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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 70 89
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -30
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 41 30 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.22% 2.39% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.62% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 27 28 31
10th Percentile £45,500 £48,375 £53,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £60,313 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +10.75% +9.11%
75th Percentile £93,634 £78,750 £79,375
90th Percentile £145,000 £105,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +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 2,499 1,145 1,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 74.15% 91.09% 75.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,947 787 1,309
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,600
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,242
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.44% +0.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £89,400 £85,000 £86,250
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -

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 4 August 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 (14.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) AWS
2 24 (58.54%) Azure
3 7 (17.07%) SaaS
4 5 (12.20%) Serverless
5 4 (9.76%) GCP
5 4 (9.76%) Google Ads
5 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Advertising
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (7.32%) iPaaS
7 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.88%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.88%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.76%) MongoDB
2 4 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.32%) MySQL
3 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) JUnit
1 13 (31.71%) Maven
1 13 (31.71%) Mockito
2 1 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
2 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
3 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Advertising
4 4 (9.76%) Games
4 4 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (9.76%) Marketing
5 3 (7.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (51.22%) Lead
2 15 (36.59%) Developer
3 10 (24.39%) Architect
3 10 (24.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (21.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 9 (21.95%) Java Developer
4 9 (21.95%) Senior
5 6 (14.63%) Senior Developer
5 6 (14.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (14.63%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (12.20%) Lead Architect
6 5 (12.20%) Software Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) Java Team Leader
7 4 (9.76%) Lead Developer
7 4 (9.76%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (9.76%) Team Leader
8 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (7.32%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (7.32%) PHP Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) React
1 13 (31.71%) Spring
2 10 (24.39%) REST
3 6 (14.63%) RESTful
4 5 (12.20%) .NET
4 5 (12.20%) Node.js
5 3 (7.32%) .NET Framework
6 2 (4.88%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (4.88%) Blazor
6 2 (4.88%) Middleware
6 2 (4.88%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Cloud Native
2 9 (21.95%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (14.63%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (12.20%) Onboarding
5 4 (9.76%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (4.88%) AI Agents
6 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (24.39%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (70.73%) CI/CD
2 26 (63.41%) Agile
3 22 (53.66%) Mentoring
4 19 (46.34%) Technical Leadership
5 16 (39.02%) AI
5 16 (39.02%) Event-Driven
5 16 (39.02%) TDD
6 14 (34.15%) Scrum
7 11 (26.83%) LLM
8 10 (24.39%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (24.39%) Software Engineering
8 10 (24.39%) Technical Architecture
9 9 (21.95%) Coaching
9 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
9 9 (21.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (21.95%) Sprint Planning
10 8 (19.51%) Analytics
10 8 (19.51%) Presales
10 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (51.22%) SQL
2 19 (46.34%) JavaScript
3 18 (43.90%) Java
4 13 (31.71%) PL/SQL
5 10 (24.39%) Bash
6 4 (9.76%) Go
7 3 (7.32%) PHP
7 3 (7.32%) Python
7 3 (7.32%) Rust
8 2 (4.88%) C#
8 2 (4.88%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
1 13 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.44%) GxP
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (34.15%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Oracle
2 4 (9.76%) Facebook
2 4 (9.76%) Google
2 4 (9.76%) Instagram
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) TikTok
3 2 (4.88%) OpenAI