Microservices Job Trends in Birmingham

Microservices
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 90 71
Rank change year-on-year +15 -19 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 23 39 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.64% 1.78% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.12% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 19 13 28
10th Percentile £56,000 £55,362 £44,400
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,809 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,125 £84,964 £76,875
90th Percentile £81,000 £98,993 £88,475
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,183 1,842 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.38% 84.15% 93.36%
Number of salaries quoted 835 886 922
10th Percentile £31,350 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,480 £90,000 £81,132
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.86%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Microservices
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Birmingham

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) AWS
2 14 (60.87%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) SaaS
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon S3
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (13.04%) AWS KMS
6 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (13.04%) Route 53
6 3 (13.04%) Serverless
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.70%) GCP
8 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (17.39%) DynamoDB
1 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Hazelcast
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Maven
2 7 (30.43%) JUnit
2 7 (30.43%) Mockito
3 4 (17.39%) Git
4 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (13.04%) DbUnit
4 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 3 (13.04%) JIRA
4 3 (13.04%) jMock
4 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
5 2 (8.70%) GitLab
General
1 9 (39.13%) Public Sector
2 6 (26.09%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Advertising
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Law
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Java Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Lead
2 9 (39.13%) Lead Developer
3 6 (26.09%) C# Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Lead C# Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Lead Java Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior
6 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Software Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Architect
7 2 (8.70%) Lead Python Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
7 2 (8.70%) SaaS Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (60.87%) React
2 12 (52.17%) Spring
3 8 (34.78%) AngularJS
3 8 (34.78%) RESTful
4 7 (30.43%) Spring Boot
5 6 (26.09%) .NET
5 6 (26.09%) REST
6 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
6 4 (17.39%) Web Services
7 3 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (13.04%) Bootstrap
7 3 (13.04%) JPA
7 3 (13.04%) PowerMock
7 3 (13.04%) SOAP
7 3 (13.04%) Spring Batch
7 3 (13.04%) Spring Integration
8 2 (8.70%) Kafka
9 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
9 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
1 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.70%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.35%) IoT
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Life Science
4 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Agile
2 14 (60.87%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (43.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (43.48%) TDD
4 9 (39.13%) Scrum
5 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
5 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
5 8 (34.78%) Software Engineering
6 7 (30.43%) AI
7 6 (26.09%) Coaching
7 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
7 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (17.39%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (17.39%) Clean Code
9 4 (17.39%) Conflict Resolution
9 4 (17.39%) Design Patterns
9 4 (17.39%) DevOps
9 4 (17.39%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Java
2 8 (34.78%) SQL
3 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
4 6 (26.09%) C#
4 6 (26.09%) PL/SQL
4 6 (26.09%) TypeScript
5 3 (13.04%) Python
6 2 (8.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk