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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 49 31
Rank change year-on-year -16 -18 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 3,745 5,944 14,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.78% 5.85% 8.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 6.12% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,763 3,635 5,464
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £83,759 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 8 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 8 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 -19 2,941 £65,000 -18.75% 706
UK excluding London +14 2,618 £61,206 -9.32% 418
Work from Home -5 1,913 £62,500 -16.67% 620
London -32 1,032 £82,500 -2.94% 324
Scotland -9 630 £65,000 -5.45% 34
South East -10 595 £60,000 -7.69% 77
North of England +26 578 £62,500 -7.41% 141
South West +22 297 £61,500 -8.89% 47
Midlands +22 286 £60,000 -4.00% 78
North West -11 272 £65,000 -3.70% 79
Yorkshire +68 230 £61,206 -12.56% 47
West Midlands +53 184 £65,000 +8.33% 37
East of England -19 146 £65,000 -10.34% 20
East Midlands -22 102 £55,000 -20.00% 41
North East +21 76 £61,206 -12.56% 16
Wales -3 46 £52,500 -12.50% 11
Northern Ireland +12 37 £65,000 +37.57% 14
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 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 98 (2.62%) FileNet
3 69 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 57 (1.52%) Apache
5 52 (1.39%) Confluence
6 42 (1.12%) OpenStack
7 21 (0.56%) GemFire
8 19 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 18 (0.48%) CMS
10 17 (0.45%) nginx
11 12 (0.32%) JBoss
11 12 (0.32%) Umbraco
12 11 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
13 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
14 9 (0.24%) SharePoint
15 8 (0.21%) Apache Pig
16 6 (0.16%) EPiServer
16 6 (0.16%) Immediacy CMS
16 6 (0.16%) Kentico
16 6 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 17 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.32%) Simulink
3 7 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.053%) 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 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
4 3 (0.080%) Magento
5 1 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,771 (47.29%) Azure
2 1,694 (45.23%) AWS
3 433 (11.56%) Serverless
4 289 (7.72%) GCP
5 269 (7.18%) SaaS
6 249 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
7 195 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
8 167 (4.46%) Amazon S3
9 159 (4.25%) GitHub
10 153 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
11 114 (3.04%) PaaS
12 112 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
13 95 (2.54%) IaaS
14 94 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 76 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
16 64 (1.71%) Amazon SQS
17 53 (1.42%) OpenShift
17 53 (1.42%) Power Platform
18 51 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
19 50 (1.34%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 86 (2.30%) Internet
2 55 (1.47%) DNS
3 53 (1.42%) HTTP
4 45 (1.20%) Firewall
5 35 (0.93%) AMQP
6 19 (0.51%) MQTT
7 17 (0.45%) Network Security
8 16 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
9 15 (0.40%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.19%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.19%) WAN
11 6 (0.16%) VPN
12 5 (0.13%) DHCP
13 3 (0.080%) 4G
13 3 (0.080%) 5G
13 3 (0.080%) Bluetooth
13 3 (0.080%) GPRS
13 3 (0.080%) SMS
13 3 (0.080%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.080%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 842 (22.48%) SQL Server
2 531 (14.18%) NoSQL
3 427 (11.40%) MongoDB
4 388 (10.36%) Elasticsearch
5 264 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
6 243 (6.49%) Relational Database
7 209 (5.58%) MySQL
8 139 (3.71%) Apache Cassandra
9 137 (3.66%) Big Data
10 113 (3.02%) Hadoop
11 98 (2.62%) Redis
12 87 (2.32%) Apache Hive
13 72 (1.92%) HBase
14 68 (1.82%) RDBMS
15 63 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
16 62 (1.66%) DynamoDB
17 47 (1.26%) Oracle Database
18 33 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
19 32 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
20 31 (0.83%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 520 (13.89%) Git
2 363 (9.69%) Jenkins
3 184 (4.91%) JUnit
4 116 (3.10%) GitLab
5 114 (3.04%) JIRA
6 72 (1.92%) Maven
7 70 (1.87%) Jasmine
8 64 (1.71%) Mockito
8 64 (1.71%) Selenium
9 61 (1.63%) Cucumber
10 59 (1.58%) Bitbucket Server
11 48 (1.28%) Visual Studio
12 44 (1.17%) Cypress.io
12 44 (1.17%) JMeter
13 41 (1.09%) SonarQube
14 39 (1.04%) NUnit
15 36 (0.96%) JDeveloper
16 29 (0.77%) Jaeger
16 29 (0.77%) TeamCity
17 28 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,101 (29.40%) Finance
2 609 (16.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 556 (14.85%) Social Skills
4 548 (14.63%) Law
5 314 (8.38%) Marketing
6 297 (7.93%) Banking
7 224 (5.98%) Legal
8 212 (5.66%) Public Sector
9 166 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
10 138 (3.68%) Retail
11 110 (2.94%) Financial Institution
12 86 (2.30%) Investment Banking
13 69 (1.84%) Games
14 55 (1.47%) Aerospace
15 43 (1.15%) Front Office
16 42 (1.12%) Tech for Good
17 35 (0.93%) Retail Banking
18 34 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
19 33 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
20 30 (0.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,740 (46.46%) Developer
2 885 (23.63%) Software Engineer
3 868 (23.18%) .NET Developer
4 705 (18.83%) Senior
5 485 (12.95%) Lead
6 484 (12.92%) Architect
7 404 (10.79%) Java Engineer
8 337 (9.00%) C# Developer
9 328 (8.76%) Java Software Engineer
10 318 (8.49%) Senior Developer
11 287 (7.66%) Java Developer
12 279 (7.45%) C# .NET Developer
13 272 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
14 216 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
15 176 (4.70%) Full Stack Engineer
16 172 (4.59%) Software Developer
17 146 (3.90%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 145 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
19 121 (3.23%) Full Stack Developer
20 115 (3.07%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,368 (36.53%) .NET
2 1,130 (30.17%) AngularJS
3 944 (25.21%) React
4 787 (21.01%) ASP.NET Web API
5 782 (20.88%) .NET Core
6 729 (19.47%) ASP.NET
7 685 (18.29%) Spring
8 646 (17.25%) Node.js
9 614 (16.40%) .NET Framework
10 562 (15.01%) Entity Framework
10 562 (15.01%) RESTful
11 541 (14.45%) ASP.NET MVC
12 535 (14.29%) Kafka
13 534 (14.26%) Spring Boot
14 431 (11.51%) HTML
15 424 (11.32%) Vue
16 379 (10.12%) REST
17 280 (7.48%) CSS
18 212 (5.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 201 (5.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 442 (11.80%) Cloud Native
2 197 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 185 (4.94%) Algorithms
4 183 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
5 166 (4.43%) Public Cloud
6 100 (2.67%) Mobile App
7 99 (2.64%) Product Ownership
8 89 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
9 81 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 71 (1.90%) Client/Server
11 62 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 59 (1.58%) IoT
13 56 (1.50%) Social Media
14 55 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
15 54 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
16 52 (1.39%) Social Network
17 40 (1.07%) iPhone
18 37 (0.99%) Blockchain
18 37 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 36 (0.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 199 (5.31%) Linux
2 113 (3.02%) Unix
3 90 (2.40%) Windows
4 86 (2.30%) Android
5 44 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 39 (1.04%) CentOS
8 32 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 26 (0.69%) Debian
10 21 (0.56%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.080%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.053%) VMS
13 1 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,270 (60.61%) Agile
2 1,276 (34.07%) Software Engineering
3 1,229 (32.82%) Full Stack Development
4 1,060 (28.30%) CI/CD
5 890 (23.77%) DevOps
6 770 (20.56%) TDD
7 689 (18.40%) SDLC
8 661 (17.65%) MVC
9 631 (16.85%) Scrum
10 506 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
11 454 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence
12 445 (11.88%) BDD
13 444 (11.86%) Machine Learning
14 442 (11.80%) Mentoring
15 439 (11.72%) Containerisation
15 439 (11.72%) Kanban
16 410 (10.95%) Test Automation
17 371 (9.91%) Operational Stability
18 364 (9.72%) Design Patterns
19 347 (9.27%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,444 (38.56%) Java
2 1,359 (36.29%) C#
3 1,230 (32.84%) JavaScript
4 813 (21.71%) SQL
5 685 (18.29%) TypeScript
6 675 (18.02%) Python
7 159 (4.25%) Go
8 80 (2.14%) Ruby
9 79 (2.11%) PHP
10 76 (2.03%) Bash
10 76 (2.03%) Kotlin
11 72 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 58 (1.55%) C++
12 58 (1.55%) PowerShell
13 45 (1.20%) Perl
14 43 (1.15%) C
15 36 (0.96%) Scala
16 35 (0.93%) T-SQL
17 31 (0.83%) Shell Script
18 26 (0.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 330 (8.81%) Degree
2 219 (5.85%) Security Cleared
3 196 (5.23%) SC Cleared
4 164 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 94 (2.51%) Master's Degree
6 77 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 60 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
8 49 (1.31%) Azure Certification
9 48 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (0.96%) DV Cleared
11 31 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (0.64%) PMI Certification
13 18 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 18 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.29%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.29%) PhD
16 7 (0.19%) CISSP
17 5 (0.13%) PCI QSA
17 5 (0.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (4.65%) QA
2 42 (1.12%) Accessibility
2 42 (1.12%) Data Quality
3 28 (0.75%) GDPR
4 13 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (0.29%) SLA
6 10 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.21%) PSD2
8 7 (0.19%) SEPA
8 7 (0.19%) WCAG
9 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.13%) GRC
11 3 (0.080%) PMO
12 2 (0.053%) NIST
13 1 (0.027%) EMIR
13 1 (0.027%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.027%) MiFID
13 1 (0.027%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.027%) Solvency II
System Software
1 745 (19.89%) Docker
2 80 (2.14%) HDFS
3 46 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.72%) 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
1 901 (24.06%) Kubernetes
2 347 (9.27%) Terraform
3 170 (4.54%) Ansible
4 123 (3.28%) Grafana
5 69 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 50 (1.34%) Puppet
7 43 (1.15%) Kibana
8 21 (0.56%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.56%) Zipkin
9 18 (0.48%) Consul
10 11 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.27%) MIIS
12 8 (0.21%) Istio
12 8 (0.21%) 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 (0.080%) Galera Cluster
Vendors
1 876 (23.39%) Microsoft
2 280 (7.48%) Oracle
3 228 (6.09%) Google
4 93 (2.48%) Databricks
5 92 (2.46%) Splunk
6 76 (2.03%) Dynatrace
7 74 (1.98%) Cloudera
8 58 (1.55%) Facebook
9 56 (1.50%) Informatica
10 42 (1.12%) WSO2
11 38 (1.01%) Red Hat
12 36 (0.96%) Sparx
13 34 (0.91%) Salesforce
14 33 (0.88%) Apple
14 33 (0.88%) IBM
14 33 (0.88%) Sony
14 33 (0.88%) Yahoo!
15 26 (0.69%) SaltStack
15 26 (0.69%) YouTube
16 25 (0.67%) Sitecore