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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 36 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,935 3,112 6,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.73% 7.08% 9.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.24% 7.37% 9.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,703 2,149 3,214
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% +9.49%

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 30,988 42,210 64,018
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.83% 96.06% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 23,610 29,271 41,299
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
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 19 April 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 28 (1.45%) OpenStack
2 21 (1.09%) Confluence
3 11 (0.57%) Apache
3 11 (0.57%) CMS
4 10 (0.52%) JBoss
4 10 (0.52%) nginx
4 10 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
4 10 (0.52%) Umbraco
5 7 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.31%) DNN
6 6 (0.31%) EPiServer
6 6 (0.31%) Immediacy CMS
6 6 (0.31%) Kentico
6 6 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (0.31%) Sitefinity
7 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (0.41%) MS Visio
1 8 (0.41%) Simulink
2 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.10%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.052%) Sketch
5 1 (0.052%) UXPin
5 1 (0.052%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 4 (0.21%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,105 (57.11%) Azure
2 848 (43.82%) AWS
3 258 (13.33%) Serverless
4 174 (8.99%) SaaS
5 154 (7.96%) GCP
6 116 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
7 104 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
8 76 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
9 72 (3.72%) GitHub
10 65 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (2.43%) PaaS
12 43 (2.22%) Amazon S3
13 39 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
15 37 (1.91%) Google Play
16 34 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (1.76%) IaaS
17 27 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (1.40%) Power Platform
18 26 (1.34%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.19%) Internet
2 37 (1.91%) DNS
3 25 (1.29%) Firewall
4 23 (1.19%) HTTP
5 16 (0.83%) Hyperconnected
6 12 (0.62%) Network Security
7 8 (0.41%) AMQP
8 7 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.31%) VPN
10 5 (0.26%) DHCP
11 3 (0.16%) 4G
11 3 (0.16%) 5G
11 3 (0.16%) GPRS
11 3 (0.16%) SMS
11 3 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.16%) Wireless
12 1 (0.052%) Cisco Firepower
12 1 (0.052%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 643 (33.23%) SQL Server
2 304 (15.71%) MongoDB
3 269 (13.90%) Elasticsearch
4 181 (9.35%) NoSQL
5 158 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
6 146 (7.55%) Relational Database
7 132 (6.82%) MySQL
8 54 (2.79%) RDBMS
9 44 (2.27%) Redis
10 43 (2.22%) Oracle Database
11 37 (1.91%) DynamoDB
12 33 (1.71%) Big Data
13 24 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
14 20 (1.03%) NonStop SQL
15 19 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
15 19 (0.98%) DB2
15 19 (0.98%) Power BI
16 18 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.78%) CouchDB
18 12 (0.62%) GIS
Development Applications
1 302 (15.61%) Git
2 120 (6.20%) Jenkins
3 56 (2.89%) GitLab
4 51 (2.64%) JIRA
5 36 (1.86%) JDeveloper
6 35 (1.81%) Maven
7 32 (1.65%) Selenium
8 31 (1.60%) Visual Studio
9 29 (1.50%) Cypress.io
10 28 (1.45%) JUnit
11 24 (1.24%) Postman
12 23 (1.19%) Cucumber
12 23 (1.19%) Jasmine
12 23 (1.19%) TeamCity
13 18 (0.93%) NUnit
14 16 (0.83%) Mockito
15 14 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
16 13 (0.67%) SpecFlow
17 12 (0.62%) SonarQube
18 11 (0.57%) SoapUI
General
1 364 (18.81%) Finance
2 275 (14.21%) Social Skills
3 144 (7.44%) Public Sector
4 126 (6.51%) Banking
5 102 (5.27%) Retail
6 87 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 77 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
8 65 (3.36%) Legal
9 45 (2.33%) Games
9 45 (2.33%) Law
10 34 (1.76%) Marketing
11 28 (1.45%) Tech for Good
12 27 (1.40%) Advertising
13 25 (1.29%) Music Industry
14 21 (1.09%) Automotive
15 17 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.78%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (0.57%) Manufacturing
19 8 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,038 (53.64%) Developer
2 602 (31.11%) .NET Developer
3 405 (20.93%) Senior
4 294 (15.19%) Software Engineer
5 265 (13.70%) Architect
6 236 (12.20%) C# Developer
7 205 (10.59%) Lead
8 199 (10.28%) C# .NET Developer
9 185 (9.56%) Senior Developer
10 166 (8.58%) Solutions Architect
11 154 (7.96%) Java Engineer
12 123 (6.36%) Java Developer
13 110 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
14 108 (5.58%) Java Software Engineer
15 106 (5.48%) Software Developer
16 69 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
17 66 (3.41%) Senior Java Engineer
18 64 (3.31%) Lead Developer
19 57 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
20 56 (2.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 845 (43.67%) .NET
2 713 (36.85%) AngularJS
3 660 (34.11%) .NET Core
4 581 (30.03%) ASP.NET
5 575 (29.72%) ASP.NET Web API
6 525 (27.13%) ASP.NET MVC
7 487 (25.17%) React
8 450 (23.26%) .NET Framework
9 423 (21.86%) Node.js
10 422 (21.81%) Entity Framework
11 354 (18.29%) RESTful
12 286 (14.78%) Vue
13 242 (12.51%) Spring
14 230 (11.89%) HTML
15 202 (10.44%) Kafka
16 200 (10.34%) Spring Boot
17 176 (9.10%) HTML5
18 175 (9.04%) LINQ
19 153 (7.91%) REST
20 148 (7.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 152 (7.86%) Greenfield Project
2 97 (5.01%) Cloud Native
3 96 (4.96%) Public Cloud
4 80 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
5 72 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
6 70 (3.62%) Mobile App
7 59 (3.05%) Client/Server
8 50 (2.58%) Product Ownership
9 39 (2.02%) Management Information System
10 38 (1.96%) Algorithms
11 37 (1.91%) iPhone
12 34 (1.76%) IoT
12 34 (1.76%) Social Network
13 33 (1.71%) BBC
13 33 (1.71%) Social Media
14 32 (1.65%) Data Structures
15 27 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
16 23 (1.19%) PMI
17 22 (1.14%) Private Cloud
18 21 (1.09%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 77 (3.98%) Linux
2 62 (3.20%) Android
3 48 (2.48%) Windows
4 14 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.47%) Unix
6 8 (0.41%) CentOS
6 8 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,218 (62.95%) Agile
2 729 (37.67%) Full Stack Development
3 579 (29.92%) MVC
4 500 (25.84%) TDD
5 446 (23.05%) Software Engineering
6 429 (22.17%) DevOps
7 389 (20.10%) Scrum
8 330 (17.05%) BDD
9 328 (16.95%) CI/CD
10 303 (15.66%) Kanban
11 275 (14.21%) Mentoring
12 258 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
13 240 (12.40%) Design Patterns
14 229 (11.83%) Containerisation
15 189 (9.77%) Multithreading
16 176 (9.10%) OO
17 173 (8.94%) Continuous Integration
18 168 (8.68%) Unit Testing
19 166 (8.58%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
20 164 (8.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 888 (45.89%) C#
2 874 (45.17%) JavaScript
3 582 (30.08%) Java
4 418 (21.60%) TypeScript
5 298 (15.40%) SQL
6 262 (13.54%) Python
7 106 (5.48%) Go
8 64 (3.31%) Ruby
9 52 (2.69%) PHP
10 49 (2.53%) Bash
11 44 (2.27%) C++
12 40 (2.07%) Perl
13 39 (2.02%) C
14 27 (1.40%) Kotlin
15 21 (1.09%) T-SQL
16 18 (0.93%) PowerShell
17 12 (0.62%) Ada
18 11 (0.57%) Scala
19 10 (0.52%) VB.NET
20 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (6.98%) Degree
2 94 (4.86%) Security Cleared
3 80 (4.13%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
7 23 (1.19%) PMI Certification
8 19 (0.98%) AWS Certification
9 18 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.57%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.36%) OCP
13 7 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 5 (0.26%) CISSP
15 4 (0.21%) CIPD
16 3 (0.16%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.16%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (4.39%) QA
2 18 (0.93%) SEPA
3 8 (0.41%) ISO 20022
4 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.31%) WCAG
6 5 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.21%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.10%) GDPR
8 2 (0.10%) SLA
9 1 (0.052%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.052%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.052%) PMO
9 1 (0.052%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 426 (22.02%) Docker
2 30 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (1.40%) Hyper-V
4 24 (1.24%) Active Directory
5 16 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 393 (20.31%) Kubernetes
2 119 (6.15%) Terraform
3 64 (3.31%) Ansible
4 32 (1.65%) Grafana
5 15 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.47%) Puppet
7 8 (0.41%) MIIS
8 7 (0.36%) Kibana
9 5 (0.26%) 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%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.16%) logstash
11 3 (0.16%) Nessus
11 3 (0.16%) Nmap
11 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 708 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 136 (7.03%) Google
3 107 (5.53%) Oracle
4 58 (3.00%) Facebook
5 34 (1.76%) IBM
6 33 (1.71%) Apple
6 33 (1.71%) Sony
6 33 (1.71%) Yahoo!
7 28 (1.45%) WSO2
8 26 (1.34%) YouTube
9 23 (1.19%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.19%) Sitecore
10 14 (0.72%) ForgeRock
11 10 (0.52%) Splunk
12 9 (0.47%) GoCardless
12 9 (0.47%) PayPal
12 9 (0.47%) Sage
13 8 (0.41%) Xamarin
13 8 (0.41%) Xilinx
14 6 (0.31%) Alterian