Microservices Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microservices
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 75 80
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -24
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,275 2,539 2,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.19% 3.21% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 3.96% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 601 1,803 1,317
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,206 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.37% -9.32% +12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £75,781
% change year-on-year +11.54% -14.23% +1.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,645 64,110 53,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 91.70% 81.15% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17,855 43,360 28,416
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,584 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
North of England +13 542 £71,991 +17.62% 380
North West +34 455 £67,037 +3.13% 246
South East -36 252 £70,000 +16.67% 551
Midlands -3 157 £68,750 +14.58% 178
Scotland -16 147 £78,155 +20.24% 111
South West +6 109 £70,258 +17.10% 119
West Midlands -5 91 £70,000 +7.69% 73
Yorkshire -35 79 £73,685 +21.59% 88
East Midlands +23 66 £65,000 +18.18% 99
East of England -32 52 £60,000 -7.69% 44
Wales +10 16 £52,000 -0.95% 21
North East -18 8 £69,519 +13.58% 47
Northern Ireland +13 4 £50,000 -23.08% 52
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 192 (15.06%) Confluence
2 23 (1.80%) Jupyter
3 19 (1.49%) JBoss
4 14 (1.10%) Red Hat Fuse
5 11 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.78%) CMS
7 9 (0.71%) Apache
8 8 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.47%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.39%) Appian
10 5 (0.39%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.31%) GemFire
11 4 (0.31%) SAS
12 3 (0.24%) IIS
12 3 (0.24%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.16%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.078%) ColdFusion
14 1 (0.078%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.078%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.078%) Moqups
3 1 (0.078%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 794 (62.27%) AWS
2 746 (58.51%) Azure
3 472 (37.02%) GCP
4 123 (9.65%) Serverless
5 77 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (5.18%) SaaS
7 53 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
8 51 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
8 51 (4.00%) Amazon S3
9 47 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (3.29%) Azure Service Bus
11 39 (3.06%) GitHub
12 32 (2.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 29 (2.27%) SonarCloud
14 23 (1.80%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (1.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 19 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
18 15 (1.18%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.25%) Internet
2 6 (0.47%) HTTP
2 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.24%) Network Security
4 2 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.078%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.078%) 5G
5 1 (0.078%) DAB
5 1 (0.078%) DNS
5 1 (0.078%) Firewall
5 1 (0.078%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 315 (24.71%) SQL Server
2 128 (10.04%) NoSQL
3 122 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
4 106 (8.31%) MongoDB
5 90 (7.06%) Relational Database
6 48 (3.76%) Big Data
7 46 (3.61%) MySQL
8 45 (3.53%) DynamoDB
8 45 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
9 38 (2.98%) RDBMS
10 31 (2.43%) Redis
11 25 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (0.94%) Data Lake
14 11 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.47%) InterSystems Cache
16 4 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.31%) BigQuery
16 4 (0.31%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 292 (22.90%) GitLab
2 291 (22.82%) JIRA
3 288 (22.59%) Maven
4 283 (22.20%) SonarQube
5 269 (21.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 265 (20.78%) Selenium
7 264 (20.71%) Cucumber
8 249 (19.53%) Bitbucket
9 180 (14.12%) Git
10 134 (10.51%) Jenkins
11 84 (6.59%) JUnit
12 48 (3.76%) Mockito
13 43 (3.37%) Visual Studio
14 38 (2.98%) Octopus Deploy
15 30 (2.35%) MSBuild
16 29 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
17 20 (1.57%) Jasmine
17 20 (1.57%) Karma Test Runner
18 19 (1.49%) Cypress.io
19 18 (1.41%) JMeter
General
1 480 (37.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 468 (36.71%) Finance
3 396 (31.06%) Banking
4 213 (16.71%) Social Skills
5 149 (11.69%) Retail
6 102 (8.00%) Investment Banking
7 90 (7.06%) Corporate Banking
8 87 (6.82%) Law
9 64 (5.02%) Public Sector
10 34 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
11 25 (1.96%) Marketing
12 10 (0.78%) Tech for Good
13 8 (0.63%) Automotive
14 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.47%) Back Office
16 5 (0.39%) Advertising
16 5 (0.39%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.39%) Front Office
16 5 (0.39%) Games
16 5 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 574 (45.02%) Software Engineer
2 351 (27.53%) Senior
3 290 (22.75%) Developer
4 217 (17.02%) Senior Software Engineer
5 168 (13.18%) Lead
6 153 (12.00%) Architect
7 111 (8.71%) Java Developer
8 72 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
9 70 (5.49%) Senior Developer
