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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 59 39
Rank change year-on-year -48 -20 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 46 103 160
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.66% 3.12% 6.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 3.66% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 22 49 128
10th Percentile £38,942 £46,294 £49,100
25th Percentile £52,688 £52,500 £58,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -7.90% +8.58%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,886 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,875 £86,958 £91,934
UK median annual salary £75,000 £68,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.29% -9.33% -

All Process and 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 2,416 2,812 2,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.38% 85.06% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,149 1,317 1,799
10th Percentile £26,450 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,598
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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
Glasgow -3 23 £78,750 +21.15% 25
Edinburgh -34 22 £60,000 -14.29% 12
Scottish Borders - 1 £39,594 -
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 11 (23.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (63.04%) Azure
2 23 (50.00%) GitHub
3 22 (47.83%) AWS
4 18 (39.13%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (26.09%) GitHub Copilot
6 11 (23.91%) OCI
6 11 (23.91%) Power Platform
7 8 (17.39%) GCP
8 7 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (13.04%) Serverless
10 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
10 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (10.87%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (8.70%) Azure AI
11 4 (8.70%) ChatGPT
11 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (8.70%) OpenShift
11 4 (8.70%) SaaS
12 1 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
1 1 (2.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) Power BI
1 11 (23.91%) Tableau
2 9 (19.57%) Relational Database
3 7 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (13.04%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (13.04%) MongoDB
5 5 (10.87%) RDBMS
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
8 1 (2.17%) Big Data
8 1 (2.17%) CockroachDB
8 1 (2.17%) Couchbase
8 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.17%) HBase
8 1 (2.17%) MySQL
8 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (36.96%) Jenkins
2 13 (28.26%) Git
3 11 (23.91%) JIRA
3 11 (23.91%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (6.52%) Maven
5 1 (2.17%) Ant
5 1 (2.17%) Gradle
5 1 (2.17%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.17%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.17%) JUnit
5 1 (2.17%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (2.17%) Protractor
5 1 (2.17%) Selenium
5 1 (2.17%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.17%) webpack
General
1 24 (52.17%) Finance
2 11 (23.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (23.91%) Law
3 9 (19.57%) Banking
4 5 (10.87%) Investment Banking
5 4 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Private Banking
5 4 (8.70%) Tech for Good
6 3 (6.52%) Social Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Legal
7 2 (4.35%) Marketing
8 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Police
8 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (60.87%) Software Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Senior
3 11 (23.91%) Applications Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Senior Software Engineer
4 10 (21.74%) Java Engineer
4 10 (21.74%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (19.57%) Developer
5 9 (19.57%) Lead
6 8 (17.39%) Java Developer
6 8 (17.39%) Lead Software Engineer
7 7 (15.22%) .NET Software Engineer
7 7 (15.22%) C# Software Engineer
7 7 (15.22%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (15.22%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 6 (13.04%) Software Developer
9 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
9 5 (10.87%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (63.04%) RESTful
2 17 (36.96%) React
3 15 (32.61%) Kafka
3 15 (32.61%) Spring Boot
4 13 (28.26%) AngularJS
4 13 (28.26%) Spring
5 12 (26.09%) .NET
6 11 (23.91%) OAuth
6 11 (23.91%) OAuth2
6 11 (23.91%) SAML
7 10 (21.74%) .NET Core
8 8 (17.39%) Blazor
9 6 (13.04%) REST
10 5 (10.87%) CSS
10 5 (10.87%) HTML
11 3 (6.52%) .NET Framework
11 3 (6.52%) Vue
12 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
12 2 (4.35%) Entity Framework
12 2 (4.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (23.91%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (13.04%) Algorithms
5 4 (8.70%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 2 (4.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
7 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.17%) NHS
7 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (80.43%) Agile
2 31 (67.39%) CI/CD
2 31 (67.39%) Software Engineering
3 26 (56.52%) DevOps
4 19 (41.30%) AI
5 15 (32.61%) Asset Management
6 14 (30.43%) Event-Driven
6 14 (30.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (28.26%) Clean Code
7 13 (28.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 13 (28.26%) Test Automation
8 12 (26.09%) Analytics
8 12 (26.09%) TDD
9 11 (23.91%) API Integration
9 11 (23.91%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (23.91%) Coaching
9 11 (23.91%) ERP
9 11 (23.91%) RBAC
9 11 (23.91%) SDLC
9 11 (23.91%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 30 (65.22%) Java
2 18 (39.13%) SQL
3 14 (30.43%) Python
4 12 (26.09%) C#
4 12 (26.09%) PL/SQL
5 11 (23.91%) Shell Script
6 9 (19.57%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.35%) Go
9 1 (2.17%) C
9 1 (2.17%) C++
9 1 (2.17%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) ISO 20022
1 2 (4.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) HDFS
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 15 (32.61%) Terraform
3 11 (23.91%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (28.26%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.17%) Databricks
3 1 (2.17%) IBM
3 1 (2.17%) Remedy
3 1 (2.17%) Splunk
3 1 (2.17%) Sybase