Microservices Jobs in Scotland

Microservices
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 40 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 +25
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 121 634 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.29% 9.41% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 10.13% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 89 152 208
10th Percentile £50,937 £41,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,000 £52,046 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -6.40% +11.12%
75th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £89,852
90th Percentile £140,677 £96,539 £97,328
UK median annual salary £74,870 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.18% -16.13% +3.33%

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 2,594 6,257 4,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.05% 92.89% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 2,424 2,232
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,488
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Scotland.

Salary trend for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +12 84 £78,810 +11.67% 23
Glasgow +10 27 £74,750 +15.00% 31
Lanarkshire - 9 £80,000 - 4
North Lanarkshire - 1 £51,000 -
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 3 (2.48%) Confluence
1 3 (2.48%) NetWeaver
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.83%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.54%) Azure
2 42 (34.71%) AWS
3 35 (28.93%) GCP
4 12 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (9.92%) Serverless
5 9 (7.44%) SaaS
6 8 (6.61%) OpenShift
7 6 (4.96%) GitHub
8 5 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.31%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.48%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.48%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.48%) Apigee
10 3 (2.48%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.70%) NoSQL
2 15 (12.40%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.40%) SQL Server
3 14 (11.57%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.79%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.13%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.13%) MySQL
7 3 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.48%) Big Data
7 3 (2.48%) Data Vault
7 3 (2.48%) Metadata
7 3 (2.48%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.65%) DB2
9 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (21.49%) Jenkins
2 17 (14.05%) Git
3 13 (10.74%) Maven
3 13 (10.74%) Visual Studio
4 8 (6.61%) GitLab
4 8 (6.61%) JUnit
5 5 (4.13%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.31%) webpack
7 3 (2.48%) Fiddler
7 3 (2.48%) Gradle
7 3 (2.48%) JIRA
7 3 (2.48%) Postman
7 3 (2.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.48%) Spinnaker
7 3 (2.48%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.65%) Checkstyle
8 2 (1.65%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.65%) Mockito
8 2 (1.65%) Selenium
9 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
General
1 60 (49.59%) Finance
2 52 (42.98%) Banking
3 19 (15.70%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.65%) Local Government
6 2 (1.65%) Retail
7 1 (0.83%) Front Office
7 1 (0.83%) Games
7 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (36.36%) Senior
2 33 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 28 (23.14%) Architect
4 25 (20.66%) Developer
5 24 (19.83%) Lead
6 20 (16.53%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (10.74%) Senior Architect
7 13 (10.74%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (8.26%) Senior Software Architect
8 10 (8.26%) Senior Systems Architect
8 10 (8.26%) Software Architect
8 10 (8.26%) Systems Architect
9 8 (6.61%) Android Engineer
9 8 (6.61%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.79%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.96%) Software Developer
12 5 (4.13%) Java Engineer
12 5 (4.13%) Senior Software Developer
12 5 (4.13%) Software Team Leader
12 5 (4.13%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (27.27%) RESTful
1 33 (27.27%) Spring
2 32 (26.45%) CSS
3 31 (25.62%) Spring Boot
4 29 (23.97%) .NET
4 29 (23.97%) HTML
4 29 (23.97%) React
5 19 (15.70%) .NET Framework
6 18 (14.88%) Kafka
7 14 (11.57%) .NET Core
8 13 (10.74%) AngularJS
9 12 (9.92%) REST
10 8 (6.61%) Android Jetpack
10 8 (6.61%) ASP.NET
10 8 (6.61%) Jetpack Compose
10 8 (6.61%) JWT
10 8 (6.61%) Node.js
10 8 (6.61%) Web Services
11 7 (5.79%) OAuth
11 7 (5.79%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 10 (8.26%) Mobile App
3 9 (7.44%) Online Banking
3 9 (7.44%) Private Cloud
3 9 (7.44%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.61%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.13%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.31%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.65%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.65%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.65%) Replication
8 2 (1.65%) Wiki
9 1 (0.83%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.83%) Life Science
9 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.44%) Android
2 4 (3.31%) Linux
3 3 (2.48%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (60.33%) Agile
2 68 (56.20%) Software Engineering
3 58 (47.93%) DevOps
4 49 (40.50%) CI/CD
5 40 (33.06%) Test Automation
6 34 (28.10%) TDD
7 32 (26.45%) Unit Testing
8 31 (25.62%) Containerisation
9 28 (23.14%) Mentoring
10 27 (22.31%) Roadmaps
11 25 (20.66%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (19.83%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (17.36%) Customer Experience
14 21 (17.36%) Translating Business Requirements
15 18 (14.88%) OO
16 15 (12.40%) Event-Driven
16 15 (12.40%) SDLC
17 14 (11.57%) Design Patterns
17 14 (11.57%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 59 (48.76%) Java
2 34 (28.10%) JavaScript
3 28 (23.14%) C#
4 27 (22.31%) SQL
5 20 (16.53%) TypeScript
6 15 (12.40%) Python
7 10 (8.26%) C
7 10 (8.26%) C++
7 10 (8.26%) Kotlin
8 9 (7.44%) Go
9 3 (2.48%) ABAP
9 3 (2.48%) Scala
10 2 (1.65%) Bash
10 2 (1.65%) Elixir
10 2 (1.65%) F#
10 2 (1.65%) Ruby
11 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.83%) Rust
11 1 (0.83%) Swift
11 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (6.61%) Degree
2 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.83%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.13%) QA
2 3 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.83%) SEPA
4 1 (0.83%) TARGET2
System Software
1 46 (38.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (49.59%) Kubernetes
2 21 (17.36%) Terraform
3 6 (4.96%) Grafana
4 3 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.65%) Istio
6 1 (0.83%) Ansible
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (6.61%) Google
2 5 (4.13%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.31%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.48%) Databricks
4 3 (2.48%) Oracle
4 3 (2.48%) SAP
4 3 (2.48%) Splunk
5 2 (1.65%) Sybase
6 1 (0.83%) Adobe
6 1 (0.83%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.83%) IBM
6 1 (0.83%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow