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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 68 81
Rank change year-on-year -26 +13 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 27 35 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.90% 2.91% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 3.07% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 17 32 59
10th Percentile - £47,625 £52,325
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,774 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.55% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £79,688 £73,750
90th Percentile - £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 2,168 1,139 2,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 72.61% 94.76% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,623 735 1,841
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% - -0.90%
75th Percentile £70,250 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £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 19 May 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 5 (18.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) AWS
2 14 (51.85%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) iPaaS
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
1 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
2 4 (14.81%) MySQL
3 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) JUnit
1 10 (37.04%) Maven
1 10 (37.04%) Mockito
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 12 (44.44%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
3 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Law
5 2 (7.41%) Advertising
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Lead
2 10 (37.04%) Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Architect
3 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Java Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Senior
4 5 (18.52%) Lead Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Java Team Leader
5 3 (11.11%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 3 (11.11%) PHP Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Team Leader
5 3 (11.11%) Technical Leader
6 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) React
1 8 (29.63%) REST
1 8 (29.63%) Spring
2 4 (14.81%) RESTful
3 3 (11.11%) .NET
3 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 3 (11.11%) Node.js
4 2 (7.41%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) Middleware
4 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
3 3 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Agile
2 14 (51.85%) Mentoring
3 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) TDD
4 11 (40.74%) Scrum
5 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (33.33%) Unit Testing
7 8 (29.63%) Coaching
7 8 (29.63%) Event-Driven
8 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
8 7 (25.93%) Decision-Making
8 7 (25.93%) Sprint Planning
8 7 (25.93%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (22.22%) Computer Science
10 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (18.52%) Emotional Intelligence
10 5 (18.52%) SDLC
10 5 (18.52%) SOA
10 5 (18.52%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) Java
1 15 (55.56%) SQL
2 10 (37.04%) PL/SQL
3 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
4 7 (25.93%) Bash
5 4 (14.81%) C
5 4 (14.81%) R
6 3 (11.11%) PHP
6 3 (11.11%) Rust
7 2 (7.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 3 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Oracle