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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 48 33
Rank change year-on-year -17 -15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 3,720 6,246 13,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.79% 5.97% 8.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 6.24% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,755 3,821 5,447
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% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -20 2,915 £65,000 -18.75% 676
UK excluding London +8 2,603 £62,500 -7.41% 435
Work from Home -5 1,914 £62,500 -16.67% 604
London -33 1,021 £82,500 -2.94% 288
Scotland -13 630 £65,000 -6.40% 34
South East -7 596 £60,000 -7.69% 99
North of England +22 566 £62,500 -7.41% 136
South West +27 296 £60,500 -10.37% 45
Midlands +14 284 £60,000 -7.69% 69
North West -11 270 £65,000 - 74
Yorkshire +58 224 £61,206 -12.56% 47
West Midlands +47 185 £65,000 +4.84% 29
East of England -21 146 £65,000 -10.34% 35
East Midlands -29 99 £55,000 -21.43% 40
North East +19 72 £61,206 -12.56% 17
Wales -3 45 £52,500 -12.50% 15
Northern Ireland +16 38 £65,000 +37.57% 12
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
1 188 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 96 (2.58%) FileNet
3 69 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 55 (1.48%) Apache
5 54 (1.45%) Confluence
6 42 (1.13%) OpenStack
7 21 (0.56%) GemFire
8 19 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 18 (0.48%) CMS
10 17 (0.46%) nginx
11 12 (0.32%) JBoss
11 12 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
11 12 (0.32%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.24%) SharePoint
14 8 (0.22%) Apache Pig
15 6 (0.16%) EPiServer
15 6 (0.16%) Kentico
15 6 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 16 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.27%) 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 32 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
4 3 (0.081%) Magento
4 3 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.027%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,752 (47.10%) Azure
2 1,684 (45.27%) AWS
3 425 (11.42%) Serverless
4 288 (7.74%) GCP
5 266 (7.15%) SaaS
6 251 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
7 187 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
8 160 (4.30%) Amazon S3
9 154 (4.14%) GitHub
10 150 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
11 115 (3.09%) PaaS
12 108 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
13 96 (2.58%) IaaS
14 90 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 75 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
16 56 (1.51%) Amazon SQS
17 55 (1.48%) Power Platform
18 50 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
18 50 (1.34%) OpenShift
19 47 (1.26%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 84 (2.26%) Internet
2 54 (1.45%) DNS
3 53 (1.42%) HTTP
4 44 (1.18%) Firewall
5 33 (0.89%) AMQP
6 16 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
6 16 (0.43%) MQTT
6 16 (0.43%) Network Security
7 14 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.16%) VPN
9 5 (0.13%) Bluetooth
9 5 (0.13%) DHCP
9 5 (0.13%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.13%) WAN
10 4 (0.11%) Wireless
11 3 (0.081%) 4G
11 3 (0.081%) 5G
11 3 (0.081%) GPRS
11 3 (0.081%) SMS
11 3 (0.081%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 828 (22.26%) SQL Server
2 521 (14.01%) NoSQL
3 418 (11.24%) MongoDB
4 382 (10.27%) Elasticsearch
5 259 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
6 239 (6.42%) Relational Database
7 210 (5.65%) MySQL
8 139 (3.74%) Apache Cassandra
8 139 (3.74%) Big Data
9 110 (2.96%) Hadoop
10 98 (2.63%) Redis
11 87 (2.34%) Apache Hive
12 72 (1.94%) HBase
13 66 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
13 66 (1.77%) RDBMS
14 62 (1.67%) DynamoDB
15 46 (1.24%) Oracle Database
16 32 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
16 32 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
16 32 (0.86%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 511 (13.74%) Git
2 371 (9.97%) Jenkins
3 183 (4.92%) JUnit
4 117 (3.15%) JIRA
5 108 (2.90%) GitLab
6 77 (2.07%) Maven
7 72 (1.94%) Jasmine
8 65 (1.75%) Mockito
9 64 (1.72%) Cucumber
9 64 (1.72%) Selenium
10 59 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
11 47 (1.26%) Visual Studio
12 46 (1.24%) Cypress.io
13 43 (1.16%) JMeter
14 41 (1.10%) SonarQube
15 40 (1.08%) NUnit
16 36 (0.97%) JDeveloper
17 29 (0.78%) Jaeger
17 29 (0.78%) TeamCity
18 28 (0.75%) Postman
General
1 1,115 (29.97%) Finance
2 593 (15.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 542 (14.57%) Social Skills
4 530 (14.25%) Law
5 313 (8.41%) Banking
6 311 (8.36%) Marketing
7 230 (6.18%) Legal
8 210 (5.65%) Public Sector
9 169 (4.54%) Analytical Skills
10 141 (3.79%) Retail
11 109 (2.93%) Financial Institution
12 81 (2.18%) Investment Banking
13 68 (1.83%) Games
14 51 (1.37%) Aerospace
15 42 (1.13%) Tech for Good
16 37 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
17 36 (0.97%) Front Office
18 32 (0.86%) Retail Banking
19 31 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
20 30 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,725 (46.37%) Developer
2 873 (23.47%) Software Engineer
3 847 (22.77%) .NET Developer
4 709 (19.06%) Senior
5 502 (13.49%) Architect
6 474 (12.74%) Lead
7 399 (10.73%) Java Engineer
8 326 (8.76%) C# Developer
9 324 (8.71%) Java Software Engineer
10 320 (8.60%) Senior Developer
11 299 (8.04%) Java Developer
12 291 (7.82%) Solutions Architect
13 271 (7.28%) C# .NET Developer
14 219 (5.89%) Senior Software Engineer
15 173 (4.65%) Full Stack Engineer
16 172 (4.62%) Software Developer
