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

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 37 27
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,827 2,670 7,124
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.28% 6.91% 9.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.85% 7.20% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,634 1,838 3,279
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,480 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.39% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £105,825 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% +8.70%

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 31,253 37,089 72,078
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.24% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,514 26,211 41,851
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 31 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 23 (1.26%) OpenStack
2 19 (1.04%) Confluence
3 13 (0.71%) CMS
4 11 (0.60%) Apache
4 11 (0.60%) nginx
5 10 (0.55%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.44%) JBoss
6 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
8 6 (0.33%) DNN
8 6 (0.33%) EPiServer
8 6 (0.33%) Immediacy CMS
8 6 (0.33%) Kentico
8 6 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
8 6 (0.33%) Sitefinity
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.22%) IIS
10 3 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 18 (0.99%) Simulink
2 7 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.16%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.055%) Sketch
6 1 (0.055%) UXPin
6 1 (0.055%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 4 (0.22%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,091 (59.72%) Azure
2 828 (45.32%) AWS
3 195 (10.67%) Serverless
4 160 (8.76%) SaaS
5 142 (7.77%) GCP
6 115 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
8 72 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
9 66 (3.61%) GitHub
10 65 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
11 43 (2.35%) Amazon S3
12 42 (2.30%) PaaS
13 41 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
14 38 (2.08%) Google Play
15 37 (2.03%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (1.64%) IaaS
17 25 (1.37%) Azure Functions
18 24 (1.31%) Amazon Kinesis
19 23 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.49%) Internet
2 39 (2.13%) DNS
3 26 (1.42%) Firewall
4 23 (1.26%) HTTP
5 16 (0.88%) Hyperconnected
6 14 (0.77%) Network Security
7 7 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.33%) AMQP
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 (0.055%) Broadband
11 1 (0.055%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.055%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 652 (35.69%) SQL Server
2 314 (17.19%) MongoDB
3 270 (14.78%) Elasticsearch
4 168 (9.20%) NoSQL
5 163 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
6 123 (6.73%) MySQL
7 109 (5.97%) Relational Database
8 38 (2.08%) Redis
9 34 (1.86%) DynamoDB
10 31 (1.70%) RDBMS
11 25 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (1.09%) NonStop SQL
13 19 (1.04%) Big Data
13 19 (1.04%) DB2
13 19 (1.04%) Oracle Database
14 17 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (0.82%) CouchDB
16 13 (0.71%) GIS
17 12 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
18 9 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 261 (14.29%) Git
2 108 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.01%) GitLab
4 43 (2.35%) JIRA
5 31 (1.70%) Visual Studio
6 26 (1.42%) Selenium
7 25 (1.37%) JUnit
8 24 (1.31%) Cucumber
9 23 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 23 (1.26%) Maven
10 22 (1.20%) TeamCity
11 20 (1.09%) Postman
12 19 (1.04%) Vagrant
13 16 (0.88%) NUnit
13 16 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
14 15 (0.82%) SpecFlow
15 12 (0.66%) JDeveloper
16 11 (0.60%) Gradle
16 11 (0.60%) Jasmine
16 11 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 319 (17.46%) Finance
2 284 (15.54%) Social Skills
3 143 (7.83%) Public Sector
4 98 (5.36%) Retail
5 86 (4.71%) Banking
6 79 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
8 49 (2.68%) Legal
9 48 (2.63%) Law
10 46 (2.52%) Games
11 38 (2.08%) Marketing
12 31 (1.70%) Advertising
13 27 (1.48%) Music Industry
13 27 (1.48%) Tech for Good
14 24 (1.31%) Automotive
15 15 (0.82%) Aerospace
16 14 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.60%) Manufacturing
18 9 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
19 8 (0.44%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,006 (55.06%) Developer
2 611 (33.44%) .NET Developer
3 378 (20.69%) Senior
4 247 (13.52%) C# Developer
5 242 (13.25%) Software Engineer
6 235 (12.86%) Architect
7 211 (11.55%) Lead
8 210 (11.49%) C# .NET Developer
9 167 (9.14%) Senior Developer
10 133 (7.28%) Solutions Architect
11 128 (7.01%) Java Engineer
12 106 (5.80%) Software Developer
13 102 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 86 (4.71%) Java Developer
15 82 (4.49%) Java Software Engineer
