Microservices
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 49 31
Rank change year-on-year -15 -18 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 3,736 6,075 14,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.78% 5.87% 8.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 6.14% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,757 3,708 5,505
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England -20 2,933 £65,000 -18.75% 707
UK excluding London +15 2,612 £62,500 -7.41% 435
Work from Home -6 1,905 £62,500 -16.67% 606
London -32 1,029 £82,500 -2.94% 316
Scotland -12 629 £65,000 -4.68% 35
South East -10 601 £60,000 -7.69% 84
North of England +28 571 £62,500 -7.41% 147
South West +15 295 £61,500 -8.89% 48
Midlands +23 284 £60,000 -7.69% 77
North West -9 271 £65,000 -3.70% 85
Yorkshire +66 226 £61,206 -12.56% 46
West Midlands +53 184 £65,000 +8.33% 40
East of England -16 147 £65,000 -10.34% 20
East Midlands -27 100 £55,000 -21.43% 37
North East +15 74 £61,206 -12.56% 17
Wales -1 46 £52,500 -12.50% 13
Northern Ireland +9 37 £65,000 +37.57% 14
Isle of Man - 4 £82,500 -

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.06%) Apache Spark
2 98 (2.62%) FileNet
3 69 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 56 (1.50%) Apache
5 54 (1.45%) Confluence
6 42 (1.12%) OpenStack
7 21 (0.56%) GemFire
8 19 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 18 (0.48%) CMS
10 17 (0.46%) nginx
11 12 (0.32%) JBoss
11 12 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
11 12 (0.32%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.24%) SharePoint
14 8 (0.21%) Apache Pig
15 6 (0.16%) EPiServer
15 6 (0.16%) Kentico
15 6 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 17 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.32%) Simulink
3 7 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.054%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.027%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.027%) Sketch
5 1 (0.027%) UXPin
5 1 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 33 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
4 3 (0.080%) Magento
4 3 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,755 (46.98%) Azure
2 1,688 (45.18%) AWS
3 430 (11.51%) Serverless
4 287 (7.68%) GCP
5 271 (7.25%) SaaS
6 249 (6.66%) Azure DevOps
7 190 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
8 165 (4.42%) Amazon S3
9 156 (4.18%) GitHub
10 153 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
11 114 (3.05%) PaaS
12 111 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
13 94 (2.52%) IaaS
14 92 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
15 75 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
16 59 (1.58%) Amazon SQS
17 53 (1.42%) Power Platform
18 52 (1.39%) OpenShift
19 51 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
20 49 (1.31%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 83 (2.22%) Internet
2 54 (1.45%) DNS
3 53 (1.42%) HTTP
4 44 (1.18%) Firewall
5 34 (0.91%) AMQP
6 18 (0.48%) MQTT
7 16 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
7 16 (0.43%) Network Security
8 14 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.16%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.16%) VPN
9 6 (0.16%) WAN
10 5 (0.13%) DHCP
11 4 (0.11%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.080%) 4G
12 3 (0.080%) 5G
12 3 (0.080%) GPRS
12 3 (0.080%) SMS
12 3 (0.080%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.080%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 832 (22.27%) SQL Server
2 531 (14.21%) NoSQL
3 421 (11.27%) MongoDB
4 385 (10.31%) Elasticsearch
5 267 (7.15%) PostgreSQL
6 244 (6.53%) Relational Database
7 208 (5.57%) MySQL
8 140 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 138 (3.69%) Big Data
10 112 (3.00%) Hadoop
11 97 (2.60%) Redis
12 87 (2.33%) Apache Hive
13 72 (1.93%) HBase
14 68 (1.82%) RDBMS
15 64 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
16 62 (1.66%) DynamoDB
17 46 (1.23%) Oracle Database
18 33 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
19 32 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
20 31 (0.83%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 517 (13.84%) Git
2 366 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 184 (4.93%) JUnit
4 117 (3.13%) JIRA
5 116 (3.10%) GitLab
6 73 (1.95%) Maven
7 71 (1.90%) Jasmine
8 65 (1.74%) Mockito
9 64 (1.71%) Selenium
10 63 (1.69%) Cucumber
11 59 (1.58%) Bitbucket Server
12 47 (1.26%) Visual Studio
13 44 (1.18%) Cypress.io
13 44 (1.18%) JMeter
14 41 (1.10%) SonarQube
15 39 (1.04%) NUnit
16 36 (0.96%) JDeveloper
17 29 (0.78%) Jaeger
17 29 (0.78%) TeamCity
18 28 (0.75%) Postman
General
1 1,107 (29.63%) Finance
2 606 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 549 (14.69%) Social Skills
4 545 (14.59%) Law
5 314 (8.40%) Marketing
6 302 (8.08%) Banking
7 228 (6.10%) Legal
8 213 (5.70%) Public Sector
9 167 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
10 139 (3.72%) Retail
11 110 (2.94%) Financial Institution
12 85 (2.28%) Investment Banking
13 68 (1.82%) Games
14 53 (1.42%) Aerospace
15 42 (1.12%) Tech for Good
16 40 (1.07%) Front Office
17 36 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
18 35 (0.94%) Retail Banking
19 32 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
20 30 (0.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,727 (46.23%) Developer
2 883 (23.63%) Software Engineer
3 851 (22.78%) .NET Developer
4 705 (18.87%) Senior
5 492 (13.17%) Architect
6 482 (12.90%) Lead
7 402 (10.76%) Java Engineer
8 329 (8.81%) C# Developer
9 327 (8.75%) Java Software Engineer
10 319 (8.54%) Senior Developer
11 292 (7.82%) Java Developer
12 281 (7.52%) Solutions Architect
13 271 (7.25%) C# .NET Developer
14 217 (5.81%) Senior Software Engineer
15 177 (4.74%) Full Stack Engineer
16 171 (4.58%) Software Developer
17 146 (3.91%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 145 (3.88%) Lead Software Engineer
19 122 (3.27%) Full Stack Developer
20 116 (3.10%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,346 (36.03%) .NET
2 1,122 (30.03%) AngularJS
3 933 (24.97%) React
4 774 (20.72%) .NET Core
4 774 (20.72%) ASP.NET Web API
5 720 (19.27%) ASP.NET
6 682 (18.25%) Spring
7 638 (17.08%) Node.js
8 600 (16.06%) .NET Framework
9 564 (15.10%) RESTful
10 552 (14.78%) Entity Framework
11 537 (14.37%) Kafka
12 536 (14.35%) ASP.NET MVC
13 534 (14.29%) Spring Boot
14 427 (11.43%) HTML
15 418 (11.19%) Vue
16 380 (10.17%) REST
17 278 (7.44%) CSS
18 211 (5.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 200 (5.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 444 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 195 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
3 184 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 184 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
4 162 (4.34%) Public Cloud
5 100 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 99 (2.65%) Mobile App
7 90 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
8 81 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 71 (1.90%) Client/Server
10 62 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 57 (1.53%) IoT
12 55 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
12 55 (1.47%) Social Media
13 53 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 52 (1.39%) Social Network
15 40 (1.07%) iPhone
16 39 (1.04%) Blockchain
17 38 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 37 (0.99%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 200 (5.35%) Linux
2 113 (3.02%) Unix
3 90 (2.41%) Android
4 88 (2.36%) Windows
5 43 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 38 (1.02%) CentOS
8 36 (0.96%) Apple iOS
9 25 (0.67%) Debian
