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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 86 76
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 -25
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 21 43 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.42% 2.03% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.33% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 17 18 25
10th Percentile £55,750 £52,750 £46,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,809 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,348 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,250 £90,224 £86,000
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 1,216 1,842 1,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.50% 87.13% 92.88%
Number of salaries quoted 881 898 891
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £31,354
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 £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -3.85%

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 1 December 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 2 (9.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) AWS
2 14 (66.67%) Azure
3 7 (33.33%) SaaS
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
5 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (14.29%) Serverless
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.52%) GCP
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
7 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) Route 53
7 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
1 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
1 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Hazelcast
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Maven
2 5 (23.81%) JUnit
2 5 (23.81%) Mockito
3 2 (9.52%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (4.76%) DbUnit
4 1 (4.76%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) jMock
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Marketing
4 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Advertising
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Lead
2 7 (33.33%) Lead Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Java Developer
4 5 (23.81%) C# Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Architect
5 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Lead C# Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (9.52%) Lead Python Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
7 2 (9.52%) SaaS Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (66.67%) React
2 9 (42.86%) Spring
3 6 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 6 (28.57%) REST
4 5 (23.81%) .NET
4 5 (23.81%) RESTful
5 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
6 3 (14.29%) Kafka
7 2 (9.52%) Hibernate
7 2 (9.52%) Web Services
8 1 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (4.76%) Bootstrap
8 1 (4.76%) JPA
8 1 (4.76%) PowerMock
8 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (4.76%) SOAP
8 1 (4.76%) Spring Batch
8 1 (4.76%) Spring Integration
8 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.76%) IoT
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.76%) Life Science
4 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Agile
2 14 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (47.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (38.10%) Mentoring
4 8 (38.10%) Software Engineering
5 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (33.33%) Scrum
5 7 (33.33%) TDD
6 6 (28.57%) AI
6 6 (28.57%) Coaching
6 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (19.05%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
7 4 (19.05%) Conflict Resolution
7 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
7 4 (19.05%) DevOps
8 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 3 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) SQL
3 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 6 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 5 (23.81%) C#
6 3 (14.29%) Python
7 2 (9.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Atlassian