Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 15 June 2021

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 15 June 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microservices
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
15 Jun 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 24 26 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +39
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,840 516 551
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.36% 9.04% 6.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.06% 9.69% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,475 477 473
10th Percentile £39,200 £38,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £68,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +4.00%

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 18,295 5,323 7,369
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.02% 93.21% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 14,900 4,538 6,338
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

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 15 June 2021.

Microservices salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 15 June 2021, 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 1,119 (60.82%) Agile Software Development
2 810 (44.02%) Java
3 729 (39.62%) AWS
4 725 (39.40%) JavaScript
5 691 (37.55%) Docker
6 685 (37.23%) Azure
7 668 (36.30%) DevOps
8 598 (32.50%) Kubernetes
9 502 (27.28%) SQL
10 496 (26.96%) Software Engineering
11 448 (24.35%) C#
12 444 (24.13%) .NET
13 428 (23.26%) React
14 404 (21.96%) TDD
15 386 (20.98%) Spring
16 376 (20.43%) AngularJS
17 364 (19.78%) Node.js
18 362 (19.67%) Scrum
19 335 (18.21%) Jenkins
20 328 (17.83%) Social Skills
21 327 (17.77%) Spring Boot
22 311 (16.90%) REST
23 302 (16.41%) Python
24 297 (16.14%) GCP
25 296 (16.09%) Finance
26 290 (15.76%) Kafka
27 284 (15.43%) Test Automation
28 277 (15.05%) TypeScript
29 273 (14.84%) HTML
30 269 (14.62%) RESTful

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
1 127 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
2 73 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 67 (3.64%) Confluence
4 56 (3.04%) CMS
5 42 (2.28%) Apache
6 26 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.25%) nginx
8 18 (0.98%) Tomcat
9 15 (0.82%) Umbraco
10 13 (0.71%) Apache Solr
11 9 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
12 8 (0.43%) WordPress
13 7 (0.38%) MS Exchange
14 6 (0.33%) Drupal
14 6 (0.33%) Headless CMS
14 6 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
15 5 (0.27%) EPiServer
15 5 (0.27%) JBoss
15 5 (0.27%) WebLogic
16 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (0.43%) SOLIDWORKS
2 5 (0.27%) Sketch
3 4 (0.22%) Zeplin
4 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.054%) InVision
6 1 (0.054%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (1.63%) Payment Gateway
2 27 (1.47%) Shopify
3 5 (0.27%) Magento
3 5 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.16%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.11%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.11%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.054%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 729 (39.62%) AWS
2 685 (37.23%) Azure
3 297 (16.14%) GCP
4 254 (13.80%) SaaS
5 157 (8.53%) Serverless
6 72 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 67 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 57 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
9 49 (2.66%) PaaS
10 40 (2.17%) Amazon S3
11 39 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
13 31 (1.68%) IaaS
14 28 (1.52%) OpenShift
15 27 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (1.47%) GitHub
16 25 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (1.14%) Azure Functions
18 21 (1.14%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.41%) Internet
2 25 (1.36%) HTTP
3 16 (0.87%) Wireless
4 15 (0.82%) Bluetooth
4 15 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (0.82%) ZigBee
5 9 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.27%) DNS
6 5 (0.27%) Firewall
6 5 (0.27%) H.323
6 5 (0.27%) RTP
6 5 (0.27%) SSL
7 4 (0.22%) WAN
8 3 (0.16%) DAB
8 3 (0.16%) DSL
8 3 (0.16%) IPv4
8 3 (0.16%) LAN
8 3 (0.16%) Network Security
8 3 (0.16%) SAN
8 3 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (13.59%) NoSQL
2 232 (12.61%) MongoDB
3 215 (11.68%) SQL Server
4 214 (11.63%) MySQL
5 168 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
6 115 (6.25%) Amazon DynamoDB
7 87 (4.73%) Relational Database
8 80 (4.35%) Big Data
9 68 (3.70%) Redis
10 56 (3.04%) Hadoop
11 35 (1.90%) BigQuery
12 31 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
13 27 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (1.14%) RDBMS
15 17 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
16 16 (0.87%) Hazelcast
17 15 (0.82%) Data Lake
18 14 (0.76%) Bigtable
19 10 (0.54%) CockroachDB
20 9 (0.49%) Blockchain
Development Applications
1 335 (18.21%) Jenkins
2 264 (14.35%) Git (software)
3 133 (7.23%) Maven
4 108 (5.87%) JUnit
5 102 (5.54%) JIRA
6 81 (4.40%) GitLab
7 80 (4.35%) Selenium
8 49 (2.66%) Cypress.io
9 46 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
9 46 (2.50%) TeamCity
10 35 (1.90%) Cucumber
11 34 (1.85%) Visual Studio Team System
12 30 (1.63%) Gradle
13 24 (1.30%) Postman
13 24 (1.30%) WebDriver
14 22 (1.20%) JMeter
14 22 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
15 21 (1.14%) SpecFlow
16 19 (1.03%) git-flow
16 19 (1.03%) gulp
General
1 328 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 296 (16.09%) Finance
3 172 (9.35%) Retail
4 108 (5.87%) Marketing
5 90 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (4.29%) Law
7 76 (4.13%) Banking
8 57 (3.10%) Public Sector
9 49 (2.66%) Games
10 44 (2.39%) Electronics
11 32 (1.74%) Back Office
12 23 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 21 (1.14%) Advertising
13 21 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.82%) Front Office
15 15 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.82%) Legal
16 13 (0.71%) Automotive
17 12 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,036 (56.30%) Developer
2 353 (19.18%) Java Developer
3 260 (14.13%) Software Engineer
4 259 (14.08%) Senior Developer
5 200 (10.87%) Software Developer
6 160 (8.70%) .NET Developer
7 136 (7.39%) JavaScript Developer
8 135 (7.34%) Java Engineer
9 116 (6.30%) Senior Java Developer
10 100 (5.43%) Lead Developer
11 99 (5.38%) Architect
12 98 (5.33%) React Developer
13 97 (5.27%) C# Developer
14 89 (4.84%) Full Stack Developer
14 89 (4.84%) PHP Developer
15 86 (4.67%) Java Software Engineer
16 84 (4.57%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 62 (3.37%) Angular Developer
18 60 (3.26%) C# .NET Developer
19 56 (3.04%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 444 (24.13%) .NET
2 428 (23.26%) React
3 386 (20.98%) Spring
4 376 (20.43%) AngularJS
5 364 (19.78%) Node.js
6 327 (17.77%) Spring Boot
7 311 (16.90%) REST
8 290 (15.76%) Kafka
9 273 (14.84%) HTML
10 269 (14.62%) RESTful
11 258 (14.02%) CSS
12 216 (11.74%) .NET Core
13 197 (10.71%) Web Services
14 139 (7.55%) GraphQL
15 136 (7.39%) Vue.js
16 122 (6.63%) jQuery
17 120 (6.52%) .NET Framework
18 111 (6.03%) ASP.NET
19 92 (5.00%) HTML5
19 92 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 177 (9.62%) Greenfield Project
2 101 (5.49%) Mobile App
3 97 (5.27%) User Experience
4 87 (4.73%) iPad
5 69 (3.75%) Virtual Team
6 66 (3.59%) Cloud Native
7 61 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (1.63%) Algorithms
9 26 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 22 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 21 (1.14%) Contract for Difference
11 21 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.14%) NHS
12 20 (1.09%) Data Centre
13 18 (0.98%) N-Tier
14 15 (0.82%) Internet of Things
15 13 (0.71%) Clustering
15 13 (0.71%) Home Automation
16 12 (0.65%) Management Information System
16 12 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 266 (14.46%) Linux
2 57 (3.10%) Unix
3 32 (1.74%) Android
3 32 (1.74%) Apple iOS
4 30 (1.63%) Windows
5 15 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.16%) CentOS
7 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.11%) VMS
9 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,119 (60.82%) Agile Software Development
2 668 (36.30%) DevOps
3 496 (26.96%) Software Engineering
4 404 (21.96%) TDD
5 362 (19.67%) Scrum
6 284 (15.43%) Test Automation
7 255 (13.86%) BDD
8 215 (11.68%) E-Commerce
8 215 (11.68%) Fintech
9 197 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
10 196 (10.65%) Mentoring
11 195 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
12 182 (9.89%) MVC
13 173 (9.40%) OOP
14 163 (8.86%) Front End Development
15 158 (8.59%) OO
16 127 (6.90%) Computer Science
17 114 (6.20%) SDLC
18 108 (5.87%) SOA
19 105 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 810 (44.02%) Java
2 725 (39.40%) JavaScript
3 502 (27.28%) SQL
4 448 (24.35%) C#
5 302 (16.41%) Python
6 277 (15.05%) TypeScript
7 204 (11.09%) Go
8 150 (8.15%) PHP
9 110 (5.98%) Java 8
10 108 (5.87%) Kotlin
11 89 (4.84%) Scala
12 46 (2.50%) ES6
13 43 (2.34%) C++
14 37 (2.01%) Ruby
15 36 (1.96%) T-SQL
16 28 (1.52%) Bash Shell
16 28 (1.52%) Groovy
17 21 (1.14%) C
18 20 (1.09%) PowerShell
19 16 (0.87%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 129 (7.01%) Degree
2 54 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (1.52%) Security Cleared
4 26 (1.41%) AWS Certification
5 24 (1.30%) SC Cleared
6 22 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (0.82%) MCSD
9 6 (0.33%) PhD
10 4 (0.22%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.11%) MBA
11 2 (0.11%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.054%) CISSP
12 1 (0.054%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.054%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (6.68%) QA
2 41 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.82%) SLA
4 9 (0.49%) GDPR
5 8 (0.43%) WCAG
6 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.22%) GRC
8 3 (0.16%) PMO
9 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 691 (37.55%) Docker
2 16 (0.87%) Firmware
3 5 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.16%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.16%) Gluster
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.11%) Postfix
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.054%) NFS
6 1 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 598 (32.50%) Kubernetes
2 142 (7.72%) Terraform
3 99 (5.38%) Ansible
4 44 (2.39%) Puppet
5 39 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 37 (2.01%) Opscode Chef
7 28 (1.52%) Grafana
8 23 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
9 20 (1.09%) Kibana
10 13 (0.71%) Istio
11 10 (0.54%) logstash
12 8 (0.43%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.38%) Packer
13 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.33%) FlexNet
15 4 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
15 4 (0.22%) SCCM
16 3 (0.16%) Argo
16 3 (0.16%) Graylog
16 3 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 223 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 166 (9.02%) Oracle
3 145 (7.88%) Google
4 53 (2.88%) Zend
5 32 (1.74%) Elastic Path
6 22 (1.20%) SAP
7 21 (1.14%) IBM
8 20 (1.09%) Qubit
9 19 (1.03%) Atlassian
10 15 (0.82%) Mercator
10 15 (0.82%) Sun
11 14 (0.76%) AppDynamics
12 13 (0.71%) Xamarin
13 11 (0.60%) Adobe
14 10 (0.54%) PagerDuty
14 10 (0.54%) Splunk
15 9 (0.49%) Salesforce.com
16 8 (0.43%) Nintex
16 8 (0.43%) Pega
17 7 (0.38%) New Relic