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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 40 29
Rank change year-on-year -8 -11 +21
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 153 625 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.21% 9.35% 8.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.62% 10.12% 8.79%
Number of salaries quoted 78 148 189
10th Percentile £51,175 £39,100 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,313 £50,514 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,905 £65,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -5.45% +14.58%
75th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £142,364 £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 2,723 6,177 4,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.81% 92.44% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 2,398 2,191
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,055
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% +5.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,798 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 15 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 15 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 +11 69 £79,190 +12.21% 32
Lanarkshire - 27 £80,000 - 4
Glasgow +8 26 £74,750 +15.00% 53
North Lanarkshire - 5 £51,000 -
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 18
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - - 1
Fife - 2 - - 2
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
South Lanarkshire -9 1 - - 1
Inverclyde -11 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 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 (32.03%) Confluence
2 2 (1.31%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.31%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.65%) CMS
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 86 (56.21%) AWS
2 83 (54.25%) Azure
3 77 (50.33%) GCP
4 12 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (7.84%) Serverless
5 8 (5.23%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.58%) SaaS
7 6 (3.92%) GitHub
8 5 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.61%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (1.96%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 15 (9.80%) NoSQL
2 15 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.15%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.27%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.27%) MySQL
4 5 (3.27%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.96%) Big Data
7 2 (1.31%) DB2
7 2 (1.31%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.65%) Metadata
8 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (40.52%) Maven
2 57 (37.25%) GitLab
3 54 (35.29%) SonarQube
4 52 (33.99%) Sonatype Nexus
5 49 (32.03%) Bitbucket
5 49 (32.03%) Cucumber
5 49 (32.03%) JIRA
5 49 (32.03%) Selenium
6 24 (15.69%) Jenkins
7 15 (9.80%) Git
8 12 (7.84%) Visual Studio
9 8 (5.23%) JUnit
10 3 (1.96%) Fiddler
10 3 (1.96%) Gradle
10 3 (1.96%) Postman
10 3 (1.96%) Spinnaker
10 3 (1.96%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.31%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.31%) Mockito
11 2 (1.31%) webpack
General
1 96 (62.75%) Finance
2 91 (59.48%) Banking
3 53 (34.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (7.84%) Social Skills
5 3 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.31%) Local Government
6 2 (1.31%) Retail
7 1 (0.65%) Electronics
7 1 (0.65%) Front Office
7 1 (0.65%) Games
7 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 73 (47.71%) Software Engineer
2 35 (22.88%) Senior
3 25 (16.34%) Developer
4 24 (15.69%) Architect
5 20 (13.07%) Lead
6 13 (8.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (7.19%) Senior Architect
9 9 (5.88%) Senior Software Architect
9 9 (5.88%) Senior Systems Architect
9 9 (5.88%) Software Architect
9 9 (5.88%) Systems Architect
10 8 (5.23%) Android Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Senior Developer
11 7 (4.58%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.92%) Software Developer
13 5 (3.27%) Senior Software Developer
14 4 (2.61%) .NET Developer
14 4 (2.61%) Software Team Leader
14 4 (2.61%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (49.02%) Spring
2 74 (48.37%) CSS
3 73 (47.71%) React
3 73 (47.71%) Spring Boot
4 71 (46.41%) HTML
5 63 (41.18%) Kafka
6 54 (35.29%) Hibernate
7 52 (33.99%) JPA
8 51 (33.33%) Redux
9 31 (20.26%) RESTful
10 25 (16.34%) .NET
11 17 (11.11%) .NET Framework
12 12 (7.84%) .NET Core
13 10 (6.54%) AngularJS
13 10 (6.54%) REST
14 8 (5.23%) Android Jetpack
14 8 (5.23%) Jetpack Compose
14 8 (5.23%) JWT
14 8 (5.23%) Web Services
15 7 (4.58%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 58 (37.91%) Product Ownership
2 52 (33.99%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (7.19%) Public Cloud
4 10 (6.54%) Mobile App
5 9 (5.88%) Online Banking
6 8 (5.23%) Virtual Team
7 7 (4.58%) Private Cloud
8 6 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (3.27%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.61%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.96%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.31%) Educational Technology
12 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.31%) Reference Data
12 2 (1.31%) Replication
12 2 (1.31%) Wiki
13 1 (0.65%) Equity Derivative
13 1 (0.65%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.88%) Android
2 4 (2.61%) Linux
3 3 (1.96%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (70.59%) Agile
2 102 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 97 (63.40%) DevOps
4 92 (60.13%) CI/CD
5 85 (55.56%) Test Automation
6 77 (50.33%) Containerisation
6 77 (50.33%) TDD
7 72 (47.06%) Full-Stack Development
8 62 (40.52%) Clean Code
9 59 (38.56%) Front End Development
10 58 (37.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 58 (37.91%) SDLC
11 49 (32.03%) Performance Optimisation
12 28 (18.30%) Unit Testing
13 23 (15.03%) Roadmaps
14 20 (13.07%) Mentoring
15 17 (11.11%) OO
16 16 (10.46%) Continuous Integration
17 15 (9.80%) Translating Business Requirements
18 14 (9.15%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 97 (63.40%) Java
2 78 (50.98%) JavaScript
3 71 (46.41%) SQL
4 24 (15.69%) C#
5 17 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 15 (9.80%) Python
7 10 (6.54%) Kotlin
8 9 (5.88%) C
8 9 (5.88%) C++
9 5 (3.27%) Go
10 3 (1.96%) Scala
11 2 (1.31%) ABAP
11 2 (1.31%) Bash
11 2 (1.31%) Elixir
11 2 (1.31%) F#
11 2 (1.31%) Ruby
12 1 (0.65%) Bicep
12 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.65%) Swift
12 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (4.58%) Degree
2 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (35.29%) QA
2 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 91 (59.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 103 (67.32%) Kubernetes
2 21 (13.73%) Terraform
3 6 (3.92%) Grafana
4 3 (1.96%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.31%) Istio
6 1 (0.65%) Ansible
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (32.03%) Solace
2 8 (5.23%) Google
3 4 (2.61%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.61%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.96%) Databricks
4 3 (1.96%) Oracle
4 3 (1.96%) Splunk
5 2 (1.31%) SAP
5 2 (1.31%) Sybase
6 1 (0.65%) Adobe
6 1 (0.65%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.65%) IBM
6 1 (0.65%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow