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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 49 46
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 106 226 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.17% 5.30% 5.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 6.19% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 30 60 110
10th Percentile £51,750 £45,000 £47,250
25th Percentile £61,750 £52,500 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -3.89% +8.21%
75th Percentile £84,813 £72,450 £79,688
90th Percentile £100,250 £78,875 £89,852
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -

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 2,285 3,650 2,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.85% 85.52% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,002 1,596 1,993
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,489 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61,125 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -16 32 £77,500 +19.23% 8
Edinburgh -1 25 £77,500 +12.73% 14
Lanarkshire +1 19 £80,000 - 3
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +15 2 - -
Fife - 2 - - 4
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (46.23%) Confluence
2 7 (6.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 80 (75.47%) Azure
2 79 (74.53%) AWS
3 62 (58.49%) GCP
4 21 (19.81%) GitHub
5 15 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (7.55%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (6.60%) OCI
7 7 (6.60%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.66%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.66%) Serverless
9 5 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.77%) Azure AI
10 4 (3.77%) ChatGPT
10 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (3.77%) SaaS
11 3 (2.83%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.89%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) HTTP
1 1 (0.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.43%) MongoDB
3 10 (9.43%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.60%) Power BI
4 7 (6.60%) Tableau
5 6 (5.66%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.66%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.66%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.77%) MySQL
7 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.94%) Big Data
8 1 (0.94%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.94%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.94%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.94%) HBase
8 1 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (53.77%) Maven
2 56 (52.83%) JIRA
3 52 (49.06%) GitLab
4 51 (48.11%) SonarQube
4 51 (48.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 50 (47.17%) Selenium
6 49 (46.23%) Bitbucket
6 49 (46.23%) Cucumber
7 19 (17.92%) Jenkins
8 15 (14.15%) Git
9 7 (6.60%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (5.66%) JUnit
11 4 (3.77%) Gradle
12 2 (1.89%) Mockito
13 1 (0.94%) IntelliJ
13 1 (0.94%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.94%) Karma Test Runner
13 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.94%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.94%) webpack
General
1 73 (68.87%) Finance
2 63 (59.43%) Banking
3 61 (57.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (10.38%) Law
5 6 (5.66%) Social Skills
6 5 (4.72%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Private Banking
8 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.89%) Legal
9 2 (1.89%) Marketing
10 1 (0.94%) Electronics
10 1 (0.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 79 (74.53%) Software Engineer
2 21 (19.81%) Senior
3 15 (14.15%) Developer
3 15 (14.15%) Senior Software Engineer
4 13 (12.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 13 (12.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 12 (11.32%) Java Developer
6 11 (10.38%) Lead
7 10 (9.43%) Java Engineer
7 10 (9.43%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) .NET Software Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) C# Software Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (66.04%) React
2 69 (65.09%) Spring Boot
3 68 (64.15%) Spring
4 66 (62.26%) Kafka
5 56 (52.83%) CSS
5 56 (52.83%) HTML
6 55 (51.89%) Hibernate
7 53 (50.00%) JPA
8 49 (46.23%) Redux
9 32 (30.19%) RESTful
10 16 (15.09%) .NET
10 16 (15.09%) AngularJS
11 12 (11.32%) .NET Core
12 9 (8.49%) Blazor
12 9 (8.49%) OAuth
12 9 (8.49%) OAuth2
12 9 (8.49%) REST
13 8 (7.55%) SAML
14 4 (3.77%) .NET Framework
15 3 (2.83%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 56 (52.83%) Enterprise Software
2 50 (47.17%) Product Ownership
3 20 (18.87%) Cloud Native
4 8 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.60%) Algorithms
6 6 (5.66%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.77%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.89%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.94%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.77%) Unix
2 3 (2.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (84.91%) Agile
2 86 (81.13%) Software Engineering
3 84 (79.25%) CI/CD
4 78 (73.58%) DevOps
5 66 (62.26%) Full-Stack Development
6 63 (59.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (58.49%) TDD
8 61 (57.55%) Containerisation
8 61 (57.55%) SDLC
9 60 (56.60%) Clean Code
9 60 (56.60%) Test Automation
10 58 (54.72%) Front End Development
11 49 (46.23%) Performance Optimisation
12 15 (14.15%) Artificial Intelligence
13 13 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (10.38%) Asset Management
14 11 (10.38%) Event-Driven
15 9 (8.49%) Analytics
15 9 (8.49%) Deployment Automation
15 9 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 84 (79.25%) Java
2 69 (65.09%) SQL
3 62 (58.49%) JavaScript
4 16 (15.09%) C#
5 13 (12.26%) Python
6 8 (7.55%) PL/SQL
7 7 (6.60%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.77%) Go
9 3 (2.83%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.89%) C
10 2 (1.89%) C++
11 1 (0.94%) PHP
11 1 (0.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (1.89%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.89%) SEPA
3 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 67 (63.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 77 (72.64%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.21%) Terraform
3 8 (7.55%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.89%) Istio
5 1 (0.94%) Ansible
5 1 (0.94%) Grafana
5 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (46.23%) Solace
2 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.43%) Oracle
3 2 (1.89%) IBM
3 2 (1.89%) Sybase
4 1 (0.94%) Cloudera
4 1 (0.94%) Databricks
4 1 (0.94%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.94%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.94%) Splunk