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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 68 98
Rank change year-on-year -12 +30 -32
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 35 31 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.12% 2.51% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 2.72% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 25 28 44
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,375 £52,325
25th Percentile £63,633 £60,313 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +11.14% +8.72%
75th Percentile £93,634 £78,750 £81,877
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 2,318 1,139 2,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 73.92% 92.15% 77.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,829 762 1,777
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £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 11 July 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 2 (5.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) AWS
2 20 (57.14%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Serverless
4 4 (11.43%) SaaS
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (8.57%) iPaaS
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.71%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 2 (5.71%) Google Ads
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Advertising
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) NoSQL
2 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.43%) MySQL
3 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) JUnit
1 9 (25.71%) Maven
1 9 (25.71%) Mockito
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
General
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
1 9 (25.71%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.43%) Games
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Advertising
3 3 (8.57%) Law
4 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Lead
2 10 (28.57%) Architect
2 10 (28.57%) Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Java Team Leader
4 4 (11.43%) Team Leader
5 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Lead Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) PHP Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.71%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) React
1 10 (28.57%) Spring
2 6 (17.14%) REST
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 10 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 7 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.71%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.71%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Agile
1 22 (62.86%) CI/CD
2 18 (51.43%) Mentoring
3 14 (40.00%) Event-Driven
4 12 (34.29%) TDD
4 12 (34.29%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (31.43%) AI
6 10 (28.57%) Scrum
7 9 (25.71%) Coaching
8 8 (22.86%) Presales
8 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
9 7 (20.00%) Code Quality
9 7 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (20.00%) LLM
9 7 (20.00%) Unit Testing
10 6 (17.14%) Analytics
10 6 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (17.14%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) SQL
2 15 (42.86%) Java
3 14 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (25.71%) PL/SQL
5 6 (17.14%) Bash
6 3 (8.57%) PHP
6 3 (8.57%) Python
6 3 (8.57%) Rust
7 2 (5.71%) C#
7 2 (5.71%) Go
7 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
1 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.86%) GxP
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.43%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Oracle
2 2 (5.71%) Facebook
2 2 (5.71%) Google
2 2 (5.71%) Instagram
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) OpenAI
2 2 (5.71%) TikTok