Microservices Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microservices
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 37 28
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,888 2,914 6,382
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.59% 7.03% 9.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 7.31% 9.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,684 1,987 3,224
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £96,452 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% +10.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,857 39,858 66,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.38% 96.10% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,686 41,025
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Microservices
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microservices trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microservices.

Microservices salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microservices over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Microservices salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 27 (1.43%) OpenStack
2 19 (1.01%) Confluence
3 11 (0.58%) Apache
3 11 (0.58%) CMS
4 10 (0.53%) JBoss
4 10 (0.53%) nginx
4 10 (0.53%) Umbraco
5 9 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) DNN
7 6 (0.32%) EPiServer
7 6 (0.32%) Immediacy CMS
7 6 (0.32%) Kentico
7 6 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.32%) Sitefinity
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (0.74%) Simulink
2 7 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.053%) Sketch
6 1 (0.053%) UXPin
6 1 (0.053%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 4 (0.21%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,098 (58.16%) Azure
2 837 (44.33%) AWS
3 230 (12.18%) Serverless
4 174 (9.22%) SaaS
5 147 (7.79%) GCP
6 113 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
8 74 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
9 72 (3.81%) GitHub
10 67 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (2.44%) PaaS
12 44 (2.33%) Amazon S3
13 40 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
14 38 (2.01%) Google Play
15 37 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (1.69%) IaaS
18 26 (1.38%) Power Platform
19 25 (1.32%) Azure Functions
20 24 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.24%) Internet
2 38 (2.01%) DNS
3 24 (1.27%) Firewall
4 23 (1.22%) HTTP
5 16 (0.85%) Hyperconnected
6 13 (0.69%) Network Security
7 8 (0.42%) AMQP
8 7 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.26%) DHCP
9 5 (0.26%) VPN
10 3 (0.16%) 4G
10 3 (0.16%) 5G
10 3 (0.16%) GPRS
10 3 (0.16%) SMS
10 3 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.16%) Wireless
11 1 (0.053%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.053%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 651 (34.48%) SQL Server
2 310 (16.42%) MongoDB
3 269 (14.25%) Elasticsearch
4 177 (9.38%) NoSQL
5 165 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
6 142 (7.52%) Relational Database
7 128 (6.78%) MySQL
8 55 (2.91%) RDBMS
9 43 (2.28%) Oracle Database
10 39 (2.07%) Redis
11 35 (1.85%) DynamoDB
12 28 (1.48%) Big Data
13 24 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
14 20 (1.06%) NonStop SQL
15 19 (1.01%) DB2
16 17 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (0.90%) Power BI
17 15 (0.79%) CouchDB
18 13 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
19 12 (0.64%) GIS
Development Applications
1 295 (15.63%) Git
2 111 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 57 (3.02%) GitLab
4 44 (2.33%) JIRA
5 36 (1.91%) JDeveloper
6 32 (1.69%) Visual Studio
7 30 (1.59%) Selenium
8 29 (1.54%) Maven
9 28 (1.48%) JUnit
10 26 (1.38%) Cypress.io
11 22 (1.17%) Cucumber
11 22 (1.17%) TeamCity
12 20 (1.06%) Postman
13 18 (0.95%) NUnit
14 17 (0.90%) Jasmine
15 16 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
16 15 (0.79%) Vagrant
17 13 (0.69%) SpecFlow
18 11 (0.58%) Gradle
19 10 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 342 (18.11%) Finance
2 288 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 145 (7.68%) Public Sector
4 102 (5.40%) Retail
5 100 (5.30%) Banking
6 86 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 77 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
8 52 (2.75%) Legal
9 48 (2.54%) Law
10 46 (2.44%) Games
11 35 (1.85%) Marketing
12 29 (1.54%) Tech for Good
13 27 (1.43%) Advertising
13 27 (1.43%) Music Industry
14 23 (1.22%) Automotive
15 17 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.79%) Aerospace
17 11 (0.58%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,024 (54.24%) Developer
2 605 (32.04%) .NET Developer
3 388 (20.55%) Senior
4 270 (14.30%) Software Engineer
5 246 (13.03%) Architect
6 240 (12.71%) C# Developer
7 215 (11.39%) Lead
8 204 (10.81%) C# .NET Developer
9 173 (9.16%) Senior Developer
10 149 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
11 132 (6.99%) Java Engineer
12 107 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
12 107 (5.67%) Software Developer
13 105 (5.56%) Java Developer
14 84 (4.45%) Java Software Engineer
15 67 (3.55%) Senior Java Engineer
16 63 (3.34%) Lead Developer
17 60 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
17 60 (3.18%) Full Stack Developer
18 52 (2.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 850 (45.02%) .NET
2 691 (36.60%) AngularJS
3 667 (35.33%) .NET Core
4 586 (31.04%) ASP.NET
5 579 (30.67%) ASP.NET Web API
6 534 (28.28%) ASP.NET MVC
7 452 (23.94%) .NET Framework
8 450 (23.83%) React
9 427 (22.62%) Entity Framework
9 427 (22.62%) Node.js
10 360 (19.07%) RESTful
11 291 (15.41%) Vue
12 233 (12.34%) HTML
13 190 (10.06%) Spring
14 181 (9.59%) Kafka
15 177 (9.38%) HTML5
16 172 (9.11%) LINQ
17 169 (8.95%) Spring Boot
18 153 (8.10%) REST
19 150 (7.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 155 (8.21%) Greenfield Project
2 100 (5.30%) Cloud Native
3 95 (5.03%) Public Cloud
4 81 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
5 71 (3.76%) Mobile App
6 70 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
7 59 (3.13%) Client/Server
8 52 (2.75%) Product Ownership
9 39 (2.07%) Algorithms
9 39 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 38 (2.01%) iPhone
11 34 (1.80%) Data Structures
11 34 (1.80%) IoT
11 34 (1.80%) Social Network
12 33 (1.75%) BBC
12 33 (1.75%) Social Media
13 27 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 23 (1.22%) PMI
15 21 (1.11%) Blog
15 21 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (4.18%) Linux
2 68 (3.60%) Android
3 52 (2.75%) Windows
4 15 (0.79%) CentOS
4 15 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.79%) Ubuntu
5 12 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.48%) Unix
7 5 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.053%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,191 (63.08%) Agile
2 714 (37.82%) Full Stack Development
3 586 (31.04%) MVC
4 508 (26.91%) TDD
5 431 (22.83%) DevOps
6 413 (21.88%) Software Engineering
7 384 (20.34%) Scrum
8 335 (17.74%) BDD
9 328 (17.37%) CI/CD
10 307 (16.26%) Kanban
11 250 (13.24%) Mentoring
12 243 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
13 219 (11.60%) Design Patterns
14 197 (10.43%) Containerisation
15 190 (10.06%) Multithreading
16 180 (9.53%) OO
17 168 (8.90%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
18 162 (8.58%) Test Automation
19 156 (8.26%) Continuous Integration
20 143 (7.57%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 870 (46.08%) JavaScript
2 867 (45.92%) C#
3 521 (27.60%) Java
4 409 (21.66%) TypeScript
5 305 (16.15%) SQL
6 228 (12.08%) Python
7 116 (6.14%) Go
8 52 (2.75%) PHP
9 47 (2.49%) Bash
9 47 (2.49%) C++
10 45 (2.38%) Ruby
11 39 (2.07%) C
12 36 (1.91%) Perl
13 34 (1.80%) Kotlin
14 20 (1.06%) T-SQL
15 18 (0.95%) PowerShell
16 12 (0.64%) Ada
17 10 (0.53%) Scala
17 10 (0.53%) VB.NET
18 8 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 137 (7.26%) Degree
2 101 (5.35%) Security Cleared
3 86 (4.56%) SC Cleared
4 68 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
7 23 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 21 (1.11%) AWS Certification
9 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.58%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.32%) CISSP
15 4 (0.21%) CIPD
16 3 (0.16%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.16%) OSCE
16 3 (0.16%) OSCP
16 3 (0.16%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.18%) QA
2 8 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (0.37%) SEPA
4 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.32%) WCAG
5 5 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.26%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.11%) GDPR
7 1 (0.053%) EMIR
7 1 (0.053%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.053%) MiFID
7 1 (0.053%) NIST
7 1 (0.053%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.053%) SLA
7 1 (0.053%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 394 (20.87%) Docker
2 32 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (1.38%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.06%) Active Directory
5 16 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 356 (18.86%) Kubernetes
2 122 (6.46%) Terraform
3 66 (3.50%) Ansible
4 32 (1.69%) Grafana
5 15 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.69%) Puppet
7 8 (0.42%) Kibana
7 8 (0.42%) MIIS
8 7 (0.37%) Consul
9 5 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.26%) SCOM
10 4 (0.21%) Rancher
11 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.16%) Argo
11 3 (0.16%) Galera Cluster
11 3 (0.16%) logstash
11 3 (0.16%) Nessus
11 3 (0.16%) Nmap
11 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 715 (37.87%) Microsoft
2 139 (7.36%) Google
3 107 (5.67%) Oracle
4 58 (3.07%) Facebook
5 33 (1.75%) Apple
5 33 (1.75%) Sony
5 33 (1.75%) Yahoo!
6 28 (1.48%) IBM
7 27 (1.43%) WSO2
8 26 (1.38%) YouTube
9 25 (1.32%) Sitecore
10 22 (1.17%) Salesforce
11 16 (0.85%) ForgeRock
12 14 (0.74%) Xilinx
13 10 (0.53%) Splunk
14 9 (0.48%) GoCardless
14 9 (0.48%) PayPal
14 9 (0.48%) Sage
15 8 (0.42%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.42%) Xamarin