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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 50 31
Rank change year-on-year -62 -19 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 30 111 297
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.09% 4.20% 9.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 4.54% 10.22%
Number of salaries quoted 12 59 159
10th Percentile £39,692 £49,246 £48,300
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -0.82% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,250 £94,022 £96,539
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +10.71% -0.82% -8.93%

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 2,197 2,443 2,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.92% 92.54% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 1,028 1,798
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,025 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,250 £33,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,538
90th Percentile £82,241 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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
Edinburgh -51 25 £60,000 -14.29% 10
Glasgow +6 4 £73,750 +13.46% 4
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 17 (56.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 17 (56.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (93.33%) Azure
2 20 (66.67%) GitHub
3 19 (63.33%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (60.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 17 (56.67%) OCI
5 17 (56.67%) Power Platform
6 6 (20.00%) AWS
7 4 (13.33%) GCP
8 3 (10.00%) SaaS
9 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
9 2 (6.67%) Serverless
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (3.33%) Azure AI
10 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (3.33%) ChatGPT
10 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (56.67%) Power BI
1 17 (56.67%) Tableau
2 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (60.00%) Git
2 17 (56.67%) Jenkins
2 17 (56.67%) JIRA
2 17 (56.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (56.67%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Tech for Good
3 1 (3.33%) Legal
3 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Police
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Applications Engineer
1 17 (56.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
4 2 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (3.33%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) PHP Software Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (66.67%) RESTful
2 17 (56.67%) OAuth
2 17 (56.67%) OAuth2
2 17 (56.67%) SAML
3 9 (30.00%) React
4 8 (26.67%) .NET
4 8 (26.67%) AngularJS
5 6 (20.00%) .NET Core
6 4 (13.33%) .NET Framework
6 4 (13.33%) Entity Framework
7 3 (10.00%) Blazor
7 3 (10.00%) CSS
7 3 (10.00%) HTML
7 3 (10.00%) Kafka
7 3 (10.00%) Vue
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
9 1 (3.33%) Node.js
9 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (63.33%) Cloud Native
2 17 (56.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.33%) NHS
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) Agile
2 22 (73.33%) DevOps
3 20 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 20 (66.67%) Event-Driven
4 19 (63.33%) AI
4 19 (63.33%) Analytics
4 19 (63.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 18 (60.00%) Test Automation
6 17 (56.67%) API Integration
6 17 (56.67%) Asset Management
6 17 (56.67%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (56.67%) Clean Code
6 17 (56.67%) Coaching
6 17 (56.67%) ERP
6 17 (56.67%) RBAC
6 17 (56.67%) SOA
7 11 (36.67%) Software Engineering
8 6 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (10.00%) Front End Development
9 3 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) SQL
2 20 (66.67%) Java
2 20 (66.67%) Python
3 17 (56.67%) PL/SQL
3 17 (56.67%) Shell Script
4 8 (26.67%) C#
5 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.33%) Go
7 1 (3.33%) PHP
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (56.67%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (56.67%) Terraform
2 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (56.67%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Remedy