17 142 (3.82%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 142 (3.82%) Lead Software Engineer
18 125 (3.36%) Full Stack Developer
19 118 (3.17%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,333 (35.83%) .NET
2 1,128 (30.32%) AngularJS
3 931 (25.03%) React
4 770 (20.70%) .NET Core
5 765 (20.56%) ASP.NET Web API
6 714 (19.19%) ASP.NET
7 697 (18.74%) Spring
8 631 (16.96%) Node.js
9 591 (15.89%) .NET Framework
10 562 (15.11%) RESTful
11 546 (14.68%) Kafka
11 546 (14.68%) Spring Boot
12 543 (14.60%) Entity Framework
13 531 (14.27%) ASP.NET MVC
14 423 (11.37%) HTML
15 418 (11.24%) Vue
16 378 (10.16%) REST
17 276 (7.42%) CSS
18 209 (5.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 196 (5.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 435 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 190 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
3 183 (4.92%) Algorithms
3 183 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
4 161 (4.33%) Public Cloud
5 101 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 97 (2.61%) Mobile App
7 87 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 81 (2.18%) Management Information System
9 71 (1.91%) Client/Server
10 60 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 56 (1.51%) IoT
12 55 (1.48%) Distributed Applications
12 55 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
13 52 (1.40%) Social Media
13 52 (1.40%) Social Network
14 43 (1.16%) Blockchain
15 40 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 39 (1.05%) iPhone
17 36 (0.97%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 196 (5.27%) Linux
2 113 (3.04%) Unix
3 86 (2.31%) Android
4 85 (2.28%) Windows
5 39 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 36 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 34 (0.91%) CentOS
9 24 (0.65%) Debian
10 18 (0.48%) Windows Server
11 4 (0.11%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.081%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.054%) VMS
14 1 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,265 (60.89%) Agile
2 1,261 (33.90%) Software Engineering
3 1,208 (32.47%) Full Stack Development
4 1,044 (28.06%) CI/CD
5 892 (23.98%) DevOps
6 755 (20.30%) TDD
7 687 (18.47%) SDLC
8 649 (17.45%) MVC
9 616 (16.56%) Scrum
10 518 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
11 449 (12.07%) Artificial Intelligence
12 446 (11.99%) Mentoring
13 440 (11.83%) Containerisation
14 438 (11.77%) BDD
15 437 (11.75%) Machine Learning
16 427 (11.48%) Kanban
17 404 (10.86%) Test Automation
18 367 (9.87%) Operational Stability
19 356 (9.57%) Design Patterns
20 344 (9.25%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,447 (38.90%) Java
2 1,328 (35.70%) C#
3 1,221 (32.82%) JavaScript
4 799 (21.48%) SQL
5 677 (18.20%) TypeScript
6 671 (18.04%) Python
7 156 (4.19%) Go
8 80 (2.15%) PHP
8 80 (2.15%) Ruby
9 77 (2.07%) Bash
10 72 (1.94%) Kotlin
11 71 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 57 (1.53%) C++
12 57 (1.53%) PowerShell
13 47 (1.26%) Perl
14 44 (1.18%) C
15 37 (0.99%) T-SQL
16 36 (0.97%) Scala
17 33 (0.89%) Shell Script
18 28 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 332 (8.92%) Degree
2 211 (5.67%) Security Cleared
3 191 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 169 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 96 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 75 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 59 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
8 49 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (0.89%) DV Cleared
11 31 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 18 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
13 18 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.30%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.27%) PhD
17 6 (0.16%) CISSP
18 5 (0.13%) OCP
18 5 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (4.57%) QA
2 41 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 41 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 29 (0.78%) GDPR
4 13 (0.35%) SEPA
5 12 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (0.30%) HIPAA
6 11 (0.30%) SLA
7 8 (0.22%) PSD2
8 7 (0.19%) WCAG
9 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.13%) GRC
10 5 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.11%) PMO
12 1 (0.027%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.027%) NCSC
12 1 (0.027%) NIST
12 1 (0.027%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.027%) Solvency II
System Software
1 761 (20.46%) Docker
2 80 (2.15%) HDFS
3 43 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.67%) Active Directory
6 20 (0.54%) 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
1 909 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 337 (9.06%) Terraform
3 165 (4.44%) Ansible
4 121 (3.25%) Grafana
5 67 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 46 (1.24%) Puppet
7 43 (1.16%) Kibana
8 21 (0.56%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.56%) Zipkin
9 17 (0.46%) Consul
10 11 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.27%) MIIS
12 8 (0.22%) Istio
12 8 (0.22%) Kiali
13 5 (0.13%) Argo
13 5 (0.13%) SCOM
14 4 (0.11%) Rancher
14 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.081%) Galera Cluster
Vendors
1 865 (23.25%) Microsoft
2 277 (7.45%) Oracle
3 227 (6.10%) Google
4 95 (2.55%) Databricks
5 90 (2.42%) Splunk
6 74 (1.99%) Cloudera
6 74 (1.99%) Dynatrace
7 58 (1.56%) Facebook
8 57 (1.53%) Informatica
9 42 (1.13%) WSO2
10 37 (0.99%) IBM
10 37 (0.99%) Red Hat
11 35 (0.94%) Sparx
12 34 (0.91%) Salesforce
13 33 (0.89%) Apple
13 33 (0.89%) Sony
13 33 (0.89%) Yahoo!
14 26 (0.70%) YouTube
15 24 (0.65%) SaltStack
16 23 (0.62%) Sitecore