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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 69 81
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,363 2,590 2,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.49% 3.65% 4.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 4.34% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 694 1,827 1,421
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £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 £85,189 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £74,870 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.18% -16.13% +3.33%

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 36,295 59,625 57,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.88% 84.00% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,237 41,241 29,486
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,200 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +17 560 £71,991 +15.19% 293
North West +30 455 £67,500 +3.85% 187
South East -12 296 £67,500 +12.50% 334
Scotland -9 167 £77,295 +18.92% 74
Midlands -22 163 £65,000 +8.33% 130
South West -4 111 £68,525 +13.26% 102
Yorkshire -16 92 £74,870 +22.32% 79
West Midlands -20 89 £70,000 +7.69% 74
East Midlands +18 74 £62,500 +13.64% 51
East of England -29 53 £57,500 -11.54% 86
Wales +8 15 £52,000 -0.95% 21
North East -9 13 £52,500 -14.22% 30
Northern Ireland +10 2 £55,000 -15.38% 26
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
1 189 (13.87%) Confluence
2 23 (1.69%) Jupyter
3 18 (1.32%) JBoss
4 13 (0.95%) Red Hat Fuse
5 11 (0.81%) CMS
6 7 (0.51%) Apache
6 7 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.51%) SAS
7 6 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.44%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.29%) GemFire
9 3 (0.22%) IIS
9 3 (0.22%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.073%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.073%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.15%) Moqups
2 2 (0.15%) Sketch
3 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.073%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 804 (58.99%) AWS
2 772 (56.64%) Azure
3 487 (35.73%) GCP
4 142 (10.42%) Serverless
5 85 (6.24%) SaaS
6 78 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
10 50 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (3.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 38 (2.79%) Amazon S3
13 34 (2.49%) SonarCloud
14 30 (2.20%) GitHub
15 22 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
16 21 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 18 (1.32%) Apigee
17 18 (1.32%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.17%) Internet
2 4 (0.29%) DAB
2 4 (0.29%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.22%) HTTP
4 2 (0.15%) Broadband
4 2 (0.15%) Network Security
5 1 (0.073%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.073%) 5G
5 1 (0.073%) DNS
5 1 (0.073%) MQTT
5 1 (0.073%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (23.48%) SQL Server
2 158 (11.59%) NoSQL
3 126 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
4 110 (8.07%) MongoDB
5 89 (6.53%) Relational Database
6 57 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
7 53 (3.89%) MySQL
8 52 (3.82%) Big Data
9 49 (3.60%) DynamoDB
10 33 (2.42%) RDBMS
10 33 (2.42%) Redis
11 18 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (1.03%) Data Lake
13 12 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (0.59%) Metadata
16 7 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
17 6 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
17 6 (0.44%) Data Vault
17 6 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 295 (21.64%) GitLab
2 286 (20.98%) JIRA
3 282 (20.69%) SonarQube
4 279 (20.47%) Maven
5 274 (20.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 260 (19.08%) Cucumber
7 255 (18.71%) Selenium
8 249 (18.27%) Bitbucket
9 190 (13.94%) Git
10 142 (10.42%) Jenkins
11 89 (6.53%) JUnit
12 55 (4.04%) Visual Studio
13 54 (3.96%) Mockito
14 49 (3.60%) Octopus Deploy
15 35 (2.57%) MSBuild
16 34 (2.49%) Team Foundation Server
17 25 (1.83%) Jasmine
17 25 (1.83%) Karma Test Runner
18 23 (1.69%) JMeter
19 22 (1.61%) webpack
General
1 490 (35.95%) Finance
2 471 (34.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 414 (30.37%) Banking
4 251 (18.42%) Social Skills
5 157 (11.52%) Retail
6 97 (7.12%) Investment Banking
7 90 (6.60%) Corporate Banking
8 82 (6.02%) Law
9 58 (4.26%) Public Sector
10 34 (2.49%) Marketing
11 32 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (0.81%) Automotive
12 11 (0.81%) Tech for Good
13 10 (0.73%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.59%) Games
14 8 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.51%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.44%) Front Office
16 6 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 572 (41.97%) Software Engineer
2 372 (27.29%) Senior
3 318 (23.33%) Developer
4 222 (16.29%) Senior Software Engineer
5 191 (14.01%) Lead
6 180 (13.21%) Architect
7 107 (7.85%) Java Developer
8 85 (6.24%) Solutions Architect
9 80 (5.87%) Senior Developer
10 66 (4.84%) .NET Developer
11 65 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
12 46 (3.37%) Java Engineer
13 44 (3.23%) Technical Architect
14 35 (2.57%) C# Developer
15 31 (2.27%) Enterprise Architect
16 30 (2.20%) Software Developer
17 25 (1.83%) Backend Developer
17 25 (1.83%) C# .NET Developer
17 25 (1.83%) Lead Developer
17 25 (1.83%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (36.24%) React
2 415 (30.45%) Spring
3 414 (30.37%) Spring Boot
4 383 (28.10%) .NET
5 375 (27.51%) HTML
6 369 (27.07%) CSS
7 355 (26.05%) Kafka
8 306 (22.45%) REST
9 300 (22.01%) Node.js
10 279 (20.47%) JPA
11 262 (19.22%) Redux
12 246 (18.05%) RESTful
13 231 (16.95%) Hibernate
14 133 (9.76%) AngularJS
15 116 (8.51%) HTML5
16 114 (8.36%) Jest
17 110 (8.07%) CSS3
18 97 (7.12%) Sass
19 95 (6.97%) Web Services
20 80 (5.87%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 325 (23.84%) Product Ownership
2 309 (22.67%) Enterprise Software
3 196 (14.38%) Cyberattack
4 173 (12.69%) Self-Motivation
5 172 (12.62%) Linux Command Line
6 91 (6.68%) Distributed Systems
7 62 (4.55%) Cloud Native
8 59 (4.33%) Algorithms
9 45 (3.30%) Management Information System
10 43 (3.15%) Public Cloud
11 28 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
12 27 (1.98%) Data Structures
13 24 (1.76%) Private Cloud
14 23 (1.69%) Mobile App
15 18 (1.32%) IoT
15 18 (1.32%) Virtual Team
16 17 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
17 14 (1.03%) Legacy Code
18 10 (0.73%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 239 (17.53%) Linux
2 19 (1.39%) Unix
3 17 (1.25%) Android
4 9 (0.66%) Windows
5 7 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 909 (66.69%) Agile
2 763 (55.98%) Software Engineering
3 638 (46.81%) DevOps
4 583 (42.77%) CI/CD
5 458 (33.60%) Containerisation
6 435 (31.91%) Mentoring
7 426 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
8 407 (29.86%) Test Automation
9 352 (25.83%) TDD
10 323 (23.70%) SDLC
11 315 (23.11%) User Experience
12 314 (23.04%) Scrum
13 297 (21.79%) Performance Optimisation
14 295 (21.64%) Front End Development
15 257 (18.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 228 (16.73%) Clean Code
17 216 (15.85%) Machine Learning
18 191 (14.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 188 (13.79%) Cloud Security
20 183 (13.43%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 805 (59.06%) Java
2 684 (50.18%) JavaScript
3 447 (32.80%) SQL
4 329 (24.14%) Python
5 249 (18.27%) TypeScript
6 223 (16.36%) C#
6 223 (16.36%) Go
7 191 (14.01%) C++
8 181 (13.28%) Rust
9 38 (2.79%) C
10 31 (2.27%) PHP
11 22 (1.61%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.54%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.88%) Kotlin
13 12 (0.88%) PowerShell
14 10 (0.73%) Ruby
15 9 (0.66%) Bash
16 8 (0.59%) Perl
16 8 (0.59%) R
17 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 265 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 198 (14.53%) DV Cleared
3 190 (13.94%) AWS Certification
4 184 (13.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 174 (12.77%) AWS Certified Developer
6 160 (11.74%) Degree
7 75 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 58 (4.26%) SC Cleared
9 31 (2.27%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.54%) HND
11 14 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.22%) OCP
13 3 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.15%) CISM
14 2 (0.15%) CISSP
14 2 (0.15%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (21.72%) QA
2 107 (7.85%) Accessibility
3 52 (3.82%) GDPR
4 29 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.95%) SLA
6 9 (0.66%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.51%) Basel II
7 7 (0.51%) Basel III
7 7 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
7 7 (0.51%) IFRS
7 7 (0.51%) IFRS 9
7 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.37%) NIST
8 5 (0.37%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.15%) CDISC
10 1 (0.073%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.073%) GRC
10 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.073%) NCSC
10 1 (0.073%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 630 (46.22%) Docker
2 28 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.37%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.29%) Postfix
5 2 (0.15%) HDFS
6 1 (0.073%) Firmware
6 1 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.073%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 576 (42.26%) Kubernetes
2 101 (7.41%) Terraform
3 32 (2.35%) Grafana
4 26 (1.91%) Ansible
5 24 (1.76%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.69%) Kibana
7 14 (1.03%) Istio
8 5 (0.37%) Argo
8 5 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (0.15%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.073%) Control-M
10 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 250 (18.34%) Solace
2 78 (5.72%) Microsoft
3 46 (3.37%) Google
4 33 (2.42%) IBM
5 30 (2.20%) Dynatrace
6 24 (1.76%) Splunk
7 21 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 19 (1.39%) Oracle
9 13 (0.95%) Atlassian
10 11 (0.81%) Databricks
11 9 (0.66%) Cisco
12 7 (0.51%) Apple
13 6 (0.44%) ANSYS
14 5 (0.37%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.37%) Ping Identity
15 4 (0.29%) Adobe
15 4 (0.29%) TIBCO
16 3 (0.22%) Jaspersoft
16 3 (0.22%) SAP