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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 48 31
Rank change year-on-year -17 -17 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 3,708 5,902 14,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.74% 5.84% 9.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 6.11% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,755 3,624 5,463
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% +10.29%
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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 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 10 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 -21 2,916 £65,000 -18.75% 607
UK excluding London +12 2,590 £61,206 -9.32% 370
Work from Home -6 1,890 £62,500 -16.67% 574
London -32 1,025 £82,500 -2.94% 277
Scotland -10 626 £65,000 -4.68% 33
South East -12 589 £60,000 -9.43% 67
North of England +25 574 £62,500 -7.41% 130
South West +24 291 £60,500 -12.88% 39
Midlands +14 285 £60,000 -4.00% 64
North West -14 271 £65,000 -2.59% 76
Yorkshire +65 227 £61,206 -12.56% 39
West Midlands +42 185 £65,000 +8.33% 30
East of England -16 145 £65,000 -10.34% 14
East Midlands -27 100 £55,000 -20.00% 34
North East +18 76 £61,206 -12.56% 16
Wales -7 46 £52,500 -12.50% 11
Northern Ireland +3 33 £65,000 +37.57% 15
Isle of Man - 4 £82,500 -

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
1 191 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 98 (2.64%) FileNet
3 69 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
4 57 (1.54%) Apache
5 53 (1.43%) Confluence
6 42 (1.13%) OpenStack
7 21 (0.57%) GemFire
8 19 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 18 (0.49%) CMS
10 17 (0.46%) nginx
11 12 (0.32%) JBoss
11 12 (0.32%) Umbraco
12 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
13 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
14 8 (0.22%) Apache Pig
14 8 (0.22%) SharePoint
15 6 (0.16%) EPiServer
15 6 (0.16%) Kentico
15 6 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 17 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 14 (0.38%) Simulink
3 7 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.054%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.027%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.027%) Sketch
5 1 (0.027%) UXPin
5 1 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 33 (0.89%) 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%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,755 (47.33%) Azure
2 1,693 (45.66%) AWS
3 412 (11.11%) Serverless
4 286 (7.71%) GCP
5 268 (7.23%) SaaS
6 235 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
7 196 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
8 167 (4.50%) Amazon S3
9 159 (4.29%) GitHub
10 153 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
11 114 (3.07%) PaaS
12 113 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
13 95 (2.56%) IaaS
14 83 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 77 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
16 63 (1.70%) Amazon SQS
17 52 (1.40%) Power Platform
18 51 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
18 51 (1.38%) OpenShift
19 50 (1.35%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 86 (2.32%) Internet
2 55 (1.48%) DNS
2 55 (1.48%) HTTP
3 45 (1.21%) Firewall
4 35 (0.94%) AMQP
5 19 (0.51%) MQTT
6 16 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
6 16 (0.43%) Network Security
7 15 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.19%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.19%) WAN
9 6 (0.16%) VPN
10 5 (0.13%) DHCP
11 3 (0.081%) 4G
11 3 (0.081%) 5G
11 3 (0.081%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.081%) GPRS
11 3 (0.081%) SMS
11 3 (0.081%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.081%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 842 (22.71%) SQL Server
2 531 (14.32%) NoSQL
3 428 (11.54%) MongoDB
4 389 (10.49%) Elasticsearch
5 269 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
6 239 (6.45%) Relational Database
7 210 (5.66%) MySQL
8 139 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 137 (3.69%) Big Data
10 113 (3.05%) Hadoop
11 99 (2.67%) Redis
12 87 (2.35%) Apache Hive
13 72 (1.94%) HBase
14 67 (1.81%) RDBMS
15 63 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
15 63 (1.70%) DynamoDB
16 47 (1.27%) Oracle Database
17 33 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
18 31 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
18 31 (0.84%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 502 (13.54%) Git
2 351 (9.47%) Jenkins
3 183 (4.94%) JUnit
4 115 (3.10%) JIRA
5 107 (2.89%) GitLab
6 73 (1.97%) Maven
7 68 (1.83%) Jasmine
8 63 (1.70%) Selenium
9 61 (1.65%) Mockito
10 60 (1.62%) Cucumber
11 59 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
12 48 (1.29%) Visual Studio
13 44 (1.19%) Cypress.io
13 44 (1.19%) JMeter
14 38 (1.02%) NUnit
15 36 (0.97%) JDeveloper
16 29 (0.78%) Jaeger
16 29 (0.78%) TeamCity
17 28 (0.76%) Postman
17 28 (0.76%) SonarQube
General
1 1,096 (29.56%) Finance
2 609 (16.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 559 (15.08%) Social Skills
4 549 (14.81%) Law
5 314 (8.47%) Marketing
6 295 (7.96%) Banking
7 224 (6.04%) Legal
8 212 (5.72%) Public Sector
9 167 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
10 137 (3.69%) Retail
11 110 (2.97%) Financial Institution
12 85 (2.29%) Investment Banking
13 69 (1.86%) Games
14 55 (1.48%) Aerospace
15 42 (1.13%) Front Office
15 42 (1.13%) Tech for Good
16 35 (0.94%) Retail Banking
17 34 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
18 33 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
19 31 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,733 (46.74%) Developer
2 870 (23.46%) Software Engineer
3 869 (23.44%) .NET Developer
4 696 (18.77%) Senior
5 483 (13.03%) Lead
6 480 (12.94%) Architect
7 384 (10.36%) Java Engineer
8 338 (9.12%) C# Developer
9 312 (8.41%) Senior Developer
10 309 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
11 284 (7.66%) Java Developer
12 280 (7.55%) C# .NET Developer
13 270 (7.28%) Solutions Architect
14 216 (5.83%) Senior Software Engineer
15 175 (4.72%) Full Stack Engineer
16 172 (4.64%) Software Developer
17 146 (3.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 145 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
19 120 (3.24%) Full Stack Developer
20 112 (3.02%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,367 (36.87%) .NET
2 1,129 (30.45%) AngularJS
3 927 (25.00%) React
4 787 (21.22%) ASP.NET Web API
5 783 (21.12%) .NET Core
6 730 (19.69%) ASP.NET
7 666 (17.96%) Spring
8 645 (17.39%) Node.js
9 616 (16.61%) .NET Framework
10 562 (15.16%) Entity Framework
11 561 (15.13%) RESTful
12 543 (14.64%) ASP.NET MVC
13 533 (14.37%) Kafka
14 532 (14.35%) Spring Boot
15 431 (11.62%) HTML
16 424 (11.43%) Vue
17 381 (10.28%) REST
18 279 (7.52%) CSS
19 212 (5.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 204 (5.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 442 (11.92%) Cloud Native
2 197 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
3 184 (4.96%) Algorithms
4 173 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 156 (4.21%) Public Cloud
6 100 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 99 (2.67%) Product Ownership
8 90 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
9 82 (2.21%) Management Information System
10 71 (1.91%) Client/Server
11 61 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 60 (1.62%) IoT
13 56 (1.51%) Social Media
14 55 (1.48%) Distributed Applications
15 54 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
16 52 (1.40%) Social Network
17 40 (1.08%) iPhone
18 37 (1.00%) Blockchain
18 37 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 36 (0.97%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 187 (5.04%) Linux
2 113 (3.05%) Unix
3 88 (2.37%) Android
4 79 (2.13%) Windows
5 46 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 41 (1.11%) CentOS
8 32 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 26 (0.70%) 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 2,255 (60.81%) Agile
2 1,253 (33.79%) Software Engineering
3 1,231 (33.20%) Full Stack Development
4 1,048 (28.26%) CI/CD
5 879 (23.71%) DevOps
6 771 (20.79%) TDD
7 687 (18.53%) SDLC
8 663 (17.88%) MVC
9 618 (16.67%) Scrum
10 490 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
11 456 (12.30%) Artificial Intelligence
12 447 (12.06%) Machine Learning
13 445 (12.00%) BDD
14 428 (11.54%) Kanban
15 419 (11.30%) Mentoring
16 407 (10.98%) Test Automation
17 405 (10.92%) Containerisation
18 371 (10.01%) Operational Stability
19 351 (9.47%) Computer Science
20 342 (9.22%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 1,420 (38.30%) Java
2 1,336 (36.03%) C#
3 1,227 (33.09%) JavaScript
4 814 (21.95%) SQL
5 684 (18.45%) TypeScript
6 655 (17.66%) Python
7 160 (4.31%) Go
8 80 (2.16%) PHP
9 79 (2.13%) Kotlin
10 71 (1.91%) PL/SQL
11 63 (1.70%) Bash
12 61 (1.65%) Ruby
13 59 (1.59%) C++
14 45 (1.21%) Perl
14 45 (1.21%) PowerShell
15 43 (1.16%) C
16 37 (1.00%) Scala
17 35 (0.94%) T-SQL
18 31 (0.84%) Shell Script
19 26 (0.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 332 (8.95%) Degree
2 221 (5.96%) Security Cleared
3 198 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 167 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 92 (2.48%) Master's Degree
6 78 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 60 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
8 49 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 48 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (0.97%) DV Cleared
11 31 (0.84%) 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 16 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.30%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.30%) PhD
17 7 (0.19%) CISSP
18 5 (0.13%) PCI QSA
18 5 (0.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (4.75%) 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
1 729 (19.66%) Docker
2 80 (2.16%) HDFS
3 46 (1.24%) 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%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.027%) RACF
Systems Management
1 889 (23.98%) Kubernetes
2 338 (9.12%) Terraform
3 160 (4.31%) Ansible
4 113 (3.05%) Grafana
5 59 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 52 (1.40%) Puppet
7 43 (1.16%) Kibana
8 21 (0.57%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.57%) Zipkin
9 18 (0.49%) 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
15 4 (0.11%) Rancher
15 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.081%) Galera Cluster
Vendors
1 876 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 281 (7.58%) Oracle
3 226 (6.09%) Google
4 93 (2.51%) Databricks
4 93 (2.51%) Splunk
5 76 (2.05%) Dynatrace
6 74 (2.00%) Cloudera
7 58 (1.56%) Facebook
8 56 (1.51%) Informatica
9 42 (1.13%) WSO2
10 38 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 36 (0.97%) Sparx
12 34 (0.92%) Salesforce
13 33 (0.89%) Apple
13 33 (0.89%) Sony
13 33 (0.89%) Yahoo!
14 31 (0.84%) IBM
15 26 (0.70%) SaltStack
15 26 (0.70%) YouTube
16 25 (0.67%) Sitecore