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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 64 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 -25 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 73 90 158
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.68% 2.77% 6.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 3.28% 6.88%
Number of salaries quoted 23 42 124
10th Percentile £39,615 £38,250 £48,575
25th Percentile £52,875 £52,125 £56,219
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 £69,688 £77,715
90th Percentile £87,250 £73,886 £88,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -

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 2,443 2,742 2,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.78% 84.29% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,087 1,303 1,840
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,300 £82,505
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 2 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 2 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 -11 23 £78,750 +21.15% 12
Edinburgh -22 21 £60,000 -5.88% 11
Lanarkshire -1 6 - - 4
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +10 2 - -
Fife - 2 - -
Renfrewshire - 2 - - 1
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
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 28 (38.36%) Confluence
2 9 (12.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 55 (75.34%) Azure
2 50 (68.49%) AWS
3 36 (49.32%) GCP
4 21 (28.77%) GitHub
5 16 (21.92%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (13.70%) GitHub Copilot
7 9 (12.33%) OCI
7 9 (12.33%) Power Platform
8 7 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (8.22%) Serverless
10 5 (6.85%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (6.85%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (5.48%) Azure AI
11 4 (5.48%) ChatGPT
11 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (5.48%) OpenShift
11 4 (5.48%) SaaS
12 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) HTTP
1 1 (1.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (42.47%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.33%) Power BI
2 9 (12.33%) Relational Database
2 9 (12.33%) Tableau
3 7 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.22%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (8.22%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (8.22%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.85%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.37%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.37%) Big Data
7 1 (1.37%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.37%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.37%) HBase
7 1 (1.37%) MySQL
7 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (50.68%) JIRA
2 31 (42.47%) Maven
3 29 (39.73%) Selenium
4 28 (38.36%) Bitbucket
4 28 (38.36%) Cucumber
4 28 (38.36%) GitLab
4 28 (38.36%) SonarQube
4 28 (38.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 15 (20.55%) Jenkins
6 11 (15.07%) Git
7 9 (12.33%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (1.37%) Ant
8 1 (1.37%) Gradle
8 1 (1.37%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.37%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.37%) JUnit
8 1 (1.37%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.37%) Protractor
8 1 (1.37%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.37%) webpack
General
1 51 (69.86%) Finance
2 40 (54.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 38 (52.05%) Banking
4 11 (15.07%) Law
5 5 (6.85%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.48%) Private Banking
6 4 (5.48%) Tech for Good
7 3 (4.11%) Social Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Legal
8 2 (2.74%) Marketing
9 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Electronics
9 1 (1.37%) Police
9 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 56 (76.71%) Software Engineer
2 12 (16.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 12 (16.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 12 (16.44%) Senior
3 11 (15.07%) Senior Software Engineer
4 10 (13.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (13.70%) Java Engineer
4 10 (13.70%) Java Software Engineer
4 10 (13.70%) Lead
5 9 (12.33%) Applications Engineer
5 9 (12.33%) Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Lead Software Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) .NET Software Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) C# Software Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Software Developer
9 5 (6.85%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.85%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (61.64%) React
2 43 (58.90%) Kafka
2 43 (58.90%) Spring Boot
3 41 (56.16%) Spring
4 33 (45.21%) CSS
4 33 (45.21%) HTML
5 29 (39.73%) Hibernate
5 29 (39.73%) JPA
6 28 (38.36%) Redux
7 27 (36.99%) RESTful
8 13 (17.81%) AngularJS
9 12 (16.44%) .NET
10 10 (13.70%) .NET Core
11 9 (12.33%) OAuth
11 9 (12.33%) OAuth2
11 9 (12.33%) SAML
12 8 (10.96%) Blazor
13 6 (8.22%) REST
14 3 (4.11%) .NET Framework
14 3 (4.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (50.68%) Enterprise Software
2 29 (39.73%) Product Ownership
3 22 (30.14%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (8.22%) Algorithms
6 5 (6.85%) Public Cloud
7 4 (5.48%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.37%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (87.67%) Agile
2 59 (80.82%) Software Engineering
3 57 (78.08%) CI/CD
4 52 (71.23%) DevOps
5 42 (57.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (54.79%) TDD
7 39 (53.42%) Clean Code
7 39 (53.42%) SDLC
7 39 (53.42%) Test Automation
8 38 (52.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (49.32%) Containerisation
10 34 (46.58%) Front End Development
11 28 (38.36%) Performance Optimisation
12 17 (23.29%) AI
13 13 (17.81%) Asset Management
14 12 (16.44%) Event-Driven
15 11 (15.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 11 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
16 10 (13.70%) Analytics
17 9 (12.33%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 56 (76.71%) Java
2 44 (60.27%) SQL
3 38 (52.05%) JavaScript
4 12 (16.44%) C#
4 12 (16.44%) Python
5 10 (13.70%) PL/SQL
6 9 (12.33%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.74%) Go
9 1 (1.37%) C
9 1 (1.37%) C++
9 1 (1.37%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (38.36%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.74%) SEPA
System Software
1 41 (56.16%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) HDFS
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (68.49%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.81%) Terraform
3 9 (12.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (38.36%) Solace
2 12 (16.44%) Microsoft
3 11 (15.07%) Oracle
4 1 (1.37%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.37%) Databricks
4 1 (1.37%) IBM
4 1 (1.37%) Remedy
4 1 (1.37%) Splunk
4 1 (1.37%) Sybase