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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 82 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 20 42 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.19% 2.22% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 2.41% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15 17 27
10th Percentile £50,500 £56,085 £47,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,809 £52,413
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £78,125 £84,964 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,500 £91,978 £83,750
West Midlands median annual salary £71,250 £62,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year +14.00% +3.31% +0.83%

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 1,359 1,744 1,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 80.56% 92.08% 91.51%
Number of salaries quoted 956 825 880
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £31,343
25th Percentile £43,497 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,450 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,250 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,063 £88,250 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 24 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 3 (15.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 15 (75.00%) Azure
3 7 (35.00%) SaaS
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.00%) MySQL
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JUnit
1 5 (25.00%) Maven
1 5 (25.00%) Mockito
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
3 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Advertising
4 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Lead
2 6 (30.00%) Lead Developer
3 5 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Lead C# Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Software Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Lead Python Developer
6 2 (10.00%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) React
2 7 (35.00%) Spring
3 5 (25.00%) .NET
3 5 (25.00%) REST
4 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (15.00%) Kafka
5 3 (15.00%) RESTful
5 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.00%) HTML
6 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
1 14 (70.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) Coaching
4 6 (30.00%) Scrum
4 6 (30.00%) TDD
4 6 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (25.00%) AI
6 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
6 4 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
6 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 4 (20.00%) SDLC
6 4 (20.00%) Unit Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (25.00%) C#
4 5 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (15.00%) Bash
5 3 (15.00%) Python
6 1 (5.00%) C
6 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle