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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 83 75
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 -23
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 18 28 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.73% 2.08% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 2.22% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 12 27 63
10th Percentile - £47,500 £52,325
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% +4.84%
75th Percentile £81,533 £91,250 £73,091
90th Percentile £93,634 £105,000 £168,500
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +4.84%

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 1,802 1,264 2,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 72.84% 93.84% 83.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,323 788 1,756
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,343 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £51,275 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.77% +10.00% -4.76%

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 2 April 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 5 (27.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) iPaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) JUnit
1 6 (33.33%) Maven
1 6 (33.33%) Mockito
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Advertising
4 2 (11.11%) Law
4 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Senior
3 5 (27.78%) Senior Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Lead
5 3 (16.67%) Lead Architect
5 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (11.11%) Lead Enterprise Architect
6 2 (11.11%) PHP Developer
7 1 (5.56%) C# Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) React
1 6 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (22.22%) Spring
3 3 (16.67%) .NET
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 2 (11.11%) HTML
4 2 (11.11%) Kafka
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.56%) Middleware
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 6 (33.33%) Scrum
3 6 (33.33%) TDD
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
4 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
4 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
4 5 (27.78%) SDLC
4 5 (27.78%) SOA
4 5 (27.78%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
5 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Coaching
5 4 (22.22%) Deadline-Driven
5 4 (22.22%) Emotional Intelligence
5 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
5 4 (22.22%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 5 (27.78%) Bash
4 4 (22.22%) C
4 4 (22.22%) R
5 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (11.11%) PHP
6 2 (11.11%) Rust
6 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle