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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 80 63
Rank change year-on-year +12 -17 -20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,608 2,478 3,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.71% 4.04% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 4.22% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,819 1,460 1,996
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £88,500
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
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 59,360 58,686 66,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 95.63% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 41,074 30,149 41,547
10th Percentile £27,041 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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
Scotland -10 632 £65,000 -5.45% 31
South East -11 598 £60,000 -7.69% 74
North of England +24 570 £62,500 -7.41% 143
South West +25 296 £60,500 -12.88% 47
Midlands +25 281 £60,000 -7.69% 75
North West -15 270 £65,000 -1.11% 81
Yorkshire +64 226 £61,206 -12.56% 46
West Midlands +49 183 £65,000 +4.84% 38
East of England -17 146 £65,000 -10.34% 22
East Midlands -32 98 £55,000 -21.43% 36
North East +19 74 £61,206 -12.56% 17
Wales +1 46 £52,500 -12.50% 13
Northern Ireland +12 37 £65,000 +37.57% 14
Isle of Man - 4 £82,500 -
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
1 171 (6.56%) Apache Spark
2 98 (3.76%) FileNet
3 56 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (1.38%) Apache
5 35 (1.34%) OpenStack
6 27 (1.04%) Confluence
7 21 (0.81%) GemFire
8 13 (0.50%) CMS
9 11 (0.42%) JBoss
9 11 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
10 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.35%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.27%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.23%) SharePoint
14 5 (0.19%) nginx
15 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
16 3 (0.12%) MQSeries
17 2 (0.077%) Apache Solr
17 2 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 16 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.46%) Simulink
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.077%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 33 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.15%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,294 (49.62%) Azure
2 1,111 (42.60%) AWS
3 259 (9.93%) Serverless
4 188 (7.21%) SaaS
5 181 (6.94%) GCP
6 154 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
7 133 (5.10%) Amazon S3
8 108 (4.14%) GitHub
9 106 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
10 102 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
11 83 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
12 64 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 63 (2.42%) PaaS
14 54 (2.07%) IaaS
15 48 (1.84%) BlazeMeter
15 48 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
16 46 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
17 38 (1.46%) Google Play
18 34 (1.30%) OpenShift
19 33 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.76%) Internet
2 39 (1.50%) HTTP
3 34 (1.30%) DNS
4 27 (1.04%) AMQP
5 26 (1.00%) Firewall
6 18 (0.69%) MQTT
7 16 (0.61%) Hyperconnected
8 13 (0.50%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.46%) Network Security
10 5 (0.19%) DHCP
10 5 (0.19%) VPN
11 3 (0.12%) 4G
11 3 (0.12%) 5G
11 3 (0.12%) GPRS
11 3 (0.12%) SMS
11 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.12%) Wireless
12 2 (0.077%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (0.038%) Cisco Firepower
13 1 (0.038%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 665 (25.50%) SQL Server
2 446 (17.10%) NoSQL
3 331 (12.69%) Elasticsearch
4 319 (12.23%) MongoDB
5 190 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
6 185 (7.09%) Relational Database
7 143 (5.48%) MySQL
8 137 (5.25%) Apache Cassandra
9 107 (4.10%) Big Data
10 99 (3.80%) Hadoop
11 72 (2.76%) Apache Hive
11 72 (2.76%) HBase
12 57 (2.19%) RDBMS
13 50 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
14 49 (1.88%) Redis
15 40 (1.53%) DynamoDB
15 40 (1.53%) Oracle Database
16 29 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
17 27 (1.04%) Data Lake
18 25 (0.96%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 371 (14.23%) Git
2 277 (10.62%) Jenkins
3 166 (6.37%) JUnit
4 71 (2.72%) GitLab
5 65 (2.49%) Jasmine
6 57 (2.19%) Bitbucket Server
6 57 (2.19%) Mockito
7 56 (2.15%) JIRA
8 51 (1.96%) Selenium
9 46 (1.76%) Cucumber
10 45 (1.73%) Maven
11 39 (1.50%) JMeter
12 38 (1.46%) Visual Studio
13 36 (1.38%) Cypress.io
14 30 (1.15%) JDeveloper
15 25 (0.96%) CircleCI
15 25 (0.96%) NUnit
16 22 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
16 22 (0.84%) SonarQube
17 21 (0.81%) Jaeger
General
1 834 (31.98%) Finance
2 526 (20.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 489 (18.75%) Law
4 321 (12.31%) Social Skills
5 271 (10.39%) Marketing
6 215 (8.24%) Legal
7 179 (6.86%) Banking
8 146 (5.60%) Public Sector
9 98 (3.76%) Retail
10 90 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
11 89 (3.41%) Financial Institution
12 51 (1.96%) Investment Banking
13 50 (1.92%) Aerospace
14 38 (1.46%) Games
15 28 (1.07%) Tech for Good
16 25 (0.96%) Advertising
17 24 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
18 23 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
19 21 (0.81%) Private Banking
20 19 (0.73%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,233 (47.28%) Developer
2 731 (28.03%) Software Engineer
3 697 (26.73%) .NET Developer
4 417 (15.99%) Senior
5 331 (12.69%) Architect
6 326 (12.50%) Java Engineer
7 317 (12.15%) Lead
8 285 (10.93%) Java Software Engineer
9 265 (10.16%) C# Developer
10 234 (8.97%) C# .NET Developer
11 216 (8.28%) Solutions Architect
12 169 (6.48%) Senior Developer
12 169 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 163 (6.25%) Full Stack Engineer
14 145 (5.56%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 144 (5.52%) Java Developer
16 131 (5.02%) Software Developer
17 126 (4.83%) Lead Software Engineer
18 82 (3.14%) AWS Developer
19 76 (2.91%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,024 (39.26%) .NET
2 951 (36.46%) AngularJS
3 742 (28.45%) React
4 662 (25.38%) ASP.NET Web API
5 606 (23.24%) .NET Core
6 586 (22.47%) ASP.NET
7 520 (19.94%) Spring
8 501 (19.21%) .NET Framework
9 497 (19.06%) Node.js
10 466 (17.87%) Entity Framework
11 449 (17.22%) ASP.NET MVC
12 414 (15.87%) RESTful
13 364 (13.96%) Kafka
14 363 (13.92%) Spring Boot
15 358 (13.73%) Vue
16 333 (12.77%) HTML
17 278 (10.66%) REST
18 212 (8.13%) CSS
19 190 (7.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 160 (6.13%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 347 (13.31%) Cloud Native
2 142 (5.44%) Algorithms
3 133 (5.10%) Greenfield Project
4 113 (4.33%) Public Cloud
5 109 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
6 76 (2.91%) Mobile App
7 59 (2.26%) Product Ownership
8 56 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 52 (1.99%) Social Media
10 51 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
11 47 (1.80%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.76%) IoT
13 45 (1.73%) Social Network
14 42 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
15 40 (1.53%) iPhone
16 35 (1.34%) Blockchain
17 34 (1.30%) Reference Data
18 30 (1.15%) BBC
19 27 (1.04%) Client/Server
19 27 (1.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 128 (4.91%) Linux
2 100 (3.83%) Unix
3 73 (2.80%) Android
4 55 (2.11%) Windows
5 41 (1.57%) Ubuntu
6 40 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 38 (1.46%) CentOS
8 25 (0.96%) Debian
9 19 (0.73%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.038%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,766 (67.71%) Agile
2 996 (38.19%) Full Stack Development
3 963 (36.92%) Software Engineering
4 776 (29.75%) CI/CD
5 574 (22.01%) SDLC
6 568 (21.78%) TDD
7 547 (20.97%) DevOps
8 527 (20.21%) MVC
9 458 (17.56%) Scrum
10 407 (15.61%) Artificial Intelligence
11 395 (15.15%) Machine Learning
12 364 (13.96%) BDD
13 361 (13.84%) Operational Stability
14 358 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
15 325 (12.46%) Kanban
16 307 (11.77%) Mentoring
17 288 (11.04%) Containerisation
18 245 (9.39%) Test Automation
19 243 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
20 242 (9.28%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 980 (37.58%) C#
2 972 (37.27%) Java
3 923 (35.39%) JavaScript
4 578 (22.16%) SQL
5 548 (21.01%) TypeScript
6 459 (17.60%) Python
7 118 (4.52%) Go
8 69 (2.65%) PHP
8 69 (2.65%) Ruby
9 62 (2.38%) PL/SQL
10 52 (1.99%) Bash
11 46 (1.76%) C++
12 32 (1.23%) Perl
13 31 (1.19%) Kotlin
14 25 (0.96%) Groovy
15 23 (0.88%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.69%) PowerShell
17 13 (0.50%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.46%) Ada
18 12 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 192 (7.36%) Degree
2 158 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 146 (5.60%) SC Cleared
4 96 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 55 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 40 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 40 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 35 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 24 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 19 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
14 11 (0.42%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.31%) PhD
16 6 (0.23%) CISSP
17 5 (0.19%) PCI QSA
18 4 (0.15%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (4.03%) QA
2 34 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 27 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 20 (0.77%) GDPR
5 10 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 8 (0.31%) PSD2
7 7 (0.27%) SEPA
8 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.19%) GRC
9 5 (0.19%) SLA
10 1 (0.038%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.038%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.038%) NCSC
10 1 (0.038%) NIST
10 1 (0.038%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.038%) WCAG
System Software
1 446 (17.10%) Docker
2 72 (2.76%) HDFS
3 32 (1.23%) Hyper-V
4 19 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
6 11 (0.42%) Active Directory
7 9 (0.35%) Firmware
8 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.038%) RACF
Systems Management
1 575 (22.05%) Kubernetes
2 243 (9.32%) Terraform
3 123 (4.72%) Ansible
4 87 (3.34%) Grafana
5 47 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.73%) Puppet
7 30 (1.15%) Kibana
8 21 (0.81%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.81%) Zipkin
9 13 (0.50%) Consul
10 9 (0.35%) MIIS
10 9 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.19%) SCOM
12 3 (0.12%) Galera Cluster
12 3 (0.12%) Nessus
12 3 (0.12%) Nmap
13 2 (0.077%) Argo
13 2 (0.077%) Packer
13 2 (0.077%) Podman
Vendors
1 667 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 236 (9.05%) Oracle
3 187 (7.17%) Google
4 83 (3.18%) Databricks
5 77 (2.95%) Splunk
6 72 (2.76%) Cloudera
7 66 (2.53%) Dynatrace
8 56 (2.15%) Informatica
9 51 (1.96%) Facebook
10 35 (1.34%) WSO2
11 33 (1.27%) Sparx
12 31 (1.19%) Red Hat
13 30 (1.15%) Apple
13 30 (1.15%) Sony
13 30 (1.15%) Yahoo!
14 29 (1.11%) IBM
15 26 (1.00%) YouTube
16 25 (0.96%) SaltStack
17 17 (0.65%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.54%) Salesforce