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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 52 48
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 -22
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 5 22 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.46% 2.81% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 3.01% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 26
10th Percentile £37,200 £35,600 £46,306
25th Percentile £41,250 £53,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.71% +10.71% -0.82%
75th Percentile £53,750 £86,250 £79,688
90th Percentile £77,000 £99,500 £98,474
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -22.58% +19.23% -2.26%

All Process & 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 737 731 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 67.49% 93.24% 85.44%
Number of salaries quoted 447 333 683
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,786 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,851 £46,509
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,164 £94,300
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Microservices job vacancy trend 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 1 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Edinburgh

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Apigee
4 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Kong
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (80.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (60.00%) Blazor
2 3 (60.00%) LINQ
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) IBM