Microservices Jobs in Scotland

Microservices
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 28 53
Rank change year-on-year -10 +25 -17
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 632 396 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.38% 8.41% 5.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.11% 8.92% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 150 199 180
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,219 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,875 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,539 £97,328 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,250 4,437 5,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.80% 94.24% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,226 2,810
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Scotland.

Salary trend for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 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
Glasgow +28 524 £65,000 -1.52% 16
Edinburgh -24 83 £70,576 +1.62% 11
Aberdeen -10 9 £52,500 -19.23% 1
South Lanarkshire - 9 £80,000 -
Dundee -10 4 £42,500 - 2
Inverclyde - 1 £60,000 -
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 146 (23.10%) Apache Spark
2 98 (15.51%) FileNet
3 56 (8.86%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (3.32%) GemFire
5 5 (0.79%) Apache
5 5 (0.79%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.47%) Confluence
7 1 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 280 (44.30%) AWS
2 98 (15.51%) Amazon S3
3 64 (10.13%) Azure
4 52 (8.23%) GitHub
5 48 (7.59%) BlazeMeter
6 34 (5.38%) GCP
7 29 (4.59%) SaaS
8 19 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (3.01%) Serverless
9 5 (0.79%) Datadog
9 5 (0.79%) IaaS
9 5 (0.79%) PaaS
10 4 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.63%) IBM Cloud
11 3 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.47%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.47%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.74%) Internet
2 1 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (32.59%) NoSQL
2 135 (21.36%) Apache Cassandra
3 110 (17.41%) Elasticsearch
4 72 (11.39%) Apache Hive
4 72 (11.39%) Hadoop
4 72 (11.39%) HBase
5 56 (8.86%) Big Data
6 54 (8.54%) MongoDB
7 23 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 21 (3.32%) CockroachDB
8 21 (3.32%) Hazelcast
9 18 (2.85%) SQL Server
10 13 (2.06%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.11%) MySQL
13 6 (0.95%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.63%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 129 (20.41%) Jenkins
2 128 (20.25%) JUnit
3 78 (12.34%) Git
4 56 (8.86%) Bitbucket Server
5 47 (7.44%) Mockito
6 45 (7.12%) Jasmine
7 28 (4.43%) JMeter
8 24 (3.80%) Maven
9 21 (3.32%) Jaeger
10 13 (2.06%) Cucumber
10 13 (2.06%) Cypress.io
10 13 (2.06%) JIRA
11 12 (1.90%) Visual Studio
12 10 (1.58%) Gradle
13 6 (0.95%) JDeveloper
14 5 (0.79%) Selenium
15 4 (0.63%) GitLab
15 4 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
16 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
16 3 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 519 (82.12%) Finance
2 486 (76.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 461 (72.94%) Law
4 253 (40.03%) Marketing
5 151 (23.89%) Legal
6 104 (16.46%) Banking
7 68 (10.76%) Financial Institution
8 42 (6.65%) Investment Banking
9 40 (6.33%) Social Skills
10 21 (3.32%) Private Banking
11 11 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (0.95%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.63%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.47%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.32%) Games
15 2 (0.32%) Retail
16 1 (0.16%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 464 (73.42%) Software Engineer
2 206 (32.59%) Java Engineer
3 202 (31.96%) Java Software Engineer
4 128 (20.25%) Full Stack Engineer
4 128 (20.25%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 113 (17.88%) Developer
6 112 (17.72%) Lead
7 103 (16.30%) Lead Software Engineer
8 98 (15.51%) Senior
9 85 (13.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 62 (9.81%) Python Engineer
10 62 (9.81%) Python Software Engineer
11 56 (8.86%) Database Developer
11 56 (8.86%) Database Engineer
11 56 (8.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 55 (8.70%) Engineering Manager
12 55 (8.70%) Software Engineering Manager
13 40 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
13 40 (6.33%) AWS Software Engineer
13 40 (6.33%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (46.36%) Spring
2 204 (32.28%) Kafka
3 197 (31.17%) React
4 193 (30.54%) AngularJS
5 159 (25.16%) Spring Boot
6 107 (16.93%) J2EE
7 106 (16.77%) Hibernate
8 102 (16.14%) CSS
8 102 (16.14%) GraphQL
8 102 (16.14%) Spring Integration
9 101 (15.98%) HTML
10 88 (13.92%) Node.js
11 80 (12.66%) REST
11 80 (12.66%) RESTful
12 74 (11.71%) PySpark
13 65 (10.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 62 (9.81%) JSON
15 58 (9.18%) .NET
16 56 (8.86%) JPA
17 53 (8.39%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 202 (31.96%) Cloud Native
2 109 (17.25%) Algorithms
3 49 (7.75%) Distributed Applications
4 34 (5.38%) Reference Data
5 27 (4.27%) Market Risk
5 27 (4.27%) Public Cloud
6 21 (3.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 21 (3.32%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.32%) Replication
7 14 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.22%) Social Media
8 12 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.74%) Blockchain
10 7 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.11%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.11%) Robotics
11 6 (0.95%) BBC
11 6 (0.95%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.79%) Online Banking
12 5 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 79 (12.50%) Unix
2 8 (1.27%) Linux
3 3 (0.47%) Android
3 3 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (86.71%) Agile
2 537 (84.97%) Software Engineering
3 466 (73.73%) SDLC
4 414 (65.51%) CI/CD
5 357 (56.49%) Operational Stability
6 316 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 311 (49.21%) Machine Learning
8 227 (35.92%) Community of Practice
9 179 (28.32%) Full Stack Development
10 178 (28.16%) Risk Management
11 157 (24.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 150 (23.73%) Visualisation
13 147 (23.26%) Decision-Making
14 117 (18.51%) TDD
15 108 (17.09%) Test Automation
16 102 (16.14%) Computer Science
17 98 (15.51%) AOP
17 98 (15.51%) Document Management
18 88 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
19 87 (13.77%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 478 (75.63%) Java
2 293 (46.36%) SQL
3 212 (33.54%) Python
4 138 (21.84%) JavaScript
5 94 (14.87%) TypeScript
6 83 (13.13%) C#
7 59 (9.34%) PL/SQL
8 23 (3.64%) C++
9 22 (3.48%) Groovy
10 11 (1.74%) Ruby
11 10 (1.58%) Bash
12 8 (1.27%) Go
12 8 (1.27%) PHP
13 6 (0.95%) Perl
13 6 (0.95%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.63%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.32%) C
15 2 (0.32%) Scala
16 1 (0.16%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 34 (5.38%) Degree
2 30 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 30 (4.75%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.32%) OCP
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (0.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.32%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.85%) QA
4 5 (0.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 72 (11.39%) HDFS
2 38 (6.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 191 (30.22%) Kubernetes
2 79 (12.50%) Terraform
3 60 (9.49%) Grafana
4 28 (4.43%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.32%) HAProxy
5 21 (3.32%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (3.32%) Kibana
5 21 (3.32%) Zipkin
6 9 (1.42%) Ansible
7 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 146 (23.10%) Oracle
2 81 (12.82%) Databricks
3 72 (11.39%) Cloudera
4 62 (9.81%) Dynatrace
5 61 (9.65%) Splunk
6 56 (8.86%) Informatica
7 21 (3.32%) Microsoft
8 18 (2.85%) Google
9 9 (1.42%) TOWER Software
10 6 (0.95%) Apple
10 6 (0.95%) Facebook
10 6 (0.95%) Sony
10 6 (0.95%) Yahoo!
11 4 (0.63%) Confluent
11 4 (0.63%) IBM
12 2 (0.32%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.16%) Adobe
13 1 (0.16%) Cisco
13 1 (0.16%) EMC
13 1 (0.16%) Salesforce