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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 37 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,885 2,869 6,578
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.59% 7.05% 9.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 7.34% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,680 1,945 3,251
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £96,539 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% +10.29%

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 30,823 39,093 67,833
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.36% 96.07% 97.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23,354 27,124 41,194
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 15 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 26 (1.38%) OpenStack
2 20 (1.06%) Confluence
3 13 (0.69%) CMS
4 11 (0.58%) Apache
5 10 (0.53%) nginx
5 10 (0.53%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.48%) JBoss
7 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
8 7 (0.37%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.32%) DNN
9 6 (0.32%) EPiServer
9 6 (0.32%) Immediacy CMS
9 6 (0.32%) Kentico
9 6 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
9 6 (0.32%) Sitefinity
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (0.74%) Simulink
2 7 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.16%) 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
2 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,105 (58.62%) Azure
2 835 (44.30%) AWS
3 228 (12.10%) Serverless
4 171 (9.07%) SaaS
5 147 (7.80%) GCP
6 115 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
8 73 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
9 71 (3.77%) GitHub
10 66 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (2.44%) PaaS
12 44 (2.33%) Amazon S3
13 40 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
14 38 (2.02%) Google Play
15 37 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (1.70%) IaaS
18 25 (1.33%) Azure Functions
19 24 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
19 24 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.30%) Internet
2 38 (2.02%) DNS
3 24 (1.27%) Firewall
4 23 (1.22%) HTTP
5 16 (0.85%) Hyperconnected
6 13 (0.69%) Network Security
7 8 (0.42%) AMQP
8 7 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.27%) DHCP
9 5 (0.27%) 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
1 653 (34.64%) SQL Server
2 312 (16.55%) MongoDB
3 270 (14.32%) Elasticsearch
4 177 (9.39%) NoSQL
5 165 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
6 140 (7.43%) Relational Database
7 129 (6.84%) MySQL
8 55 (2.92%) RDBMS
9 43 (2.28%) Oracle Database
10 37 (1.96%) Redis
11 35 (1.86%) DynamoDB
12 26 (1.38%) Big Data
13 25 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
14 20 (1.06%) NonStop SQL
15 19 (1.01%) DB2
16 17 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
17 15 (0.80%) CouchDB
18 14 (0.74%) Power BI
19 13 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
20 12 (0.64%) GIS
Development Applications
1 293 (15.54%) Git
2 109 (5.78%) Jenkins
3 56 (2.97%) GitLab
4 42 (2.23%) JIRA
5 36 (1.91%) JDeveloper
6 32 (1.70%) Visual Studio
7 28 (1.49%) Selenium
8 27 (1.43%) Maven
9 26 (1.38%) Cypress.io
9 26 (1.38%) JUnit
10 22 (1.17%) Cucumber
10 22 (1.17%) TeamCity
11 20 (1.06%) Postman
12 18 (0.95%) NUnit
13 17 (0.90%) Jasmine
14 16 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
15 15 (0.80%) Vagrant
16 14 (0.74%) SpecFlow
17 11 (0.58%) Gradle
18 10 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 339 (17.98%) Finance
2 287 (15.23%) Social Skills
3 143 (7.59%) Public Sector
4 101 (5.36%) Retail
5 98 (5.20%) Banking
6 84 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 79 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
8 51 (2.71%) Legal
9 48 (2.55%) Games
9 48 (2.55%) Law
10 38 (2.02%) Marketing
11 28 (1.49%) Advertising
11 28 (1.49%) Tech for Good
12 27 (1.43%) Music Industry
13 23 (1.22%) Automotive
14 17 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.80%) Aerospace
16 11 (0.58%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,027 (54.48%) Developer
2 610 (32.36%) .NET Developer
3 381 (20.21%) Senior
4 270 (14.32%) Software Engineer
5 243 (12.89%) Architect
5 243 (12.89%) C# Developer
6 215 (11.41%) Lead
7 206 (10.93%) C# .NET Developer
8 168 (8.91%) Senior Developer
9 146 (7.75%) Solutions Architect
10 131 (6.95%) Java Engineer
11 108 (5.73%) Software Developer
12 106 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
13 100 (5.31%) Java Developer
14 83 (4.40%) Java Software Engineer
15 66 (3.50%) Senior Java Engineer
16 63 (3.34%) Lead Developer
17 60 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
17 60 (3.18%) Full Stack Developer
18 51 (2.71%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 856 (45.41%) .NET
2 694 (36.82%) AngularJS
3 670 (35.54%) .NET Core
4 589 (31.25%) ASP.NET
5 582 (30.88%) ASP.NET Web API
6 539 (28.59%) ASP.NET MVC
7 456 (24.19%) React
8 455 (24.14%) .NET Framework
9 430 (22.81%) Entity Framework
10 429 (22.76%) Node.js
11 360 (19.10%) RESTful
12 294 (15.60%) Vue
13 232 (12.31%) HTML
14 187 (9.92%) Spring
15 178 (9.44%) HTML5
16 177 (9.39%) Kafka
17 172 (9.12%) LINQ
18 166 (8.81%) Spring Boot
19 152 (8.06%) REST
20 151 (8.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 156 (8.28%) Greenfield Project
2 102 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 95 (5.04%) Public Cloud
4 82 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 71 (3.77%) Mobile App
6 69 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (3.18%) Client/Server
8 52 (2.76%) Product Ownership
9 39 (2.07%) Algorithms
9 39 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 38 (2.02%) iPhone
11 35 (1.86%) Social Network
12 34 (1.80%) Data Structures
12 34 (1.80%) IoT
13 33 (1.75%) BBC
13 33 (1.75%) Social Media
14 26 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (1.22%) PMI
16 21 (1.11%) Blog
16 21 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.08%) Linux
2 69 (3.66%) Android
3 53 (2.81%) Windows
4 15 (0.80%) CentOS
4 15 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.80%) Ubuntu
5 13 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.48%) Unix
7 5 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.053%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,189 (63.08%) Agile
2 721 (38.25%) Full Stack Development
3 592 (31.41%) MVC
4 512 (27.16%) TDD
5 434 (23.02%) DevOps
6 414 (21.96%) Software Engineering
7 385 (20.42%) Scrum
8 339 (17.98%) BDD
9 329 (17.45%) CI/CD
10 308 (16.34%) Kanban
11 250 (13.26%) Mentoring
12 242 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
13 218 (11.56%) Design Patterns
14 196 (10.40%) Containerisation
15 189 (10.03%) Multithreading
16 180 (9.55%) OO
17 169 (8.97%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
18 159 (8.44%) Test Automation
19 154 (8.17%) Continuous Integration
20 144 (7.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 873 (46.31%) JavaScript
2 870 (46.15%) C#
3 512 (27.16%) Java
4 412 (21.86%) TypeScript
5 302 (16.02%) SQL
6 226 (11.99%) Python
7 116 (6.15%) Go
8 53 (2.81%) PHP
9 47 (2.49%) Bash
10 44 (2.33%) C++
11 43 (2.28%) Ruby
12 38 (2.02%) C
13 36 (1.91%) Perl
14 34 (1.80%) Kotlin
15 20 (1.06%) T-SQL
16 18 (0.95%) PowerShell
17 12 (0.64%) Ada
18 10 (0.53%) Scala
18 10 (0.53%) VB.NET
19 8 (0.42%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 138 (7.32%) Degree
2 100 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 85 (4.51%) SC Cleared
4 69 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
7 23 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 21 (1.11%) AWS Certification
9 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.32%) CIPD
15 6 (0.32%) CISSP
16 3 (0.16%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.16%) OSCE
16 3 (0.16%) OSCP
16 3 (0.16%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.14%) QA
2 8 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (0.37%) SEPA
4 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.32%) WCAG
5 5 (0.27%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.11%) EMIR
6 2 (0.11%) GDPR
6 2 (0.11%) MiFID
7 1 (0.053%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.053%) NIST
7 1 (0.053%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.053%) SLA
7 1 (0.053%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 385 (20.42%) Docker
2 32 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (1.38%) Hyper-V
4 21 (1.11%) Active Directory
5 16 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 350 (18.57%) Kubernetes
2 122 (6.47%) Terraform
3 64 (3.40%) Ansible
4 32 (1.70%) Grafana
5 15 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.69%) Puppet
7 8 (0.42%) Kibana
7 8 (0.42%) MIIS
8 6 (0.32%) Consul
9 5 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.27%) 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
1 719 (38.14%) Microsoft
2 141 (7.48%) Google
3 106 (5.62%) Oracle
4 58 (3.08%) Facebook
5 33 (1.75%) Apple
5 33 (1.75%) Sony
5 33 (1.75%) Yahoo!
6 28 (1.49%) IBM
7 26 (1.38%) WSO2
7 26 (1.38%) YouTube
8 25 (1.33%) Sitecore
9 22 (1.17%) Salesforce
10 16 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 14 (0.74%) Xilinx
12 10 (0.53%) Splunk
13 9 (0.48%) GoCardless
13 9 (0.48%) PayPal
13 9 (0.48%) Sage
14 8 (0.42%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.42%) Xamarin