Microservices Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microservices
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 37 38 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,641 4,271 4,562
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.18% 7.68% 9.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 7.98% 9.40%
Number of salaries quoted 989 2,864 3,274
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,100 £108,750 £100,000
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,816 53,501 48,547
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 95.42% 96.18% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 16,033 36,990 36,130
10th Percentile £36,500 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,306 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,070 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,345 £93,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year - +0.84% +8.18%

Microservices
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microservices trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microservices.

Microservices salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microservices over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Microservices salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 28 (1.71%) Confluence
1 28 (1.71%) Tomcat
2 24 (1.46%) Jetty
3 16 (0.98%) Apache
4 15 (0.91%) nginx
5 14 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.73%) Jupyter
6 12 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 11 (0.67%) JBoss
8 9 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
8 9 (0.55%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.37%) CMS
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.18%) Tornado
12 3 (0.18%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Sketch
4 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.12%) UXPin
4 2 (0.12%) Zeplin
5 1 (0.061%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.12%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.061%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.061%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.061%) Shopify
3 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 663 (40.40%) AWS
2 533 (32.48%) Azure
3 515 (31.38%) Serverless
4 299 (18.22%) GCP
5 155 (9.45%) OpenShift
6 141 (8.59%) SaaS
7 91 (5.55%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
9 78 (4.75%) PaaS
10 68 (4.14%) IaaS
11 52 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (3.11%) GitHub
13 45 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
14 44 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
14 44 (2.68%) Amazon S3
15 39 (2.38%) Power Platform
16 38 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
17 30 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
18 24 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
19 16 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.35%) Internet
2 14 (0.85%) Firewall
3 10 (0.61%) AMQP
4 9 (0.55%) HTTP
5 7 (0.43%) DNS
6 4 (0.24%) ATM
6 4 (0.24%) VPN
7 3 (0.18%) DHCP
7 3 (0.18%) FTP
7 3 (0.18%) Network Security
8 2 (0.12%) Broadband
8 2 (0.12%) Wireless
9 1 (0.061%) 5G
9 1 (0.061%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.061%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.061%) IPv6
9 1 (0.061%) Multicast
9 1 (0.061%) SDH
9 1 (0.061%) SSL
9 1 (0.061%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (11.82%) NoSQL
2 150 (9.14%) Relational Database
3 88 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 83 (5.06%) MySQL
5 82 (5.00%) Big Data
6 81 (4.94%) Oracle Database
7 79 (4.81%) RDBMS
8 78 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
9 77 (4.69%) MongoDB
10 56 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
11 53 (3.23%) Data Lake
12 49 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
13 47 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
14 38 (2.32%) Redis
15 33 (2.01%) Hadoop
16 31 (1.89%) DynamoDB
17 21 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (1.28%) Power BI
18 14 (0.85%) BigQuery
19 9 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 405 (24.68%) Git
2 122 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 94 (5.73%) JIRA
4 66 (4.02%) Maven
5 43 (2.62%) Bitbucket
6 40 (2.44%) Artifactory
7 38 (2.32%) GitLab
8 34 (2.07%) JUnit
9 33 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 31 (1.89%) Mockito
11 30 (1.83%) Jasmine
12 29 (1.77%) SonarQube
13 26 (1.58%) IntelliJ
14 25 (1.52%) Eclipse
15 24 (1.46%) Cucumber
15 24 (1.46%) JDeveloper
16 20 (1.22%) Cypress.io
16 20 (1.22%) Postman
17 18 (1.10%) TeamCity
18 15 (0.91%) Selenium
General
1 442 (26.93%) Finance
2 305 (18.59%) Social Skills
3 225 (13.71%) Banking
4 170 (10.36%) Retail
5 161 (9.81%) Police
6 80 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (4.27%) Legal
8 69 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
9 54 (3.29%) Marketing
9 54 (3.29%) Public Sector
10 37 (2.25%) Front Office
11 35 (2.13%) Financial Institution
12 33 (2.01%) Law
13 25 (1.52%) Retail Banking
14 20 (1.22%) Tech for Good
15 17 (1.04%) Games
16 12 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.67%) Automotive
17 11 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 10 (0.61%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 531 (32.36%) Software Engineer
2 466 (28.40%) Developer
3 391 (23.83%) Senior
4 352 (21.45%) Architect
5 239 (14.56%) Solutions Architect
6 226 (13.77%) Java Engineer
7 195 (11.88%) Java Software Engineer
8 162 (9.87%) Senior Developer
9 160 (9.75%) Java Developer
10 145 (8.84%) Lead
11 144 (8.78%) Senior Software Engineer
12 86 (5.24%) .NET Developer
13 75 (4.57%) Ruby Engineer
14 73 (4.45%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 62 (3.78%) DevOps Engineer
16 59 (3.60%) Enterprise Architect
17 57 (3.47%) Full Stack Developer
17 57 (3.47%) Senior Java Developer
18 55 (3.35%) Software Developer
19 45 (2.74%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (29.43%) React
2 377 (22.97%) Spring
3 306 (18.65%) .NET
4 238 (14.50%) Node.js
5 216 (13.16%) Kafka
6 208 (12.68%) Spring Boot
7 191 (11.64%) AngularJS
8 170 (10.36%) REST
9 161 (9.81%) J2EE
10 147 (8.96%) Ruby on Rails
11 123 (7.50%) .NET Core
12 114 (6.95%) HTML
13 113 (6.89%) RESTful
14 105 (6.40%) CSS
15 78 (4.75%) RabbitMQ
16 77 (4.69%) JSON
17 74 (4.51%) .NET Framework
18 68 (4.14%) Web Services
19 63 (3.84%) XML
20 62 (3.78%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 114 (6.95%) Public Cloud
2 110 (6.70%) Cloud Native
3 79 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 67 (4.08%) Blockchain
5 63 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
5 63 (3.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 58 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
7 47 (2.86%) Mainframe
8 39 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 35 (2.13%) Cyberattack
9 35 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (2.07%) Distributed Applications
11 31 (1.89%) Derivative
12 26 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 26 (1.58%) Mobile App
13 25 (1.52%) Online Banking
14 23 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
15 20 (1.22%) Algorithms
16 19 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.16%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 233 (14.20%) Linux
2 63 (3.84%) Unix
3 31 (1.89%) Windows
4 12 (0.73%) Android
5 9 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.43%) CentOS
7 7 (0.43%) Debian
7 7 (0.43%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.30%) Solaris
9 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (48.02%) Agile
2 733 (44.67%) Software Engineering
3 522 (31.81%) DevOps
4 486 (29.62%) Containerisation
5 444 (27.06%) Design Patterns
6 426 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
7 404 (24.62%) CI/CD
8 393 (23.95%) Mentoring
9 370 (22.55%) Continuous Integration
10 336 (20.48%) Actionable Insight
11 310 (18.89%) Unit Testing
12 276 (16.82%) Code Quality
13 246 (14.99%) Clean Code
14 239 (14.56%) Coaching
15 204 (12.43%) Scrum
16 187 (11.40%) Event-Driven
17 180 (10.97%) Open Source
18 170 (10.36%) Full Stack Development
19 168 (10.24%) TDD
20 153 (9.32%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 867 (52.83%) Java
2 573 (34.92%) Python
3 420 (25.59%) C#
4 403 (24.56%) JavaScript
5 298 (18.16%) SQL
6 227 (13.83%) Ruby
7 180 (10.97%) TypeScript
8 152 (9.26%) Go
9 103 (6.28%) Bash
10 89 (5.42%) Perl
11 34 (2.07%) PowerShell
12 25 (1.52%) PHP
13 24 (1.46%) Rust
14 21 (1.28%) T-SQL
15 18 (1.10%) C++
16 17 (1.04%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.04%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.73%) R
18 10 (0.61%) C
19 6 (0.37%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 390 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 264 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 115 (7.01%) DV Cleared
4 106 (6.46%) Degree
5 46 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 44 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
8 26 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 13 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.79%) OCP
10 13 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.61%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.43%) CISSP
14 3 (0.18%) CBAP
14 3 (0.18%) CEH
14 3 (0.18%) IIBA
14 3 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (9.32%) QA
2 25 (1.52%) SEPA
3 17 (1.04%) ISO 20022
4 15 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.43%) NCSC
6 6 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.24%) GRC
8 4 (0.24%) WCAG
9 3 (0.18%) GDPR
9 3 (0.18%) SLA
10 2 (0.12%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.061%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.061%) NIST
11 1 (0.061%) PMO
11 1 (0.061%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 502 (30.59%) Docker
2 27 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.18%) Ceph
6 1 (0.061%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.061%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 410 (24.98%) Kubernetes
2 136 (8.29%) Terraform
3 98 (5.97%) Ansible
4 17 (1.04%) Grafana
5 14 (0.85%) Kustomize
6 13 (0.79%) Puppet
7 11 (0.67%) Istio
8 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.24%) Kibana
11 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.12%) Consul
11 2 (0.12%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 2 (0.12%) MIIS
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
11 2 (0.12%) Packer
11 2 (0.12%) Rancher
12 1 (0.061%) FlexNet
Vendors
1 119 (7.25%) Oracle
2 115 (7.01%) Microsoft
3 53 (3.23%) Google
4 27 (1.65%) IBM
5 21 (1.28%) Salesforce
6 15 (0.91%) Splunk
7 13 (0.79%) AppDynamics
8 11 (0.67%) WSO2
9 10 (0.61%) Atlassian
9 10 (0.61%) Red Hat
9 10 (0.61%) VMware
10 9 (0.55%) Sitecore
11 7 (0.43%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.43%) SAP
11 7 (0.43%) Spotify
11 7 (0.43%) Synopsys
12 6 (0.37%) Adobe
12 6 (0.37%) Confluent
13 5 (0.30%) Databricks
13 5 (0.30%) Facebook