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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 35 18
Rank change year-on-year -34 -17 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 23 81 126
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.62% 6.07% 12.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 6.68% 13.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10 35 103
10th Percentile £31,300 £46,676 £50,686
25th Percentile £46,875 £52,500 £60,590
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -0.82% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,625 £85,253 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £66,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +1.54% -7.90% +8.58%

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 785 1,213 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.41% 90.86% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 349 509 765
10th Percentile £25,684 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £76,385
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%

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 24 November 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (52.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (52.17%) GitHub
2 12 (52.17%) GitHub Copilot
2 12 (52.17%) OCI
2 12 (52.17%) Power Platform
3 10 (43.48%) AWS
4 5 (21.74%) GCP
5 4 (17.39%) OpenShift
6 2 (8.70%) SaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) Power BI
1 12 (52.17%) Tableau
2 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Git
1 12 (52.17%) Jenkins
1 12 (52.17%) JIRA
1 12 (52.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (60.87%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Tech for Good
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Applications Engineer
1 12 (52.17%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (8.70%) Head of Payments
4 2 (8.70%) Head of Software Engineering
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) PHP Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) RESTful
2 12 (52.17%) OAuth
2 12 (52.17%) OAuth2
2 12 (52.17%) SAML
3 7 (30.43%) React
4 4 (17.39%) Kafka
4 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
5 3 (13.04%) CSS
5 3 (13.04%) HTML
6 2 (8.70%) .NET
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
6 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
7 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
7 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
7 1 (4.35%) NestJS
7 1 (4.35%) Next.js
7 1 (4.35%) Node.js
7 1 (4.35%) React Native
7 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (60.87%) Cloud Native
2 12 (52.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Agile
2 18 (78.26%) DevOps
3 13 (56.52%) Analytics
3 13 (56.52%) Event-Driven
3 13 (56.52%) Test Automation
4 12 (52.17%) AI
4 12 (52.17%) API Integration
4 12 (52.17%) Asset Management
4 12 (52.17%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
4 12 (52.17%) Clean Code
4 12 (52.17%) Coaching
4 12 (52.17%) ERP
4 12 (52.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 12 (52.17%) RBAC
4 12 (52.17%) SOA
5 11 (47.83%) Software Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
7 4 (17.39%) TDD
8 3 (13.04%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Java
2 13 (56.52%) Python
2 13 (56.52%) SQL
3 12 (52.17%) PL/SQL
3 12 (52.17%) Shell Script
4 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) Go
6 1 (4.35%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO 20022
1 2 (8.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Single Sign-On
1 12 (52.17%) Terraform
2 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 12 (52.17%) Oracle