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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 65 90
Rank change year-on-year -23 +25 -28
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 35 35 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.15% 3.04% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 3.20% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 21 32 53
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,250 £52,325
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £145,000 £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 2,240 1,094 2,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 73.35% 94.88% 77.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,736 695 1,948
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,928
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,624 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.41% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,125 £85,000 £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 20 June 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 (17.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) AWS
2 23 (65.71%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Serverless
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (8.57%) iPaaS
5 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (5.71%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.86%) PaaS
6 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) NoSQL
2 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.43%) MySQL
3 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) JUnit
1 13 (37.14%) Maven
1 13 (37.14%) Mockito
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
2 9 (25.71%) Public Sector
3 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Games
4 3 (8.57%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Lead
2 14 (40.00%) Developer
3 9 (25.71%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (25.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 9 (25.71%) Java Developer
3 9 (25.71%) Senior
4 8 (22.86%) Architect
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Lead Architect
6 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
7 4 (11.43%) Java Team Leader
7 4 (11.43%) Team Leader
8 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (8.57%) Lead Developer
8 3 (8.57%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (8.57%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) PHP Developer
8 3 (8.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) React
1 10 (28.57%) REST
1 10 (28.57%) Spring
2 6 (17.14%) RESTful
3 5 (14.29%) .NET
4 4 (11.43%) Node.js
5 3 (8.57%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET
6 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (5.71%) Blazor
6 2 (5.71%) Middleware
6 2 (5.71%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.86%) HTML
7 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Cloud Native
1 6 (17.14%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
3 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.71%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) Agile
2 19 (54.29%) CI/CD
3 18 (51.43%) Mentoring
4 16 (45.71%) TDD
5 14 (40.00%) Scrum
6 11 (31.43%) Event-Driven
6 11 (31.43%) Unit Testing
7 10 (28.57%) AI
7 10 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (25.71%) Coaching
8 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
8 9 (25.71%) Decision-Making
8 9 (25.71%) Sprint Planning
9 7 (20.00%) Code Quality
9 7 (20.00%) LLM
9 7 (20.00%) Presales
10 6 (17.14%) SDLC
10 6 (17.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) SQL
2 18 (51.43%) Java
3 14 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (37.14%) PL/SQL
5 10 (28.57%) Bash
6 4 (11.43%) C
6 4 (11.43%) R
7 3 (8.57%) PHP
7 3 (8.57%) Python
7 3 (8.57%) Rust
8 2 (5.71%) C#
8 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (37.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) Oracle
2 2 (5.71%) OpenAI