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 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 44 37 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,897 2,977 6,269
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.62% 7.02% 9.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 7.30% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,672 2,026 3,245
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.38% +8.46%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £96,539 £107,500 £102,500
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
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 30,939 40,754 65,870
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.60% 96.10% 96.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,489 28,301 41,422
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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 4 May 2024.

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 27 (1.42%) OpenStack
2 19 (1.00%) Confluence
3 11 (0.58%) Apache
3 11 (0.58%) CMS
4 10 (0.53%) JBoss
4 10 (0.53%) nginx
4 10 (0.53%) Umbraco
5 9 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) DNN
7 6 (0.32%) EPiServer
7 6 (0.32%) Immediacy CMS
7 6 (0.32%) Kentico
7 6 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.32%) Sitefinity
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (0.63%) Simulink
2 7 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.053%) Sketch
6 1 (0.053%) UXPin
6 1 (0.053%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 4 (0.21%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,086 (57.25%) Azure
2 829 (43.70%) AWS
3 250 (13.18%) Serverless
4 172 (9.07%) SaaS
5 147 (7.75%) GCP
6 113 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (5.27%) AWS Lambda
8 73 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
9 71 (3.74%) GitHub
10 65 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (2.37%) PaaS
12 43 (2.27%) Amazon S3
13 39 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
14 38 (2.00%) Google Play
15 37 (1.95%) Amazon SQS
16 35 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (1.63%) IaaS
18 25 (1.32%) Power Platform
19 24 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
19 24 (1.27%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.16%) Internet
2 38 (2.00%) DNS
3 24 (1.27%) Firewall
4 23 (1.21%) HTTP
5 16 (0.84%) Hyperconnected
6 12 (0.63%) Network Security
7 8 (0.42%) AMQP
8 7 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.26%) DHCP
9 5 (0.26%) VPN
10 3 (0.16%) 4G
10 3 (0.16%) 5G
10 3 (0.16%) GPRS
10 3 (0.16%) SMS
10 3 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.16%) Wireless
11 1 (0.053%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.053%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 644 (33.95%) SQL Server
2 305 (16.08%) MongoDB
3 265 (13.97%) Elasticsearch
4 179 (9.44%) NoSQL
5 164 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
6 143 (7.54%) Relational Database
7 128 (6.75%) MySQL
8 55 (2.90%) RDBMS
9 42 (2.21%) Oracle Database
10 40 (2.11%) Redis
11 35 (1.85%) DynamoDB
12 30 (1.58%) Big Data
13 24 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
14 20 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
15 19 (1.00%) DB2
16 17 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (0.90%) Power BI
17 15 (0.79%) CouchDB
18 14 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
19 12 (0.63%) GIS
Development Applications
1 311 (16.39%) Git
2 114 (6.01%) Jenkins
3 56 (2.95%) GitLab
4 45 (2.37%) JIRA
5 36 (1.90%) JDeveloper
6 31 (1.63%) Maven
6 31 (1.63%) Selenium
6 31 (1.63%) Visual Studio
7 29 (1.53%) JUnit
8 27 (1.42%) Cypress.io
9 24 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 22 (1.16%) Postman
10 22 (1.16%) TeamCity
11 20 (1.05%) Jasmine
12 18 (0.95%) NUnit
13 15 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
14 14 (0.74%) Mockito
15 13 (0.69%) Vagrant
16 12 (0.63%) SpecFlow
17 11 (0.58%) Gradle
General
1 347 (18.29%) Finance
2 281 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 143 (7.54%) Public Sector
4 106 (5.59%) Banking
5 103 (5.43%) Retail
6 87 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 76 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
8 54 (2.85%) Legal
9 46 (2.42%) Games
9 46 (2.42%) Law
10 34 (1.79%) Marketing
11 29 (1.53%) Tech for Good
12 27 (1.42%) Advertising
13 25 (1.32%) Music Industry
14 22 (1.16%) Automotive
15 17 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.79%) Aerospace
17 11 (0.58%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,021 (53.82%) Developer
2 598 (31.52%) .NET Developer
3 392 (20.66%) Senior
4 288 (15.18%) Software Engineer
5 248 (13.07%) Architect
6 237 (12.49%) C# Developer
7 212 (11.18%) Lead
8 200 (10.54%) C# .NET Developer
9 177 (9.33%) Senior Developer
10 151 (7.96%) Solutions Architect
11 149 (7.85%) Java Engineer
12 110 (5.80%) Java Developer
13 108 (5.69%) Senior Software Engineer
14 105 (5.54%) Software Developer
15 102 (5.38%) Java Software Engineer
16 66 (3.48%) Senior Java Engineer
17 64 (3.37%) Lead Developer
18 61 (3.22%) Full Stack Developer
19 59 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
20 53 (2.79%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 840 (44.28%) .NET
2 689 (36.32%) AngularJS
3 660 (34.79%) .NET Core
4 578 (30.47%) ASP.NET
5 573 (30.21%) ASP.NET Web API
6 527 (27.78%) ASP.NET MVC
7 469 (24.72%) React
8 447 (23.56%) .NET Framework
9 422 (22.25%) Entity Framework
10 421 (22.19%) Node.js
11 357 (18.82%) RESTful
12 287 (15.13%) Vue
13 230 (12.12%) HTML
14 211 (11.12%) Spring
15 184 (9.70%) Kafka
16 175 (9.23%) HTML5
17 172 (9.07%) LINQ
18 171 (9.01%) Spring Boot
19 154 (8.12%) REST
20 149 (7.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 154 (8.12%) Greenfield Project
2 99 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 92 (4.85%) Public Cloud
4 80 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
5 71 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
6 70 (3.69%) Mobile App
7 59 (3.11%) Client/Server
8 52 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 39 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 39 (2.06%) Management Information System
10 38 (2.00%) iPhone
11 34 (1.79%) Data Structures
11 34 (1.79%) Social Network
12 33 (1.74%) BBC
12 33 (1.74%) IoT
12 33 (1.74%) Social Media
13 27 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 23 (1.21%) PMI
15 21 (1.11%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.05%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 76 (4.01%) Linux
2 67 (3.53%) Android
3 51 (2.69%) Windows
4 13 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.69%) CentOS
4 13 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.69%) Ubuntu
5 9 (0.47%) Unix
6 5 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.053%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,191 (62.78%) Agile
2 713 (37.59%) Full Stack Development
3 579 (30.52%) MVC
4 503 (26.52%) TDD
5 431 (22.72%) Software Engineering
6 425 (22.40%) DevOps
7 382 (20.14%) Scrum
8 332 (17.50%) CI/CD
9 329 (17.34%) BDD
10 303 (15.97%) Kanban
11 269 (14.18%) Mentoring
12 261 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
13 236 (12.44%) Design Patterns
14 222 (11.70%) Containerisation
15 189 (9.96%) Multithreading
16 179 (9.44%) OO
17 175 (9.23%) Continuous Integration
18 166 (8.75%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
19 165 (8.70%) Unit Testing
20 161 (8.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 878 (46.28%) C#
2 863 (45.49%) JavaScript
3 548 (28.89%) Java
4 405 (21.35%) TypeScript
5 301 (15.87%) SQL
6 247 (13.02%) Python
7 115 (6.06%) Go
8 64 (3.37%) Ruby
9 51 (2.69%) PHP
10 49 (2.58%) Bash
11 45 (2.37%) C++
12 40 (2.11%) C
13 36 (1.90%) Perl
14 32 (1.69%) Kotlin
15 20 (1.05%) T-SQL
16 19 (1.00%) PowerShell
17 12 (0.63%) Ada
18 10 (0.53%) Scala
18 10 (0.53%) VB.NET
19 8 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 138 (7.27%) Degree
2 99 (5.22%) Security Cleared
3 84 (4.43%) SC Cleared
4 68 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (1.63%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
7 23 (1.21%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 17 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.58%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.26%) CISSP
14 4 (0.21%) CIPD
15 3 (0.16%) OCP
15 3 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.16%) OSCP
15 3 (0.16%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.16%) QA
2 8 (0.42%) SEPA
3 7 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.32%) WCAG
5 5 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.26%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.11%) GDPR
7 1 (0.053%) EMIR
7 1 (0.053%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.053%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.053%) MiFID
7 1 (0.053%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.053%) SLA
7 1 (0.053%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 400 (21.09%) Docker
2 31 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (1.37%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.05%) Active Directory
5 16 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 362 (19.08%) Kubernetes
2 120 (6.33%) Terraform
3 65 (3.43%) Ansible
4 32 (1.69%) Grafana
5 15 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.63%) Puppet
7 8 (0.42%) Kibana
7 8 (0.42%) MIIS
8 7 (0.37%) Consul
9 5 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.26%) SCOM
10 4 (0.21%) Rancher
11 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.16%) Argo
11 3 (0.16%) Galera Cluster
11 3 (0.16%) logstash
11 3 (0.16%) Nessus
11 3 (0.16%) Nmap
11 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 703 (37.06%) Microsoft
2 137 (7.22%) Google
3 108 (5.69%) Oracle
4 58 (3.06%) Facebook
5 33 (1.74%) Apple
5 33 (1.74%) Sony
5 33 (1.74%) Yahoo!
6 31 (1.63%) IBM
7 27 (1.42%) WSO2
8 26 (1.37%) YouTube
9 24 (1.27%) Sitecore
10 22 (1.16%) Salesforce
11 15 (0.79%) ForgeRock
12 12 (0.63%) Xilinx
13 10 (0.53%) Splunk
14 9 (0.47%) GoCardless
14 9 (0.47%) PayPal
14 9 (0.47%) Sage
15 8 (0.42%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.42%) Xamarin