16 67 (3.67%) Senior Java Engineer
17 61 (3.34%) Lead Developer
18 60 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
19 56 (3.07%) Technical Architect
20 55 (3.01%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 846 (46.31%) .NET
2 677 (37.06%) AngularJS
3 663 (36.29%) .NET Core
4 587 (32.13%) ASP.NET
5 574 (31.42%) ASP.NET Web API
6 540 (29.56%) ASP.NET MVC
7 452 (24.74%) .NET Framework
8 426 (23.32%) Entity Framework
9 420 (22.99%) React
10 401 (21.95%) Node.js
11 352 (19.27%) RESTful
12 293 (16.04%) Vue
13 225 (12.32%) HTML
14 176 (9.63%) HTML5
15 173 (9.47%) Spring
16 171 (9.36%) Kafka
17 170 (9.30%) LINQ
18 151 (8.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 150 (8.21%) REST
20 149 (8.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 151 (8.26%) Greenfield Project
2 102 (5.58%) Cloud Native
3 98 (5.36%) Public Cloud
4 82 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
5 71 (3.89%) Mobile App
6 68 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
7 61 (3.34%) Client/Server
8 51 (2.79%) Product Ownership
9 39 (2.13%) Algorithms
9 39 (2.13%) Management Information System
10 38 (2.08%) iPhone
11 35 (1.92%) Social Network
12 34 (1.86%) Data Structures
12 34 (1.86%) IoT
12 34 (1.86%) Social Media
13 33 (1.81%) BBC
14 25 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (1.26%) PMI
16 21 (1.15%) Blog
17 17 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (4.71%) Linux
2 71 (3.89%) Android
3 56 (3.07%) Windows
4 21 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.04%) CentOS
5 19 (1.04%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.49%) Unix
8 5 (0.27%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.055%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,169 (63.98%) Agile
2 710 (38.86%) Full Stack Development
3 594 (32.51%) MVC
4 503 (27.53%) TDD
5 405 (22.17%) DevOps
6 389 (21.29%) Software Engineering
7 384 (21.02%) Scrum
8 337 (18.45%) BDD
9 334 (18.28%) CI/CD
10 308 (16.86%) Kanban
11 241 (13.19%) Mentoring
12 216 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
13 202 (11.06%) Design Patterns
14 187 (10.24%) Multithreading
15 178 (9.74%) OO
16 169 (9.25%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 162 (8.87%) Containerisation
18 150 (8.21%) Test Automation
19 141 (7.72%) Coaching
20 130 (7.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 867 (47.45%) C#
2 838 (45.87%) JavaScript
3 467 (25.56%) Java
4 405 (22.17%) TypeScript
5 292 (15.98%) SQL
6 206 (11.28%) Python
7 91 (4.98%) Go
8 53 (2.90%) PHP
9 47 (2.57%) C++
10 38 (2.08%) Kotlin
11 37 (2.03%) C
12 23 (1.26%) Bash
13 21 (1.15%) PowerShell
14 20 (1.09%) Ruby
15 17 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.66%) Ada
16 12 (0.66%) Perl
17 10 (0.55%) VB.NET
18 9 (0.49%) Scala
19 7 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 137 (7.50%) Degree
2 102 (5.58%) Security Cleared
3 88 (4.82%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 26 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
7 23 (1.26%) PMI Certification
8 21 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 16 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.77%) DBS Check
11 13 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.38%) CISSP
15 6 (0.33%) CIPD
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 51 (2.79%) QA
2 9 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (0.33%) WCAG
4 5 (0.27%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.27%) GDPR
4 5 (0.27%) SEPA
5 3 (0.16%) EMIR
5 3 (0.16%) MiFID
6 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.11%) NIST
6 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.055%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.055%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.055%) SLA
7 1 (0.055%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 368 (20.14%) Docker
2 34 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (1.26%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.09%) Active Directory
5 18 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 342 (18.72%) Kubernetes
2 126 (6.90%) Terraform
3 65 (3.56%) Ansible
4 33 (1.81%) Grafana
5 16 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.71%) Puppet
7 8 (0.44%) Kibana
7 8 (0.44%) MIIS
8 6 (0.33%) Consul
9 5 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.27%) Rancher
9 5 (0.27%) SCOM
10 3 (0.16%) Argo
10 3 (0.16%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (0.16%) logstash
10 3 (0.16%) Nessus
10 3 (0.16%) Nmap
11 2 (0.11%) Podman
11 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 718 (39.30%) Microsoft
2 142 (7.77%) Google
3 77 (4.21%) Oracle
4 58 (3.17%) Facebook
5 33 (1.81%) Apple
5 33 (1.81%) Sony
5 33 (1.81%) Yahoo!
6 26 (1.42%) YouTube
7 23 (1.26%) IBM
7 23 (1.26%) WSO2
8 22 (1.20%) Sitecore
9 21 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 18 (0.99%) Xilinx
11 17 (0.93%) ForgeRock
12 9 (0.49%) GoCardless
12 9 (0.49%) PayPal
12 9 (0.49%) Sage
13 8 (0.44%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.44%) Xamarin
14 7 (0.38%) Splunk