10 64 (5.02%) Java Engineer
11 62 (4.86%) .NET Developer
12 61 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
13 38 (2.98%) Java Software Engineer
13 38 (2.98%) Lead Developer
13 38 (2.98%) Technical Architect
14 32 (2.51%) C# Developer
15 27 (2.12%) Software Developer
16 24 (1.88%) Enterprise Architect
16 24 (1.88%) Senior Architect
17 23 (1.80%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 451 (35.37%) React
2 430 (33.73%) Spring
3 419 (32.86%) Spring Boot
4 373 (29.25%) Kafka
5 364 (28.55%) .NET
6 353 (27.69%) HTML
7 348 (27.29%) CSS
8 298 (23.37%) REST
9 278 (21.80%) JPA
10 277 (21.73%) Node.js
11 261 (20.47%) RESTful
12 251 (19.69%) Redux
13 223 (17.49%) Hibernate
14 121 (9.49%) AngularJS
15 114 (8.94%) HTML5
16 112 (8.78%) Jest
17 106 (8.31%) CSS3
18 98 (7.69%) Sass
19 88 (6.90%) Web Services
20 78 (6.12%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 322 (25.25%) Product Ownership
2 301 (23.61%) Enterprise Software
3 196 (15.37%) Cyberattack
4 176 (13.80%) Self-Motivation
5 172 (13.49%) Linux Command Line
6 88 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
7 75 (5.88%) Cloud Native
8 50 (3.92%) Algorithms
9 43 (3.37%) Public Cloud
10 40 (3.14%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.73%) Mobile App
12 21 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.65%) Private Cloud
13 20 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (1.10%) Reference Data
16 13 (1.02%) IoT
17 10 (0.78%) Replication
17 10 (0.78%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.78%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 231 (18.12%) Linux
2 17 (1.33%) Unix
3 16 (1.25%) Android
4 11 (0.86%) Windows
5 7 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.078%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 861 (67.53%) Agile
2 740 (58.04%) Software Engineering
3 622 (48.78%) DevOps
4 588 (46.12%) CI/CD
5 446 (34.98%) Containerisation
6 408 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 402 (31.53%) Mentoring
8 393 (30.82%) Test Automation
9 355 (27.84%) TDD
10 320 (25.10%) SDLC
11 311 (24.39%) User Experience
12 299 (23.45%) Scrum
13 291 (22.82%) Performance Optimisation
14 286 (22.43%) Front End Development
15 247 (19.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 223 (17.49%) Machine Learning
17 210 (16.47%) Clean Code
18 191 (14.98%) Cloud Security
19 188 (14.75%) Data Engineering
19 188 (14.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 808 (63.37%) Java
2 657 (51.53%) JavaScript
3 427 (33.49%) SQL
4 326 (25.57%) Python
5 214 (16.78%) Go
6 211 (16.55%) TypeScript
7 210 (16.47%) C#
8 185 (14.51%) C++
9 175 (13.73%) Rust
10 26 (2.04%) C
10 26 (2.04%) PHP
11 21 (1.65%) Apex Code
12 16 (1.25%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.78%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.55%) Bash
16 6 (0.47%) Groovy
16 6 (0.47%) Ruby
17 5 (0.39%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 272 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 202 (15.84%) DV Cleared
3 194 (15.22%) AWS Certification
4 188 (14.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 174 (13.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 141 (11.06%) Degree
7 71 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (4.71%) SC Cleared
9 30 (2.35%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.41%) Azure Certification
11 15 (1.18%) HND
12 5 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.24%) OCP
13 3 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.16%) CISM
14 2 (0.16%) CISSP
14 2 (0.16%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (22.59%) QA
2 105 (8.24%) Accessibility
3 49 (3.84%) GDPR
4 23 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 15 (1.18%) HIPAA
6 14 (1.10%) SLA
7 7 (0.55%) NIST
8 6 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.31%) Basel II
9 4 (0.31%) Basel III
9 4 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.31%) IFRS
9 4 (0.31%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.16%) CDISC
10 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.078%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.078%) GRC
11 1 (0.078%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.078%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 607 (47.61%) Docker
2 21 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.31%) Postfix
3 4 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.24%) HDFS
5 2 (0.16%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.078%) Firmware
6 1 (0.078%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 555 (43.53%) Kubernetes
2 99 (7.76%) Terraform
3 35 (2.75%) Grafana
4 31 (2.43%) Ansible
5 24 (1.88%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.41%) Kibana
7 12 (0.94%) Istio
8 5 (0.39%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.24%) Argo
10 2 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.16%) Packer
10 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.078%) Control-M
11 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 250 (19.61%) Solace
2 78 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 52 (4.08%) Google
4 26 (2.04%) IBM
5 23 (1.80%) Dynatrace
6 22 (1.73%) Oracle
7 21 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 21 (1.65%) Splunk
8 18 (1.41%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.63%) Cisco
9 8 (0.63%) Databricks
10 7 (0.55%) Apple
11 6 (0.47%) Bloomberg
11 6 (0.47%) Ping Identity
12 5 (0.39%) BiZZdesign
12 5 (0.39%) Black Duck
12 5 (0.39%) Jaspersoft
12 5 (0.39%) UiPath
12 5 (0.39%) VMware