Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 23 January 2022

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 23 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microservices
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
23 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 28 29 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +17
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,457 985 634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.45% 9.11% 8.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.90% 9.73% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,814 912 570
10th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% -1.46%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% - +3.85%

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.

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,619 10,127 6,887
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 95.02% 93.71% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 21,177 8,959 5,981
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -

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 23 January 2022.

Microservices salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 23 January 2022, Microservices job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Microservices.

1 1,264 (51.44%) Agile Software Development
2 998 (40.62%) AWS
3 980 (39.89%) Azure
4 947 (38.54%) Java
5 900 (36.63%) DevOps
6 897 (36.51%) CI/CD
7 875 (35.61%) Docker
8 826 (33.62%) Software Engineering
9 777 (31.62%) Kubernetes
10 776 (31.58%) .NET
11 731 (29.75%) C#
12 724 (29.47%) JavaScript
13 719 (29.26%) React
14 617 (25.11%) TDD
15 565 (23.00%) SQL
16 538 (21.90%) Full Stack Development
17 481 (19.58%) Scrum
18 465 (18.93%) Spring
19 464 (18.88%) Python
20 453 (18.44%) Finance
21 436 (17.75%) RESTful
22 433 (17.62%) Social Skills
23 429 (17.46%) .NET Core
24 427 (17.38%) Git (software)
25 417 (16.97%) Node.js
26 405 (16.48%) GCP
26 405 (16.48%) Serverless
27 388 (15.79%) Test Automation
28 386 (15.71%) NoSQL
29 384 (15.63%) REST

Microservices
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 165 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
2 82 (3.34%) Confluence
3 55 (2.24%) CMS
4 45 (1.83%) Apache Spark
5 35 (1.42%) Apache
6 28 (1.14%) EPiServer
7 20 (0.81%) Apache Solr
7 20 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 17 (0.69%) SharePoint
9 15 (0.61%) WordPress
10 14 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
11 12 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
12 10 (0.41%) nginx
12 10 (0.41%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.37%) IIS
14 8 (0.33%) OnBase
15 7 (0.28%) Camunda
16 4 (0.16%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
17 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.28%) InVision
2 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.28%) Sketch
3 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.041%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 32 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
2 28 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.69%) Shopify
4 11 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
6 3 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.081%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.081%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.081%) Sentinel
8 1 (0.041%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 998 (40.62%) AWS
2 980 (39.89%) Azure
3 405 (16.48%) GCP
3 405 (16.48%) Serverless
4 209 (8.51%) SaaS
5 182 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
6 126 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
7 117 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 106 (4.31%) GitHub
9 84 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
10 82 (3.34%) PaaS
11 76 (3.09%) CloudFront
12 75 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
13 69 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
14 65 (2.65%) Cloudflare
15 63 (2.56%) OpenShift
16 49 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
16 49 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
17 41 (1.67%) Azure Functions
18 39 (1.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (2.85%) DNS
2 55 (2.24%) HTTP
3 47 (1.91%) AMQP
3 47 (1.91%) Internet
4 24 (0.98%) TCP/IP
5 21 (0.85%) Firewall
6 14 (0.57%) IPv6
6 14 (0.57%) RTSP
6 14 (0.57%) UPnP
7 13 (0.53%) Multicast
8 11 (0.45%) Bluetooth
8 11 (0.45%) HTTPS
8 11 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.45%) Wireless
8 11 (0.45%) ZigBee
9 8 (0.33%) DHCP
9 8 (0.33%) VLAN
10 7 (0.28%) SSH
10 7 (0.28%) Unicast
11 5 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (15.71%) NoSQL
2 239 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
3 235 (9.56%) MySQL
4 233 (9.48%) MongoDB
5 231 (9.40%) SQL Server
6 191 (7.77%) Relational Database
7 172 (7.00%) Amazon DynamoDB
8 146 (5.94%) Redis
9 95 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
10 79 (3.22%) Hadoop
11 62 (2.52%) Big Data
12 51 (2.08%) RDBMS
13 50 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
14 48 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
15 47 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
16 38 (1.55%) Blockchain
17 27 (1.10%) Hazelcast
18 19 (0.77%) BigQuery
19 18 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
19 18 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 427 (17.38%) Git (software)
2 348 (14.16%) Jenkins
3 158 (6.43%) JIRA
4 127 (5.17%) GitLab
5 92 (3.74%) Selenium
6 91 (3.70%) Maven
7 83 (3.38%) JUnit
8 57 (2.32%) CircleCI
8 57 (2.32%) TeamCity
9 56 (2.28%) Bitbucket
10 42 (1.71%) Cypress.io
11 39 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
12 38 (1.55%) JMeter
13 37 (1.51%) Visual Studio
14 34 (1.38%) Cucumber
15 28 (1.14%) Babel
16 25 (1.02%) Mockito
17 23 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
18 22 (0.90%) Postman
19 19 (0.77%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 453 (18.44%) Finance
2 433 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 270 (10.99%) Retail
4 117 (4.76%) Banking
5 95 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
7 82 (3.34%) Marketing
8 68 (2.77%) Automotive
9 65 (2.65%) Publishing
10 53 (2.16%) Law
11 50 (2.04%) Public Sector
12 43 (1.75%) Games
12 43 (1.75%) Legal
13 36 (1.47%) Advertising
14 34 (1.38%) Telecoms
15 32 (1.30%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.18%) Manufacturing
17 22 (0.90%) Front Office
18 20 (0.81%) Electronics
19 19 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,227 (49.94%) Developer
2 415 (16.89%) Software Engineer
3 407 (16.56%) Senior Developer
4 397 (16.16%) Java Developer
5 320 (13.02%) Architect
6 290 (11.80%) .NET Developer
7 202 (8.22%) C# Developer
8 162 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 158 (6.43%) Full Stack Developer
10 156 (6.35%) Java Engineer
11 137 (5.58%) Senior Java Developer
12 114 (4.64%) JavaScript Developer
13 113 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
14 109 (4.44%) React Developer
15 107 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
16 105 (4.27%) Software Developer
17 98 (3.99%) Java Software Engineer
18 94 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
19 91 (3.70%) C# .NET Developer
20 84 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 776 (31.58%) .NET
2 719 (29.26%) React
3 465 (18.93%) Spring
4 436 (17.75%) RESTful
5 429 (17.46%) .NET Core
6 417 (16.97%) Node.js
7 384 (15.63%) REST
8 339 (13.80%) Spring Boot
9 326 (13.27%) AngularJS
10 273 (11.11%) HTML
11 270 (10.99%) Kafka
12 263 (10.70%) CSS
13 153 (6.23%) Web Services
14 151 (6.15%) ASP.NET
15 148 (6.02%) .NET Framework
16 144 (5.86%) GraphQL
17 142 (5.78%) Vue.js
18 122 (4.97%) HTML5
19 112 (4.56%) ASP.NET Web API
20 101 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 249 (10.13%) Greenfield Project
2 117 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 116 (4.72%) Mobile App
4 97 (3.95%) Public Cloud
4 97 (3.95%) User Experience
5 86 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
6 77 (3.13%) iPad
7 63 (2.56%) Algorithms
8 62 (2.52%) Video\Live Streaming
9 59 (2.40%) Virtual Team
10 58 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
11 46 (1.87%) Data Structures
12 43 (1.75%) Tandem
13 39 (1.59%) Video on Demand
14 31 (1.26%) Internet of Things
15 25 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (1.02%) N-Tier
16 21 (0.85%) Credit Risk
17 20 (0.81%) Private Cloud
18 18 (0.73%) Contract for Difference
Operating Systems
1 246 (10.01%) Linux
2 70 (2.85%) Windows
3 44 (1.79%) Android
4 43 (1.75%) Unix
5 33 (1.34%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.53%) CentOS
7 11 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
8 7 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
8 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.28%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.24%) Debian
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.16%) AIX
11 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.12%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.12%) zOS
13 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.081%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.081%) VMS
14 1 (0.041%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,264 (51.44%) Agile Software Development
2 900 (36.63%) DevOps
3 897 (36.51%) CI/CD
4 826 (33.62%) Software Engineering
5 617 (25.11%) TDD
6 538 (21.90%) Full Stack Development
7 481 (19.58%) Scrum
8 388 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 329 (13.39%) BDD
10 276 (11.23%) Continuous Integration
11 257 (10.46%) E-Commerce
12 253 (10.30%) Mentoring
13 215 (8.75%) Fintech
14 205 (8.34%) MVC
15 202 (8.22%) Open Source
16 199 (8.10%) SOLID
17 174 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
18 167 (6.80%) OO
19 153 (6.23%) SOA
20 143 (5.82%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 947 (38.54%) Java
2 731 (29.75%) C#
3 724 (29.47%) JavaScript
4 565 (23.00%) SQL
5 464 (18.88%) Python
6 334 (13.59%) TypeScript
7 188 (7.65%) Go
8 168 (6.84%) Kotlin
9 116 (4.72%) PHP
10 113 (4.60%) Java 8
11 91 (3.70%) C++
12 72 (2.93%) Scala
13 71 (2.89%) ES6
14 67 (2.73%) Ruby
15 58 (2.36%) PowerShell
16 57 (2.32%) C
17 50 (2.04%) T-SQL
18 43 (1.75%) Groovy
19 39 (1.59%) Bash
20 38 (1.55%) Java 11
Qualifications
1 156 (6.35%) Degree
2 76 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 59 (2.40%) Security Cleared
4 53 (2.16%) SC Cleared
5 51 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 32 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 28 (1.14%) CESG Certified Professional
8 17 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.28%) SANS
11 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.16%) CCNA
12 4 (0.16%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.12%) ISEB
13 3 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.081%) OCP
14 2 (0.081%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (5.98%) QA
2 29 (1.18%) NIST
3 28 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 28 (1.14%) IASME
3 28 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 23 (0.94%) SLA
5 12 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.33%) EMIR
6 8 (0.33%) MiFID
7 7 (0.28%) WCAG
8 4 (0.16%) GDPR
9 3 (0.12%) GRC
10 2 (0.081%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.041%) NCSC
11 1 (0.041%) PSD2
System Software
1 875 (35.61%) Docker
2 24 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.45%) Firmware
5 7 (0.28%) NFS
6 6 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.24%) vSphere
7 5 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.16%) Varnish
8 4 (0.16%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.12%) Ceph
10 2 (0.081%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.081%) Xen
11 1 (0.041%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 777 (31.62%) Kubernetes
2 315 (12.82%) Terraform
3 207 (8.42%) Ansible
4 91 (3.70%) Puppet
5 88 (3.58%) Opscode Chef
6 75 (3.05%) Grafana
7 44 (1.79%) Prometheus
8 40 (1.63%) Kibana
9 31 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
10 28 (1.14%) CASB
11 23 (0.94%) logstash
12 16 (0.65%) Istio
12 16 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.49%) Nagios
14 11 (0.45%) Salt
15 9 (0.37%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.28%) Knative
16 7 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
17 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
17 6 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 351 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 203 (8.26%) Google
3 181 (7.37%) Oracle
4 40 (1.63%) New Relic
5 24 (0.98%) VMware
6 23 (0.94%) Dynatrace
7 22 (0.90%) Elastic Path
7 22 (0.90%) Red Hat
7 22 (0.90%) Splunk
8 21 (0.85%) AppDynamics
9 20 (0.81%) IBM
10 18 (0.73%) Zend
11 15 (0.61%) SAP
12 14 (0.57%) Guidewire
12 14 (0.57%) Xamarin
13 12 (0.49%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.45%) Micro Focus
14 11 (0.45%) Salesforce.com
14 11 (0.45%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.45%) Sparx