock
11 9 (0.50%) GoCardless
11 9 (0.50%) PayPal
11 9 (0.50%) Sage
12 8 (0.44%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.44%) Xamarin
13 7 (0.39%) Splunk