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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 55 36
Rank change year-on-year -55 -19 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 31 107 239
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.14% 3.84% 8.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 4.20% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 14 56 139
10th Percentile £42,538 £46,768 £50,686
25th Percentile £52,750 £52,500 £59,441
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -0.82% +4.56%
75th Percentile £82,188 £80,927 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,125 £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 2,221 2,547 2,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 81.83% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,128 1,118 1,721
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £33,750
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 £70,656 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,927 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

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 18 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 18 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 -44 24 £60,000 -14.29% 22
Glasgow +9 6 £73,750 +13.46% 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 16 (51.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 16 (51.61%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (90.32%) Azure
2 21 (67.74%) GitHub
3 20 (64.52%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (54.84%) GitHub Copilot
5 16 (51.61%) OCI
5 16 (51.61%) Power Platform
6 8 (25.81%) AWS
7 5 (16.13%) GCP
8 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (9.68%) OpenShift
9 3 (9.68%) SaaS
10 2 (6.45%) Azure AI
10 2 (6.45%) ChatGPT
10 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (6.45%) Serverless
11 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
11 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (51.61%) Power BI
1 16 (51.61%) Tableau
2 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (54.84%) Git
2 16 (51.61%) Jenkins
2 16 (51.61%) JIRA
2 16 (51.61%) Oracle Forms
General
1 16 (51.61%) Finance
2 3 (9.68%) Tech for Good
3 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
4 1 (3.23%) Police
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Applications Engineer
1 16 (51.61%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (38.71%) Software Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) .NET Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) C# Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.23%) PHP Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (67.74%) RESTful
2 16 (51.61%) OAuth
2 16 (51.61%) OAuth2
2 16 (51.61%) SAML
3 12 (38.71%) React
4 8 (25.81%) .NET
4 8 (25.81%) AngularJS
5 6 (19.35%) .NET Core
6 5 (16.13%) Blazor
7 3 (9.68%) CSS
7 3 (9.68%) HTML
7 3 (9.68%) Kafka
7 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
7 3 (9.68%) Vue
8 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
8 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
8 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (6.45%) Entity Framework
8 2 (6.45%) Next.js
9 1 (3.23%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (58.06%) Cloud Native
2 16 (51.61%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.23%) NHS
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) Agile
2 24 (77.42%) DevOps
3 21 (67.74%) CI/CD
4 19 (61.29%) AI
4 19 (61.29%) Event-Driven
5 18 (58.06%) Analytics
5 18 (58.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 17 (54.84%) Test Automation
7 16 (51.61%) API Integration
7 16 (51.61%) Asset Management
7 16 (51.61%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (51.61%) Clean Code
7 16 (51.61%) Coaching
7 16 (51.61%) ERP
7 16 (51.61%) RBAC
7 16 (51.61%) SOA
8 15 (48.39%) Software Engineering
9 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
11 4 (12.90%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) Java
2 19 (61.29%) Python
2 19 (61.29%) SQL
3 16 (51.61%) PL/SQL
3 16 (51.61%) Shell Script
4 8 (25.81%) C#
5 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
6 4 (12.90%) TypeScript
7 2 (6.45%) Go
8 1 (3.23%) PHP
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (51.61%) Single Sign-On
1 16 (51.61%) Terraform
2 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (54.84%) Microsoft
2 16 (51.61%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Remedy