Microservices Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Microservices
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 44 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 74 81 89
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 4.82% 4.81% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.51% 5.40% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 64 65
10th Percentile £344 £423 £400
25th Percentile £414 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £493 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +2.60% -
75th Percentile £557 £606 £619
90th Percentile £593 £625 £648
UK median daily rate £525 £568 £575
% change year-on-year -7.49% -1.30% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,344 1,500 2,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.50% 89.07% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 888 1,341
10th Percentile £238 £221 £250
25th Percentile £384 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 44 54
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.07 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +20.70% +3.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.05
90th Percentile £48.98 £32.66 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Scotland

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Microservices.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Microservices

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +6 51 £464 -10.43% 11
Edinburgh -4 23 £504 +8.33% 13
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.11%) CMS
2 2 (2.70%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.70%) Mule
3 1 (1.35%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 44 (59.46%) AWS
2 19 (25.68%) Azure
2 19 (25.68%) Serverless
3 16 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (20.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (12.16%) GCP
6 8 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (10.81%) OpenShift
7 7 (9.46%) Amazon S3
8 6 (8.11%) Amazon MSK
9 5 (6.76%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (6.76%) GitHub
9 5 (6.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (4.05%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.70%) Datadog
11 2 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.46%) Firewall
2 2 (2.70%) AMQP
2 2 (2.70%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.92%) NoSQL
2 11 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (12.16%) MongoDB
5 8 (10.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (10.81%) Relational Database
6 6 (8.11%) MySQL
7 4 (5.41%) Redis
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.05%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.70%) Big Data
9 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.35%) DB2
10 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.35%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (40.54%) Jenkins
2 19 (25.68%) Git
3 12 (16.22%) GitLab
4 11 (14.86%) JIRA
5 10 (13.51%) Cypress.io
6 8 (10.81%) JUnit
7 7 (9.46%) Bitbucket
7 7 (9.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (8.11%) webpack
9 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
9 3 (4.05%) Liquibase
9 3 (4.05%) Vite
10 2 (2.70%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.70%) git-flow
10 2 (2.70%) Mockito
10 2 (2.70%) Subversion
10 2 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (1.35%) Maven
General
1 26 (35.14%) Finance
2 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 17 (22.97%) Banking
4 15 (20.27%) Public Sector
5 9 (12.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (44.59%) Developer
2 23 (31.08%) Java Developer
3 11 (14.86%) Senior
3 11 (14.86%) Software Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (10.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 7 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Architect
7 5 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 5 (6.76%) Lead
8 4 (5.41%) AWS Architect
8 4 (5.41%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Data Architect
9 3 (4.05%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (47.30%) Spring
2 34 (45.95%) Spring Boot
3 32 (43.24%) React
4 28 (37.84%) RESTful
5 20 (27.03%) Kafka
6 15 (20.27%) Node.js
7 12 (16.22%) AngularJS
7 12 (16.22%) REST
8 11 (14.86%) OAuth
8 11 (14.86%) OAuth2
9 9 (12.16%) CSS
9 9 (12.16%) HTML
10 8 (10.81%) Hibernate
11 6 (8.11%) Ext JS
11 6 (8.11%) Jest
11 6 (8.11%) Next.js
12 5 (6.76%) CSS3
12 5 (6.76%) Flask
12 5 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (6.76%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 11 (14.86%) Product Ownership
3 9 (12.16%) Public Cloud
4 6 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.76%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.05%) AI Agents
6 3 (4.05%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.70%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.35%) Clustering
8 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.35%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.57%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Windows
3 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 44 (59.46%) DevOps
3 35 (47.30%) Agile
4 26 (35.14%) Containerisation
5 23 (31.08%) Software Engineering
6 19 (25.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (24.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (20.27%) Front End Development
9 14 (18.92%) Observability
10 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (16.22%) User Experience
12 11 (14.86%) Continuous Delivery
12 11 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (14.86%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (14.86%) Test Automation
13 10 (13.51%) SDLC
14 9 (12.16%) Multithreading
14 9 (12.16%) Translating Business Requirements
14 9 (12.16%) Unit Testing
14 9 (12.16%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 53 (71.62%) Java
2 23 (31.08%) Python
3 15 (20.27%) JavaScript
3 15 (20.27%) SQL
3 15 (20.27%) TypeScript
4 7 (9.46%) Perl
5 6 (8.11%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.11%) Ruby
6 4 (5.41%) Go
7 2 (2.70%) C++
7 2 (2.70%) DataWeave
7 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.35%) Bash
8 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) AWS Certification
2 9 (12.16%) Degree
3 8 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (9.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (9.46%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.76%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.92%) QA
2 11 (14.86%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (39.19%) Docker
2 4 (5.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (36.49%) Kubernetes
2 17 (22.97%) Terraform
3 10 (13.51%) Ansible
3 10 (13.51%) Grafana
4 8 (10.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.05%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (20.27%) Oracle
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.41%) Splunk
3 2 (2.70%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.70%) Google
3 2 (2.70%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.35%) DocuSign
4 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.35%) Pega
4 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow