Microservices Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microservices
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Microservices skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 51 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 -25 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 25 45 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.28% 3.56% 8.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 4.12% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 14 24 70
10th Percentile £36,775 £46,306 £50,686
25th Percentile £52,688 £52,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £68,750 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -2.59% +8.58%
75th Percentile £85,375 £75,938 £84,056
90th Percentile £99,250 £98,474 £96,885
Scotland median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £67,634
% change year-on-year +19.23% -3.89% +8.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 707 1,092 1,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.66% 86.39% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 303 588 859
10th Percentile £26,350 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £32,851 £47,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +0.80% +0.00%
75th Percentile £65,625 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £95,000 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Edinburgh

Microservices
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Edinburgh

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 6 (24.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) AWS
1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) GCP
3 7 (28.00%) GitHub
4 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (24.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 6 (24.00%) OCI
4 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (12.00%) SaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (8.00%) Apigee
6 2 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Power BI
1 6 (24.00%) Tableau
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Git
2 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (24.00%) JIRA
3 6 (24.00%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (8.00%) JUnit
4 2 (8.00%) Maven
4 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Tech for Good
4 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Electronics
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Applications Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
2 6 (24.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (8.00%) Head of Payments
4 2 (8.00%) Head of Software Engineering
5 1 (4.00%) Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) PHP Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.00%) Web Applications Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) RESTful
2 6 (24.00%) OAuth
2 6 (24.00%) OAuth2
2 6 (24.00%) React
2 6 (24.00%) SAML
3 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (16.00%) .NET
4 4 (16.00%) Kafka
5 3 (12.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (8.00%) CSS
6 2 (8.00%) Hibernate
6 2 (8.00%) HTML
6 2 (8.00%) Spring
7 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
7 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
7 1 (4.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (24.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Agile
2 16 (64.00%) DevOps
3 13 (52.00%) Software Engineering
4 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (36.00%) Event-Driven
6 8 (32.00%) Analytics
6 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (28.00%) Clean Code
8 6 (24.00%) API Integration
8 6 (24.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (24.00%) Asset Management
8 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (24.00%) Coaching
8 6 (24.00%) ERP
8 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (24.00%) RBAC
8 6 (24.00%) SOA
8 6 (24.00%) TDD
9 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Java
2 10 (40.00%) Python
2 10 (40.00%) SQL
3 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (24.00%) PL/SQL
4 6 (24.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (16.00%) Go
6 2 (8.00%) C#
6 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (8.00%) SEPA
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Terraform
2 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (24.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle