Microservices Jobs

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 65 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 -17 -17
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,973 3,708 5,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.61% 3.74% 5.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 4.37% 6.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,092 2,755 3,624
10th Percentile £48,787 £43,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% -16.13% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,759 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.37% -9.32% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,302 84,920 96,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.59% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,015 59,883 56,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,008 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices.

Salary trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England 0 1,762 £74,500 +14.62% 1,648
UK excluding London -5 1,363 £70,000 +14.37% 1,123
Work from Home +7 1,189 £71,991 +15.19% 1,332
London -3 597 £85,000 +3.03% 854
North of England +17 560 £71,991 +15.19% 307
North West +30 455 £67,500 +3.85% 194
South East -12 296 £67,500 +12.50% 376
Scotland -9 167 £77,295 +18.92% 79
Midlands -22 163 £65,000 +8.33% 139
South West -4 111 £68,525 +13.26% 108
Yorkshire -16 92 £74,870 +22.32% 84
West Midlands -20 89 £70,000 +7.69% 81
East Midlands +18 74 £62,500 +13.64% 52
East of England -29 53 £57,500 -11.54% 90
Wales +8 15 £52,000 -0.95% 22
North East -9 13 £52,500 -14.22% 32
Northern Ireland +10 2 £55,000 -15.38% 30

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 210 (10.64%) Confluence
2 25 (1.27%) CMS
3 24 (1.22%) Jupyter
4 18 (0.91%) JBoss
5 17 (0.86%) Apache
6 13 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
7 10 (0.51%) Headless CMS
8 9 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (0.41%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.41%) SAS
10 4 (0.20%) Drupal
10 4 (0.20%) GemFire
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.15%) Mule
11 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
11 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (0.56%) Maya
2 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.10%) Moqups
5 2 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.10%) Eikon
4 2 (0.10%) Endur
4 2 (0.10%) RMDS
4 2 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.051%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,108 (56.16%) AWS
2 1,021 (51.75%) Azure
3 589 (29.85%) GCP
4 243 (12.32%) Serverless
5 126 (6.39%) SaaS
6 123 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
8 70 (3.55%) GitHub
9 66 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
10 65 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
11 62 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 61 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 60 (3.04%) Amazon S3
13 60 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
14 57 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
15 49 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 34 (1.72%) SonarCloud
17 32 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
18 30 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 29 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.27%) HTTP
2 20 (1.01%) Internet
3 19 (0.96%) Network Security
4 11 (0.56%) Firewall
5 5 (0.25%) DNS
6 4 (0.20%) 3GPP
6 4 (0.20%) 5G
6 4 (0.20%) DAB
6 4 (0.20%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.10%) Broadband
7 2 (0.10%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.10%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.10%) SSH
7 2 (0.10%) VPN
7 2 (0.10%) WAN
7 2 (0.10%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.051%) BGP
8 1 (0.051%) SAN
8 1 (0.051%) SSL
8 1 (0.051%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (18.50%) SQL Server
2 233 (11.81%) NoSQL
3 182 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
4 171 (8.67%) MongoDB
5 114 (5.78%) Relational Database
6 87 (4.41%) MySQL
7 80 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
8 68 (3.45%) DynamoDB
9 63 (3.19%) Big Data
10 46 (2.33%) Redis
11 35 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (1.77%) RDBMS
12 30 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
13 24 (1.22%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (0.56%) Metadata
17 10 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
18 9 (0.46%) Data Vault
19 8 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 329 (16.68%) JIRA
2 326 (16.52%) GitLab
3 296 (15.00%) Maven
4 291 (14.75%) SonarQube
5 278 (14.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 269 (13.63%) Cucumber
6 269 (13.63%) Selenium
7 259 (13.13%) Bitbucket
8 254 (12.87%) Git
9 201 (10.19%) Jenkins
10 103 (5.22%) JUnit
11 61 (3.09%) Visual Studio
12 58 (2.94%) Mockito
13 51 (2.58%) Octopus Deploy
14 36 (1.82%) MSBuild
15 34 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
16 31 (1.57%) JMeter
17 28 (1.42%) Cypress.io
18 27 (1.37%) Jasmine
18 27 (1.37%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 679 (34.41%) Finance
2 513 (26.00%) Banking
3 503 (25.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 432 (21.90%) Social Skills
5 173 (8.77%) Retail
6 111 (5.63%) Investment Banking
7 107 (5.42%) Law
8 92 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
9 90 (4.56%) Corporate Banking
10 75 (3.80%) Public Sector
11 48 (2.43%) Marketing
12 42 (2.13%) Games
13 37 (1.88%) Financial Institution
14 19 (0.96%) Front Office
15 18 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.76%) Advertising
16 15 (0.76%) Back Office
17 14 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.66%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 697 (35.33%) Software Engineer
2 541 (27.42%) Senior
3 490 (24.84%) Developer
4 289 (14.65%) Architect
4 289 (14.65%) Lead
5 279 (14.14%) Senior Software Engineer
6 137 (6.94%) Senior Developer
7 134 (6.79%) Java Developer
7 134 (6.79%) Solutions Architect
8 111 (5.63%) .NET Developer
9 101 (5.12%) Java Engineer
10 79 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 60 (3.04%) C# Developer
12 57 (2.89%) Java Software Engineer
13 55 (2.79%) Senior Architect
14 47 (2.38%) Technical Architect
15 46 (2.33%) Lead Developer
16 39 (1.98%) Enterprise Architect
17 37 (1.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 37 (1.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 611 (30.97%) React
2 520 (26.36%) .NET
3 503 (25.49%) Spring
4 495 (25.09%) Spring Boot
5 461 (23.37%) Kafka
6 431 (21.84%) HTML
7 414 (20.98%) CSS
8 382 (19.36%) REST
9 354 (17.94%) Node.js
10 348 (17.64%) RESTful
11 287 (14.55%) JPA
12 265 (13.43%) Redux
13 250 (12.67%) Hibernate
14 230 (11.66%) AngularJS
15 144 (7.30%) .NET Core
16 140 (7.10%) HTML5
17 123 (6.23%) CSS3
18 120 (6.08%) Web Services
19 118 (5.98%) Jest
20 108 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 372 (18.85%) Product Ownership
2 335 (16.98%) Enterprise Software
3 203 (10.29%) Cyberattack
4 186 (9.43%) Cloud Native
5 182 (9.22%) Linux Command Line
5 182 (9.22%) Self-Motivation
6 133 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
7 72 (3.65%) Algorithms
8 69 (3.50%) Management Information System
9 63 (3.19%) Public Cloud
10 40 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
11 39 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
12 36 (1.82%) Data Structures
13 35 (1.77%) Mobile App
14 27 (1.37%) IoT
15 25 (1.27%) Private Cloud
16 23 (1.17%) Virtual Team
17 19 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
18 17 (0.86%) Reinsurance
19 16 (0.81%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 273 (13.84%) Linux
2 31 (1.57%) Unix
3 23 (1.17%) Windows
4 18 (0.91%) Android
5 8 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.10%) Debian
8 2 (0.10%) zOS
9 1 (0.051%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,238 (62.75%) Agile
2 970 (49.16%) Software Engineering
3 892 (45.21%) DevOps
4 820 (41.56%) CI/CD
5 632 (32.03%) Containerisation
6 569 (28.84%) Mentoring
7 507 (25.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 482 (24.43%) Test Automation
9 454 (23.01%) TDD
10 384 (19.46%) SDLC
11 365 (18.50%) Scrum
12 344 (17.44%) User Experience
13 332 (16.83%) Front End Development
14 318 (16.12%) Performance Optimisation
15 304 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 287 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
17 272 (13.79%) Clean Code
18 252 (12.77%) Event-Driven
19 250 (12.67%) Machine Learning
20 221 (11.20%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 1,016 (51.50%) Java
2 826 (41.87%) JavaScript
3 629 (31.88%) SQL
4 483 (24.48%) Python
5 372 (18.85%) C#
6 315 (15.97%) TypeScript
7 266 (13.48%) Go
8 210 (10.64%) C++
9 195 (9.88%) Rust
10 48 (2.43%) PHP
11 45 (2.28%) C
12 31 (1.57%) PowerShell
13 29 (1.47%) Shell Script
14 28 (1.42%) Bash
15 22 (1.12%) Apex Code
16 19 (0.96%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.96%) Ruby
17 14 (0.71%) Bicep
17 14 (0.71%) Perl
18 12 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 309 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 277 (14.04%) Degree
3 228 (11.56%) AWS Certification
4 219 (11.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 205 (10.39%) DV Cleared
6 180 (9.12%) AWS Certified Developer
7 129 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 89 (4.51%) SC Cleared
9 50 (2.53%) Master's Degree
10 36 (1.82%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.12%) HND
12 18 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.51%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.41%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.20%) PhD
17 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
17 3 (0.15%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 337 (17.08%) QA
2 119 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 87 (4.41%) GDPR
4 35 (1.77%) HIPAA
5 34 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.86%) SLA
6 17 (0.86%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.51%) NIST
8 9 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.35%) Basel II
10 7 (0.35%) Basel III
10 7 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
10 7 (0.35%) IFRS
10 7 (0.35%) IFRS 9
11 6 (0.30%) CDISC
12 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.20%) WCAG
13 2 (0.10%) NCSC
14 1 (0.051%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 845 (42.83%) Docker
2 40 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.46%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.20%) Postfix
5 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.15%) vSphere
6 2 (0.10%) HDFS
6 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.051%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.051%) Firmware
7 1 (0.051%) KVM
7 1 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.051%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.051%) Xen
Systems Management
1 819 (41.51%) Kubernetes
2 193 (9.78%) Terraform
3 70 (3.55%) Prometheus
4 69 (3.50%) Grafana
5 50 (2.53%) Ansible
6 25 (1.27%) Kibana
7 24 (1.22%) Istio
8 18 (0.91%) Argo
9 12 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.30%) Puppet
10 6 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.20%) Packer
12 3 (0.15%) Consul
13 2 (0.10%) CA Endevor
13 2 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
13 2 (0.10%) MIIS
14 1 (0.051%) Check_MK
14 1 (0.051%) Control-M
14 1 (0.051%) logstash
14 1 (0.051%) Nessus
Vendors
1 254 (12.87%) Solace
2 149 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 88 (4.46%) Google
4 46 (2.33%) IBM
5 45 (2.28%) Oracle
6 35 (1.77%) Dynatrace
7 33 (1.67%) Splunk
8 27 (1.37%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 20 (1.01%) Atlassian
11 18 (0.91%) Databricks
12 16 (0.81%) SAP
13 10 (0.51%) Cisco
13 10 (0.51%) New Relic
13 10 (0.51%) Ping Identity
13 10 (0.51%) YouTube
14 7 (0.35%) Apple
14 7 (0.35%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.35%) Facebook
15 6 (0.30%) ANSYS