Microservices Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microservices
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 55 58 45
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,612 3,359 3,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.06% 5.03% 6.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.37% 5.27% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 2,056 2,620
10th Percentile £46,350 £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,548 £81,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £91,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,040 63,743 62,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 94.32% 95.53% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 20,562 36,583 42,315
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,757 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,800 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year - +0.84% +8.18%

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 30 November 2023.

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 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
North of England +6 491 £70,576 +8.58% 163
South East +2 299 £65,000 -7.14% 207
North West -6 270 £70,000 +7.69% 91
South West +34 266 £65,000 - 68
Scotland -5 227 £70,576 +8.58% 37
Yorkshire +42 206 £70,576 +4.56% 55
Midlands +9 193 £67,500 +3.85% 66
East Midlands 0 98 £70,000 - 18
West Midlands +28 95 £60,000 - 48
Northern Ireland +12 58 £81,250 +57.00% 16
East of England -13 51 £81,250 +25.00% 54
Wales -9 46 £57,500 -2.82% 19
North East +15 17 £60,000 - 23
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 42 (2.61%) Confluence
2 33 (2.05%) Tomcat
3 22 (1.36%) Jetty
4 15 (0.93%) CMS
4 15 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 14 (0.87%) OpenStack
6 12 (0.74%) JBoss
6 12 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
8 8 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.50%) Drupal
9 7 (0.43%) nginx
10 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.37%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.31%) Apache
11 5 (0.31%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.31%) NServiceBus
11 5 (0.31%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.25%) MQSeries
13 2 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.12%) Magento
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.12%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.062%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.062%) Primavera
5 1 (0.062%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.062%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.062%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.062%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 619 (38.40%) AWS
2 582 (36.10%) Azure
3 436 (27.05%) Serverless
4 309 (19.17%) GCP
5 244 (15.14%) SaaS
6 167 (10.36%) PaaS
7 154 (9.55%) IaaS
8 102 (6.33%) OpenShift
9 76 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
11 59 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
12 52 (3.23%) GitHub
13 44 (2.73%) Amazon S3
14 42 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
16 34 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
17 33 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 23 (1.43%) Power Platform
20 21 (1.30%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.92%) Internet
2 13 (0.81%) Firewall
3 11 (0.68%) DNS
3 11 (0.68%) Network Security
4 10 (0.62%) HTTP
5 9 (0.56%) AMQP
6 6 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.25%) LAN
7 4 (0.25%) VPN
8 3 (0.19%) DHCP
8 3 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.19%) MPLS
8 3 (0.19%) SSL
8 3 (0.19%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.19%) WAN
9 2 (0.12%) Broadband
9 2 (0.12%) FTP
9 2 (0.12%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.062%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.062%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (13.40%) NoSQL
2 136 (8.44%) Relational Database
3 102 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
4 94 (5.83%) Data Lake
5 93 (5.77%) MongoDB
6 90 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
6 90 (5.58%) MySQL
7 88 (5.46%) SQL Server
8 71 (4.40%) Big Data
9 69 (4.28%) Oracle Database
10 66 (4.09%) RDBMS
11 43 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
12 39 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (1.43%) Redis
14 22 (1.36%) Hadoop
15 17 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
15 17 (1.05%) BigQuery
16 15 (0.93%) DynamoDB
17 12 (0.74%) InfluxDB
18 7 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 395 (24.50%) Git
2 167 (10.36%) Jenkins
3 114 (7.07%) JIRA
4 71 (4.40%) GitLab
5 55 (3.41%) Maven
6 44 (2.73%) SonarQube
7 41 (2.54%) Cucumber
8 34 (2.11%) JUnit
9 30 (1.86%) Artifactory
10 22 (1.36%) Selenium
11 21 (1.30%) Bitbucket
11 21 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
12 20 (1.24%) JDeveloper
13 12 (0.74%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.74%) Subversion
13 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.62%) Postman
14 10 (0.62%) Spinnaker
14 10 (0.62%) TeamCity
15 9 (0.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 485 (30.09%) Finance
2 312 (19.35%) Banking
3 268 (16.63%) Social Skills
4 153 (9.49%) Retail
5 134 (8.31%) Police
6 110 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
8 56 (3.47%) Legal
9 54 (3.35%) Marketing
10 50 (3.10%) Public Sector
11 30 (1.86%) Law
11 30 (1.86%) Tech for Good
12 22 (1.36%) Retail Banking
13 16 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (0.93%) Automotive
15 13 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.81%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.68%) Telecoms
17 9 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 462 (28.66%) Software Engineer
2 444 (27.54%) Architect
3 408 (25.31%) Developer
4 313 (19.42%) Senior
5 270 (16.75%) Solutions Architect
6 179 (11.10%) Java Engineer
7 150 (9.31%) Java Software Engineer
8 149 (9.24%) Java Developer
9 147 (9.12%) Lead
10 125 (7.75%) Senior Software Engineer
11 112 (6.95%) Senior Developer
12 106 (6.58%) Enterprise Architect
13 74 (4.59%) .NET Developer
14 72 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
15 63 (3.91%) Ruby Engineer
16 56 (3.47%) Software Developer
17 55 (3.41%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
18 52 (3.23%) Full Stack Developer
19 51 (3.16%) Technical Architect
20 43 (2.67%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 419 (25.99%) React
2 377 (23.39%) Spring
3 305 (18.92%) .NET
4 246 (15.26%) Node.js
5 237 (14.70%) Spring Boot
6 209 (12.97%) Kafka
7 176 (10.92%) REST
8 164 (10.17%) AngularJS
9 147 (9.12%) RESTful
10 139 (8.62%) J2EE
11 134 (8.31%) HTML
12 124 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails
13 122 (7.57%) CSS
14 97 (6.02%) Web Services
15 89 (5.52%) OpenID
16 85 (5.27%) .NET Core
17 84 (5.21%) JSON
18 74 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
19 70 (4.34%) .NET Framework
20 66 (4.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (8.75%) Public Cloud
2 132 (8.19%) Cloud Native
3 114 (7.07%) Blockchain
4 100 (6.20%) Product Ownership
5 88 (5.46%) Mainframe
6 73 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
7 62 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
8 40 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 35 (2.17%) Cyberattack
10 32 (1.99%) Private Cloud
11 27 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.61%) Algorithms
13 24 (1.49%) Robotics
14 23 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
15 22 (1.36%) Mobile App
16 20 (1.24%) Online Banking
16 20 (1.24%) Virtual Team
17 19 (1.18%) Management Information System
18 18 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
19 17 (1.05%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 204 (12.66%) Linux
2 109 (6.76%) Unix
3 40 (2.48%) Windows
4 24 (1.49%) Android
5 20 (1.24%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.31%) Solaris
9 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.19%) Debian
10 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (52.61%) Agile
2 652 (40.45%) Software Engineering
3 537 (33.31%) DevOps
4 440 (27.30%) Containerisation
5 417 (25.87%) CI/CD
6 390 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
7 381 (23.64%) Design Patterns
8 357 (22.15%) Mentoring
9 306 (18.98%) Continuous Integration
10 282 (17.49%) Actionable Insight
11 267 (16.56%) Unit Testing
12 249 (15.45%) Code Quality
13 236 (14.64%) Scrum
14 216 (13.40%) Coaching
15 215 (13.34%) Event-Driven
16 213 (13.21%) Clean Code
17 202 (12.53%) Roadmaps
18 169 (10.48%) Machine Learning
19 166 (10.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 163 (10.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 789 (48.95%) Java
2 488 (30.27%) Python
3 384 (23.82%) JavaScript
4 366 (22.70%) C#
5 267 (16.56%) SQL
6 197 (12.22%) Ruby
7 171 (10.61%) TypeScript
8 146 (9.06%) Go
9 106 (6.58%) Bash
10 85 (5.27%) Perl
11 47 (2.92%) PowerShell
12 29 (1.80%) PHP
13 24 (1.49%) Rust
14 23 (1.43%) C++
14 23 (1.43%) Shell Script
15 17 (1.05%) T-SQL
16 16 (0.99%) C
17 14 (0.87%) Groovy
18 12 (0.74%) R
19 9 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 352 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 245 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 118 (7.32%) Degree
4 99 (6.14%) DV Cleared
5 54 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (2.98%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
7 27 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 21 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
10 18 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 16 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.93%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.56%) OCP
13 9 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.31%) CISSP
16 3 (0.19%) CBAP
16 3 (0.19%) IIBA
16 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (8.68%) QA
2 28 (1.74%) SEPA
3 15 (0.93%) ISO 20022
4 13 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.37%) GDPR
6 5 (0.31%) NCSC
7 4 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.25%) GRC
7 4 (0.25%) SLA
8 2 (0.12%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.12%) WCAG
9 1 (0.062%) NIST
9 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.062%) PMO
9 1 (0.062%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 460 (28.54%) Docker
2 24 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.12%) HDFS
6 2 (0.12%) Postfix
6 2 (0.12%) vSphere
7 1 (0.062%) KVM
7 1 (0.062%) RACF
7 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 453 (28.10%) Kubernetes
2 147 (9.12%) Terraform
3 96 (5.96%) Ansible
4 25 (1.55%) Grafana
5 16 (0.99%) Istio
5 16 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.87%) Kustomize
7 10 (0.62%) Packer
8 8 (0.50%) Puppet
9 3 (0.19%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.19%) Consul
9 3 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.19%) MIIS
9 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.12%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
10 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.062%) Nagios
Vendors
1 150 (9.31%) Microsoft
2 95 (5.89%) Oracle
3 75 (4.65%) Google
4 22 (1.36%) AppDynamics
4 22 (1.36%) Atlassian
5 19 (1.18%) IBM
6 13 (0.81%) Sparx
6 13 (0.81%) Splunk
6 13 (0.81%) WSO2
7 11 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 9 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 9 (0.56%) Sitecore
8 9 (0.56%) Sun
9 8 (0.50%) Adobe
9 8 (0.50%) Guidewire
9 8 (0.50%) SAP
9 8 (0.50%) VMware
10 7 (0.43%) Databricks
10 7 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.37%) Confluent