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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 74 82
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 46 22 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.25% 1.86% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.08% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 28 20 15
10th Percentile £58,793 £55,500 £48,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £67,188 £55,905
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +18.45% +2.01%
75th Percentile £93,634 £77,813 £84,964
90th Percentile £145,000 £79,875 £95,485
West Midlands median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% +8.33%

All Process & 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 2,781 1,058 1,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 75.63% 89.43% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,045 720 955
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £32,540
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,034 £42,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £78,312 £71,563 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,250
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +5.06%

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 29 September 2026.

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 7 (15.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) AWS
2 26 (56.52%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) SaaS
4 5 (10.87%) Serverless
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) Google Ads
5 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Advertising
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (4.35%) iPaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.35%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
1 4 (8.70%) NoSQL
1 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.52%) MySQL
2 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (30.43%) JUnit
1 14 (30.43%) Maven
1 14 (30.43%) Mockito
2 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.17%) GitLab
2 1 (2.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) JMeter
2 1 (2.17%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.17%) Selenium
2 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (34.78%) Finance
2 10 (21.74%) Public Sector
2 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Advertising
3 4 (8.70%) Games
3 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.70%) Marketing
4 2 (4.35%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.35%) Automotive
4 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Law
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (52.17%) Lead
2 15 (32.61%) Architect
3 14 (30.43%) Developer
4 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (21.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 10 (21.74%) Java Developer
5 10 (21.74%) Senior
6 7 (15.22%) Lead Architect
6 7 (15.22%) Senior Developer
6 7 (15.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (15.22%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (15.22%) Technical Leader
7 5 (10.87%) Software Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Technical Architect
8 4 (8.70%) Java Team Leader
8 4 (8.70%) Lead Developer
8 4 (8.70%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (8.70%) Team Leader
9 3 (6.52%) Lead Java Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) React
1 14 (30.43%) Spring
2 13 (28.26%) REST
3 6 (13.04%) RESTful
4 5 (10.87%) .NET
4 5 (10.87%) Node.js
5 4 (8.70%) Terraform
6 3 (6.52%) Middleware
7 2 (4.35%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (4.35%) Blazor
7 2 (4.35%) Django
7 2 (4.35%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (4.35%) Web Services
8 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.17%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 11 (23.91%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (15.22%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
5 4 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (8.70%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (4.35%) AI Agents
6 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.35%) IoT
6 2 (4.35%) Robotics
6 2 (4.35%) SCADA
7 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 28 (60.87%) Agile
3 26 (56.52%) Mentoring
4 25 (54.35%) Technical Leadership
5 19 (41.30%) AI
5 19 (41.30%) Event-Driven
6 17 (36.96%) TDD
7 15 (32.61%) Scrum
8 13 (28.26%) Containerisation
8 13 (28.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 13 (28.26%) Technical Architecture
9 12 (26.09%) Coaching
9 12 (26.09%) LLM
9 12 (26.09%) Software Engineering
10 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (21.74%) SDLC
11 10 (21.74%) Sprint Planning
11 10 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (17.39%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) SQL
2 20 (43.48%) JavaScript
3 19 (41.30%) Java
4 14 (30.43%) PL/SQL
5 11 (23.91%) Bash
6 5 (10.87%) Python
7 4 (8.70%) C#
7 4 (8.70%) Go
8 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.17%) PHP
9 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.17%) Rust
9 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) SC Cleared
1 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.17%) GxP
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Facebook
3 4 (8.70%) Google
3 4 (8.70%) Instagram
3 4 (8.70%) TikTok
4 2 (4.35%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.17%) Adobe
5 1 (2.17%) NCR