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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 58 39
Rank change year-on-year -38 -19 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 43 110 177
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.55% 3.53% 7.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 4.01% 7.61%
Number of salaries quoted 20 54 135
10th Percentile £37,767 £46,583 £50,686
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £59,441
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £66,250 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -6.13% +8.58%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,375 £93,778 £96,539
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -3.23%

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 2,322 2,745 2,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 83.65% 88.09% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,157 1,264 1,747
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,337 £82,878
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 3 December 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 3 December 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
Edinburgh -38 25 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Glasgow +4 17 £77,500 +19.23% 18
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 14 (32.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 14 (32.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) Azure
2 22 (51.16%) GitHub
3 19 (44.19%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (41.86%) AWS
5 15 (34.88%) GitHub Copilot
6 14 (32.56%) OCI
6 14 (32.56%) Power Platform
7 7 (16.28%) GCP
8 5 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (11.63%) Serverless
9 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
9 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
9 4 (9.30%) SaaS
10 3 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (6.98%) Azure AI
10 3 (6.98%) ChatGPT
10 3 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) HTTP
1 1 (2.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (32.56%) Power BI
1 14 (32.56%) Tableau
2 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (6.98%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.98%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.33%) Big Data
6 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.33%) HBase
Development Applications
1 18 (41.86%) Jenkins
2 16 (37.21%) Git
3 14 (32.56%) JIRA
3 14 (32.56%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (6.98%) Maven
5 1 (2.33%) Ant
5 1 (2.33%) Gradle
5 1 (2.33%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.33%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.33%) JUnit
5 1 (2.33%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (2.33%) Protractor
5 1 (2.33%) Selenium
5 1 (2.33%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.33%) webpack
General
1 22 (51.16%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (13.95%) Law
3 5 (11.63%) Banking
4 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Tech for Good
5 3 (6.98%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Marketing
6 2 (4.65%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Legal
7 1 (2.33%) Police
7 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Software Engineer
2 14 (32.56%) Applications Engineer
2 14 (32.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Senior
4 7 (16.28%) Lead
4 7 (16.28%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Java Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Java Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) .NET Software Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (60.47%) RESTful
2 16 (37.21%) React
3 14 (32.56%) OAuth
3 14 (32.56%) OAuth2
3 14 (32.56%) SAML
4 11 (25.58%) AngularJS
4 11 (25.58%) Spring Boot
5 10 (23.26%) .NET
6 9 (20.93%) Kafka
6 9 (20.93%) Spring
7 7 (16.28%) .NET Core
8 6 (13.95%) Blazor
8 6 (13.95%) REST
9 5 (11.63%) CSS
9 5 (11.63%) HTML
10 4 (9.30%) Vue
11 3 (6.98%) .NET Framework
12 2 (4.65%) Entity Framework
12 2 (4.65%) JSON
12 2 (4.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (51.16%) Cloud Native
2 14 (32.56%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.65%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.33%) NHS
6 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (79.07%) Agile
2 28 (65.12%) DevOps
3 27 (62.79%) CI/CD
4 25 (58.14%) Software Engineering
5 20 (46.51%) AI
6 17 (39.53%) Event-Driven
6 17 (39.53%) Test Automation
7 16 (37.21%) Analytics
7 16 (37.21%) Asset Management
7 16 (37.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 15 (34.88%) Clean Code
9 14 (32.56%) API Integration
9 14 (32.56%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (32.56%) Coaching
9 14 (32.56%) ERP
9 14 (32.56%) RBAC
9 14 (32.56%) SOA
10 11 (25.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (20.93%) TDD
12 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (65.12%) Java
2 20 (46.51%) SQL
3 17 (39.53%) Python
4 15 (34.88%) PL/SQL
5 14 (32.56%) Shell Script
6 10 (23.26%) C#
7 8 (18.60%) JavaScript
8 5 (11.63%) TypeScript
9 2 (4.65%) Go
10 1 (2.33%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) ISO 20022
1 2 (4.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (25.58%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) HDFS
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (39.53%) Kubernetes
2 16 (37.21%) Terraform
3 14 (32.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (34.88%) Oracle
3 1 (2.33%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.33%) Databricks
3 1 (2.33%) IBM
3 1 (2.33%) Remedy