10 20 (0.54%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.080%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.054%) VMS
13 1 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,263 (60.57%) Agile
2 1,272 (34.05%) Software Engineering
3 1,217 (32.57%) Full Stack Development
4 1,065 (28.51%) CI/CD
5 895 (23.96%) DevOps
6 764 (20.45%) TDD
7 694 (18.58%) SDLC
8 655 (17.53%) MVC
9 622 (16.65%) Scrum
10 510 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
11 457 (12.23%) Artificial Intelligence
12 445 (11.91%) Machine Learning
13 442 (11.83%) Mentoring
14 441 (11.80%) BDD
15 440 (11.78%) Containerisation
16 434 (11.62%) Kanban
17 407 (10.89%) Test Automation
18 371 (9.93%) Operational Stability
19 361 (9.66%) Design Patterns
20 349 (9.34%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,447 (38.73%) Java
2 1,338 (35.81%) C#
3 1,218 (32.60%) JavaScript
4 809 (21.65%) SQL
5 673 (18.01%) Python
5 673 (18.01%) TypeScript
6 161 (4.31%) Go
7 80 (2.14%) Ruby
8 79 (2.11%) PHP
9 78 (2.09%) Bash
10 76 (2.03%) Kotlin
11 71 (1.90%) PL/SQL
12 58 (1.55%) PowerShell
13 57 (1.53%) C++
14 46 (1.23%) Perl
15 44 (1.18%) C
16 36 (0.96%) Scala
16 36 (0.96%) T-SQL
17 33 (0.88%) Shell Script
18 27 (0.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 333 (8.91%) Degree
2 220 (5.89%) Security Cleared
3 197 (5.27%) SC Cleared
4 168 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 93 (2.49%) Master's Degree
6 78 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 60 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
8 49 (1.31%) Azure Certification
9 48 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 35 (0.94%) DV Cleared
11 32 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (0.64%) PMI Certification
13 18 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 18 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.29%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.27%) PhD
17 6 (0.16%) CISSP
18 5 (0.13%) PCI QSA
18 5 (0.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (4.66%) QA
2 42 (1.12%) Data Quality
3 41 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 28 (0.75%) GDPR
5 12 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 10 (0.27%) SLA
8 8 (0.21%) PSD2
8 8 (0.21%) SEPA
9 7 (0.19%) WCAG
10 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.13%) GRC
12 3 (0.080%) PMO
13 2 (0.054%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.027%) EMIR
14 1 (0.027%) HL7
14 1 (0.027%) MiFID
14 1 (0.027%) SNOMED CT
14 1 (0.027%) Solvency II
System Software
1 754 (20.18%) Docker
2 80 (2.14%) HDFS
3 45 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.70%) Active Directory
6 19 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.24%) Firmware
8 6 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.027%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.027%) RACF
Systems Management
1 907 (24.28%) Kubernetes
2 346 (9.26%) Terraform
3 170 (4.55%) Ansible
4 123 (3.29%) Grafana
5 69 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 49 (1.31%) Puppet
7 43 (1.15%) Kibana
8 21 (0.56%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.56%) Zipkin
9 18 (0.48%) Consul
10 11 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.27%) MIIS
12 8 (0.21%) Kiali
13 7 (0.19%) Istio
14 6 (0.16%) Argo
15 5 (0.13%) SCOM
16 4 (0.11%) Rancher
16 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
17 3 (0.080%) Galera Cluster
Vendors
1 870 (23.29%) Microsoft
2 281 (7.52%) Oracle
3 228 (6.10%) Google
4 93 (2.49%) Databricks
5 92 (2.46%) Splunk
6 75 (2.01%) Dynatrace
7 74 (1.98%) Cloudera
8 58 (1.55%) Facebook
9 56 (1.50%) Informatica
10 42 (1.12%) WSO2
11 38 (1.02%) Red Hat
12 36 (0.96%) Sparx
13 35 (0.94%) IBM
14 34 (0.91%) Salesforce
15 33 (0.88%) Apple
15 33 (0.88%) Sony
15 33 (0.88%) Yahoo!
16 26 (0.70%) YouTube
17 25 (0.67%) SaltStack
18 24 (0.64%) Sitecore