Microservices Jobs in the South East

Microservices
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 66 68 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 -29 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 299 819 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.86% 4.69% 7.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 4.93% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 176 538 803
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £93,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £78,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.46% +12.14% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,223 16,603 17,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 93.13% 95.10% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,840 10,047 11,794
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,731 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,208 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.55% +3.68% +9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the South East.

Salary trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the South East over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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
Thames Valley -5 147 £65,000 -7.14% 40
Berkshire +3 114 £81,250 +12.07% 19
East Sussex +51 79 £65,500 +13.91% 5
Hampshire -41 24 £55,000 -26.67% 20
Buckinghamshire -11 18 £65,000 -13.33% 9
Kent +25 17 £65,000 -32.29% 16
West Sussex +40 15 £71,250 +29.55% 12
Oxfordshire +13 15 £55,000 -12.00% 12
Surrey -15 13 £52,500 -25.00% 13
Middlesex - 1 £85,000 -
M4 Corridor - 1 £95,000 -
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (4.35%) OpenStack
2 11 (3.68%) Red Hat Fuse
3 9 (3.01%) JBoss
4 7 (2.34%) Confluence
4 7 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.01%) CMS
5 6 (2.01%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.67%) Apache
7 3 (1.00%) Headless CMS
7 3 (1.00%) nginx
8 2 (0.67%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.67%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.33%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.33%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 152 (50.84%) AWS
2 111 (37.12%) Azure
3 91 (30.43%) Serverless
4 36 (12.04%) Amazon EKS
5 35 (11.71%) SaaS
6 28 (9.36%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (7.02%) GCP
9 18 (6.02%) PaaS
10 17 (5.69%) GitHub
11 15 (5.02%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (5.02%) IaaS
12 12 (4.01%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.01%) OpenShift
14 8 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (2.68%) Azure AKS
14 8 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.01%) Internet
2 4 (1.34%) DNS
2 4 (1.34%) Network Security
3 3 (1.00%) Firewall
3 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.67%) FTP
4 2 (0.67%) HTTP
4 2 (0.67%) MPLS
4 2 (0.67%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.33%) Broadband
5 1 (0.33%) NaaS
5 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (17.73%) Relational Database
2 40 (13.38%) NoSQL
3 30 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.02%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.02%) MongoDB
6 13 (4.35%) MySQL
7 11 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.68%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.01%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.34%) Power BI
12 4 (1.34%) Redis
13 3 (1.00%) CouchDB
14 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
15 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.33%) Big Data
15 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
15 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 81 (27.09%) Git
2 58 (19.40%) Jenkins
3 30 (10.03%) JIRA
4 17 (5.69%) SonarQube
5 15 (5.02%) JUnit
6 14 (4.68%) Cucumber
6 14 (4.68%) GitLab
7 12 (4.01%) Artifactory
8 9 (3.01%) Maven
8 9 (3.01%) Selenium
9 8 (2.68%) Mockito
10 5 (1.67%) DbUnit
10 5 (1.67%) jMock
10 5 (1.67%) Postman
10 5 (1.67%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.00%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.00%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.00%) Jasmine
11 3 (1.00%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.00%) Subversion
General
1 55 (18.39%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.73%) Finance
3 28 (9.36%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.02%) Legal
5 16 (5.35%) Retail
6 14 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.35%) Police
8 11 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.34%) Automotive
10 8 (2.68%) Marketing
11 7 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.00%) Aviation
15 2 (0.67%) Banking
15 2 (0.67%) Games
15 2 (0.67%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.67%) Law
15 2 (0.67%) Military
15 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 115 (38.46%) Developer
2 61 (20.40%) Architect
3 56 (18.73%) Java Developer
4 53 (17.73%) Senior
5 40 (13.38%) Solutions Architect
6 38 (12.71%) Software Engineer
7 27 (9.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 25 (8.36%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.35%) Java Engineer
10 18 (6.02%) Lead
11 16 (5.35%) Java Software Engineer
12 15 (5.02%) .NET Developer
13 14 (4.68%) Technical Architect
14 13 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
15 12 (4.01%) C# Developer
15 12 (4.01%) Digital Architect
15 12 (4.01%) Senior Java Developer
16 11 (3.68%) Digital Solutions Architect
16 11 (3.68%) Python Engineer
16 11 (3.68%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (24.41%) Spring
2 59 (19.73%) React
2 59 (19.73%) REST
3 54 (18.06%) Spring Boot
4 52 (17.39%) Node.js
5 50 (16.72%) .NET
6 43 (14.38%) AngularJS
7 37 (12.37%) Kafka
7 37 (12.37%) RabbitMQ
8 35 (11.71%) Web Services
9 34 (11.37%) RESTful
10 25 (8.36%) Elastic Stack
10 25 (8.36%) SOAP
11 24 (8.03%) J2EE
12 23 (7.69%) XML
13 22 (7.36%) JSON
14 16 (5.35%) HTML
15 15 (5.02%) CSS
16 14 (4.68%) Apache Camel
17 13 (4.35%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.37%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.37%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.02%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (4.68%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.68%) Digital Media
5 11 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.68%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.34%) IoT
7 5 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.34%) PKI
9 3 (1.00%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.00%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.67%) Robotics
11 1 (0.33%) Learning Management System
11 1 (0.33%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.38%) Linux
2 11 (3.68%) Android
2 11 (3.68%) Apple iOS
3 9 (3.01%) Windows
4 4 (1.34%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (52.17%) Agile
2 121 (40.47%) DevOps
3 82 (27.42%) CI/CD
4 73 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (23.75%) Software Engineering
6 57 (19.06%) Design Patterns
6 57 (19.06%) Scrum
7 52 (17.39%) TDD
8 44 (14.72%) Containerisation
9 43 (14.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 41 (13.71%) Roadmaps
11 40 (13.38%) Continuous Integration
11 40 (13.38%) Unit Testing
12 39 (13.04%) BDD
13 34 (11.37%) Kanban
14 33 (11.04%) Mentoring
15 32 (10.70%) Actionable Insight
15 32 (10.70%) Architectural Patterns
16 29 (9.70%) Code Quality
17 28 (9.36%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 137 (45.82%) Java
2 94 (31.44%) Python
3 80 (26.76%) JavaScript
4 59 (19.73%) C#
5 56 (18.73%) SQL
6 35 (11.71%) TypeScript
7 31 (10.37%) Go
8 20 (6.69%) Ruby
9 17 (5.69%) Perl
10 13 (4.35%) Bash
11 12 (4.01%) PowerShell
12 11 (3.68%) PHP
12 11 (3.68%) Shell Script
13 7 (2.34%) Bicep
13 7 (2.34%) Groovy
14 5 (1.67%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.67%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.67%) XPath
15 3 (1.00%) C
16 2 (0.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 48 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.36%) Degree
4 10 (3.34%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.34%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.34%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.34%) CISSP
8 3 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.00%) PhD
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.67%) CBAP
9 2 (0.67%) CCIE
9 2 (0.67%) IIBA
9 2 (0.67%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.33%) CCSK
10 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.00%) GDPR
3 2 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (0.67%) NCSC
4 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.33%) NIST
4 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 101 (33.78%) Docker
2 6 (2.01%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.34%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.67%) Postfix
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 89 (29.77%) Kubernetes
2 45 (15.05%) Ansible
3 42 (14.05%) Terraform
4 6 (2.01%) Packer
5 4 (1.34%) Kustomize
5 4 (1.34%) Puppet
6 3 (1.00%) Consul
7 2 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.67%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.67%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.33%) Grafana
8 1 (0.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 39 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.35%) WSO2
3 11 (3.68%) AppDynamics
3 11 (3.68%) IBM
4 9 (3.01%) Google
4 9 (3.01%) Oracle
5 8 (2.68%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.68%) Guidewire
6 5 (1.67%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.34%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.00%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.67%) Dell
9 2 (0.67%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.67%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.67%) New Relic
10 1 (0.33%) Aruba
10 1 (0.33%) F5
10 1 (0.33%) SAP
10 1 (0.33%) VMware