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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 85 70
Rank change year-on-year +2 -15 -25
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 19 34 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.83% 2.23% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 2.37% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11 26 62
10th Percentile - £50,625 £52,325
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £95,625 £73,421
90th Percentile £75,000 £105,000 £175,500
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 1,700 1,436 1,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 74.24% 94.35% 85.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,220 815 1,635
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £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 £72,500 £67,888
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,500 £85,000
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 15 March 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 (31.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 12 (63.16%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.79%) Serverless
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) JUnit
1 8 (42.11%) Maven
1 8 (42.11%) Mockito
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 11 (57.89%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Advertising
4 2 (10.53%) Law
4 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Full-Stack Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Java Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Senior
3 6 (31.58%) Senior Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Lead C# Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) React
2 8 (42.11%) REST
2 8 (42.11%) Spring
3 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.79%) .NET
4 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
5 2 (10.53%) HTML
5 2 (10.53%) Kafka
6 1 (5.26%) RESTful
6 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Full-Stack Development
2 12 (63.16%) Agile
3 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (42.11%) Scrum
4 8 (42.11%) TDD
5 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
6 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
6 6 (31.58%) Decision-Making
6 6 (31.58%) SDLC
6 6 (31.58%) SOA
6 6 (31.58%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (31.58%) Unit Testing
7 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (21.05%) Deadline-Driven
8 4 (21.05%) Resource Management
8 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
8 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
8 4 (21.05%) Systems Thinking
8 4 (21.05%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Java
2 11 (57.89%) SQL
3 8 (42.11%) PL/SQL
4 6 (31.58%) Bash
4 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 6 (31.58%) TypeScript
5 4 (21.05%) C
5 4 (21.05%) R
6 2 (10.53%) PHP
6 2 (10.53%) Rust
7 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Oracle