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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 39 53
Rank change year-on-year -22 +14 -31
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 6 45 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.57% 5.23% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 5.52% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6 34 33
10th Percentile £37,500 £52,500 £46,794
25th Percentile £41,250 £68,850 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £78,155 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.22% +11.65% -0.82%
75th Percentile £66,875 £110,484 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,125 £146,300 £117,695
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £78,810 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.87% +21.25% -1.52%

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 704 815 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 67.37% 94.66% 84.68%
Number of salaries quoted 479 376 850
10th Percentile £29,600 £26,929 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,951 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,840 £73,886
90th Percentile £90,250 £95,000 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £48,000 £48,343 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.71% -7.92% -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 21 July 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 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) React
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Core
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (50.00%) Blazor
3 3 (50.00%) LINQ
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (16.67%) CrewAI
4 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
4 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
4 1 (16.67%) Node.js
4 1 (16.67%) NumPy
4 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
4 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
4 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
4 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) Autonomous Agent
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) LLM
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
4 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAI