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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 84 75
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 24 42 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.03% 1.92% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.31% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 20 14 28
10th Percentile £55,500 £49,750 £44,400
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,809 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £61,853 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.21% +3.09% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,813 £84,964 £76,875
90th Percentile £79,875 £97,239 £88,475
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -

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 1,041 1,815 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.85% 83.07% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 721 901 1,001
10th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £58,465 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +6.30% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 20 October 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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 19 (79.17%) AWS
2 11 (45.83%) Azure
3 7 (29.17%) Amazon S3
3 7 (29.17%) SaaS
4 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (16.67%) AWS KMS
5 4 (16.67%) Route 53
5 4 (16.67%) Serverless
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (12.50%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.17%) Contentful
7 1 (4.17%) Figma
7 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (20.83%) DynamoDB
3 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 3 (12.50%) Hazelcast
4 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.17%) MySQL
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Maven
2 6 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (25.00%) JUnit
2 6 (25.00%) Mockito
3 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
4 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (16.67%) DbUnit
4 4 (16.67%) JIRA
4 4 (16.67%) jMock
4 4 (16.67%) SonarQube
5 3 (12.50%) GitLab
6 1 (4.17%) Storybook
General
1 10 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 3 (12.50%) Retail
5 2 (8.33%) Marketing
6 1 (4.17%) Advertising
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (79.17%) Developer
2 10 (41.67%) Java Developer
2 10 (41.67%) Lead
2 10 (41.67%) Lead Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (20.83%) C# Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Lead C# Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Architect
7 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Lead Python Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Lead Software Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
7 2 (8.33%) SaaS Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Senior
7 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (58.33%) Spring
2 13 (54.17%) React
3 11 (45.83%) AngularJS
4 9 (37.50%) Spring Boot
5 8 (33.33%) REST
5 8 (33.33%) RESTful
5 8 (33.33%) Web Services
6 7 (29.17%) Hibernate
7 6 (25.00%) .NET
8 5 (20.83%) ActiveMQ
8 5 (20.83%) SOAP
9 4 (16.67%) Bootstrap
9 4 (16.67%) JPA
9 4 (16.67%) PowerMock
9 4 (16.67%) Spring Batch
9 4 (16.67%) Spring Integration
10 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (4.17%) Express.js
11 1 (4.17%) HTML5
11 1 (4.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 3 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (8.33%) IoT
4 2 (8.33%) Life Science
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.17%) Legacy Code
5 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Agile
2 13 (54.17%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (50.00%) TDD
4 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (37.50%) Scrum
5 8 (33.33%) AI
5 8 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
6 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
6 7 (29.17%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (25.00%) BDD
7 6 (25.00%) Coaching
7 6 (25.00%) DevOps
7 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (16.67%) Analytics
9 4 (16.67%) Kanban
9 4 (16.67%) Open Source
9 4 (16.67%) Software Architecture
9 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Java
2 8 (33.33%) SQL
3 6 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 5 (20.83%) C#
4 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
5 3 (12.50%) Python
6 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk