Microservices Jobs in Scotland

Microservices
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 30 48
Rank change year-on-year -9 +18 -12
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 627 386 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.38% 8.33% 5.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.12% 8.85% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 145 193 188
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,686 £56,219 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +14.58% +12.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,539 £97,328 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Microservices is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,194 4,363 5,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.63% 94.19% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,405 2,187 2,799
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,392 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +8.16%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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
Glasgow +27 524 £65,000 -1.52% 21
Edinburgh -26 78 £70,576 +1.62% 10
Aberdeen -11 9 £52,500 -19.23%
South Lanarkshire - 9 £80,000 -
Dundee -9 4 £42,500 - 2
Inverclyde - 1 £60,000 -
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
1 146 (23.29%) Apache Spark
2 98 (15.63%) FileNet
3 56 (8.93%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (3.35%) GemFire
5 5 (0.80%) Apache
5 5 (0.80%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.48%) Confluence
7 1 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 279 (44.50%) AWS
2 98 (15.63%) Amazon S3
3 64 (10.21%) Azure
4 52 (8.29%) GitHub
5 48 (7.66%) BlazeMeter
6 34 (5.42%) GCP
7 28 (4.47%) SaaS
8 19 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (3.03%) Serverless
9 5 (0.80%) Datadog
9 5 (0.80%) IaaS
9 5 (0.80%) PaaS
10 4 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.64%) IBM Cloud
11 3 (0.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.48%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.48%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.48%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.75%) Internet
2 1 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (32.85%) NoSQL
2 135 (21.53%) Apache Cassandra
3 110 (17.54%) Elasticsearch
4 72 (11.48%) Apache Hive
4 72 (11.48%) Hadoop
4 72 (11.48%) HBase
5 54 (8.61%) Big Data
5 54 (8.61%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.67%) Relational Database
7 21 (3.35%) CockroachDB
7 21 (3.35%) Hazelcast
8 18 (2.87%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.07%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.12%) MySQL
12 6 (0.96%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.64%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 128 (20.41%) JUnit
2 127 (20.26%) Jenkins
3 77 (12.28%) Git
4 56 (8.93%) Bitbucket Server
5 47 (7.50%) Mockito
6 45 (7.18%) Jasmine
7 28 (4.47%) JMeter
8 23 (3.67%) Maven
9 21 (3.35%) Jaeger
10 12 (1.91%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.91%) JIRA
10 12 (1.91%) Visual Studio
11 11 (1.75%) Cucumber
12 10 (1.59%) Gradle
13 6 (0.96%) JDeveloper
14 5 (0.80%) Selenium
15 4 (0.64%) GitLab
15 4 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
16 3 (0.48%) webpack
17 2 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 514 (81.98%) Finance
2 486 (77.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 461 (73.52%) Law
4 253 (40.35%) Marketing
5 149 (23.76%) Legal
6 99 (15.79%) Banking
7 68 (10.85%) Financial Institution
8 42 (6.70%) Investment Banking
9 40 (6.38%) Social Skills
10 21 (3.35%) Private Banking
11 11 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (0.96%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.64%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.48%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.32%) Games
15 2 (0.32%) Retail
16 1 (0.16%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 462 (73.68%) Software Engineer
2 206 (32.85%) Java Engineer
3 202 (32.22%) Java Software Engineer
4 128 (20.41%) Full Stack Engineer
4 128 (20.41%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 113 (18.02%) Developer
6 112 (17.86%) Lead
7 103 (16.43%) Lead Software Engineer
8 96 (15.31%) Senior
9 84 (13.40%) Senior Software Engineer
10 62 (9.89%) Python Engineer
10 62 (9.89%) Python Software Engineer
11 56 (8.93%) Database Developer
11 56 (8.93%) Database Engineer
11 56 (8.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 55 (8.77%) Engineering Manager
12 55 (8.77%) Software Engineering Manager
13 40 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
13 40 (6.38%) AWS Software Engineer
13 40 (6.38%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (46.25%) Spring
2 202 (32.22%) Kafka
3 195 (31.10%) React
4 192 (30.62%) AngularJS
5 154 (24.56%) Spring Boot
6 107 (17.07%) J2EE
7 105 (16.75%) Hibernate
8 102 (16.27%) CSS
8 102 (16.27%) GraphQL
8 102 (16.27%) Spring Integration
9 101 (16.11%) HTML
10 86 (13.72%) Node.js
11 79 (12.60%) REST
11 79 (12.60%) RESTful
12 74 (11.80%) PySpark
13 65 (10.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 61 (9.73%) JSON
15 59 (9.41%) .NET
16 56 (8.93%) JPA
17 53 (8.45%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 202 (32.22%) Cloud Native
2 109 (17.38%) Algorithms
3 49 (7.81%) Distributed Applications
4 34 (5.42%) Reference Data
5 27 (4.31%) Market Risk
6 25 (3.99%) Public Cloud
7 21 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (3.35%) Management Information System
7 21 (3.35%) Replication
8 15 (2.39%) Social Media
9 13 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.44%) Blockchain
12 7 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.12%) Product Ownership
13 6 (0.96%) BBC
13 6 (0.96%) Mainframe
14 5 (0.80%) Online Banking
14 5 (0.80%) Robotics
15 4 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 79 (12.60%) Unix
2 8 (1.28%) Linux
3 3 (0.48%) Android
3 3 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (86.44%) Agile
2 535 (85.33%) Software Engineering
3 464 (74.00%) SDLC
4 413 (65.87%) CI/CD
5 357 (56.94%) Operational Stability
6 316 (50.40%) Artificial Intelligence
7 311 (49.60%) Machine Learning
8 227 (36.20%) Community of Practice
9 178 (28.39%) Full Stack Development
9 178 (28.39%) Risk Management
10 156 (24.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 150 (23.92%) Visualisation
12 147 (23.44%) Decision-Making
13 117 (18.66%) TDD
14 107 (17.07%) Test Automation
15 102 (16.27%) Computer Science
16 98 (15.63%) AOP
16 98 (15.63%) Document Management
17 88 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
18 87 (13.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 473 (75.44%) Java
2 293 (46.73%) SQL
3 212 (33.81%) Python
4 136 (21.69%) JavaScript
5 93 (14.83%) TypeScript
6 84 (13.40%) C#
7 59 (9.41%) PL/SQL
8 23 (3.67%) C++
9 22 (3.51%) Groovy
10 11 (1.75%) Ruby
11 9 (1.44%) Bash
12 8 (1.28%) Go
12 8 (1.28%) PHP
13 6 (0.96%) Perl
14 5 (0.80%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.32%) C
17 2 (0.32%) Scala
18 1 (0.16%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 34 (5.42%) Degree
2 30 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 30 (4.78%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.32%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.16%) OCP
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.83%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.87%) QA
4 4 (0.64%) SEPA
System Software
1 72 (11.48%) HDFS
2 34 (5.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 187 (29.82%) Kubernetes
2 78 (12.44%) Terraform
3 60 (9.57%) Grafana
4 28 (4.47%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.35%) HAProxy
5 21 (3.35%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (3.35%) Kibana
5 21 (3.35%) Zipkin
6 9 (1.44%) Ansible
7 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 146 (23.29%) Oracle
2 81 (12.92%) Databricks
3 72 (11.48%) Cloudera
4 62 (9.89%) Dynatrace
5 61 (9.73%) Splunk
6 56 (8.93%) Informatica
7 21 (3.35%) Microsoft
8 18 (2.87%) Google
9 9 (1.44%) TOWER Software
10 6 (0.96%) Apple
10 6 (0.96%) Facebook
10 6 (0.96%) Sony
10 6 (0.96%) Yahoo!
11 4 (0.64%) Confluent
11 4 (0.64%) IBM
12 2 (0.32%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.16%) Adobe
13 1 (0.16%) Cisco
13 1 (0.16%) EMC
13 1 (0.16%) Salesforce