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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 83 67
Rank change year-on-year -5 -16 -20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 22 42 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.20% 2.35% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 2.50% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 44
10th Percentile £49,750 - £49,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £52,456
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £59,300
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +26.48% -3.58%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,964 £72,433
90th Percentile £78,750 £103,500 £83,756
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 1,425 1,681 1,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 78.00% 94.07% 88.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,004 789 1,310
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,552
25th Percentile £42,000 £44,750 £40,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £82,500
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 29 January 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 (27.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) AWS
2 17 (77.27%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) SaaS
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (13.64%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) JUnit
1 8 (36.36%) Maven
1 8 (36.36%) Mockito
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Advertising
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 6 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (22.73%) C# Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Lead
4 5 (22.73%) Lead Developer
5 4 (18.18%) Architect
5 4 (18.18%) Lead C# Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Lead Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (59.09%) React
2 8 (36.36%) REST
3 7 (31.82%) Spring
4 5 (22.73%) .NET
5 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
6 3 (13.64%) Kafka
6 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
7 2 (9.09%) RESTful
8 1 (4.55%) HTML
8 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
4 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.55%) Legacy Code
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Agile
1 17 (77.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (40.91%) Scrum
3 9 (40.91%) TDD
4 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 7 (31.82%) Mentoring
5 7 (31.82%) SDLC
5 7 (31.82%) Unit Testing
6 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 6 (27.27%) Coaching
6 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (27.27%) Decision-Making
6 6 (27.27%) SOA
6 6 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
7 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
7 5 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (18.18%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Java
2 10 (45.45%) SQL
3 8 (36.36%) PL/SQL
4 6 (27.27%) Bash
4 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
5 5 (22.73%) C#
6 4 (18.18%) C
6 4 (18.18%) R
7 2 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle