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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 81 67
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 -22
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 20 38 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.98% 2.24% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 2.38% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 52
10th Percentile £43,000 £53,125 £52,325
25th Percentile £53,125 £57,500 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £71,250 £63,103
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +12.91% +5.17%
75th Percentile £74,063 £103,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,250 £105,000 £175,500
West Midlands median annual salary £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +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 1,551 1,600 1,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 75.66% 94.34% 88.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,108 790 1,470
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
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 £68,631
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £84,964
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 22 February 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 (30.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 14 (70.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.00%) SaaS
3 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 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%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) JUnit
1 8 (40.00%) Maven
1 8 (40.00%) Mockito
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Advertising
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) C# Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Lead C# Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) React
2 8 (40.00%) REST
2 8 (40.00%) Spring
3 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.00%) .NET
4 3 (15.00%) Kafka
5 2 (10.00%) HTML
6 1 (5.00%) RESTful
6 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
5 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 15 (75.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (45.00%) Scrum
3 9 (45.00%) TDD
4 7 (35.00%) SDLC
4 7 (35.00%) Unit Testing
5 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (30.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (30.00%) SOA
5 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (20.00%) Coaching
7 4 (20.00%) Deadline-Driven
7 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 10 (50.00%) SQL
3 8 (40.00%) PL/SQL
4 6 (30.00%) Bash
4 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (20.00%) C
5 4 (20.00%) R
6 3 (15.00%) C#
7 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle