Microservices Jobs in Edinburgh

Microservices
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 58 22
Rank change year-on-year +24 -36 +9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 50 45 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.70% 2.88% 9.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 3.34% 10.01%
Number of salaries quoted 37 39 70
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,261 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £70,000 £70,011
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% -0.02% +7.71%
75th Percentile £113,979 £91,934 £89,852
90th Percentile £146,300 £103,279 £103,974
Scotland median annual salary £78,810 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +21.25% -1.52% +1.54%

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 836 1,347 1,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.32% 86.24% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 376 924 979
10th Percentile £26,590 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,951 £46,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% +3.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,001 £91,121 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.63% -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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Microservices in Edinburgh

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 6 July 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 2 (4.00%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) AWS
2 15 (30.00%) GCP
3 13 (26.00%) Azure
4 9 (18.00%) OpenShift
5 5 (10.00%) SaaS
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.00%) Serverless
6 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.00%) Apigee
7 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.00%) Big Data
5 2 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.00%) SAP HANA
6 1 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.00%) Maven
3 6 (12.00%) Git
4 2 (4.00%) Fiddler
4 2 (4.00%) GitLab
4 2 (4.00%) JUnit
4 2 (4.00%) Postman
4 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (60.00%) Finance
2 29 (58.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Electronics
5 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) Lead
2 11 (22.00%) Architect
3 10 (20.00%) Senior
3 10 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (16.00%) Android Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Software Team Leader
7 3 (6.00%) Team Leader
8 2 (4.00%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Head of Engineering
8 2 (4.00%) Head of Payments
8 2 (4.00%) Head of Software Engineering
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (38.00%) RESTful
2 9 (18.00%) React
2 9 (18.00%) Spring Boot
3 8 (16.00%) Android Jetpack
3 8 (16.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 6 (12.00%) .NET
4 6 (12.00%) Spring
5 5 (10.00%) .NET Core
5 5 (10.00%) Kafka
6 4 (8.00%) CSS
6 4 (8.00%) HTML
7 3 (6.00%) .NET Framework
7 3 (6.00%) ASP.NET
7 3 (6.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (6.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (6.00%) Node.js
7 3 (6.00%) Web Services
8 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (4.00%) gRPC
8 2 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 9 (18.00%) Mobile App
2 9 (18.00%) Online Banking
3 8 (16.00%) Product Ownership
4 7 (14.00%) Private Cloud
4 7 (14.00%) Public Cloud
5 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
6 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (4.00%) Reference Data
7 2 (4.00%) Replication
7 2 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (2.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Android
2 2 (4.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (54.00%) DevOps
2 26 (52.00%) Agile
3 23 (46.00%) Software Engineering
4 22 (44.00%) Test Automation
5 21 (42.00%) Roadmaps
6 19 (38.00%) TDD
7 18 (36.00%) Unit Testing
8 17 (34.00%) CI/CD
9 14 (28.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (24.00%) Containerisation
10 12 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (24.00%) Translating Business Requirements
11 11 (22.00%) Line Management
12 10 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
12 10 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (18.00%) Customer Experience
13 9 (18.00%) User Experience
14 8 (16.00%) Data Architecture
14 8 (16.00%) Push Notifications
14 8 (16.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (22.00%) Java
3 9 (18.00%) Kotlin
3 9 (18.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (14.00%) Python
4 7 (14.00%) SQL
5 5 (10.00%) C#
5 5 (10.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) ABAP
6 2 (4.00%) Elixir
6 2 (4.00%) F#
6 2 (4.00%) Ruby
6 2 (4.00%) Scala
7 1 (2.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (4.00%) SEPA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 22 (44.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (54.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (24.00%) Terraform
3 2 (4.00%) Istio
4 1 (2.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Google
2 2 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow