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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 64 81
Rank change year-on-year -19 +17 -20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 31 33 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.04% 2.88% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 3.04% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 19 30 57
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,625 £52,325
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,774 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.55% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £78,438 £73,750
90th Percentile - £105,000 £182,500
West Midlands median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% +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 2,174 1,085 2,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 72.73% 94.84% 81.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,628 680 1,844
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 22 May 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 6 (19.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 20 (64.52%) AWS
2 18 (58.06%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) iPaaS
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.23%) IaaS
5 1 (3.23%) PaaS
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) MongoDB
1 6 (19.35%) NoSQL
2 5 (16.13%) MySQL
3 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (38.71%) JUnit
1 12 (38.71%) Maven
1 12 (38.71%) Mockito
2 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 14 (45.16%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
3 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Law
5 2 (6.45%) Advertising
6 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Lead
2 12 (38.71%) Developer
3 9 (29.03%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (29.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 9 (29.03%) Java Developer
4 8 (25.81%) Senior
5 7 (22.58%) Architect
6 6 (19.35%) Senior Developer
6 6 (19.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (19.35%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (16.13%) Lead Architect
8 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
9 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (9.68%) Java Team Leader
9 3 (9.68%) Lead Developer
9 3 (9.68%) Lead Java Developer
9 3 (9.68%) Lead Software Engineer
9 3 (9.68%) PHP Developer
9 3 (9.68%) Team Leader
9 3 (9.68%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) React
1 10 (32.26%) Spring
2 9 (29.03%) REST
3 6 (19.35%) RESTful
4 4 (12.90%) Node.js
5 3 (9.68%) .NET
5 3 (9.68%) .NET Framework
6 2 (6.45%) HTML
6 2 (6.45%) Middleware
6 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Agile
2 17 (54.84%) Mentoring
3 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
3 15 (48.39%) TDD
4 13 (41.94%) Scrum
5 11 (35.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (32.26%) Unit Testing
7 9 (29.03%) Coaching
7 9 (29.03%) Containerisation
7 9 (29.03%) Sprint Planning
7 9 (29.03%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (25.81%) Event-Driven
9 7 (22.58%) Decision-Making
10 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
10 6 (19.35%) Emotional Intelligence
10 6 (19.35%) SDLC
10 6 (19.35%) SOA
10 6 (19.35%) Technical Architecture
10 6 (19.35%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Java
1 18 (58.06%) SQL
2 12 (38.71%) PL/SQL
3 11 (35.48%) JavaScript
4 10 (32.26%) Bash
5 4 (12.90%) C
5 4 (12.90%) R
6 3 (9.68%) PHP
6 3 (9.68%) Rust
7 2 (6.45%) Python
8 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Oracle