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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 48 30
Rank change year-on-year -20 -18 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 3,681 5,557 15,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.59% 5.71% 9.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 5.97% 9.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,716 3,386 5,492
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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 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 28 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 2,912 £65,000 -18.75% 689
UK excluding London +13 2,569 £61,206 -9.32% 436
Work from Home -7 1,844 £62,500 -16.67% 587
London -34 1,022 £82,500 -2.94% 303
Scotland -10 605 £65,000 -6.40% 37
North of England +24 589 £61,206 -9.32% 150
South East -13 585 £60,000 -11.11% 85
Midlands +30 285 £60,000 -4.00% 72
South West +17 281 £60,000 -13.60% 42
North West -8 277 £65,000 - 85
Yorkshire +62 234 £61,206 -12.56% 44
West Midlands +47 183 £65,000 +8.33% 37
East of England -27 143 £65,000 -7.14% 26
East Midlands -15 102 £55,000 -21.43% 35
North East +18 78 £61,206 -12.56% 22
Wales -14 44 £52,500 -12.50% 13
Northern Ireland +3 36 £65,000 +34.02% 15
Isle of Man - 4 £82,500 - 2

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
1 198 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 98 (2.66%) FileNet
3 72 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 64 (1.74%) Apache
5 58 (1.58%) Confluence
6 40 (1.09%) 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 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
12 7 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
12 7 (0.19%) SharePoint
13 6 (0.16%) Apache Pig
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 (0.081%) 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 30 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.054%) Magento
5 1 (0.027%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,766 (47.98%) Azure
2 1,699 (46.16%) AWS
3 399 (10.84%) Serverless
4 284 (7.72%) GCP
5 246 (6.68%) SaaS
6 232 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
7 201 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
8 169 (4.59%) Amazon S3
9 155 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
10 154 (4.18%) GitHub
11 111 (3.02%) Amazon ECS
12 101 (2.74%) PaaS
13 87 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 83 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
15 81 (2.20%) IaaS
16 65 (1.77%) Amazon SQS
17 54 (1.47%) OpenShift
18 48 (1.30%) Azure Functions
19 47 (1.28%) BlazeMeter
19 47 (1.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 88 (2.39%) Internet
2 58 (1.58%) HTTP
3 56 (1.52%) DNS
4 48 (1.30%) Firewall
5 35 (0.95%) AMQP
6 23 (0.62%) MQTT
7 18 (0.49%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.43%) 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 (0.081%) 4G
13 3 (0.081%) 5G
13 3 (0.081%) GPRS
13 3 (0.081%) SMS
13 3 (0.081%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.081%) Wireless
14 2 (0.054%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 855 (23.23%) SQL Server
2 524 (14.24%) NoSQL
3 432 (11.74%) MongoDB
4 388 (10.54%) Elasticsearch
5 278 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
6 220 (5.98%) Relational Database
7 203 (5.51%) MySQL
8 141 (3.83%) Apache Cassandra
9 130 (3.53%) Big Data
10 114 (3.10%) Hadoop
11 108 (2.93%) Redis
12 88 (2.39%) Apache Hive
13 73 (1.98%) DynamoDB
14 71 (1.93%) HBase
15 54 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
15 54 (1.47%) RDBMS
16 35 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
16 35 (0.95%) Oracle Database
17 32 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
18 29 (0.79%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 488 (13.26%) Git
2 349 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 180 (4.89%) JUnit
4 113 (3.07%) JIRA
5 104 (2.83%) GitLab
6 69 (1.87%) Maven
7 63 (1.71%) Jasmine
8 61 (1.66%) Cucumber
9 58 (1.58%) Mockito
9 58 (1.58%) Selenium
10 56 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
11 47 (1.28%) Visual Studio
12 43 (1.17%) JMeter
13 41 (1.11%) Cypress.io
14 35 (0.95%) NUnit
15 30 (0.81%) CircleCI
15 30 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
16 29 (0.79%) Jaeger
16 29 (0.79%) TeamCity
17 28 (0.76%) SonarQube
General
1 1,064 (28.91%) Finance
2 601 (16.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 576 (15.65%) Social Skills
4 547 (14.86%) Law
5 317 (8.61%) Marketing
6 279 (7.58%) Banking
7 217 (5.90%) Legal
8 211 (5.73%) Public Sector
9 160 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
10 133 (3.61%) Retail
11 107 (2.91%) Financial Institution
12 83 (2.25%) Investment Banking
13 68 (1.85%) Games
14 57 (1.55%) Aerospace
15 44 (1.20%) Tech for Good
16 41 (1.11%) Front Office
17 37 (1.01%) Retail Banking
18 33 (0.90%) Advertising
19 31 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
19 31 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,735 (47.13%) Developer
2 896 (24.34%) .NET Developer
3 876 (23.80%) Software Engineer
4 679 (18.45%) Senior
5 487 (13.23%) Lead
6 443 (12.03%) Architect
7 379 (10.30%) Java Engineer
8 344 (9.35%) C# Developer
9 309 (8.39%) Java Software Engineer
10 300 (8.15%) Senior Developer
11 287 (7.80%) C# .NET Developer
12 275 (7.47%) Java Developer
13 244 (6.63%) Solutions Architect
14 211 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
15 177 (4.81%) Full Stack Engineer
16 171 (4.65%) Software Developer
17 150 (4.07%) Lead Software Engineer
18 146 (3.97%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 116 (3.15%) Full Stack Developer
20 104 (2.83%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,381 (37.52%) .NET
2 1,144 (31.08%) AngularJS
3 925 (25.13%) React
4 804 (21.84%) ASP.NET Web API
5 785 (21.33%) .NET Core
6 741 (20.13%) ASP.NET
7 659 (17.90%) Spring
8 634 (17.22%) Node.js
9 623 (16.92%) .NET Framework
10 571 (15.51%) Entity Framework
11 557 (15.13%) RESTful
12 548 (14.89%) ASP.NET MVC
13 531 (14.43%) Kafka
14 526 (14.29%) Spring Boot
15 437 (11.87%) Vue
16 419 (11.38%) HTML
17 391 (10.62%) REST
18 268 (7.28%) CSS
19 215 (5.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 205 (5.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 435 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 192 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
3 184 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 170 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
5 163 (4.43%) Public Cloud
6 100 (2.72%) Mobile App
7 98 (2.66%) Product Ownership
8 90 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 87 (2.36%) Management Information System
10 71 (1.93%) Client/Server
11 64 (1.74%) IoT
12 62 (1.68%) Social Media
13 61 (1.66%) Data Structures
14 58 (1.58%) Social Network
15 55 (1.49%) Distributed Applications
16 52 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
17 45 (1.22%) Blog
18 40 (1.09%) iPhone
19 36 (0.98%) Reference Data
20 34 (0.92%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 193 (5.24%) Linux
2 100 (2.72%) Unix
3 87 (2.36%) Android
4 77 (2.09%) Windows
5 53 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.33%) Ubuntu
7 47 (1.28%) CentOS
8 28 (0.76%) Debian
9 27 (0.73%) Apple iOS
10 21 (0.57%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.081%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.054%) VMS
12 2 (0.054%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.027%) Solaris
13 1 (0.027%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,248 (61.07%) Agile
2 1,269 (34.47%) Software Engineering
3 1,251 (33.99%) Full Stack Development
4 1,058 (28.74%) CI/CD
5 867 (23.55%) DevOps
6 784 (21.30%) TDD
7 684 (18.58%) SDLC
8 667 (18.12%) MVC
9 625 (16.98%) Scrum
10 468 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
11 449 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence
12 447 (12.14%) BDD
13 438 (11.90%) Kanban
13 438 (11.90%) Machine Learning
14 410 (11.14%) Mentoring
15 400 (10.87%) Test Automation
16 394 (10.70%) Containerisation
17 371 (10.08%) Computer Science
18 366 (9.94%) Operational Stability
19 332 (9.02%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 1,409 (38.28%) Java
2 1,354 (36.78%) C#
3 1,214 (32.98%) JavaScript
4 805 (21.87%) SQL
5 685 (18.61%) TypeScript
6 654 (17.77%) Python
7 146 (3.97%) Go
8 92 (2.50%) Kotlin
9 82 (2.23%) PHP
10 68 (1.85%) PL/SQL
11 61 (1.66%) C++
12 55 (1.49%) Scala
13 52 (1.41%) Bash
14 48 (1.30%) Ruby
15 46 (1.25%) PowerShell
16 41 (1.11%) C
17 33 (0.90%) Perl
18 31 (0.84%) Shell Script
18 31 (0.84%) T-SQL
19 26 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 344 (9.35%) Degree
2 219 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 196 (5.32%) SC Cleared
4 187 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 96 (2.61%) Master's Degree
6 78 (2.12%) AWS Certification
7 57 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
8 52 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 44 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 33 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (0.65%) PMI Certification
13 20 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 15 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
15 15 (0.41%) PhD
16 14 (0.38%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.19%) CISSP
18 6 (0.16%) CIPD
19 5 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (4.59%) QA
2 44 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 40 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 29 (0.79%) GDPR
5 13 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.35%) SLA
6 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.22%) PSD2
8 7 (0.19%) WCAG
9 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.14%) GRC
10 5 (0.14%) SEPA
11 3 (0.081%) MiFID
11 3 (0.081%) PMO
12 2 (0.054%) EMIR
12 2 (0.054%) NIST
13 1 (0.027%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.027%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.027%) Solvency II
System Software
1 713 (19.37%) Docker
2 77 (2.09%) HDFS
3 55 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.73%) Active Directory
6 21 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.24%) Firmware
8 5 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 888 (24.12%) Kubernetes
2 350 (9.51%) Terraform
3 160 (4.35%) Ansible
4 112 (3.04%) Grafana
5 58 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 53 (1.44%) Puppet
7 42 (1.14%) Kibana
8 21 (0.57%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.57%) Zipkin
9 14 (0.38%) Consul
10 13 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.27%) MIIS
12 9 (0.24%) Istio
13 8 (0.22%) Kiali
14 6 (0.16%) Argo
15 5 (0.14%) Rancher
15 5 (0.14%) SCOM
16 3 (0.081%) Nessus
16 3 (0.081%) Nmap
Vendors
1 875 (23.77%) Microsoft
2 266 (7.23%) Oracle
3 245 (6.66%) Google
4 94 (2.55%) Databricks
5 91 (2.47%) Splunk
6 73 (1.98%) Dynatrace
7 72 (1.96%) Cloudera
8 58 (1.58%) Facebook
9 56 (1.52%) Informatica
10 41 (1.11%) Red Hat
11 40 (1.09%) WSO2
12 34 (0.92%) Salesforce
13 33 (0.90%) Apple
13 33 (0.90%) Sony
13 33 (0.90%) Sparx
13 33 (0.90%) Yahoo!
14 28 (0.76%) SaltStack
15 27 (0.73%) IBM
16 26 (0.71%) YouTube
17 22 (0.60%) Sitecore