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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 88 71
Rank change year-on-year +19 -17 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 24 40 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.02% 1.75% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.21% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 22 16 41
10th Percentile £49,500 £48,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £66,563 £56,357 £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 £78,438 £79,366 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,875 £84,964 £92,500
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 1,064 1,813 1,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.56% 79.14% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 734 1,030 1,101
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,185 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,967 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Birmingham

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) CMS
2 2 (8.33%) Headless CMS
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (79.17%) AWS
2 11 (45.83%) Azure
3 7 (29.17%) SaaS
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (20.83%) GCP
6 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (16.67%) AWS KMS
6 4 (16.67%) Route 53
6 4 (16.67%) Serverless
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.33%) Contentful
7 2 (8.33%) Figma
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
8 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (20.83%) DynamoDB
2 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
3 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 3 (12.50%) Hazelcast
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 6 (25.00%) Git
1 6 (25.00%) Maven
2 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (16.67%) DbUnit
3 4 (16.67%) JIRA
3 4 (16.67%) jMock
3 4 (16.67%) JUnit
3 4 (16.67%) Mockito
3 4 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 3 (12.50%) GitLab
5 2 (8.33%) Storybook
General
1 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
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 18 (75.00%) Developer
2 10 (41.67%) Lead
2 10 (41.67%) Lead Developer
3 8 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 5 (20.83%) C# Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Lead C# Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 2 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Python Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
6 2 (8.33%) SaaS Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) AngularJS
1 11 (45.83%) React
1 11 (45.83%) Spring
2 8 (33.33%) RESTful
2 8 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 8 (33.33%) Web Services
3 7 (29.17%) .NET
3 7 (29.17%) Hibernate
3 7 (29.17%) REST
4 5 (20.83%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (20.83%) SOAP
5 4 (16.67%) Bootstrap
5 4 (16.67%) JPA
5 4 (16.67%) PowerMock
5 4 (16.67%) Spring Batch
5 4 (16.67%) Spring Integration
6 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (8.33%) CSS
7 2 (8.33%) HTML5
7 2 (8.33%) Node.js
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
4 2 (8.33%) IoT
4 2 (8.33%) Life Science
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.17%) Legacy Code
5 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Agile
2 11 (45.83%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (41.67%) TDD
4 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 7 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (29.17%) BDD
6 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
6 7 (29.17%) DevOps
6 7 (29.17%) Scrum
6 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
7 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (25.00%) Software Architecture
8 5 (20.83%) Coaching
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%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Java
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 6 (25.00%) C#
4 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 4 (16.67%) Python
5 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk