Microservices Job Trends in Scotland

Microservices
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 37 40
Rank change year-on-year -75 +3 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 30 139 608
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.93% 6.82% 9.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 7.29% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 22 64 139
10th Percentile £42,375 £52,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,764 £64,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £76,905 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% +18.32% -3.89%
75th Percentile £73,750 £98,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £79,375 £144,613 £93,308
UK median annual salary £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,290 1,906 5,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.94% 93.52% 91.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,269 825 2,402
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,267 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Scotland

Microservices
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Lanarkshire +5 12 £60,000 -
Edinburgh -28 12 £67,500 -14.35% 10
West Lothian -5 2 - -
Glasgow -28 2 £65,000 -13.33% 4
Stirling -10 1 - -
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) AWS
1 14 (46.67%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) GitHub
2 7 (23.33%) GitHub Copilot
3 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (16.67%) OCI
3 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.00%) Azure AI
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (10.00%) Vertex AI
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.33%) Dagster
6 1 (3.33%) GCP
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Power BI
1 5 (16.67%) Tableau
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.33%) Big Data
4 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.00%) Git
3 5 (16.67%) JIRA
3 5 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (3.33%) MLflow
General
1 13 (43.33%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Banking
3 4 (13.33%) Local Government
4 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Lead
3 8 (26.67%) Technical Leader
4 6 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior
6 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 1 (3.33%) .NET Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
8 1 (3.33%) Python Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Python Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) AWS CDK
2 8 (26.67%) React
3 6 (20.00%) .NET
3 6 (20.00%) OAuth
3 6 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 6 (20.00%) RESTful
4 5 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 5 (16.67%) Node.js
4 5 (16.67%) SAML
5 4 (13.33%) .NET Framework
5 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
5 4 (13.33%) Entity Framework
5 4 (13.33%) React Native
6 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET
6 3 (10.00%) LangChain
6 3 (10.00%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (6.67%) Hibernate
7 2 (6.67%) PyTorch
7 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
7 2 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (73.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (13.33%) Mobile App
3 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
4 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.33%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) Agile
2 20 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 20 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (50.00%) DevOps
3 15 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 14 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (40.00%) Observability
6 11 (36.67%) Code Quality
6 11 (36.67%) Mentoring
6 11 (36.67%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (33.33%) AI
8 9 (30.00%) Event-Driven
8 9 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
9 7 (23.33%) Analytics
9 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (23.33%) Machine Learning
10 5 (16.67%) Asset Management
10 5 (16.67%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) JavaScript
2 14 (46.67%) Java
3 13 (43.33%) Python
3 13 (43.33%) TypeScript
4 12 (40.00%) SQL
5 5 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 5 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 3 (10.00%) C#
7 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) Foundry
3 3 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) OpenAI