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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 42 33
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 +16
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 145 474 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.43% 7.30% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 8.23% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 62 110 123
10th Percentile £51,150 £38,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,625 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% -1.52% +1.54%
75th Percentile £99,375 £73,886 £83,375
90th Percentile £146,300 £85,693 £97,328
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.97% +0.74%

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 2,899 5,756 3,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 88.52% 88.64% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,495 2,045
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £31,425
25th Percentile £32,951 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,342 £66,778 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +24 50 £78,810 +12.59% 47
Glasgow -10 40 £76,000 +16.92% 68
Lanarkshire - 24 £80,000 - 11
North Lanarkshire - 5 £51,000 -
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +5 2 - - 1
Fife - 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
South Lanarkshire -7 1 - - 1
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - - 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 (33.79%) Confluence
2 3 (2.07%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.38%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 92 (63.45%) AWS
2 78 (53.79%) Azure
3 69 (47.59%) GCP
4 14 (9.66%) GitHub
5 10 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (6.90%) Serverless
6 9 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.21%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.14%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.14%) SaaS
9 5 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.76%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.07%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.07%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (2.07%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.90%) Internet
2 1 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (42.07%) SQL Server
2 16 (11.03%) MongoDB
2 16 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.97%) Relational Database
4 11 (7.59%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.14%) RDBMS
7 5 (3.45%) MySQL
8 4 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.76%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.07%) Big Data
10 2 (1.38%) DB2
10 2 (1.38%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.69%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.69%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.69%) HBase
11 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (44.83%) Maven
2 56 (38.62%) GitLab
3 53 (36.55%) SonarQube
4 51 (35.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 50 (34.48%) Selenium
6 49 (33.79%) Bitbucket
6 49 (33.79%) Cucumber
6 49 (33.79%) JIRA
7 26 (17.93%) Jenkins
8 13 (8.97%) Git
9 9 (6.21%) JUnit
10 8 (5.52%) Visual Studio
11 4 (2.76%) Gradle
12 2 (1.38%) Checkstyle
12 2 (1.38%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.38%) Fiddler
12 2 (1.38%) Mockito
12 2 (1.38%) Postman
12 2 (1.38%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.69%) Protractor
General
1 93 (64.14%) Finance
2 89 (61.38%) Banking
3 64 (44.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (7.59%) Law
5 7 (4.83%) Investment Banking
5 7 (4.83%) Social Skills
6 4 (2.76%) Private Banking
7 3 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.38%) Local Government
8 2 (1.38%) Marketing
8 2 (1.38%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.69%) Electronics
9 1 (0.69%) Front Office
9 1 (0.69%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (53.79%) Software Engineer
2 31 (21.38%) Senior
3 26 (17.93%) Developer
4 24 (16.55%) Lead
5 17 (11.72%) Architect
6 15 (10.34%) Java Developer
7 13 (8.97%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (8.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 12 (8.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 11 (7.59%) Java Engineer
9 11 (7.59%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (6.90%) Software Developer
10 10 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (5.52%) Android Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Senior Architect
11 8 (5.52%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Senior Software Developer
12 7 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (52.41%) React
1 76 (52.41%) Spring
2 73 (50.34%) Spring Boot
3 69 (47.59%) Kafka
4 67 (46.21%) CSS
5 64 (44.14%) HTML
6 55 (37.93%) Hibernate
7 53 (36.55%) JPA
8 49 (33.79%) Redux
9 40 (27.59%) RESTful
10 22 (15.17%) .NET
11 15 (10.34%) AngularJS
12 14 (9.66%) .NET Core
13 12 (8.28%) REST
14 11 (7.59%) .NET Framework
15 8 (5.52%) Android Jetpack
15 8 (5.52%) Jetpack Compose
16 7 (4.83%) Blazor
17 6 (4.14%) Web Services
18 5 (3.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 58 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 52 (35.86%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (8.28%) Cloud Native
4 11 (7.59%) Public Cloud
5 10 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (6.90%) Virtual Team
6 9 (6.21%) Algorithms
6 9 (6.21%) Mobile App
6 9 (6.21%) Online Banking
7 7 (4.83%) Private Cloud
8 5 (3.45%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.76%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.38%) Educational Technology
11 2 (1.38%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.38%) Replication
11 2 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.21%) Android
2 4 (2.76%) Linux
2 4 (2.76%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (73.10%) Agile
2 104 (71.72%) Software Engineering
3 97 (66.90%) CI/CD
4 92 (63.45%) DevOps
5 79 (54.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 75 (51.72%) Containerisation
6 75 (51.72%) TDD
6 75 (51.72%) Test Automation
7 67 (46.21%) SDLC
8 66 (45.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (42.76%) Front End Development
10 57 (39.31%) Clean Code
11 49 (33.79%) Performance Optimisation
12 23 (15.86%) Roadmaps
12 23 (15.86%) Unit Testing
13 17 (11.72%) Mentoring
14 15 (10.34%) Architectural Patterns
14 15 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (9.66%) Continuous Integration
16 13 (8.97%) OO
Programming Languages
1 93 (64.14%) Java
2 75 (51.72%) JavaScript
3 71 (48.97%) SQL
4 23 (15.86%) C#
5 14 (9.66%) TypeScript
6 12 (8.28%) Python
7 9 (6.21%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.83%) C
8 7 (4.83%) C++
9 5 (3.45%) Go
10 3 (2.07%) Scala
11 2 (1.38%) ABAP
11 2 (1.38%) Bash
11 2 (1.38%) Elixir
11 2 (1.38%) F#
11 2 (1.38%) Ruby
12 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.69%) Rust
12 1 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (36.55%) QA
2 2 (1.38%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.38%) SEPA
3 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 87 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 102 (70.34%) Kubernetes
2 22 (15.17%) Terraform
3 7 (4.83%) Grafana
4 2 (1.38%) Istio
4 2 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.69%) Ansible
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (33.79%) Solace
2 7 (4.83%) Google
3 5 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.76%) Splunk
5 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.07%) Oracle
5 3 (2.07%) Sybase
6 2 (1.38%) IBM
6 2 (1.38%) SAP
7 1 (0.69%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.69%) Databricks
7 1 (0.69%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.69%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow