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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 44 42
Rank change year-on-year -61 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 31 137 398
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.92% 5.53% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 6.12% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 22 56 89
10th Percentile £41,250 £51,750 £39,150
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £78,810 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.87% +21.25% -1.52%
75th Percentile £73,750 £98,125 £72,500
90th Percentile - £146,300 £86,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.65%

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 2,367 2,238 4,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.61% 90.39% 87.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,393 992 2,186
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,933 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,250 £32,851 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.38% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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
South Lanarkshire +3 12 £60,000 -
Glasgow -16 8 £65,000 -16.13% 12
Edinburgh -23 6 £47,500 -39.73% 5
West Lothian +1 2 - -
Lanarkshire -3 1 £100,000 +25.00% 3
Stirling -5 1 - -
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 1 (3.23%) Apache
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) GitHub
3 7 (22.58%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (9.68%) Azure AI
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (9.68%) Vertex AI
5 2 (6.45%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.23%) Dagster
6 1 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) SQL Server
2 7 (22.58%) MySQL
3 5 (16.13%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.23%) Big Data
5 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) MLflow
General
1 9 (29.03%) Banking
2 8 (25.81%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Local Government
3 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Developer
2 11 (35.48%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (32.26%) Lead
4 8 (25.81%) Technical Leader
5 6 (19.35%) Java Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (12.90%) Senior
8 3 (9.68%) .NET Developer
9 2 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
9 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
9 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) Engineering Manager
10 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) Python Developer
10 1 (3.23%) Senior Python Developer
10 1 (3.23%) Senior Software Developer
10 1 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (41.94%) AWS CDK
2 9 (29.03%) React
3 7 (22.58%) Hibernate
3 7 (22.58%) JPA
3 7 (22.58%) Kafka
3 7 (22.58%) REST
3 7 (22.58%) Spring
3 7 (22.58%) Spring Boot
4 6 (19.35%) Node.js
5 5 (16.13%) .NET
6 4 (12.90%) .NET Core
6 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET
6 4 (12.90%) React Native
7 3 (9.68%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (9.68%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (9.68%) Blazor
7 3 (9.68%) LangChain
7 3 (9.68%) LINQ
7 3 (9.68%) Semantic Kernel
8 2 (6.45%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (54.84%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.90%) Mobile App
2 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.23%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (83.87%) Full-Stack Development
2 22 (70.97%) CI/CD
3 20 (64.52%) Agile
4 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (45.16%) Software Engineering
5 12 (38.71%) Machine Learning
5 12 (38.71%) Observability
6 11 (35.48%) Code Quality
6 11 (35.48%) Mentoring
6 11 (35.48%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (32.26%) DevOps
8 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (22.58%) Analytics
9 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (22.58%) Data Analytics
10 6 (19.35%) AI
10 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
11 5 (16.13%) LLM
12 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Engineering
12 4 (12.90%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) JavaScript
2 15 (48.39%) Java
3 14 (45.16%) TypeScript
4 13 (41.94%) Python
5 6 (19.35%) SQL
6 3 (9.68%) C#
7 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Foundry
2 3 (9.68%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.23%) OpenAI